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The Tofu Tollbooth
by Elizabeth Zipern, Dar Williams
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Ceres Press (1998-10)
ISBN: 188610106X
EAN: 9781886101067
Dewey Decimal #: 610
Paperback: 250 pages
Edition: Second Edition
SKU: 20058
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Paperback. Book pages clean and crisp with no markings.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The second edition of the popular guide for travelers, road warriors and everyone who wants to eat healthfully and have fun in mainland USA. Great for vegetarians, vegans and all health conscious travelers. A labor-of-love of the authors. This treasure trove of more than 1,000 hand-picked eating places now includes "hot tips" for cool stops to check out on the road.
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Amazon.com Review
Printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based ink, The Tofu Tollbooth came about when a vegetarian folk singer (Dar Williams, in this case) hit the road and faced the dilemma of eating meatless in America. Teaming up with Elizabeth Zipern (author of Grateful Dead cookbook Cooking with the Dead), Williams put together a compendium of handpicked natural-food stores and eating spots across the USA. More than merely an organic food resource, The Tofu Tollbooth emanates charm and congeniality as well as details and addresses. The key to amenities (including deli, bakery, café, juice bar, salad bar, filtered water machine, wheelchair access, co-op, beer/wine, and coffee to go) is characterized by appealing hand-drawn icons, and the authors mention other useful tidbits of information as well, such as what's nearby that's worth a visit. The guide contains more than 1,000 health-food options, and for each site, the concise write-ups contain address and phone number, directions from the highways (a wonderful addition), hours of operation, and the parade of cute icons that let you know what to expect to find there (once you memorize that the face with beret stands for café, the carrot in a glass denotes juice bar, and the hot pepper means an especially hot tip). Whether you're performing on tour, traveling with the family, or road tripping on business, it's nice to link up museums, romantic lookouts, night life, and hiking trails with locations that sell soy milk, fresh produce, and organic chocolate. You might not eat another McDonald's desperation dinner ever again. --Stephanie Gold
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Customer Reviews
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great book but getting very outdated
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-07-06
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
first, this is a great book! a must have for all vegan, veggie, healthfood store luvin travelers. we traveled this country and used this book at least once a day.all in all it was pretty informative and gave a great description of what the store was like and what they sold,and most of the time the directions were good and simple,sometimes bad and some times wrong. but hey... they give you the phone # so its not a big deal. my only real complaint at all is we need a revised book. I mean "1998" ?
a whole bunch of natural food stores have gone up since "98"
and many of the listed stores are out of buisness.we travelled in "2000" and found it out dated, i can only imagine how outdated it is now.
one more point: even being out dated this book is well worth it
because most stores are still running and even when we ran across one that was gone the book had still put us in an area were another heathfood store had popped up. well worth the $
i'd buy it 5 years from now if there were no revised ed.s, but really hope thats not the future
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Always saves me on the road
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-11-26
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am a traveler. Being a vegetarian on the road can be difficult. The choices are somewhat limited to greasy hamburgers. However, the Tofu Tollbooth really saves me. Elizabeth Zipern and Dar Williams have compiled quite a listing of vegetarian friendly establishments. Sure, most of these places are not interstate-side drive-ins (many listings are of co-ops and natural food stores), but finding a local co-op can be a fun and educational side trip. The places that Zipern and Williams list give the traveler a taste of the local culture as well. The only fault that I can find in this book is that I wish the directions were a bit clearer. Sometimes I find myself following the directions and getting off the highway only to drive many more miles than I had expected. I wish that information such as distence from the highway had been included. But besides that minor drawback, the Tofu Tollbooth is a must for any vegetarian on the road!
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Out of date
Rating  (1)
Date: 2000-09-28
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's a great idea, but I'm disappointed with this book. Half of the stores I attempted to visit during a recent trip through the Northwest were no longer in business or had moved.
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Not Vegan Friendly - But a Nice Guide
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-08-02
11 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
My boyfriend and I just got back from a 4000 mile treck across the U.S. - we went to Washington and Oregon and we are based in Chicago. I bought this book specifically for the trip. We are Vegans and during the trip we were living out of a cooler most of the time. This book was helpful in finding natural food stores in each city. It didn't give addresses or phone numbers of the restaurants mentioned and it was hard for us to find out where these places were from the highway. It also didn't mention whether the restaurants were vegan/vegetarian - we visited "Old Wives Tales" in Portland and found that everything on the menu included Chicken or Fish - sorry folks - Chicken and Fish is not vegetarian. Sure there were a few tofu dishes on the menu but my boyfriend and I were so annoyed by the Chicken and Fish thing that we ended up just leaving and not ordering anything. I was thankful that we had the guide - because it kept us eating - but it could have been more informative and more Vegan friendly! If you are in Washington - check out Tofu Tollbooth recommended Globe Cafe in Seattle and Eat-Rite in Spokane - both vegan! :) Also check out the Daily Grind's Vegan Buffet and Veg/Vegan store in Portland, OR!
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an invaluable traveling companion
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-01-10
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
i've recently completed a seven month, 16,400 mile trip around the country with my dog in my '77 vw bus and in every city i visited i was armed with information that enabled me to eat and play like a vegetarian local. not only are the store listings wonderful (with very specific and easy-to-use directions), but for many cities the authors give advice obtained from store workers on the best veggie restaurants to eat at, the nicest places for hiking, and the nifty nightspots. the tofu tollbooth was my most beloved traveling guide and should have a place in every vegetarian's glove compartment.
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