Monday 20 March 2017

Hippycore Krew – Soy not Oi! Volume 2 (Active Distribution)

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Hippycore Krew – Soy not Oi! Volume 2 (Active Distribution)

It's great when an idea takes on a life of its own. Soy not Oi! Vol 2 employs a cast of thousands over more than 300 pages in a loud, proud collective vegan punk voice. Hippycore Krew split the book into traditional sections, with Maximum Rocknroll-style columns on veganism. Its recipes always maintain simplicity, accessibility and achievability

Brilliant ideas pour from its pages – from braising carrots in tarragon and maple syrup, to Jerusalem artichoke gnocci, to pushing out the boat with a lime and coconut cheeezecake on a gingersnap crust. And it serves as a practical go-to guide for vegan cookery tips, like making your own seitan, egg replacers or pressing tofu.

Articles like Freegan in Brooklyn, canning tomatoes, or making your own deodorant and even anti-fungal footpowder certainly push the envelope. As does an exhaustive chapter on home brewing.

Volume 2 follows its predecessor by 25 years; the original span out of the 1980s anarchopunk movement when punk vegan cookbooks were a rarity – the Hippycore Krew used DIY means of production and the postal system to give vegan ideas a global reach.

But rather than being pragmatically vegan, Soy not Oi! Vol 2 often perches itself on the fence, allowing a shared space for vegans and non-vegans and to open fresh debate about cruelty-free life-style choices without taking a more pragmatic, and exclusive, approach. However, this middle ground is a a sign either an unwillingness to condemn or fear to fully commit.

That said, Soy not Oi! Vol 2 explodes with ideas and explores territory no other vegan cookbook has dared to venture. We await Volume 3 with baited breath....

Available through Active Distribution

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