Alicia Silverstone is famous for her role in Clueless and as a real-life vegan activist. In The Kind Diet, she provides three approaches to cooking vegan: "Flirting," for people trying out meat- and dairy-free foods; "Vegan," for experienced flirts; and "Superhero," basically vegan with local foods.
The book feels straight out of La-La Land: lots of exclamation points, italics and such sentences as, "Get ready to meet the beautiful, delicious, God-given foods that will rock your world." Her intentions are good, if a little naive, and she gets preachy only when criticizing the "Nasty Diet" of meat, dairy, sugar and processed foods. The book is like a seaweed appetizer Silverstone recommends: People already interested in veganism might like a bite, but for everyone else, it's easy to turn down.
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