Low Budget Vegetarian

The Links and Cookbooks Page

Vegetarian and Vegan Web Sites

VegWeb - Over 6,000 vegan recipes. Recipes, products, coupons, links to other vegetarian pages. Also has Vegetarian Personals.

Vegetarian Resource Group. Extensive information on vegetarian and vegan cooking and lifestyles, incl. recipes, nutrition info, guides on traveling and more.

Veggie123.com. A new site (September 2006), offers a free ebook download, "How to Successfully Become a Vegetarian". Argues for a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle for humanitarian and health reasons.

RawVeg.info. If you're interested in raw vegetables and grains as a significant part of your diet, this site is worth checking out. It has nutritional information, recipes, and strong arguments for a non-violent philosophy for being vegetarian.

Natural and Organic Foods

Bob's Red Mill - good quality grains and beans.
Azure Standard - Quality bulk and natural foods. Good source for rice, beans, seaweed, organic foods.
Gold Mine Natural Food - Organic macrobiotic foods, which means a good source of quality organic brown rice, other grains and beans, seaweed, soy sauce.
Quality Natural Foods, - formerly Mountain Ark Trading Co. Good source of bulk beans, grains, natural foods.
Maine Coast Sea Vegetables - An excellent source for a wide selection of sea vegetable products. (We have an article on cooking with sea vegetables to help you gett started.)

Spices and Chiles

ChileGuy.com - A wide selection of different chiles.
The Spice House - Spices and chiles at reasonable prices, good quality and fresh.

Foods from Other Cultures

Namaste.com - Good source for things Indian, including foods
hotdishes.com - a SriLankan and Indian Grocery online.
Pacific Island Market. - Asian and Mexican foods. They have an Internet price-matching guarantee.
iKoreaPlaza.com - Very good price on short grain white rice - search on �kokuho rose.
AsianMerchant.com - Another good source for Asian short grain white rice.

If you have problems with any of these links, Please let me know.

Recommended Cookbooks

Thse are sorted in roughly the order I recommend them, with the most essential at the top.

Jaffrey, Madhur, Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1999. My favorite cookbook. Very detailed and comprehensive, gives vegetarian cuisine from around the world. If I were to keep only two cookbooks, they would be this one and Lord Krishna's Cuisine.

_____________, Madhur Jaffrey's World of the East Vegetarian Cooking. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Paperback and less expensive than the above book, with recipes from India and the Near and Far East.

Devi, Yamuna, Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking. E. P. Dutton, 1987. THE book on Indian vegetarian cooking.

____________, The Best of Lord Krishna's Cuisine. E. P. Dutton, 1991. A less expensive paperback selection of recipes from the above book.

Madison, Deborah, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. New York, Broadway Books, 1997. A kind of vegetarian Joy of Cooking, basic and comprehensive. Unlike many American vegetarian cookbooks that overdose on milk and cheese, she uses some dairy without relying heavily on it.

Colbin, Annemarie, The Natural Gourmet: Delicious Recipes for Healthy, Balanced Eating. New York, Ballantine, 1989. Colbin uses the Chinese Five-Phase categories to address balancing meals. (If you are interested, I talk about that in my free email cooking course.) I find her system very useful.