My Grandma's Recipes for Vegans

By Fabrizio Baroni

This e-book contains a selection of vegan traditional Tuscan (Italian) recipes, transmitted through the generations up to author's Grandmother, suitable for those who follow a vegan diet. They are taken from the book GRANNY'S RECIPES (I Ed. Sarnus 2013) by the same author . Of course, Tuscan traditional cookery is not vegan, but a part of its recipes are just vegan on their own, or are adaptable by small changes. All the photographs are taken by the author, those in the cover included.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329481282

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My Grandma's Recipes for Vegans

MY GRANDMA'S RECIPES for vegans

Fabrizio Baroni

94 vegan traditional homemade Tuscan (Italian) recipes for feeding without animal corpses into stomach, and murders on conscience.

Fabrizio Baroni was born in Florence in1971, where he lives and works. He has a Ph.D. In Physics, and cultivates a passion for traditional Tuscan cuisine and veganism. For Sarnus (sarnus.it) he has published LE RICETTE DELLA MI' NONNA (2014), GRANNY'S RECIPES (2013), and LE RICETTE VEGETARIANE DELLA MI' NONNA (2014).

All the photographs are of the author, those on the cover included

Copyright © 2915 by Fabrizio Baroni

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: 2015

ISBN 978-1-329-48128-2

Fabrizio Baroni

Via Antonio del Pollaiolo 89

Florence, Italy 50142

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INTRODUCTION

There will be a day in which killing an animal will be considered as killing a human being.

Leonardo da Vinci

What do we eat today? Rabbit? But a rabbit can't be eaten, it's an animal!

Marilena, 4 years old

(Marilena is the niece of the author)

Since I began to collect the recipes for my book LE RICETTE DELLA MI' NONNA (Sarnus, 2012), several years have passed. The title of that book is not a catch phrase, but just the truth. The book arose from the need to preserve the ancient gastronomic knowledge that has been transmitted through the generations up to my family. So, as dictated by my Grandmother, who was the last person of my family who knew such a knowledge, I wrote the recipes, and I took photographs of a part of them prepared by herself. My Grandma, her name Giovannina Nencini (1921-2014), was born in Mugello (Tuscany, Italy) near Florence, and was a housewife with a lifelong passion for cooking.

In the meanwhile, my relationship with food has deeply evolved, in particular in 2013 I converted to veganism, either for animal ethic reasons, or for human health reasons. So, I decided to extract from  LE RICETTE DELLA MI' NONNA a vegan version for those who follow this diet, but nevertheless love also traditional Italian cousin, Tuscan particularly. It is notable that many traditional Tuscan recipes are vegan just as they are, for example Ribollita, Castagnaccio, Fagioli all'uccelletto, etc., whereas small modifications are enough to make some others vegan. For example, Pisella alla fiorentina are made with a small quantity of bacon, that can be eliminated without to compromise the taste significantly.

This book contains only the latter kind of recipe. In cakes and sweet things vaccine milk and butter have been replaced with vegetable ones, or more simply, with olive oil. Eggs have been directly eliminated. Obviously, small variations in taste may occur, but in my experience there is nothing to lose, rather the opposite is often true. Anyway, if one has chosen to be vegan, must be ready to accept some compromises with taste!