Cook Your Own Fucking Life (Paperback)

Ashley Rowe Palafox

ISBN 10: 1648413927 / ISBN 13: 9781648413926

Published by Microcosm Publishing, Bloomington, IN, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. This scrappy, can-do vegan cookbook eschews fancy ingredients and goes back to basics. It's packed with attitude and recipes anyone can cook and eat, including comfort food, smoothies, holiday staples to feed your family, and dirty rice to feed the touring band sleeping on your floor. More than just a collection of recipes, this is a DIY cultural artifact that compiles all four volumes of the original Barefoot and in the Kitchen zine and puts them in context with a new introduction-right in time for the zine's 20th anniversary. The book makes this long-out-of-print zine accessible again, so you can find your favorite issue without needing to hunt through your co-op's crusty cookbook collection. With an emphasis on accessibility and enough charm to engage anyone who's curious about plant-based eating, Cook Your Own Fucking Life presents more than 55 approachable recipes with inexpensive, easy-to-find ingredients. It's also packed with cute comics and illustrations and full of 'ridiculously useful tips' to ensure your trek through the world of vegan cooking is as entertaining as it is delicious. The perfect gift for your slightly off-kilter friend or family member, whether they're an old punk or a veg-curious teen looking to strike out on their own in the kitchen. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cook Your Own Fucking Life (Paperback)
• Publisher: Microcosm Publishing, Bloomington, IN
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648413927
• ISBN 13: 9781648413926
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

For scrappy, can-do vegans on a budget, this essential cookbook eschews fancy ingredients and gets back to basics. It's packed with attitude and recipes anyone can cook and eat, including comfort food, healthy smoothies, holiday staples to feed your family, and dirty rice to feed the touring band sleeping on your floor. More than just a collection of recipes, this is a DIY cultural icon. The book makes author Ashley Rowe Palafox's long-out-of-print Barefoot and in the Kitchen zine accessible again, with spirited annotations and updated resources, so you can find plant-based, cruelty-free inspiration you need without needing to hunt through your co-op's crusty cookbook collection. Because plant-based broke folks deserve good eats, too!

About the Author

Ashley Rowe Palafox, the author of the book Barefoot and in the Kitchen: Vegan Recipes for You and Cook Your Own Fucking Life: Vegan Comfort Food to Feed Yourself and Build Community, is a long-time zine-maker and comic-drawer. Ashley came to veganism via punk rock as a teenager in Los Angeles (before it was a vegan food destination) and majored in Community Studies at UC Santa Cruz before settling in Oakland, CA. Ashley co-founded and ran Fat Bottom Bakery from 2009 to 2014, and she has worked in fields from radical publishing to vegan food, and now the clinical laboratory.