Cook Your Own Fucking Life: Vegan Comfort Food Recipes to Feed Yourself and Build Community

For scrappy, can-do vegans on a budget, this essential cookbook eschews fancy ingredients and gets back to basics. It’s packed with attitude and recipes anyone can cook and eat, including comfort food, smoothies, holiday staples to feed your family, and dirty rice to feed the touring band sleeping on your floor. More than just a collection of recipes, this is a DIY cultural icon. The book makes author Ashley Rowe Palafox’s long-out-of-print Barefoot and In the Kitchen zine accessible again, with spirited annotations and updated resources, so you can find plant-based, cruelty-free inspiration you need without needing to hunt through your co-op’s crusty cookbook collection. Because plant-based broke folks deserve good eats, too!

Ashley Rowe Palafox, the author of the book Barefoot and in the Kitchen: Vegan Recipes for You and Cook Your Own Fucking Life: Vegan Comfort Food to Feed Yourself and Build Community, is a long-time zine-maker and comic-drawer. Ashley came to veganism via punk rock as a teenager in Los Angeles (before it was a vegan food destination) and majored in Community Studies at UC Santa Cruz before settling in Oakland, CA. Ashley co-founded and ran Fat Bottom Bakery from 2009 to 2014, and she has worked in fields from radical publishing to vegan food, and now the clinical laboratory.