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Cookbook Alert!

March 23, 2022
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Are you looking to make some new grub but don’t want to get overwhelmed as you search for your next favorite cookbook? It’s your lucky day! The last few years have brought us a spoil of amazing cookbooks and we’ve put together a little round-up of some awesome new(ish) releases that you’ll want to get your hands on. (We’re linking to used shops whenever possible because twice is nice and always better for the environment!) Read on…

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In Unbelievably Vegan: 100+ Life-Changing, Plant-Based Recipes, celebrity chef Charity Morgan pulls from her Puerto Rican and Creole heritage to deliver flavor-packed, 100% plant-based dishes that you can replicate in your own home. Look forward to recipes for Creole Krab Cakes with Tarragon Remoulade, Smoky Jambalaya with Blackened Veggies, and Beer Battered Fish & Chips. “Plant-based foods can be healthy, fun, filling, and highly flavorful,” Morgan told VegOut last January. “I’m trying to debunk the myth that plants are boring, limiting, and unpalatable.”

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Bryant Terry is a James Beard Award-winning vegan chef, activist, cookbook author, and educator. Terry’s latest book, Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora defies categorization—containing art, poetry, recipes, essays, prayers, and more. “It is an immersive Black experience,” Terry told the Tennessean in December. “I wanted this to be about us having a conversation with each other without concern for the white gaze, without concern for the need to translate ourselves for others. We’re inviting the world to listen to this conversation, but it is really us celebrating us.”

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Sean Sherman is an Oglala Lakota chef, founder of The Sioux Chef, a food company containing a restaurant and educational center, and the author of The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, which he wrote with Beth Dooley. “We feel like it’s a great starter book for people to think about ways that they can approach indigenous foods, and to gain a deeper understanding of the foods and flavors of their regions,” Sherman told Food52 in 2017. “We really want to get out there and embolden indigenous communities to pursue a healthier way of cooking, so we can slowly overcome the barrier of poverty and oppression that a bunch of us have grown up with.”

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Joanne Lee Molinaro is a storyteller, long-distance runner, TikTok star, lawyer, and home cook. Her debut cookbook, The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen, is filled with recipes, stories, and gorgeous photographs of plant-based Korean recipes. But she hasn’t always been vegan—the switch was inspired by her boyfriend’s transition to a plant-based diet. “I didn’t think of veganism as anything other than a very rich, white type of diet,” she told the Los Angeles Times in August 2021. “Once I stepped into the vegan universe, I started to get really uncomfortable with the kind of food options that I had available to me. There was that nagging sense of, ‘Well, how Korean can I possibly be if I’m eating this kind of food?’” Her book, which chronicles her journey to veganizing traditional Korean food, became an instant New York Times bestseller.

We hope you enjoyed our cookbook round-up—and maybe even found your next gustatory project. Happy cooking!

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