Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Back to basics in a good way

Plant Based Cookbook by Trish Sebben-Krupka

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I somehow only just realized that the bargains shelves at Barnes and Noble actually have an online equivalent; I was trying to reach a threshold of some sort (maybe sped X to get Y off?) and found the $5 Plant Based Cookbook. It’s kind of basic, but I still think it might have been a good impulse grab, so to speak. I think what this one’s going to be best for is a set of recipes including things I remember liking before but not quite […]

One of the Better Bosh Books

Bosh! by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

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I get books for Christmas, sometimes from myself. Especially if I’m in a favorite indie bookshop. That’s how I ended up taking home two cookbooks, one of which was Bosh!. This is a series I’ve reviewed from before, but I don’t think I’ve done the original, first in the series. Basically, this is a British vegan food Youtube channel (probably; there’s a chance the website plus videos was first) that went viral before that was a thing, and then there were books. The books have […]

Oatmeal Can Be Predictable and Interesting at the Same Time

OATrageous Oatmeals by Kathy Hester

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So the only reason I found OATrageous Oatmeals is because I was at my usual used/new bookshop selling my annual purge of my shelves and while the buyer was going through the suitcase full of books, I browsed. I like cookbooks and plant-based cooking though I’m not actually vegan in practice, and I’d kind of been craving oatmeal. Perfect timing for the book I didn’t know I needed. For an impulse buy, this actually turned out pretty well. The first half is, as you would […]

Flexitarian-Ish but definitely could be better about the flex

Mostly Plants by Tracy Pollan, Dana Pollan, Lori Pollan, Corky Pollan

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Mostly Plants is book by the Pollan family, as in mom and sisters of Michael (Pollan). The forward, byt the food writer himself, explains the general philosophy (which you already know if you’ve read any of his other work) and introduces the family. Sort of. He includes the history of the sisters going veggie, but never directly explains that they’re his sisters. Unless I just missed that bit, but if I did, he could have been clearer. He also claims that most of the meat […]

Pretentious Platters and Elitist Elements Served with a Certain Tone (but it really does look good)

Mostly Plant-Based Platters & Boards by Lea Dixon

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Bingo 4: Golden Since this square is about perception, appearance, status, and maybe also the question of gilding vs purity vs who cares, I’m going to use Mostly Plant-Based Platters & Boards. The foodie board trend is almost always about appearance and about interesting frequently high end ingredients that must go together. The pictures in these kinds of cookbooks are almost always really pretty, but how reproduceable are they really? And then there’s the question of who really has access to locally, and has the […]

Here for the poutine and creme brulee, but not so much most of the rest

Bosh! Meat by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

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Bingo 18: You Are Here I’m taking this bingo spot as an opportunity to look at a place I am at intellectually and culinarily with a certain type of trend; I’m kind of over the culinary fascination with plant-based meat, and the cookbooks this has spawned. I pre-ordered Bosh! Meat quite a while ago, and now that I’ve got it, I’m kind of over the main premise before I started; however, it turns out that a good chunk of the book actually doesn’t really deal […]



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