Vegan A Go-G0

Compare the size of this book to an ipod Nano.


VEGAN A GO-GO
By Sarah Kramer, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008, $17.95


Sarah Kramer is someone we tried to include in our Tattoo feature in the recent "Food and Art" issue of CityFood Magazine.

After all, she had all the right qualifications. Kramer’s not only a chef with three best-selling cookbooks under her apron ties, her vintage-clad bod displays more ink than a highway interchange map. She's also the wife of a tattoo shop owner in Victoria (Gerry Kramer, www.gerrykramer.com). Unfortunately, timing and schedules didn't match up.

Never mind, with Kramer’s latest book, Vegan a Go-Go, we’ve connected with the punk princess of meatless once again.

This new set of recipes, is collected into a mini-tome so tiny it's no bigger than a change purse. And for practical purpose, because as a “survival manual for vegans on the road”, it's designed to be easily tucked into a purse, suitcase, car glove compartment, or even a passport folder.

We love the spunky graphic look to it, and as the recipes are the “greatest hits” from her previous books, we intend to tote it along on an upcoming road trip through the Okanagan (more on that later.)

Not that we are vegan or anything, but we do like our fresh produce, and the recipes for walnut chickpea spread and pita potato soup have our thumbprints all over them.

Along with the recipes, Sarah offers up a few of her sensible travel tips as well. We mean, how can you argue with the advice to a starving motorist to pull over at a gas station mini-mart, purchase an avocado and a bag of corn chips and use the chips as little spoons to eat the avocado?

Uh, do gas stations sell avocados?

Perhaps she means in Mexico. In that case, “soy vegano/vegana” is Spanish for "I’m a transsexual vegetable lover".