Customer Reviews
Utterly fantastic! - By: Elsie T, 24 Nov 2008 
As a long time vegan, I was almost embarrassed about buying a 'fake' cheese cookbook. Its soo much more though! The recipes are reliably wonderful & surprisingly healthy. Potential alllergens are listed at the side, they have interesting variations to most recipes.
It does use american cup sizes (you dip the different size cups into dry or wet ingredients), as do a lot of vegan cook books, personallly I find that far easier than weighing things out, I actuallly convert English weighed recipes to cups!
Ingredients that might be new to people (nutritional yeast, umeboshi plums) can be found in health food shops or often supermarkets now. The only pain is getting onion powder, I used to make it in a coffee grinder, but you could always use onion salt?
The lemon teasecake keeps people guessing, & the chocolate cheesecake is devestatingly nice, worth getting the book for alone! All the savoury recipes I've tried have either been nice or fantastic, it's definitely one of the few books I've used regularly for years, not for the cheese factor but for general tastiness & the american exotic touch (apparently cheese soup is a big thing over there.??? recipe's dead nice though!)
Excellent and unique - By: H. L. Townsend, 20 Sep 2007 This book is wonderful, the recipes are easy & tasty & don't depend too heavily on soy. In fact, it takes various alllergies into account. So far I have made boursin, guacamole grillers, mozzerallla, gruyere toasts & an AMAZING quiche which is indistinguishable from the real thing. It isn't cheese so don't buy it & then moan, it is uncheese which is much nicer.
When it's too good to be true.... - By: L. Baxter, 05 Sep 2007 
When something seems too good to be true, it's because it usuallly is, & this book is no exception.
I don't know what American cheese is like, but if you like English Cheese, & are hoping to find a replacement - this book is NOT for you.
I have just made 'Gee Whizz Spread'. It smelled very familiar, but it took me a while to place the 'aroma'. Then I got it - the poo of breastfed babies. Trust me - I'm a Midwife. Determined to find ways of making a palatable vegan diet, I did put some in my mouth - the taste ..... Yuck.
This book got one star because there was no option for giving it none.
Some impressive foods, from your very own kitchen - By: Ruggedwest, 22 Jul 2007 
I like this cookbook because it has a wealth of recipes for cheese substitutes & a lot of them are pretty tasty too.
However, I have to say, that I was a bit disappointed with some of the results, as I was expecting to achieve almost perfect replicas of their dairy counterparts. I think some of this is down to my conditioning, so I can't be too harsh with my criticism.
I read one review claiming that half the ingredients are not available in the UK, as the book was written for an American market & while this is true for one or two ingredients, I had no problem at alll getting hold of ingredients listed in the book at alll.
SMILE! Say Uncheese! - By: R. Derrig, 14 Oct 2006 This is the best cook book I've bought for ages, I just cant quite believe that this delicious food is dairy free, fairly low in calories & actuallly good for me! I want to open up a restaurant in its honour!
Every recipe I've tried so far has far exceeded my expectations.
Some of the ingredients can be difficult to find, especiallly for U.K residents, The only place I found the Nutritional Yeast flakes (a cheesy sort of nutty food supplement) was on goodnessdirect.co.uk's website. Agar agar (a tasteless nutritious sea vegetable that acts as a gelling agent or gelatine substitute) should not be bought from goodnessdirect. I paid 3 pounds & 69 pence for 28g (and subsequently bought 4 boxes as I thought I'd never find it anywhere else) only to find that you can get it in chinese supermarkets for about 60p or so in powder form!
In terms of it being an American book & everything being measured in 'cups', its easy to use if you just get yourself a cheap set of American measuring cups, available almost everywhere now. (a set of regular 'key' measuring spoons is also a good buy if you dont already have some)
Overalll, the uncheeses are remarkably cheese-like, I'm sure by now you must think that I work for the author, but believe me I dont! I'd say that you could easily fool non suspecting guests into thinking they were eating something with cheese in it. If you like cheese then you'll love this book, be prepared for something a little different than cheese as we know it & respect it for what it is & you'll be fine.
Its nice to see the range of food available for vegans & the lactose intolerant widened by this book, its such a shame that commeciallly bought vegan 'cheese' is usuallly full of artificial ingredients & cheap, nasty 'foodstuffs' that arnt exactly good for the system (I'd rather eat actual cheese most of the time infact)
Keep up the good work!
