Cookbook Reviews
“Vegan Mob: Vegan BBQ & Soul Food by Toriano Gordon with Korsha Wilson'“
“Dr. Bobby’s Healing Recipes & Remedies By Bobby Price”
Most home cooks will probably collect cookbooks to prepare a recipe for someone they want to impress or someone they want to send to the emergency room. Either way, a cookbook review could assist a home cook’s objective of preparing something different to cook.
It’s my mission, to assist all home cooks in escalating their cookbooks selections-for a happy cooking experience rather than a retaliatory experience. For this post, I will be critiquing two vegan authors with two different perspectives for preparing vegan meals. My eyes never closed as I learned more about being a vegan.
Vegan Mob: Vegan BBQ & Souf Food by Toriano Gordon with Korsha Wilson: If you need a soundproof alibi, to eliminate yourself from being a lead suspect of a criminal activity, then you need to purchase the “Vegan Mob” cookbook. All you have to do is, “Choose five (5) recipes from the cookbook, that will keep you in the kitchen for 8 hours. Your whereabouts won’t be discussed because Chef Gordon has taken the time to provide step-by-step instructions and recommendations of vegan brands to execute his vegan recipes. He was so precise, an entry level vegan mobster, will not have an issue slicing an enormous number of vegetables, to be bagged up, and transported in a car trunk-for a potluck meet up.
I enjoyed Chef Gordon’s stories of his upbringing in the Fillmore District of San Francisco. It was obvious he truly loves his community and wants to maintain the vibrancy he knew as a youngster. His historical knowledge of blacks flourishing in the Bay Area before the segway of gentrification was a topic I never knew about. “Vegan Mob” was more than a cookbook, it was a short film in my head, about the life of Toriano Gordon and what he absorbed from being in close proximity to his grandmother Mattie and Great Aunt Nanny-when they prepared soul food meals. They reside in his innovativeness for showing how nostalgic memories of soul food can be incorporated into a vegan lifestyle through belief and hard work.
Dr. Bobby’s Healing Recipes & Remedies by Dr. Bobby Price - “Dr. Bobby” is a certified plant-based nutritionist and Doctor of Pharmacy who implements a holistic approach of incorporating one ingredient nutritious foods to the body as medicine.
The cookbook was medically informative and simplistic for a reader to understand on how eating natural foods from the earth is beneficial in derailing diseases from a continuance of eating altered foods. There were 30 vegan recipes and 10 natural holistic remedies to get you on the path of being healthy and possibly-pen insulin free”. He addresses topics like “ditching dairy”; healthy grains/meat replacements; natural sugars and recommendation for cooking oils (Didn’t understand why he didn’t go into detail on whether “baby oil” has vegan ingredients in it-maybe he will mention it-in a follow-up vegan cookbook.); best natural water; and nourishing, cleansing and toxin-free vegetables/fruits.
It’s a great informative cookbook for those wanting to take the leap into becoming a vegan and being conscious of eating more from the earth.
Note: Both Chef Gordon and “Dr. Bobby” books can be purchased on Amazon.
