"I get really excited by ordinary things," says tattoo shop owner Sarah Kramer, returning for her third Vegan cookbook, La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy (Arsenal $24.95). Kramer doesn't mean raindrops on roses, brown paper packages tied up with strings or snowflakes that fall on her nose and eyelashes. She means, "the scent of fresh basil. The crunch of an empty sun-bleached clamshell as my foot runs across it on the beach. The deep, soft sigh of my dog as he's about to fall asleep. The smell of my kitchen when I'm baking bread...." Going vegan, for Kramer, is not just about food; it's also a lifestyle and an attitude. Her ebullient approach to self-marketing has helped turn How It All Vegan! and The Garden of Vegan into bestsellers. "La Dolce Vegan! comes at a time when I find myself multi-tasking to the nth degree," she writes. "I'm busy running a tattoo shop, maintaining the GoVegan.net website, testing and creating recipes, taking photos, and making sure my dog and my husband get enough exercise... I don't have a lot of free time to much about in the kitchen and I suspect you don't either." 1-55152-187-3