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First published by Thorsons 1997
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Copyright © Rose Elliot 1997, 2000
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introduction
I have particularly enjoyed writing this book of vegan – or dairy-free vegetarian – recipes. When I first started writing about vegetarian cookery, part of the pleasure for me lay in the challenge of creating delicious dishes from a limited range of ingredients, and in people’s surprise when they realized how good they could be.
In many ways, being a vegan today feels similar to how it felt being vegetarian when I began my career. Now, though, vegetarianism is pretty mainstream – eating out, buying ingredients or ready-made meals are all relatively easy, and friends and acquaintances no longer recoil in dismay at the thought of having to cook for a vegetarian. Vegans today, however, have much the same difficulties vegetarians used to have. Packets in shops have to be scrutinized carefully – whey seems to be in almost everything; the choice when eating out or buying prepared foods is often limited and, yes, you’ve guessed it, friends find it difficult to know what to cook, exclaiming, “Well what on earth