User:Valereee/The Vegan Kitchen

The Vegan Kitchen is a vegan cookbook by Freya Dinshah first published in 1965. It was the first cookbook published in the US titled as vegan.

History
The book was published in 1965 as a special issue of the magazine Ahimsa, then published in a spiral binding in 1967 and was the first cookbook in the US titled as vegan. It advocates a raw vegan diet and food combining.

The 3rd edition was published in 1967 in a spiral binding. The 6th edition was published in 1970 in a saddle-stitched binding with an extra chapter, "Why Veganism?" by Eva Batt, and included soy-related recipes. The 9th edition was published in 1974 in a spiral binding and included soy-based recipes extensively. The 11th edition was published in 1987 in a spiral binding and incorporated an out of print cookbook by the same author titled More Vegan Recipes as an appendix, expanding the book by approximately one-third. The 1996 edition incorporated recipes developed by the North American Vegetarian Society for their 1975 World Vegetarian Congress. The 13th edition was published in 2004 and as of January 2013 is the current edition.

As of 1991, the book had sold more than 30,000 copies.

Reception
Food historians William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagoi called it a pioneering vegan cookbook. The Vegan Sourcebook called it a landmark book. Vegan teacher and cookbook author Victoria Moran wrote that it was one of only two vegan cookbooks she'd been able to find when she first started exploring veganism in the 1970s.

Author
Freya Dinshah is the president of the American Vegan Society and widow of its founder H. Jay Dinshah. She was born and raised in England.