Street Vegan: Recipes and Dispatches from The Cinnamon Snail Food Truck: A Cookbook

This is an amazing book, the recipes are delicious food by any standard. Having said this, I’m not a vegan; I don’t live in NY and have never even heard of The Cinnamon Snail. I have no idea how Amazon came with this recommendation. But… I’m so glad I came across this book.The book is divided in 10 parts:Breakfast: here you will find the most yummy way to start your day, or finish it if you have any leftovers. Bourbon Hazelnut Pancakes with Cardamom Brown Butter? Fresh Fig Pancakes with Chamomile Blood Orange Syrup? Poached Pear-Stuffed French Toast with Spiced Pecans? Have made this 3 and they turned out great.Beverages: Ok, so my husband was more than ready to move from lemonade and hibiscus iced tea and I had no idea where to look at until I had this book. Made the Supreme Raw Fudge Brownie Milk Shake and he declared his love for ever (again). The Brazil Nut Milk is also very good. And the Icy Strawberry Thai Basil Lemonade is a whole new story on lemonade history.Appetizers: made the Flaky spinach pie (better than any other I’d made) and the Smoky Portobello and Potato Stuffed Poblanos. Really, really, really good both.Soup : Made just one and I don’t know if I’m ready to move away and try another: Jalapeño Corn Chowdah, ate the last drop and I’m ready to make it again and again.Sandwiches: Ok, here I wasn’t that honest to the book. I used Fish in the Miso Teriyaki Seitan with Grilled Onions and Five-Spice fried Sunflower Gomasio. I don’t eat gluten for fun so a vital gluten product like Seitan is out for me, leave me with the bread and I call that a good meal. The fish was heavenly in the sandwich and I think if Adam was into eating fish, that’s the protein he would’ve used here.Cinnamains: this is the high end, gourmet restaurant like food, very involved dishes but the results are more than worth it. Made the Galangal Pea Pancakes with Basil Seitan and fried Kaffir Lime Leaves. Again, no seitan for me but free range chicken. The tastiest chicken ever!Veggies and Sides: Haven’t made any here but the Lemon-Garlic Swiss Chard is in my to-do-list for this week.Desserts: Roasted Mandarin-Chocolate Twinkies where really good but the Gooey Salted-Caramel Pecan Turtle Bars where the star. All I can say is you better try them, they are that good.Donuts: Ok, I had to make the Cinnamon Snails, there was a reason the food truck was named after this yummy dessert. They were a hit at home and no leftovers where the proof. And the Mexican Hot Chocolate-Glazed Twist… OMG!The Saucy Stuff: haven’t touched this part of the book but I’m more than confident that it’s as equally good as the rest. With things like Red Wine Syrup, Pumpkin Brown Butter and Truffled Cashew Cheese, you can’t go wrong.So, truth to be told, I graduated from Culinary School and love to cook, this is not your weeknight cookbook that would take you from scratch to dinner in 30 minutes but the time spent cooking will be worth it. Received the book almost a week ago and have been cooking from here the entire week (I’m off work right now and spoiling my husband for the few days left).I did not receive this book for free for my honest review, I wish I had. BUT, I’m more than happy with the investment and would pay for it again!

I am a Cinnamon Snail food truck devotee. I live in New Jersey but when I can, I haul into NYC and hunt down my favorite food truck and spend an hour waiting on line for some of the most delicious and well-made food I've ever experienced. I love their donuts, their korean-spiced seitan, their coffees, pastries - shall I go on? Snaily is no longer brightening the streets of NYC with their glorious, healthy, vegan food - but I now have their cookbook.I love the stories behind the truck. The message of compassion that the book projects. And oh yeah, the recipes. YUM! My only criticism is that some of the recipes take time to prepare (which makes me appreciate the CS truck even more!) and there are a lot of nuts in the recipes. I love nuts and they are a big part of the vegan diet, however my youngest has a severe tree nut allergy and I do not keep nuts in the house. The ingredients used are somewhat difficult to find in a typical suburban setting but I purchased some on- line.I eagerly anticipated the release of this book and it did not disappoint. The pages are colorful and the recipes easy to follow. I learned some new techniques as well. It is not a simple cookbook, mind you. The flavors and the recipes are complex. But it brings vegan food to a new high - no meat lover would turn it down!

If you've ever been to the Cinnamon snail, you know that their food is amazing. They ranked #1 place to eat in New York and #4 in the entire US on Yelp for 2014 and have a plethora of other awards. Adam Sobel is a culinary genius, and I do not say this lightly. This book has been the most highly anticipated cookbook on my list since 2011, because the snail has never produced anything that I didn't LOVE.I'm pleased to report that the book is no exception!! I was worried that the food wouldn't taste as delicious as the food truck. Like the seitan, which could fool many carnivores. And oh, did it go above and beyond my highest expectations! Never has homemade seitan been so delicious.As soon as the book was virtually delivered to my eagerly awaiting paws, I ran out to 24-hour Walmart to buy ingredients. The index, which you can view before buying the book, is positively delicious. I didn't see a single thing I didn't want to eat. Skimming through the index for the first time, I was extremely pleased to see the Vanilla Bourbon Creme Brulee donuts, which is one of their best sellers. That's where I started, because these donuts are from heaven. Crunchy, soft, sugary warm deliciousness... and my first try was just as good as from the truck. I will be making them at all of my future family holidays. I also made the Broccoli Beer Soup, Peking Seitan Bao Buns, Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake. I'll post pictures tonight. Everything was heavenly. I didn't even know I was capable of making food so delicious. This book is a total game changer for my home menu. I cannot wait to try all of the other recipes. As I was cooking, I read through the intro and got lots of warm fuzzies reading about how and why Adam learned to cook. So sweet.One thing that I was worried about was that it wouldn't include some of my (less popular?) seasonal favorites. And although the book doesn't have some specific seasonal recipes such my all time favorite Hickory BBQ Seitan Sub, it does have all the elements there to make it, albeit with a little searching. The original sandwich on the menu read as follows: Hickory BBQ Seitan with Bourbon Braised Garlic Marinated Kale, Caramelized Onions, Coconut Bacon, and Horseradish Cream.I used the following recipes to duplicate the sub of my dreams:Brown Sugar Bourbon Glazed Seitan (132) with a few tablespoons of added BBQ sauceBourbon Blanched Mustard Greens (187) sub baby kale, added garlic and caramelized onionsI adapted the horseradish cream from the horseradish mustard cream in the perogie recipe and the aioli listed for the recipe.And I used this (Coconut Bacon (2 Pack/Bags) - Enjoy Crunchy Coconut Chips With A Bacon Flavor - Gluten Free and Vegan Friendly Snack Food!) for bacon.It was just divine. Buy this book. Never eat another animal product again.I'll continue to update as I try each recipe.

...aber soooo lecker.Wenn man sich erstmal überwindet und einiges in Ruhe vorbereitet, findet man schnell heraus, warum der Foodtruck (und inzwischen das Restaurant) von Adam Sobel bei Veganern und Omnivoren so unglaublich beliebt ist.Wenn man mal am Wochenende oder im Urlaub Zeit hat: absolut empfehlenswert...und natürlich gibt es auch ein paar Gerichte, die nicht so aufwändig sind.

I love this book. I own a ton of vegan cookbooks and would trade them all for this one....except my rebar cookbook...they are the two best books I own ; out of over 30 veg titles. The recipes are long....but really good. If I don't have an ingredient I just easily sub another similar one or leave it out; the recipes still turn out great. Glad I purchased this one. Recipes I have tried so far include Cranberry Brazil Nut Granola, Maple Mustard Breakfast Seitan Strips, Fried Dandelion Greens with Lemon Garlic Potatoes, Wild Mushroom and Spinach Potatoe Soup(that one was just alright) Asada and Ancho Red Bean Chili and Shredded Root Vegetable Hash Bowns(minus the fig/olive tapenade). The recipes I have tried have all been good...and I am kind of fussy. I look forward to trying many others. The book is very nice, the way it is laid out, and the little stories he tells, and the pictures. He puts a lot of love and passion into his food and the taste of the food proves it. I'm glad I finally decided to purchase it.

Street Vegan is very inspiring with lovely photos, amazing-looking recipes and some stories about the Cinnamon Snail food truck (that Adam Sobel runs) which I loved reading. The recipes I've tried so far are the coleslaw which was amazing - it had mirin and roast garlic in it among other things and was definitely the best coleslaw I've ever made or eaten. The gochujang was also wonderful. The book is full of exciting ideas and flavour combinations and I can't wait to try more.The recipes are over the top and decadent which is what I love about them. It means that some have quite a few steps to make them, but they look fully worth the effort.These are the chapters with some examples of recipes:Breakfast - recipes include fresh fig pancakes, bourbon hazelnut pancakes and beer-battered French toastBeverages - toasted hazelnut hot chocolate, supreme raw fudge brownie milkshakeAppetizers - pan-fried kimchi dumplings, flaky spinach pie, chimichurri tempeh empanadasSoups - thai coconut curry soup, korean kimchi soup, creamy roasted almond cauliflower soupSandwiches - bangin bao, gochujang burger deluxe, brown sugar-bourbon glazed seitan, blue corn and hemp seed crusted tempehCinnamains - galangal pea pancakes, raw pizza with spinach and pine nuts, live szechuan string bean ramenVeggies and Sides - kimchi, horseradish mashed potatoes, lemon-garlic Swiss chardDesserts - raspberry coconut frou-frous, mini peanut butter-chocolate cheesecake, gooey salted-caramel pecan turtle bars, raw browniesDonuts - master raised dough, black tea twists, bing cherry fritters, chocolate ganache-stuffed s'mores donutsThe Saucy Stuff - ginger stout syrup, pine nut butter, grilled mango salsaIf you enjoyed reading this review as much as I enjoyed writing it, this book is probably for you.

The Cinnamon Snail makes the best vegan food I've tried!If you can't make it to NYC, get this book to find out what you're missing out on.I'm not a guy who uses cookbooks, but I had to HAD to have this.I'm getting hungry just writing this review X)

Great book. Full of adventurous sandwich and baked goods recipes from the famous Cinnamon Snail in New York. They may have a food truck but their recipes are far from UK burger vans! Very intersting book, good photographs too - one comment, for all cookbooks - I know that full page photos of the recipes are expensive BUT they're a must, every single recipe should have a photo illustrating the finished results. Same with this one, I reckon there are photos for 50-75% of the recipes - I want to see them all! Thankyou, please.