Giveaway: Cookin’ Crunk

Our winner, a person after my own stomach!

Rushi: I love fried okra, i love it so much!

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When I was trying to decide who to contact about giveaways based on what I thought people would be most interested in winning, Cookin’ Crunk immediately sprung to mind. Not just because Bianca is a popular and well liked vegan blogger, but because I have been hearing rumblings about this book for what seems like years. If you’ve read her blog for awhile, you’ve seen posts referencing ‘my upcoming book’ for awhile, so I think it’s safe to say that Cookin’ Crunk has been a highly anticipated book!

If you don’t know, the most widely accepted definition of ‘crunk’ is ‘to get excited’ (it’s also used as a synonym for getting drunk and/or high, but please do not try to smoke this book). I haven’t had a chance to pick up a copy yet, but after following Vegan Crunk for over a year and seeing pictures of a lot of the dishes featured in the book, I am definitely excited to get my hands on some authentic vegan southern recipes! For an in-depth review, Joni has you covered. If you can’t wait to win a copy, you can pick it up at your local bookstore or on the publisher’s website!

Book Publishing Co. has offered to send one lucky reader a copy of Cookin’ Crunk! To enter, simply comment here, telling me what your favorite (vegan) southern dish is. This one is open to US and Canada, because I am so late putting it up I will draw a winner tomorrow, October 16th, at 6 pm EST.

And while you’re at it, why don’t you go on over to Vegan Crunk and check out Bianca’s sandwichy MoFo theme and wish her happy birthday?

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149 Responses to Giveaway: Cookin’ Crunk

  1. Cadry says:

    A mess of greens is my favorite southern dish, but chicken-fried seitan and waffles from Madeleine Bistro is a fun treat!

  2. Here’s the thing: I don’t have a favorite Southern dish. Thus, I need this book! Especially since I’m living in the south again. (Well, the pseudo-South.)

  3. Erin says:

    For me it is sauteed yellow squash and onions :)

  4. hungry vegan says:

    favorite southern vegan dish? collard greens and cornbread!

  5. Brittany says:

    Barbeque tofu with collard greens

  6. Monica says:

    Does jalapeno cornbread count? Because jalapeno cornbread.

  7. CQ says:

    Creole-style greens’n'beans!

  8. Anna says:

    Having grown up in the midwest and now moved to the west coast, I don’t have a clue about southern cooking. I need this cookbook to introduce me!
    palindrome_1185 at yahoo dot com

  9. Mrs Pine Nut says:

    Biscuits and fauxsage gravy!

  10. Annie C says:

    Mac and “cheeze”, daisy mae!! :)

  11. Benjamin Klein says:

    I have to give credit to the Chicago diner in Chicago for my favorite southern grub, their biscuits n’ gravy is insane in the membrane!

  12. Mel Monroe says:

    My favorite vegan dish has to be a simple sweet potato pie after dinner (it’s the season!) or maybe pumpkin pie! (any type of pie really :) )

  13. My favorite vegan southern cuisine is tomato/okra soup with corn bread. The soup contains tomatoes, okra, and corn. Oh so good.

  14. Kierstin says:

    I love collard greens! Steamed or sautéed in coconut oil with onions and garlic. And eggplant bacon. Yummmmm

  15. Oh goodness… I don’t know if I have a favorite Southern food! That’s why I need a copy of Bianca’s book!

  16. Anne says:

    southern fried tofuchicken & waffles!

  17. Michelle says:

    I’d say biscuits and sausage gravy, but I’ve yet to find a vegan version that satisfies my craving. Maybe it’s in this book??? : )

  18. Ilene says:

    I have to say either New Orleans beans and rice or spicy collard greens. Until I became vegan I’d never tried either one. Now I’m always looking for new southern recipes.

  19. kalamckala says:

    Hands down, it’s gonna be crispy and moist cornbread with corn kernels in there. I like to whip up some cinnamon honey butter to serve it with. Bread pudding is a close, close second.

  20. Liz Merritt says:

    Have to go with collars greens and corn bread. Now I’m hungry.

  21. Meghan says:

    Gotta be mac and cheese! Sometimes with bbq tofu and southern greens (with liquid smoke of course)… yum!

  22. Amelia T says:

    Comet Cafe’s chicken-fried-seitan is awesome, but Maxine’s Southern Comfort’s smoked BBQ tofu with mashed, corn bread, and vegetables is amazing! (Both in Milwaukee)

    I love making homemade vegan jambalaya as well!

  23. Brandy says:

    There’s nothing like some good southern style soul food! We like too cook up collard greens, with mac n cheese, and barbecued textured vegetable protein!

  24. Johanna Groh says:

    my macaroni and cheese, spicy sauteed greens and apricot cornbread!

  25. Jenna says:

    Oh man, gotta be some southern fried seitan with some sweet baked beans, greens, and cornbread!

  26. Erin says:

    Hoppin John , greens, and biscuits!!

  27. Charlie says:

    I make a mean fried seitan and waffle sandwich!

  28. Jenny says:

    biscuits & gravy foreverrr

  29. Fave southern foods? Where to start…mac & ‘cheese,’ collards, seitan “wings” or chicken fried seitan…amazing!

    Great giveaway, I hope I win!

    XOxo

  30. Lizzie says:

    I have been waiting for this book for SO LONG!! I was so excited when I saw that it was finally coming out! As for my favorite southern style dish, I love okra, rattlesnake snap beans, and potato chunks tossed in cornmeal with spices, and fried up. I ate it about once a week this summer, with fresh okra and beans from my garden. Yum!

  31. Cathy says:

    Red beans and rice!

    There are a lot of good options though, it’s kind of hard to pick. For example, those would be a toss up with cajun spiced… anything. :)

  32. Edie Marshall says:

    I love the southern fried tofu at Souley Vegan in Oakland, CA, along with their fried okra, sweet potatoes, mac and cheese and greens. I’d love to learn to make that kind of stuff at home, so this cookbook would be great! :o)

  33. Heather B. says:

    Well, I’ve got to vote for my Mama’s biscuits and vegan gravy for sure! It’s terrific!

  34. Nicki says:

    Biscuits and gravy!

  35. moonsword says:

    Vegan Blueberry Cornbread always makes me happy. :)

  36. boychucker says:

    Southern fried seitan, collards and mac-n-cheese all piled in a huge bowl. Yum yum with a spoon!

  37. I miss some dirty Southern cooking! I’d love to get my hands on this.

  38. Samantha says:

    Green Cuisine corn bread! Cheap, hearty, and delicious. First vegan restaurants I went to, blew my mind.

  39. megs says:

    Can I say something I haven’t even made yet? I’m dying to veganize my mom’s chicken-fried steak… now that I have a killer beefy-style seitan recipe it’s just a matter of time…

  40. MaRa says:

    Mac, mac, mac n’ cheese!

  41. FoodFeud says:

    my favorite southern dish is my newly found love of collards served over some grits!

  42. Mari says:

    My favorite southern dish is definitely vegan fried tofu “chicken” wish mashed potatoes and greens. Yummy!

  43. Jillian CS says:

    I can’t deny a well made bean burrito. Red peppers, black beans, corn, salsa, all wrapped up in a spinach tort, and some butternut squash soup on the side. That takes me back home to Texas.

    Happy Birthday!

  44. Rachel says:

    I’m Southern, so that’s like asking a crazy cat lady who her favourite cat is. I guess my favourite thing to cook for myself is biscuits and gravy, but one of the best Southern meals I ever had was a plate at Rosetta’s Kitchen that contained sauteed greens, for which I bought a slice of cornbread to sop up the pot likker.

  45. Micah says:

    My (vegan) boyfriend is from rural Alabama, and we’re now obsessed with finding legit southern vegan food here in California (his standards are unsurprisingly higher than mine). My favorite vegan southern food is southern fried (cornflake-breaded) tofu cutlets with vegan tartar sauce. Soulely Vegan in Oakland makes the best I’ve ever had, and mine never turn out quite right. Maybe this book can save me from my Minnesota roots and teach me how to make proper collards and cornflake cutlets? Good gracious, I hope so.

  46. Shannon says:

    Give me a mess of BBQ tofu and mac & cheese. That’s happy food!

  47. Jahnvee Bambhania says:

    Fresh cornbread right out of the oven! Being a lifelong vegetarian and now vegan, I’ve never truly experienced southern food. Would love to veganize commonly non-vegan southern dishes.

  48. Lori says:

    Since my Southern cooking is pretty much limited to cornbread experimentation, I clearly need to expand my repertoire!

  49. Crystal S says:

    Vegan sweet potato pie! <3

  50. Cindy says:

    Pecan pie. It has long been a family favorite, as my grandma, then grandpa after she passed, and later my aunt would bake them for holidays. I attempted my first vegan pecan pie last year and it was great. My Mississippi-born husband agreed!

  51. Michelle says:

    Biscuits and gravy!!!

  52. VH says:

    BBQ tempeh, collard greens, and fried okra. also everything else that has BBQ sauce on it!

  53. carmen says:

    A huge pile of collard and mustard greens!

  54. Katie of Vegan Noms says:

    Ahh! There are so many amazing dishes she’s featured over the years I can’t pick!

  55. bev says:

    “snausage” gravy and biscuits. And grits also of course.

  56. Lauren says:

    Buffalo chicken with ranch dressing and a side of collard beans and candied yams!

  57. Ruth says:

    I want to find my favorite southern dish in VEGAN CRUNK! At the moment, I would have to say Collard Greens — if only I had an awesome vegan cornbread to go with them ….

  58. big bowl of pinto beans with some chow chow!

  59. Abby says:

    Red beans and rice!

  60. Amy HH says:

    Chili with vegan crumbles and lots of veggies.

  61. Carol says:

    That would have to be okra, fresh out of my garden – tossed with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt. I could eat that daily! Failing that – biscuits and gravy, for sure.

  62. Candyce says:

    I don’t know enough about Southern Vegan Cooking… but I have done biscuits and gravy! This book can make some new taste buds dance for me!

  63. Caitlin says:

    corn bread and baked beans!!

  64. Kaycee says:

    I love deep fried seitan!!! Been dying to read this book, I love Bianca’s blog!

  65. Dave says:

    I’ve been making vegan drop biscuits every day for the past few weeks. No real reason. So biscuits are apparently my Southern fave.

  66. Lys says:

    Collard greens. Anything with collards makes me happy.

  67. Winnie says:

    Collard greens and mac and cheese. I’d actually like some now. Thanks.

  68. Rebekah says:

    cornbread, it’s the basis, the side, and I need a good vegan recipe. you got any?

  69. Oufff…my favourite south vegan food…hummm…I would say collard greens. I also like the vegan hopping john and meals with okra in it. I would really appreciate to win a copy of her book. A friend of mine is really enjoying her copy.
    Thanks for that contest.

  70. Jennifer says:

    Anything deep fried and/or covered in gravy. :)
    Thanks for the giveaway!

  71. I love vegan mac and cheese with biscuits! Thanks for the giveaway!

  72. Esther says:

    Chicken fried steak, jambalaya, pecan pie, barbecue, red beans and rice…just don’t ask me to choose one!

  73. charj says:

    So many great Southern vegan meals, I’d say mac n’ cheeze, greens, and BBQ seitan are a favorite.

  74. Elizabeth DH says:

    I would love to win a copy of this book. My favorite southern food is breakfast potatoes! yum!

  75. Emily says:

    Etouffee!! Vegan of course :) please pick me!!!!

  76. Meghan says:

    Oh man, chicken-fried anything that isn’t actually, you know, chicken. Or biscuits. Chicken-fried thing on a biscuit. Boom.

  77. Corrin Radd says:

    I love greens!

  78. allularpunk says:

    Grits! I just recently learned how awesome they are, since I never ate them growing up and really had no idea what they were all about. Now I’m making up for lost time!

  79. Chely says:

    I love cornbread and all things corn. Though I haven’t experienced much Southern Cookery.

  80. Heidi says:

    Jambalaya with cornbread and a side of greens.

  81. Lisa K says:

    Black eyed peas – soooo good!

  82. Jen says:

    Tempeh gumbo! yum!

  83. Edna says:

    I live in New Orleans, a city famous for its food. I have had different types of vegan po boys and gumbos, I even make my own vegan king cake for Mardi Gras, but there are so many traditional foods to be made vegan friendly: dirty rice, boudain, étouffée, etc. The vegan lifestyle is really starting to become popular, it would be nice to have this cookbook to utilize the local produce and flavors that already participate in New Orleans cuisine.

  84. Jessica says:

    I don’t have much experience with southern cooking, but I love mac n’cheese and okra!

  85. Grits, grits, and more grits! Oh, I hope I win this book. I’ve been following Bianca’s blog for years and I really want to get my hands on this cookbook! I’m sure the recipes are amazing! And I’m a Southern gal, so I really need it to help me please my omnivore extended Southern family during the upcoming holidays.

  86. Michelle says:

    Anything BBQ’ed and fried pickles!

  87. Kristen says:

    Chicken-fried tofu with a biscuit on the side. My dad’s side of the family is from Alabama, so I’m always looking for new Southern recipes to try out on them.

  88. Taylor says:

    Good ol’ mashed ‘taters!

  89. Southern fried chickpea cutlets with mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy!

  90. Jordyn says:

    It would have to be either red beans and rice or some greens. I do enjoy a big bowl/plate of southern style greens

  91. Amanda says:

    Fried, breaded (GF of course!) tofu cutlets! Served with gravy! Mmm! Thanks for another giveaway!

  92. Katie says:

    Creole black eyed peas!

  93. Haley says:

    Mac-n-cheeze!!!!!!

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  94. Nikki Wagenschutz says:

    Chicken friend tofu and yellow squash with cornmeal coating!!

  95. Southern BBQ fried Tempeh with a side of collard greens and pumpkin corn bread muffins! So comforting. Great thing: you feed vegan babes vegan food and they love it. My Eldest daughter was asked by our Georgia born friend what her fave food was – collard greens! Needless to say he was impressed.

  96. Casandra R. says:

    Do mashed potatoes and green beans count? I don’t have experience in southern cooking.. =./

  97. Megan says:

    Collard greens. Lots and lots of collard greens.

  98. in2insight says:

    BBQ Tofu and a mess of greens. Any day. Any time.

  99. Ellen says:

    Definitely collard greens!

  100. Katie Mae says:

    Cornbread all the way!

  101. Plain ol’ Grits. I know that doesn’t sound as adventurous or detailed as southern BBQ tempeh with a side of sauteed collard greens or butternut squash pecan topped macaroni with kale… BUT , plain ol’ grits it is. Pure and Simple.

  102. Jenny says:

    Pinto beans, for sure. Also, any kind of bean or tofu product like chick’n fried steak, etc. :)

  103. Rushi says:

    I love fried okra, i love it so much!

  104. Kasey says:

    Oh, do I want to win this! My “Last Meal” would be spicy mixed greens, black-eyed peas, biscuits and cornbread, fried okra, and peach cobbler for dessert. But if I had to pick a single favorite Southern food? Mississippi caviar, hands down. (That’s black-eyed pea salad with tomatoes, onions, and jalapeno.)

  105. Chris says:

    I like biscuits, definitely my fav!

  106. Emily says:

    Cornbread, sweet or savory. So good!

  107. Tessa Keskinen says:

    Mmmmm, I don’t think I could choose a favorite. Fried green tomatoes, biscuits and gravy, vegan gumbo, hoppin’ john, cornbread, and peach blackberry cobbler. Give me all that and I would die happy.

  108. Shira says:

    Black eyed peas and greens!

  109. Laura says:

    Biscuits & gravy

  110. Christina says:

    Macaroni and Cheese. I’d love to learn to make it vegan.

  111. Katie says:

    Mac n Cheese

  112. Lacey says:

    Bianca’s roasted okra is my favorite, of course :)

  113. Michelle says:

    red beans and dirty rice with hot and smoky collard greens

  114. Chicken fried tofu, or chicken fried zucchini, I like to binge on the later when I’m having dinner by myself, because the boy won’t touch fried zucchini.

  115. Jennifer says:

    Has to be beans and greens of any sort. With a side of cornbread

  116. Biscuits and gravy! Oh baby is that good.

  117. Jess says:

    Definitely corn bread! Altho, I am a sucker for greens and beans!

  118. Lisa Keith says:

    Greens flavored with vegan ‘meat’ and a big ol’ pot of beans flavored the same way. And a cast iron skillet full of jalapeno cornbread. This book is in my Amazon wishlist. Please please please I want it so bad! I think it would help the final conversion of the not-quite-but-almost-convinced man in the house! Thank you!

  119. Kate s says:

    Ugh…gravy! And cornbread! Potato salad with olives!!! Too many to choose.

  120. Candy Beans says:

    Biscuits and gravy with collard greens! When my Maryland pals found out that I could make them vegan, I became Ms. Popularity.

  121. ellie says:

    Another vote for biscuits and gravy.

  122. Ashley F. says:

    Definitely biscuits and gravy with a side of fried green tomatoes and grits with hot sauce – yum!

  123. Tracy F says:

    I was born and raised in California, but a couple years ago we decided to have a Southern Vegan Thanksgiving. It Rocked!. The family favorite had to be the Gumbo. Took the recipe from http://www.whatwouldcathyeat.com/2011/04/serious-vegetarian-gumbo/. It was by far the best vegan gumbo I’ve ever made!.

  124. Susan Kelley says:

    Greens. I love collards!

  125. Beth says:

    Collard greens! So yummy!

  126. Kelly says:

    Biscuits & gravy!

  127. Shane P. Brady says:

    Has to be veganized dirty rice.

  128. Kelly R says:

    I live in super-rural CA, so, I really don’t know anything but faux-southern food. (a reason to get this book on the top of my must-have list, perhaps?)

    But, at the end of the summer, I do a lot of fried green tomatoes – in sandwiches, topped with red sauce, plain… I think they’re my favourite.

  129. Amber says:

    My favorite southern dish is fried green tomatoes or grits. It’s a tough call!

  130. Carmella says:

    Fried “chicken,” greens (collards, kale and mustard) with pickles and hot sauce, mac ‘n “cheese” and sweet potato pun!

    Deep fried okra and okra soup are yummy too!

  131. Jes says:

    Most definitely some good, noochy collard greens!

  132. Nicholas says:

    Hush Puppies!

  133. Tamara says:

    My favorite southern (or is it just Texan?) dish is a vegan frito pie. Ermahgerd it’s good.

  134. I love french onion soup! That’s a Creole dish, right?

  135. Janice (joyfulgirl) says:

    Southern Cooking is awesome! How can I choose my favorite? Cornbread, biscuits, mac and cheese, greens. it’s all good!

  136. Rhea Parsons says:

    My favorite Southern vegan dish is Hoppin’ John especially with cornbread and gravy. Love the mix of my own gluten-free sausage, black-eyed peas and collards. Yum!!!

  137. Omer says:

    Cornbread

  138. Travis says:

    deep fried tofu!

  139. Jeni says:

    Cornbread!! I love Southern cooking!!

  140. I love really good faux fried chicken, but as a native Okie, my favorite is veganized chicken fried steak!

  141. Anna Gregory says:

    As a newcomer to the vegan world my favorite vegan dish is burritos made with tempeh, portabello and other veggies.

  142. Nick Kuiper says:

    Favorite southern dish? Talk about easy question. Biscuits and gravy! I like sausage gravy, but I’ll settle for a simple white gravy, too.

  143. Claryn says:

    Southern fried seitan, any day of the week!

  144. I’m a simple gal, so I’m happiest with a plate full of collard greens and a side of cornbread!

  145. Ellen says:

    Greens with a side of black eyed peas.

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