Amazon.com has it's Best of 2010 lists posted, based on sales and editors' picks. The top 10 cookbooks don't include a vegetarian cookbook, let alone a vegan one. Sure, there's a dessert book that is probably vegetarian by default, but who knows.
This probably shouldn't surprise me, but it does for a couple reasons. It's trendy to be 'green' these days, so shouldn't a list of the best cookbooks of the year include one that fits in? Yes, there is a book that address sustainability in the kitchen, but it's not a vegetarian book. Vegetarianism and veganism is one pretty darn good way to be environmentally conscious.
Also, there's been so much fuss about obesity in our country, and the consequences that come with being overweight. Yet, the books featured in the list don't generally sound like they contain health-conscious recipes. There's a book called Pig, for goodness' sake.
Vegetarianism and veganism are on the rise, yet a best of cookbooks list doesn't contain such a book? It just doesn't make sense to me.
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