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Filling a Void
I was talking to Isa the other day about why she wrote Vegan with a Vengeance and she was talking about filling a void in the vegan cookbook community, which she absolutely accomplished: Vegan with a Vengeance was the first vegan cookbook that I owned that was all about making delicious, healthy, serve-to-your-parents vegan food from ingredients that you find in any grocery store. Oddly enough, I wrote my book to fill a void, too. In the fall of 2006, I was following the Weight Watchers Core Plan and had lost twelve pounds, when I read this entry on Wendy McClure's website, where she describes the Core plan as the "Weight Watchers short bus" and says that the "recipes were pretty awful." (I assume she meant the Core-friendly recipes on the Weight Watchers website and, I have to say, I completely agree with her.) But at the time of reading that, I was eating really delicious food as a vegan on the Core plan, and I took offense at being thrown on the short bus, and my first thought was: "Well that is totally ridiculous. She should eat some of my recipes." So I started compiling my Core-friendly recipes and sharing them with some of my friends who were also on Weight Watchers, and asking them if they thought I should try to throw a zine together for other vegans on the Core plan. They were supportive, and it grew from there. I've never made a big deal out of it, but over 80% of the recipes in Yellow Rose Recipes are low fat and are compatible not only for the Core Plan, but for Eat to Live. Not only did I lose quite a bit of weight eating that way, but it was the beginning of a process that ended up changing the way that I ate permanently. (Of course, I got pregnant a few months later and immediately gained the weight back, so here I am a year and a half later, just now back down to where I was that fall when I started compiling the recipes.) Maybe I should send Wendy a copy of my book.
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