How to Vegan

How to Vegan is a hilarious introductory guide to veganism. Filled with cartoons, silly quotes, and quizzes, it's not your average vegan guide. This would be the perfect coffee table book for a vegan to keep around for their non-vegan friends to flip through. If you're already vegan, I highly recommend purchasing just for the laughs. If you're not already vegan, but have a sense of humor, you should purchase it!

First off, let me start by saying I’m pescatarian. I do love fish but I have slowly been working my way to giving up the dairy portion of things. This book was quirky, cute, but informative. A quick read but I loved it!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for provide me with a digital copy in exchange for my honest review.
This book is a very informative, useful and easy to understand book about what mean and the implications of being a vegan person. I recommend this for anyone, even if you are not thinking about being vegan yourself.

This is such a fun, informative, and funny book! This offers a great introduction to going vegan, while being lighthearted and cracking a few jokes at the expense of vegans, but in an endearing way. Great for recipe ideas, information, and a good chuckle.

Such a fun and informative book. A really quick read covering most topics on veganism–from social and environmental impact to a few recipes. I don’t think I’d ever laughed out loud reading about veganism before. The author’s sense of humor is really on point and completely balanced with the information.

Amazing, funny and helpful. Tips and tricks to understand and slowly become vegan. Lots o fun flow charts.

Quick, informative, witty guide to veganism. How to be and how to talk vegan. With cartoons, illustrations, diagrams.
I loved it!
Also great for a present!

How to Vegan is a humorous, yet informative guide to those looking to transition to veganism as well as vegans looking to navigate all the questions they field from "helpful" friends.
Stephen Wildish has included great charts, infographics, and illustrations to convey the information in an engaging and satirical way.
Many thanks to Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley for the advance copy.

This is a hilarious book about going and being vegan, it's history, and spread. It uses comics, infographics, puns, and quotes to give you an idea of misconceptions and the reality of a vegan lifestyle. This would be a super fun coffee table book for vegans, those who have given up being vegan, or anyone who wants a laugh!

Such a cute book! This is an excellent introduction to veganism, especially if you want it explained fast, simple, with fact and figures. It is an easy read, with a powerful message, but definitely not preachy. If you want to know what veganism is, your child/friend/someone you know has become a vegan, or you are a new vegan, I would encourage you to read this book!

Veganism, how it works, what it is all about, how to do it, and how it is actually nothing radical, not even expensive or hard to do, explained understandably, lightened up with infographics and humor. It has some simple recipes, explanations how to do and what to do, and how a vegan can answer the most common questions about being a vegan. It is also a good, quick reference book about veganism.

Thank you NetGalley and Stephen Wildish for the free ARC I got in exchange for an honest review.

this is a quick and easy read. It is also a lot of fun to read. I am actually inspired by this and will now make sure our current "meatless Mondays" are now vegan. Such small changes with such big results.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book, but was very pleasantly surprised. It's a humorous guide to turning vegan, or eating vegan food more of the time. It's full of jokes and humour and covers responses to "but bacon", the number of protein experts you can expect to meet after turning vegan, how many desert islands there are out there that you might mysteriously find yourself washed up on and the all important vegan super power of skim reading ingredients. It also has loads of quick and easy recipes.

This book would have been super helpful if it had existed when I first thought about turning vegan, but I also enjoyed reading it after 10 years of veganism.

Great lighthearted look at being vegan. Full of funny illustrations and Venn diagrams. It has some practical information too.

Sarcastic, realistic, infographic-heavy, and only slightly smug, this primer on becoming a vegan was a lot of fun. Clever use of old Linotype illustrations, cultural stereotypes of vegans, and Venn diagrams combine with very practical advice on lifestyle changes, recipes, and how to deal with dinner parties.

How to Vegan by Stephen Wildish is a fast, humorous, informational read about what being vegan entails. It’s less persuasive writing than the title might suggest–the author starts from the viewpoint that being vegan is a preferable lifestyle, and uses that as a jumping off point to explain what the lifestyle entails and how to achieve it. There’s a bit of information given to support that thesis, but mostly Wildish is reaching out to those already convinced or at least open to trying a vegan lifestyle. (Or, to quote the back cover directly, this book is for “vegans, people who want to know about vegans, vegetarians who dabble in the dark arts of soy milk, flexitarians, and full carnivores looking to poke fun at vegans” and does not include “arguments for or against veganism. It’s obvious that you should be vegan, and here is how to do it.”).

The text is eminently readable, with a bright, easy to read layout full of useful and often humorous mostly black and white diagrams, illustrations, and graphics. I especially loved the flow chart layout of the recipes Wildish shared, and have bookmarked several for myself to try, from aquafaba meringue to easy dhal to easy rice pudding to easy pancakes. The recipes mostly seem easy to adjust to gluten free specifications (which is why I bookmarked them.). The accents of the bright green from the cover art add a bright note to the text, and the above-mentioned flow chart format is useful for facts and advice as well as recipe layout.

The humorous tone is fun and light-hearted, but there’s useful and inspiring information included, from the history of veganism (Did you know Pythagorus was one early recorded vegan of note, and that the vegan diet was called the Pythagorean diet until the modern vegetarian movement’s beginnings in the mid 1880s? I didn’t.) to the calculated daily benefit of a vegan diet (1 animal’s life, 44 lbs of grain, 1100 gallons of water, and 22 lbs of CO2. Go vegans!) to a super helpful chart of non-vegan terms to avoid when buying products, from cochineal color (made from beetles. gross) to isinglass (fish bladders used in wine making. also gross) to lutein (yellow coloring derived from egg yolks. less gross). Wildish also points out that nobody wins when arguing with others about going vegan, and that the best strategy is to offer simple facts when asked and then to demonstrate by living the vegan lifestyle that it is easy, possible, and mostly normal, and that no one is perfect, so if you are trying to be vegan and make a mistake? Shake it off and keep on trying.

Overall just a fun, practical, accessible guide to what being a vegan entails. I read this in one delightful, delighted sitting, stifling laughs so as not to wake my spouse. I think this would be a fun coffee table book for vegans in your life, a useful light reference book for public or private libraries, or simply a fun and informative read for interested readers. I highly recommend How to Vegan and will probably be buying a copy for my own library.

Thank you to #NetGalley and Andrews McMeel for letting me read this free digital #advancedcopy of #HowToVegan . This is my honest opinion.

*- Where do I get my protein?
-Bitch, peas!*

I really enjoyed this! After having read some non-fiction ehavily fact based books on veganism, which don't get me wrong, i still love and will continue reading, I do enjoy that this books will soon be out there for everyone to enjoy! It's lighthearted without dumbing it done, it is funny without offending anyone and speaks truths through simplicity and funny diagrams, memes and puns!
Loved it! Would recommend for vegans and non-vegans alike! :D

Thank you Netgalley for the free e.ARC in exchange for my honest review.

How to Vegan is a fast-read guide for what veganism is.
While quite informative, the book is really easy to read, well structured with a lot of pictures (should I say memes even?), and some very easy and delicious-sounding recipes.
I'd like to note that I found some of the language sounding a bit too preachy, given that the book seems to be targeted at people that are yet to find out about veganism and how it works.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.*

A fun, informative look at how to go vegan (and how to deal with other peoples sudden interest in your diet and protein). I would recommend this book as a light hearted read to any wannabe vegans