Cooking By Color with ’Color Me Vegan’ Cookbook

Thursday December 16, 2010

Eat color!

That's the cornerstone idea of Color Me Vegan (Fair Winds Press, December 2010, $19.99, paperback w/ color photos), the innovative and spectacular new book by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, best-selling author of The Joy of Vegan Baking and The Vegan Table and host /creator of the super-popular "Vegetarian Food for Thought" podcast.

A new study confirms that Americans are eating fewer vegetables than ever and as many as 50 percent of all Americans don't eat a piece of fruit all day long.

In Color Me Vegan, author and vegan extraordinaire Colleen Patrick-Goudreau brings an edible rainbow of plant-based cuisine to kitchen tables with 150 flavorful recipes designed to improve health, explaining how their visual vibrancy matches their boost to your body.

With color as the guiding principle behind each section, Colleen shows vegetarians, vegans, and everyone in between exactly how phytonutrients -the most powerful, pigmented antioxidants on earth, found in everything from select fruits and vegetables, to grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds - can be expertly incorporated into meals for the greatest nutritional punch.

Color-inspired recipes include:

An edible rainbow of plant-based cuisine, with 150 flavorful recipes designed to improve health and give a boost to your body.

Radicchio Fennel Salad with Caper Dressing

Chilled Blueberry Mango Soup

Lavender-Roasted Purple Onions

Eggplant with Dengaku (Sweet Miso) Sauce

Purple Plum Pie with Crumble Topping

About the Author: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, best-selling author of The Joy of Vegan Baking (Fair Winds, Fall 2007) and The Vegan Table (Fair Winds, Spring 2009), is the founder of Compassionate Cooks, an organization whose mission is to empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths about veganism. A recognized expert on healthful plant-based cuisine, Colleen has appeared on the Food Network and is a columnist forVegNews magazine.