Vegfest Bookstore

The bookstore is sponsored by the Book Publishing Company, which specializes in Healthy Living Publications and Native Voices.

Our extensive selection of books includes hundreds of nutrition, cooking and vegetarian titles. There are cookbooks from every part of the world and for every type of food from soups to desserts, tofu to tempeh and curry to burritos.

Whether you're cooking for kids, preparing gourmet meals for dinner parties or making a quick snack for yourself, you will find the cookbook you've been looking for. There will also be books to help you learn how to learn more about good nutrition and to help you change your diet.

Some of the chefs are also cookbook authors. They will be available for book signings at Vegfest, right after their presentation.

Special books available at Vegfest

Vegetarians of Washington has written several books to help people following a vegetarian diet. Our first book, now newly updated and arranged into helpful geographic regions, is a guidebook, Vegetarian Pacific Northwest. It includes veg-friendly, vegetarian and vegan restaurants and natural food stores throughout Washington and Oregon with reviews. Farmers Markets are also included. This popular book is invaluable to anyone interesting in eating healthy food while out and about in the Pacific Northwest.

Our second book, The Veg-Feasting Cookbook, is a truly unique cookbook. It includes gourmet vegetarian recipes from restaurants in Washington and Oregon, popular recipes presented at Vegfest, expert chefs’ tips and interesting articles on nutrition and the vegetarian scene in the Pacific Northwest. Among the many gourmet vegetarian recipes, you’ll find Spring Pea Garbanzo Pancakes from Café Flora in Seattle, and Lavender Sorbet from The LocoMotive in Eugene, Oregon. All the recipes are free of animal products. Be sure to buy your copy at Vegfest.

“Ever eat a fantastic restaurant meal and wish you could prepare the dish at home for family and friends? Now you can. With The Veg-Feasting Cookbook, enjoy really good recipes from surprisingly simple to quite gourmet. These recipes appear to be unique creations from a wide variety of restaurants.”  - Charles Stahler, Vegetarian Journal

“You don’t have to live in the Pacific Northwest to enjoy the latest offering in the Veg-Feasting series – a cookbook filled with scrumptious recipes and practical tips. Be someone’s best friend – get two copies.”   - F. McEachrane Gross, MD.

The Vegetarian Solution, written by Stewart Rose, our Vice President, shows how our food choices have a huge impact on our risk of many common diseases. Not only a solution to our health concerns, it also shows how a vegetarian diet can be a solution to environmental crises such as water pollution and global warming, to feeding the world’s hungry and to giving the animals a better life. Fully referenced for those wanting to investigate further, there are also charts and illustrations to aid understanding. Practical pointers are offered for making changes to your diet.

I highly recommend the Vegetarian Solution to all those wanting to maintain or regain their health.”
- Neal Barnard, M.D.
President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

“The Vegetarian Solution is a factual, scientific-literature-supported treatment of a most important subject. The upbeat and fun-filled perspective is refreshing and makes the facts actually most interesting and easy to read.”
- Ray Foster, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Staff Physician Black Hills Health and Education Center

“The Vegetarian Solution presents the most comprehensive evidence in favor of a vegetarian diet I have ever read.”
Timothy Riesenberger, M.D., M.P.H.
West Sound Emergency Physicians

Current and renewing members and people who join Vegetarians of Washington at Vegfest will be able to buy these books at an extra special discount. If you are a member or planning on joining or renewing at Vegfest, be sure to look for the special book table alongside the membership tables, where these books will be available at a special price.