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Vegan Fusion

Winner of 8 National Awards - including Best Vegetarian Cookbook in the USA

About Me


Vegan World Fusion Cuisine has won 9 national awards including:
• Gourmand Award - "Best Vegetarian Cookbook in the USA"
• Martha Stewart Omnimedia Nautilus Award – “Best Book by a Small Press”
• PETA Proggy Award – "Best New Cookbook"
• VegNews - "Cookbook of the Year"
• USA.Booknews.com – "Best Veg Cookbook"
• Nautilus Award Finalist - "Health and Healing"
• Foreword Magazine - Finalist "Best Cookbook"
• Coalition of Visionary Artists Award Finalist - "Alternative Health"
• 2007 Indie Excellence Awards - "Cookbook Finalist"
This life changing cookbook is from the Chefs of The Blossoming Lotus Restaurants - winner of 2006 'Ilima Award for "Best Kaua'i Restaurant" and named the "Best place to eat" on Kaua'i in Frommer's 2006 Hawaii Guide.
Vegan World Fusion Cuisine is available in bookstores and natural foods stores everywhere, or HERE
The book is a celebration of over 200 international gourmet vegan and live food cuisine recipes. In a simple and easy to follow format, it introduces the ingredients and techniques that allow you to awaken the creative chef within, gently guiding you towards a lighter, more healthful diet.
So much more than a cookbook, this Wisdom Work for the 21st century is designed as a manual for nonviolent living, with a comprehensive resource guide that lists over 50 groups and organizations working for peace and a sustainable future.
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A moving foreword by Dr, Jane Goodall highlights its aim to inspire peace, unity and understanding among individuals, cultures and all who care about our planet.
Featuring Anthropologist and photographer Martin Gray's breathtaking sacred site images from around the world, beautiful photographs from Tim O'Rielly , stunning food photography, as well as countless wisdom sayings, our book is sure to be a cherished keepsake and reminder of the beauty and hope that life on our planet has to offer.
We believe that a vegetarian diet is one of the keys to creating a peaceful world. By starting with ourselves, by cultivating and exemplifying the principles of wisdom and nonviolence within our own lives we can help make this dream of a better world a living reality.
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“One of the things that has strengthened my hope even in these difficult times has been the emergence, all over the world, of efforts to create a thriving, just and sustainable way of life. From every direction, carriers of Earth wisdom are appearing, showing us how to live elegant lives in harmony with our planet and its creatures. Vegan World Fusion Cuisine takes this wisdom into our kitchens, on to our dining tables, and into our bodies. Here we have beautifully presented recipes that are delicious, fun, easy to prepare and healthy. Try some and see what happens. I’ll bet your body will thank you for the rest of your life.”
- John Robbins, Author, The Food Revolution, Diet for a New America, Founder Earthsave International

My Interests



Vegan World Fusion Cuisine is the cookbook from the chefs of The Blossoming Lotus Restaurants , with locations on Kaua'i, Hawaii and Portland, Oregon.

Our flagship location in the Historic Dragon Building in Downtown Kapaa, Kaua'i, recently won Honolulu Advertiser's 2006 'Ilima Award for "Best Kaua'i Restaurant" - the first time ever a vegetarian restaurant received the award. We are also listed as the "best place to eat" on Kaua'i in Frommer's 2006 Hawaii Guidebook.

I'd like to meet:


DR. JANE GOODALL

"There is much here that will ...help you discover the sense of well-being...that results from a vegetarian diet." - Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace-from the foreword

PIERCE BROSNAN
“I wish the Blossoming Lotus great success. They make the most wonderful of food with the greatest of heart” - Pierce Brosnan

DEEPAK CHOPRA
"I heartily recommend Vegan World Fusion Cuisine for anyone seeking a healthier, inspired and more peaceful life." - Deepak Chopra, Author, Peace is the Way

BARON BAPTISTE
"Magnificent recipes for a life-giving, soul-centered cuisine. Read this book, but more importantly, use what's in it. Apply it!" - Baron Baptiste, Author, Journey into Power

JOHN ROBBINS
“I’ve had the pleasure of eating at many of the finest vegan and vegetarian restaurants. The Blossoming Lotus, in Kapaa, Kauai, is among my very favorites. The food is superb, the ambiance is relaxing, and the overall dining experience is marvelous.” - John Robbins, author Diet For A New America, The Food Revolution, and Healthy At 100

TONI CHILDS
"For a truly tasty experience on the beautiful island of Kauai, you must check out The Blossoming Lotus Restaurant. It is the only place to go for delicious Live Food Cuisine. Their cookbook is a beautiful representation of the cutting edge cuisine that has made the Blossoming Lotus Restaurants famous” – Toni Childs, Emmy Award- winning singer/songwriter"

PETER FALK
"The cookbook from the Blossoming Lotus is the greatest. I felt healthier just reading it. And the kava brownies were a home run with me." - Peter Falk, Emmy Award-winning actor

GRANT ALEKSANDER
"The food from Blossoming Lotus was delicious. The corn bread and Veggie Kabobs dissapeared as soon as they hit the table. Their cookbook would make a worthy addition to any kitchen's top shelf." - Grant Aleksander, Actor

DAVE SMITH
"I am so excited about the cookbook and the people at Blossoming Lotus that we met Paramount Studios. Great book and great food. As soon as I came home I put all my other cook books away." - Dave Smith, NFL Alumni, Pittsburgh Steelers

Music:


Check out our latest vegan e-cookbook 7 Minute Chef.
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For some incredible images of our home here on Kauai, please visit HERE

Heroes:


Vegan World Fusion Cuisine unites all people by honoring the wisdom, beauty, art and cuisine of the World's Cultures.
In addition to the incredible food photographs, we are blessed to include many of Martin Gray's Sacred Site images throughout our book.
Sacred sites are the most loved and visited places on planet earth. Since prehistoric times they have exerted a mysterious attraction on billions of pilgrims from every region and religion. These holy places have the power to heal the body, enlighten the mind, and awaken the soul.
Anthropologist and renowned sacred site photographer Martin Gray spent 20 years as a wandering pilgrim to study and artistically photograph 1000 sacred sites in 80 countries.
His web site sacredsites.com features Martin’s sacred art photographs and shows the location of sacred places and pilgrimage shrines around the world.
Mount Ararat, Turkey
Stonehenge, England
The Moai statues of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Chile
Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Machu Picchu, Peru
Greek orthodox monastery of Rousanou, Meteora, Greece
Church of St Mary of Zion, Axum, Ethiopia
Santorini, Greece
Mount Sinai, Egypt

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