Raggedy Annarchy's Guide to the Universe and Vegan Baking

raggedy annarachy's guide to vegan baking and the universe
By: Kai in Sacramento, California
Availability: I can't find any active distro for this zine. The zine is marked as "copy freely" so it's quite possible that it could come back to life at some point, but for now it's resting peacefully.
Format: vertical half size / rubberband spine
Size: 88 pages / 57 recipes

5 Recipes to Intrigue:
Coffee Cream Frosting
Old Fashioned Raisin Pie
Applesauce Granola Cookies
Frosted Pumpkin Nut Cookies
Sour "Cream" Peach Pie

It changed my life: Penuche Frosting p. 29
Super Duper Ranty-Rantistic (I find some rants in this zine more entertaining than others. For example "your consumerism makes us sick-a puke-in at arden fair mall" sandwiched between the cake and frosting sections all at once fills me with great horror and chest puffing pride. An excerpt:

"...the first puker, chucky babe, stepped up to a mall attendent and asked with a totally white face where he might find a restroom, QUICK! then 'blahgggrrggoouuuugghhhbbllaa. fuck your consumeristic blllluuuuuurrrrgggggaaaa!!'"

The rant about her BFF's homebirth, eh, not so much. I don't know about the muffin man (he sounds way creepy), but raggedy annarchy has gotten me through more birthday celebrations than anything else on planet earth. This is my most used zine, food stained through and through, with a rotting rubberband holding it all together.

xo
kittee

Gay Cookzine Parade: GasTank

I got my first vegan cookzine back in 1956, when I was just about to become a sweet dew-haired Bat Mitzvah. I have a bunch of 'em now, and I have a lot of super-not vegan vintage promotional recipe books too. I think the latter're sorta the great-great-great-grand pappies of the modern cookzine, but with a heavy promotional/commercial angle and lots of gelatin and dead things.

For kicks and posterity and because I need to exercise the effin' flab from this blog (Vegan Mofo's coming next month!), I'm gonna document 'em here, well some of 'em at least. Consider this a sorta temporary cookzine temple of half review half library catalog for the next little while. Much obliged.

GasTank
By: Jessica
Availability: gastank.etsy.com / GasTankZine@hotmail.com
Format: vertical half size / stapled spine
Size: 88 pages / 119 recipes

5 Recipes to Intrigue:
Bierocks
Chuck Wagon Tortillas
Eggplant Fries
Kartoffelklosse
Spicy Apple Softies

It changed my life: Peanut Butter Crispie Cake p. 73
Rant-Free Content

I don't cook from the cookzines much, I'm way more likely to pull one down to admire, or remember or just to browse through for a looksie. GasTank I reach for frequently, so many good ideas and lots of veganized European Grandma Recipes--triple score. Also, Jessica is the genius behind rice crispie double layer cakes, c'mon.

xo
kittee