Eat Well, Live Well
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They say that you are what you eat, so let's start the year right by eating well! Here is a great list of cookbooks to help you eat better and, as a result, live better. Whether you're looking to replace sugar in your dessert, introduce a few vegetarian dishes into your culinary repertoire, or connect better with loved ones over a meaningful meal, these cookbooks will serve and deliver every time.
Join Verna Gao of @vernahungrybanana as she shares more than 70 of her all-time favourite Asian-inspired recipes. More than just a compendium of recipes, this is a personal journey back in time, through words, memories, and photographs, to the people and places that inspired these dishes—from memories of a Shanghai childhood spent with mum and grandma in the kitchen, to impromptu "real Chinese" cooking lessons with university friends and backpacking round the street food hotspots of East Asia. Super fresh, vegan-adaptable, and full of punchy flavours, Verna's unfussy recipes are all easy to make and delectable to eat!
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Nik Sharma, blogger at A Brown Table, Serious Eats columnist, and bestselling cookbook author, brings us his most cookable collection of recipes yet! Here is a technique-focused repertoire for weeknight mains for cooks of all skill levels looking to add more delicious and satisfying vegetable dishes to their diet. This book features more than fifty vegetables, revealing their origins, biology, and unique characteristics. Vegetable-focused recipes are organized into chapters by plant family, with storage, buying, and cooking methods for all. The result is a recipe collection of big flavors and techniques that are tried, true, and perfected by rigorous testing and a deep scientific lens.
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Feed your skin with exactly what it needs to glow, and experience your own transformation with over 110 skin-enriching, plant-based recipes, packed with powerful nutrients to nourish your skin from within. Based on Elisa Rossi's own journey of fighting hormonal cystic acne, and the latest science-based research with the input and expertise of nutritional therapist Sophie Trotman, these delicious quick-to-prepare recipes are the essential building blocks for a dewy complexion, strong nails and luscious healthy hair. The path to flawless, youthful, supple skin starts in your own kitchen, without the need for expensive creams and treatments!
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Love and Lemons Simple Feel Good Food
Jeanine Donofrio’s wildly popular Love and Lemons recipes and her bestselling books have become the go-to gold standard for incredibly simple, deeply flavorful, and nourishing vegetarian meals. Whether you keep a folder of go-to recipes you can easily make right now, or if you like to plan ahead, this cookbook caters to both. Each chapter is divided into two parts: one for recipes you can make with minimal prep and ingredients, and the second for food you can prepare ahead of time. Every recipe comes with trusted tips and flow charts that offer easy visuals on how to reuse, mix, and match ingredients for fresh, delicious dishes, whether you’re reusing ingredients or not.
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Award-winning cookbook author Liana Krissoff presents an evocatively written ode to home cooking with all the guidance you need to perfect your own easy-to-master family recipes. Previously, she showed you fresh, clever canning recipes; modern slow-cooker recipes; and easy vegetarian crowd-pleasers. Now, Krissoff brings you In Praise of Home Cooking—fit for anyone looking to perfect the staples, parents who want to whip up something tasty, curious kids who want to learn grandma's secret recipes, and everyone who has gotten tired of those absurdly labor-intensive recipes.
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Heritage and food have always been linked for Hetty Lui McKinnon. Tenderheart is a loving homage to her father, a Chinese immigrant in Australia, told in flavorful, vegetarian recipes. Growing up as part of a Chinese family in Australia, McKinnon formed a deep appreciation for her bicultural identity, and for her father, who moved to Sydney as a teenager and learned English while selling bananas at a local market. As he brought home crates full of produce, McKinnon learned about the beauty and versatility of fruits and vegetables. Tenderheart is the happy outcome of McKinnon's love of vegetables, featuring 22 essential fruits and vegetables that become the basis for over 180 recipes.
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Brian Levy spent years making pastries the traditional way, with loads of refined sugar and white flour. But he discovered another world of desserts where there's no need for cane sugar, maple syrup, or for anything like stevia. In Good & Sweet, Levy stretches this experiment across 100 recipes that ingeniously deploy fruit (dried, juiced, and fresh), nuts, grains, dairy, and fermented products to create sweet treats whose flavor is enriched by whole-food, feel-good ingredients. Every recipe offers substitutions for dietary restrictions and includes a flavorful sweetener, from freeze-dried sweet corn to coconut cream and apple cider.
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In her latest cookbook, Don't Worry, Just Cook, written with her daughter Anna Rupert, Bonnie Stern aims to help cooks foster comfort and connection through food. With her trademark encouraging style and attention to detail, Bonnie writes recipes that are consistently delicious, widely appealing, and timeless. Bonnie and Anna have also provided variations to help you modify dishes for special diets, and essays on topics that will resonate with all of us, from things not worth worrying about, to leftovers and what to do with them. With 125 enjoyable and thoughtful recipes, home cooks will turn to this cookbook time and time again to nourish themselves and the people they love.
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From Sunday Times bestselling author, Lucy Lord, Cook for the Soul is bursting with fresh, flavourful, and creative dishes to help you rediscover a love for cooking. Food can lift your mood, deliver new experiences, and help you connect with family and friends away from the pressures of daily life. Lucy’s philosophy is all about finding those moments—whether you have 20 minutes or two hours to spare—to pause, regroup, and share the joy delicious homecooked dishes, amazing ingredients, and good times. So, dig into this beautiful book and discover that happiness really is homemade.
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A cookbook with self-care at its heart: Leanne Brown acknowledges that feeding yourself is hard, and that it is almost impossible to find the energy to work for yourself when you don’t think you are worth it. A generous mix of essays, stories and nearly 100 dazzling recipes, Good Enough is about self-compassion, and knowing it's OK to have a cheese plate for dinner. About the practice of gratitude to start your morning right, like Creamy Hands-Off Scrambled Eggs. About cooking as self-care, and healing your spirit with a comforting Salmon Dinner Pie. About giving yourself permission to feel great—so go ahead, have another Sticky Toffee Cookie. There are no judgments here.
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With her award-winning cookbooks, Anna Jones blazed the trail of modern and creative vegetable-centered cuisine, and in One: Pot, Pan, Planet, she delivers all the goods: delectable recipes that are easy to prepare and that keep sustainability at the center of every dish. With over 200 recipes for every occasion—from busy weeknight meals, to weekend feasts, to desserts that promise to delight—these inventive, deeply satisfying dishes will become your new go-to kitchen staples. Whether preparing the recipes vegetarian or vegan, you will also find information to help you reduce waste, use leftovers, make kitchens plastic-free, and become a more environmentally mindful shopper.
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James Beard Award-winning and Top Chef finalist chef Sarah Grueneberg has a secret to share: fruits and vegetables are singing loudly around you, begging you to take them home and try something new. Are you listening? In this incredible exploration of seasonal produce, Grueneberg offers insights, techniques, and recipes to truly get the best out of your vegetables so they can take center stage at the dinner table—how and when to shop for, cook, season, and seamlessly incorporate them into dishes. This elemental cookbook on vegetable focused cooking offers more than 180 impressive yet surprisingly achievable recipes.
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