Best vegan cookbook for someone in a small town?

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I'm thinking about send a vegan cookbook to a relative. She lives in a small town and won't be able to find any unusual ingredients, including things like nutritional yeast. What would be a good one with simple recipes, using things you could find in a regular supermarket? Also, her husband is an omni, although he eats mostly vegan since she does the cooking. So maybe something that would appeal to a meat eater too.
 
I really like Rose Elliots cookbooks (they're actually vegetarian, but it's ~95% vegan). They're quite British though so I don't know if that would be a good fit, but I tend to find they use few difficult to get/specialist ingredients. Plus, I like the recipes :)
 
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Short-Cut Vegan by Lorna Sass.I think a lot of the recipes use simple ingredients and their suppose to be fast to prepare if you cook your beans ahead of time.I occasionally use some recipes out of it.
 
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Supermarket Vegan. (For Real People in the Real world.)

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Complicated ingredients and recipes, tend to discourage people from trying new recipes.
 
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Supermarket Vegan. (For Real People in the Real world.)

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Complicated ingredients and recipes, tend to discourage people from trying new recipes.

That book has really good reviews on Amazon. Thanks for drawing my attention to it, shyvas! I regularly get asked for recommendations for "easy" veg*n cookbooks.
 
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That book has really good reviews on Amazon. Thanks for drawing my attention to it, shyvas! I regularly get asked for recommendations for "easy" veg*n cookbooks.

I bought it a couple of years ago and it really has some easy recipes. However it doesn't have any photos.
 
Not what you're specifically asking about, but I have found that an Amazon Prime account is a great way to make mailable items affordable (free shipping) and accessible pretty much anywhere in the lower 48. You can get almost anything on Amazon these days.
 
Not what you're specifically asking about, but I have found that an Amazon Prime account is a great way to make mailable items affordable (free shipping) and accessible pretty much anywhere in the lower 48. You can get almost anything on Amazon these days.
This, plus iherb.com has free shipping on orders over $20, and for some food items, better prices than Amazon. In many cases, the prices are better than what you can find in brick and mortar stores.
 
This, plus iherb.com has free shipping on orders over $20, and for some food items, better prices than Amazon. In many cases, the prices are better than what you can find in brick and mortar stores.

iherb is my favourite store :up: when buying food, food supplements etc it is much cheaper than Amazon. I only pay $4 for shipping to Europe.

I even purchased goodies for a present to be shipped to Canada, as it worked out much cheaper than buying from Canadian sites.