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The Seitanic Spellbook: Recipes and Rantings of the Vegan Black Metal Chef
Greetings Mortals! You have entered the realm of no return.
Within this spell book lie the keys to ultimate vegan satisfaction.
Swim through the abyss of knowledge and emerge victorious in your quest for cooking perfection. Engage on this life changing journey as you transmute basic meals into gold. Cook for all the minions of your kingdom and watch them bow before your culinary prowess.
This does not require years of training nor a king's ransom. Doable veganism of the highest caliber shall be yours for a mere pauper's wage and moments of time.
Open this tome and perform its rituals and incantations. It shall guide you with images of every step of every main recipe. Scan QR codes with your mystic technology to summon videos of everything in the book.
Your hour of glory has come.
(The Vegan Black Metal Chef combines his passion for cooking and making metal music to create an awesomely unlikely combination that is informative, hilarious, and enlightening.
As a vegan since 2000, and a musician since 2003, his quest to make awesomely amazing food, music, and blasphemy has culminated into a modern sensation. He has appeared in such media as "Time Magazine", "The Washington Post", "The Guardian", "Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations", "ABC Nightline", amongst many others.
His website contains vegan cooking instruction that offers cooking concepts ratheran than strict recipes, a series of YouTube Videos that focus on singe dishes as well as whole meal ideas, seeks to answer the question "what do vegans eat" set to a self-made and recorded soundtrack of Black Metal music with comedy thrown in. The Website also aims to introduce people to bringing consciousness to their lives and all of their actions.)
Within this spell book lie the keys to ultimate vegan satisfaction.
Swim through the abyss of knowledge and emerge victorious in your quest for cooking perfection. Engage on this life changing journey as you transmute basic meals into gold. Cook for all the minions of your kingdom and watch them bow before your culinary prowess.
This does not require years of training nor a king's ransom. Doable veganism of the highest caliber shall be yours for a mere pauper's wage and moments of time.
Open this tome and perform its rituals and incantations. It shall guide you with images of every step of every main recipe. Scan QR codes with your mystic technology to summon videos of everything in the book.
Your hour of glory has come.
(The Vegan Black Metal Chef combines his passion for cooking and making metal music to create an awesomely unlikely combination that is informative, hilarious, and enlightening.
As a vegan since 2000, and a musician since 2003, his quest to make awesomely amazing food, music, and blasphemy has culminated into a modern sensation. He has appeared in such media as "Time Magazine", "The Washington Post", "The Guardian", "Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations", "ABC Nightline", amongst many others.
His website contains vegan cooking instruction that offers cooking concepts ratheran than strict recipes, a series of YouTube Videos that focus on singe dishes as well as whole meal ideas, seeks to answer the question "what do vegans eat" set to a self-made and recorded soundtrack of Black Metal music with comedy thrown in. The Website also aims to introduce people to bringing consciousness to their lives and all of their actions.)
222 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2015
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September 23, 2017
free day today, so what better thing to do than read a book about vegan food and black metal. hell yea :D actually only the names of the dishes, which are almost all edited song names, had me in giggling fits. brian tried to include as many different dishes from around the world as possible. this is pretty awesome! sadly many of the ingredients he names are not available where i live, but he gives many alternative options, too. there are no exact details about amounts, and this might be irritating, but this is the style i normally cook, too, haha. the pictures tell enough anyway. his use of language is most entertaining and he is brutally honest, haha. probably the most honest cookbook ever. whoever saw his youtube videos knows, that he also writes songs to any of his recipes, singing the preparation steps in true black metal style. it's too much fun, i can tell you! i hope that this book will give me some inspiration when i need it. even if i will not cook those exact dishes, the book was already so entertaining and worth every penny :D
March 22, 2019
It’s so black metal!! I fully appreciate the artistic qualities of this cookbook. I got some great food inspiration here, although I’m not too crazy about all the fried stuff. There are lots of fantastic ideas for vegan meals in this cookbook.
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September 7, 2020"I will not stop showing the world how good, easy, cheap, and wise the vegan path is, for as long as I live. Until every cage is empty."
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Not just a gimmick; this is the real deal. None of the quality concerns you sometimes have with crowdfunded stuff from YouTube channels applies here. Manowitz is hilarious as always without distracting from the point of the book. The print quality is excellent, as are the photos (I'm a huge fan of his way of showing little images of what your recipe should look like at each point in the process, as I often have trouble keeping my place in print-only recipes). The recipes are hearty world cuisine from a variety of sources using mostly staple ingredients, and little paragraphs acquainting you with things like mushroom broth or lemongrass you've likely heard of but not used, and warnings against inferior substitutions.
Most importantly, the food is stellar. The recipes are simple but contain little touches that elevate them. If like me you've sometimes found yourself in the trap of trying to make plant-based analogues to meals by just replacing certain ingredients with an alternative, stop. The credo here is to stop cooking against a standard you're not following and start cooking stuff with its own identity and rules.
Ultimately this stands alongside Feeding Hannibal as a "pop" cookbook I bought on a whim that ended up besting
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Not just a gimmick; this is the real deal. None of the quality concerns you sometimes have with crowdfunded stuff from YouTube channels applies here. Manowitz is hilarious as always without distracting from the point of the book. The print quality is excellent, as are the photos (I'm a huge fan of his way of showing little images of what your recipe should look like at each point in the process, as I often have trouble keeping my place in print-only recipes). The recipes are hearty world cuisine from a variety of sources using mostly staple ingredients, and little paragraphs acquainting you with things like mushroom broth or lemongrass you've likely heard of but not used, and warnings against inferior substitutions.
Most importantly, the food is stellar. The recipes are simple but contain little touches that elevate them. If like me you've sometimes found yourself in the trap of trying to make plant-based analogues to meals by just replacing certain ingredients with an alternative, stop. The credo here is to stop cooking against a standard you're not following and start cooking stuff with its own identity and rules.
Ultimately this stands alongside Feeding Hannibal as a "pop" cookbook I bought on a whim that ended up besting
March 1, 2026
Fantastic recipes! Each recipes has a QR code, that guides you to a spell and added directions on how to correctly prepare the food.
Many,many, so many photographs.
Vegan recipes from across all kinds of cultures. This chef has created these recipes directly. The portions and instructions are detailed. My personal favorite recipe was the “Hummus of Mayhem.”
Many,many, so many photographs.
Vegan recipes from across all kinds of cultures. This chef has created these recipes directly. The portions and instructions are detailed. My personal favorite recipe was the “Hummus of Mayhem.”
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 7, 2022
Best Vegan Cookbook Ever
The recipes are great and the affirmations of self-positivity are great too. Great mind, great food. I have been waiting for a cookbook like this for a long time.
The recipes are great and the affirmations of self-positivity are great too. Great mind, great food. I have been waiting for a cookbook like this for a long time.
July 18, 2024
lots of good ideas
Very good content. But the fights for be better. The ingredient page fonts, perfect. The instructions page could be improved by using the same font. The current one is a little hard to read.
Very good content. But the fights for be better. The ingredient page fonts, perfect. The instructions page could be improved by using the same font. The current one is a little hard to read.
July 18, 2022
Absolute pleasure to read cover to cover and to cook from as intended.
February 4, 2017
So glad I finally purchased this unique book!
It contains:
A whole lot of recipes, each with a photo, grouped by region
Photos of each step
Humor
Bad words
Shortcuts
Information about various ingredients
Almost no measurements (and so far I haven't missed them)
One of those ribbons (built-in bookmark)
QR codes throughout the book to scan for updates (I haven't checked these out yet)
Philosophy or "rantings"
This is a lunch and dinner cookbook with a few snacks. No desserts and very little breakfast type food. If you like the author's videos you will love this book. I highly recommend it even though the author writes that I "would have to be some kind of @$$hole not to like mashed potatoes".
It contains:
A whole lot of recipes, each with a photo, grouped by region
Photos of each step
Humor
Bad words
Shortcuts
Information about various ingredients
Almost no measurements (and so far I haven't missed them)
One of those ribbons (built-in bookmark)
QR codes throughout the book to scan for updates (I haven't checked these out yet)
Philosophy or "rantings"
This is a lunch and dinner cookbook with a few snacks. No desserts and very little breakfast type food. If you like the author's videos you will love this book. I highly recommend it even though the author writes that I "would have to be some kind of @$$hole not to like mashed potatoes".
February 1, 2017
Vegan Black Metal Chef is completely hilarious. He has completely drawn me into his evil, irreverent realm. The cookbook works on two levels: 1) it’s just funny to read 2) his food is really straightforward and good! P.S. It’s not evil; it’s satire.
February 29, 2016
Très drôle et plus profond qu'on ne le croirait de prime abord, je regrette qu'il n'y ait aucune mesure.
March 16, 2016
Great recipes delivered with a sense of humor
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