Cookbook Excitement
June 30th, 2007
Stumble it!
I’m getting really excited about my upcoming cookbook. Herbivore will be publishing it, which is fantastic, and we hope to have it in people’s hands by November 15th of this year. You will be able to order it direct from Herbivore, on Amazon, and a few other places as well.
It’s going to be great!
Here’s a sneak peek of some of the recipes that will be in the book:
Sheera - An Indian Cream of Wheat
Aloo Matar
Delicata Squash stuffed with Cherry Almond Apple Couscous
Sugar and Spice Snap Peas
Velvety Vegetable Soup
Strawberry Rambutan Boba Tea
I’m really happy about all the recipes so far, but I must say, I’m a little overly excited about the boba tea. All the commercially available mixes I’ve found are not vegan (they contain “non-dairy” creamers contianing, you guessed it, dairy). I’ve figured out a way to make a boba tea powder you can mix up at home in bulk. Yippee! Boba tea for everyone!
I also wanted to give a quick shout-out to my 70+ testers who are helping me make sure the recipes work. You guys rock, I wouldn’t be able to do this without you! Thanks!
55 Comments Add your own
1. Marcy | June 30th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
What will your cookbook be called?
2. Julie | June 30th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I can’t wait for your cookbook–especially the boba recipe!!
3. Lolo | June 30th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Marcy - it will be called Vegan Yum Yum, of course!
4. katie | June 30th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I am really excited and anxiously awaiting it. Since I discovered your site I have made nearly everything I can. If you need any more testers…I am ready and willing. I also just subscribed to herbivore just for your interview!
5. veggiegirl | June 30th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
how exciting!!! looking forward to the publication!!!
6. marygrace | June 30th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
all of those recipes, especially the sheera, look absolutely delectable. i can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of the cookbook! i hope the photographs will be as awesome as the ones on the blog!
7. cherie | July 1st, 2007 at 10:26 am
I am excited about the release as well!
8. jenzilla | July 1st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I think you are my hero.
Seriously, these look and sound incredible.
9. bazu | July 1st, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Is it too late to ask if you need any more testers? Specifically, any boba tea mix testers? Just kidding- everything looks so good.
10. vegan noodle | July 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 am
Can’t wait for your cookbook to come out! I have loved all the recipes I’ve tried from your website and I’ll definitely be watching for it!
11. Cindy | July 2nd, 2007 at 9:56 am
Your pics are amazing! I am so excited about your cookbook!
12. Kat | July 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Holy swizzlesticks - I am BEYOND excited about this!!! I am literally beside myself in anticipation. When can I pre-order?!
Please tell me you took care of all the photography in the book yoursel?
13. Eric | July 2nd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I’m excited, too, Lolo! And wait until I tell Jen about the boba. She’ll be thrilled!
14. Mia | July 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I can ‘t wait for the boba recipes!!! I love it but have to be really careful with it. Of course, since the only way I can have boba is to drive 40 miles one way, I rarely get it. And I love cookbooks.
15. Amber | July 2nd, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Can’t wait! Can we preorder it from somewhere?
16. Ryan | July 2nd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Rambutan? For real for real? Aweseome.
I’ve loved those little buggers since 1998 when I went to Vietnam (where they’re known as chom choms) and ate them straight from the tree. So cool to see them working their way into unique recipes.
Really looking forward to your book! Just watch out for Josh. You can’t trust a dude with a mug like that.
17. sheree | July 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Congrats! I can’t wait to get your book. Everything you make looks fantastic. Vegan cookbooks are the best.
Happy 4th of July!
18. Vanessa | July 2nd, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Looks fab! can’t wait.
19. Kimberlee | July 2nd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I subscribed to Herbivore for Lolo too! Good stuff.
20. Heather | July 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Congratulations!! I absolutely love your blog, and am eagerly awaiting your cookbook. You are an inspiration!!
21. Robin | July 3rd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Congratulations on your upcoming book! I am usually wary of vegan food– but I have tried some of your recipes and have been SO impressed!! I will definitely pick up a copy of the new book!
22. Christiane | July 3rd, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Congratulations! I can’t wait to see the book!
23. Zodie | July 4th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Hi! Great photographs - really appreciate the effort you go to. Is the book going to be available on Amazon.co.uk? I really hope so - would love to be able to get a copy here the UK.
Cheers
Zodie.
24. atxvegn | July 4th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Congratulations! You truly deserve it. You can count on me to place on order for your book!
25. Kate | July 5th, 2007 at 11:53 am
So exciting, I am diggin that picture of sugar and spice snap peas!
26. madeinalaska | July 5th, 2007 at 11:57 am
bravo! I ALWAYS NEED a new vegan cookbook!!!
27. Crystal | July 5th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Yay! I’m so excited for you. Your pics and food look great and I’ll definitely be buying this cookbook.
I’m excited about the bubble tea too as it’s one of my favorite treats.
28. Suganya | July 5th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
I am there dear. Let us know the release date.
29. Patricia Scarpin | July 6th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Your photos are stunning!
30. Monika K | July 6th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
As these 29 plus comments should indicate - I don’t think you’ll have any trouble selling your book. (-: Sign me up fo a copy!
31. vicki | July 8th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Congratulations! This is exciting news for the vegan community. I can’t wait to add your book to my collection!
32. Sunshine | July 9th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Hi Lolo!
I’d really like to get a copy of your book when it’s in the shops but there’s one problem: I live in Germany where it won’t be in the shops! Do I have any possibility to purchase your book without paying horribly high shipping costs? Will it be available at Amazon.de (the German site)?
Thanks!
33. Hillary | July 10th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Oh wow! I’m not even a vegan and I’m excited about your cookbook! What is the exact date it comes out? The sheera picture looks absolutely delicious. I LOVE cream of wheat as it is. Thanks for the previews!
And if you’re interested, we’d love to have your recipes over at Recipe4Living; the vegan selection is very much underrepresented. Or, you can be our next celebrity chef! 
34. Gayle | July 10th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hello,
I got to your site originally because of those fantastic cupcakes but now I see that the cupcakes were just the beginning. These pics look tremendous. I am a vegetarian aspiring to be a vegan and it looks like your cookbook will be an inspiration! You do amazing work.
Cherry Almond Apple Couscous? On Squash?? Yuuuum!
35. Claudia | July 10th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Hurrah, a cookbook! I adore your site, which is incredibly beautiful as well as inspirational and educational, and can’t wait for your cookbook to come out!
36. appifanie | July 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
i hereby promise to buy a copy.
37. VincentG | July 11th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Love the pea pods!! Beautiful presentation.
38. veganlinda | July 12th, 2007 at 8:54 am
I would love to carry your cookbook in my store. I’m always sending people to your site. Let me know if you plan to sell by the case. Thanks!
Linda
http://www.triballife.net
39. Jessica | July 12th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I’m excited too! All the food porn the testers have been posting is driving me nuts.
40. Mercedes | July 14th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Your photos are so enticing, I’m not at all vegan, but I definitely look forward to picking up your cookbook as it seems like it will have lots of unique things!
41. Rachel | July 14th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I have never so eagerly anticipated a cookbook before! I might even be more excited about this than the next Harry Potter, and I’ve been waiting for that for years.
When can we expect it on Amazon?
42. Opal: The Raw & The Cooked | July 16th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Everything looks colorful!
43. Kimberlee | July 17th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I love love love Lolo.
44. kat | July 23rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I just had to comment twice to illustrate my extreme anticipation/excitement about this book. I plan to base my entire diet around the contents of this lovely book!!
45. Melisser | July 26th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Beautiful! I love all the yumyum that comes out of your blog. We need more foodie / gorgeous vegan foods out there!
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47. Golden Delicious | August 4th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Those dishes are gorgeous! I’m so excited for the book!
48. ISABELLE SCOTTI | August 6th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
dommage que les textes n’est pas une version bilingue car les photos donne une envie terrible de faire les recettes. a moins que je me mette à l’anglais
49. chosha | August 10th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Wow, I’m really looking forward to this recipe book, and I’m not even vegan. You blog is the first thing that ever convinced me that a person can be vegan and still have an interesting diet and it will be first on my gift list for two friends: one a vegetarian and the other who simply can’t tolerate dairy. I think all three of us are going to be very happy with it, if the recipes I see here are anything to go by.
50. bethie | August 13th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
everything looks delish, besides herbivore & amazon, where else can the cookbook be bought? i am very wary of amazon.com, will the book be available at bn.com too?
nov 15, perfect release date, just in time for the holidays
51. Carli | September 2nd, 2007 at 10:14 am
Blimey! All of this looks delicious! Can’t wait for the cookbook!
52. Rieddhi | September 21st, 2007 at 1:27 pm
When is your cookbook coming out? I want it ASAP!
My mom makes sheera, and it’s delicious, and I can’t wait to make it vegan. And everything else looks delicious too!
53. Bharati Shah (Betty) | September 21st, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I am Rieddhi’s mom who has posted a comment about creamof wheat sheera, I will send you some of my vegetarian vegan receipes, sheera is 100%vegetarian, you can even make sheera from almonds, if intrested, please let me know, by the way I have a receipe for a mango pie, but the way I invented my receipe is with unflavored gelatin, any idea how to make it 100%vegan , please help, because my very concious vegetarian daughter Rieddhi will not eat my mango pie, and she is my mango pie. Thanks, Betty Shah
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54. Doodleyboo | September 22nd, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I can’t wait for your cookbook to come out (I’ve already put it on my Christmas list!). I especially want to try that Sheera. I used to eat something like that at a vegetarian lunch buffet when I went to university. I have been hankering after something like it for the last two years.
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