In Search Of The Lost Taste

Description

Joshua Ploeg is the travelling chef. A vegan alchemist whose recipes are filled with winged horses and white doves - metaphorically of course. These are vegan recipes. Sometimes strange, experimental, a little crazy; flavours explode in each unique dish which is a journey in its own right. Ploeg passionately shows that successfully complex flavour combinations can extend far beyond snail porridge - no meat is needed here. Recipes include Straw Mushroom and Black Sesame Rolls with Spicy Mustard Sauce and Sweet Black Vinegar Soy Sauce; Lemongrass Basil Ice Cream and a Miso Mary.

Joshua Ploeg is the author of several vegan cookbooks, includingDutch Much, So Raw It's Downright Filthy, Something Delicious This Way Comes: Spellbinding Vegan Cookery, Twelve Knights in My Kingdom, and A Typografic Meal to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Libelle. He lives in Los Angeles.

" ... he put out a little gem of a cookbook a few years ago entitled "In Search of the Lost Taste." It's a whole $8, so just STFU and get a copy. It has tastes I would never think to put together, but I'm glad he did. From sweet to savory, sometimes using local fresh ingredients, sometimes using tofutti cream cheese, and always using what's on hand (although you might not have it on hand...) it's one of the most diverse little cookbooks out there. Plus he cooks the way I do, which is to say 'if you've got some extra XYZ, you should just go ahead and throw that in there...' Like I said, it's a little gem." --"kitsch & kitchen" "There's no shame in getting a little creative, cruelty-free cooking help. Sac's own traveling vegan chef Joshua Ploeg published a vegan cookbook/comic book last year called "In Search of the Lost Taste." The instructions are written without pretentiousness, and his combination of flavors are unexpected, even a bit exotic. He includes animal-product-free recipes for cocktails, tea, shakes, sorbets, appetizers and entrees for the experimental gourmand, including Deep Fried Blueberry 'Steak' Balls, if you have the balls to try it. " --"Sacramento News and Review" "Some people make simple, filling meals. Others treat cooking like one big science experiment, and there are those who are more successful than others. "In Search of the Lost Taste" is a vegan cookbook from Joshua Ploeg, a man who takes a fresh and exciting approach to vegan cooking, doing everything from simulated fried food to Miso Marys. With a strange, surreal story alongside the recipes, "In Search of the Lost Taste" is a cookbook experimental chefs will love." --"Midwest Book Review"