books to read if you wanna cook tasty food

The Garden of Vegan and How It All Vegan by Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard
These are two rad vegan cookbooks made by two rad, tattooed vegan ladies from Victoria. Good general info on egg and butter substitutes, vegan sugar, and all that kinda stuff, and excellent recipes. I've made a ridiculous number of these, and while a few aren't so hot, I've re-made most of what I've tried. I particularly recommend their banana bread recipe, rustic tomato lentil soup, dijon scalloped potatoes, and sweet potato cornbread from How It All Vegan, and the balsamic roasted veggies with couscous and chickpea pie from Garden of Vegan.

Anything by Mollie Katzen
I grew up on Mollie Katzen's cookbooks, so they have lots of happy memories associated with them, but they're hella good even if this isn't the case for you. They're all interspersed with Katzen's drawings and paintings of various foodstuffs, and the recipes are tasty and well written. As an extra added bonus, The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest have line drawings that are very fun to colour in. Shut up, I'm already aware I'm a dork.

Vegetarian Classics by Jeanne Lemlin
This is possibly my all time favourite cookbook ... it's really clearly written and I haven't tried anything from it that wasn't ridiculously delicious. Make sure you try the chickpea soup and vegetable soup with dill dumplings, but honestly, everything is more than worthwhile to make.

Cooking zines that I've liked include Soy Not Oi, Please Don't Feed the Bears, and The Frugal Vegan's Harvest & Holiday Survival Guide