User talk:Valereee/List of vegan cookbooks

The Cookbook for People Who Love Animals, Michael A. Klaper, Gentle World Community, 1982

Cynthia Pararo was a part of the development of that cookbook, even in the earliest years, and she can document MOST phases of the project for each edition. MaynardClark (talk) 15:55, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

The idea of this vegan cookbook had been suggested (in the 1970s) by Jay Dinshah, cofounder of the American Vegan Society, which (his organization) printed and distributed the first edition and many other editions of the cookbooks. Michael Klaper's name did not appear on the book until 1982, for which he wrote the foreword AFTER the first edition. By 1990, his name was NOT on cookbook, but attribution was entirely to Gentle World.

More closely associated with North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS) is Vegetarian Cooking for a Better World, Muriel Collura Golde, 1991 Muriel has passed away, but she was a formative if not founding Board Member of NAVS and often conducted and organized others to do vegan food demonstrations at NAVS summer conferences. She developed her 350 vegan recipes from her decades of culinary experience teaching vegetarian and later vegan food classes. That cookbooklet sold for $1.50 (and was much less expensive when purchased in bunches of 100 for distribution to new vegetarians or vegetarian society enrollee members.

There is now interest among members of Gentle World in developing an article about The Cookbook for People Who Love Animals, Gentle World Community, which would discuss the cookbook's handmade predecessor, the first edition through the most recent editions, and follow up books that incorporated significant content from TCfPWLA (but appeared under different names). Gentle World has video footage of their 'celebrity banquets' (which look pretty humble by today's institutional food service standards for events, easily matched by scores of conferences featuring vegan food for all meals). Consider YouTube video footage of the '2nd Annual Celebrity Vegetarian Banquet' - showing River Phoenix and his sister and their mother, who were part of Gentle World, Dennis Weaver, Gretchen Wyler (who creates the Genesis Awards after their celebrity banquets in 1987 and 1988), Sidney Poitier, Ally Sheedy, Lee Ayers, William Shatner, John Robbins, a very early Michael Klaper, Casey Kasem who introduced the event and then introduced Light and Sun, and others of note.

I suggest that both of these vegan culinary resources be topics for Wikipedia articles.

Celebrity vegan cookbooks (celebrated vegan cookbooks, not cookbooks by or around celebrities) may deserve treatment as part of a broader, deeper, more analytical history of vegan cookbooks in North America (the scope I would suggest).

The International Culinary Olympics may deserve some attention because of the achievements of several vegan chefs (Ron Pickarski and his students, including Ken Bergeron, and the institution of the vegan food silo for the competition).

The FIRST vegan cookbooks - where

John Davis of the IVU (now retired) wrote recently that in "1854, [Russell] Trall published the ‘New Hydropathic Cook-Book’ (in New York City), but that vegetarian recipes were published in UK-based vegetarian publications decades before that. Surely (a) the earliest AND (b) the most widely-distributed and often-published vegan cookbooks should be listed in this roster.MaynardClark (talk) 16:00, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

What is missing

• While I was not eager to promote The Savory Way by Deborah Madison, it was a popular vegetarian cookbook in 1991.
• The McDougall Health Supporting Cookbook was a low fat vegan cookbook around that time.

The FIRST vegan cookbooks - where

John Davis of the IVU (now retired) wrote recently that in "1854, [Russell] Trall published the ‘New Hydropathic Cook-Book’ (in New York City), but that vegetarian recipes were published in UK-based vegetarian publications decades before that. Surely (a) the earliest AND (b) the most widely-distributed and often-published vegan cookbooks should be listed in this roster.MaynardClark (talk) 16:00, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

What is missing

• While I was not eager to promote The Savory Way by Deborah Madison, it was a popular vegetarian cookbook in 1991.
• The McDougall Health Supporting Cookbook was a low fat vegan cookbook around that time.