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    I just bought a vegan mexican cookbook called "A Vegan Taste of Mexico" Im in love with it... I love mexican food and this is perfect.

    here is the amazon link for the book.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/189...books&v=glance

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    Hey Tangerine.

    Can't say Iv tryed the Mexico version of this series, but I have "A Vegan Taste of East-Africa", which is also excellent. I've also heard the "of the Carrabian" is good too. Maybe I should go for the whole series?

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    The one review of this book on Amazon made it sound unappealing. As a Yankee, I don't know that I would be able to convert from metric easily--and what the heck is a dessert spoon, anyway? It's a shame, because I love Mexican food and I've been missing it. I don't trust Mexican resturants not to use lard in the tortillas.

    Have any other Americans used this cookbook? I'd like to hear from you so I can decide to buy this or not.

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    ps--Of course, if my stupid country just used the metric system like everyone else, the problem would be solved.
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    Quote rantipole View Post
    As a Yankee, I don't know that I would be able to convert from metric easily--and what the heck is a dessert spoon, anyway?
    C'mon, that shouldn't be a reason to hold back from buying a great cookbook- you can find programmes on the internet that convert measurements, and you probably will only have to do it the first time you use a recipe and write "your" numbers next to the ones in the book.

    I also own and cook from a lot of American cookbooks- though I don't convert, but just estimate as I do with most recipes

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    Quote rantipole View Post
    what the heck is a dessert spoon, anyway?
    In the UK we have teaspoons, dessert spoons and tablespoons - 5ml, 10ml and 15ml respectively A dessert spoon is what you'd eat your pudding with, probably, hence the name...

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    I've just had a look in my copy, the measurements are listed in both imperial and metric.

    Also, I can't agree with the comments about nuts in the amazon review. I've just had a quick glance through some recipes and of the 20 or so I looked at none contained any nuts with only 1 containing seeds.

    There are plenty of recipes, over 100 pages, many of which have more than 1 recipe on them.

    I've actually planned on cooking mexican tomorrow night, and I'll be making good use of this book.

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    Can one of the people who has this book tell me if there are a lot of soya products like soy cheese etc in the recipes, or other things like seitan/tempeh? I have the "Vegan Taste of North Africa" and I really like it because a lot of the recipes just rely on vegetables and pulses. Apparently though, some of these books use a lot of substitute ingredients which I can't always get.

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    i've just ordered this book along with A Vegan Taste of Thailand. i'm looking forward to trying them out, i love Mexican and Asian food.
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