Come get some.
Some of you may have been thinking to yourself “Sure, Max’s cookblog is all well and good, but what if I want something more useful than a sporadically updated, incessantly sarcastic, barely indexed, poorly formatted, and hugely digressive series of vegan vignettes? If only there was some kind of concise, practical, and portable assemblage of recipes that I could refer to.” Well, my friends, look no further. Available online for the first time are download- and printable versions of I Was a Teenage Vegan Cookbook: Volume 1: Just Desserts and Volume 2: Everybody Dines Alone - everything you were looking for in one (two) convenient package(s) (except for the less sarcastic part, that is; I’m afraid I really can’t help you there. Also, hasn’t anyone ever told you not to end a sentence with a preposition before? Savages).
To download, simply click on the cookbooks’ respective covers and prepare to be dazzled by the spectacle of modern PDF technology. To print the pages in a way that makes some semblance of sense, print the cover and odd-numbered page sets first, set the cover aside, place the other pages back in your printer, and print the even-numbered pages on the opposite sides. To assemble, make sure the pages are in order, place the cover on top of them, and fold the entire pile in half down the center line. Finally, staple the pages together along the crease and you are ready to rock and roll.
For those of you who lack either a decent internet connection, printer, or stapler (or who just feel like my cookbooks are so awesome that they deserve to be bought and paid for), there are a few options available to you. For those of you who live in Boston, some copies can occasionally be found at the Lucy Parsons Center - a radical bookstore and community center in the South End. For those of you who live in New York, there may still be some copies left at Printed Matter - a slightly snooty art-focused bookstore with a huge zine selection (good luck finding mine there). For those of you who live on the internet, copies of volume 2 (and hopefully soon volume 1 (which has been out of print for some time) as well) are available through Learning to Leave a Paper Trail - an excellent online zine distro. Prices vary from place to place (from 1-5 dollars I believe) depending on any number of free market factors that are beyond my ability to explain or control. Lastly, for those of you who know my brother Luke I believe he is currently in possession of a large number of copies of both volumes that he plans to distribute for free, although you may have to help him staple them together first.
Coming up next time on I Was A Teenage Vegan CookBlog: recipes (for a change). I hope you’re all as excited for them as I am.
