Whole Food. None of that half stuff.
Whole Food Cooking Every Day by Amy Chaplin
Cookbook Type: Vegan, Vegetarian
Favourite Recipe: Easy Pine Nut Pasta Sauce (pg. 142)
Favourite Page: Spring/Summer Steamed Vegetable Salad (pgs 172 - 173)
Favourite Quote: N/A
Rating: 3/5 Larousse Gastronomiques (📕📕📕)
This is a serious cookbook. It looks and feels serious. Inside, it’s a lot of whole food business. But where it lacks in personality, it has a lot of quality information on healthy, vegetarian cooking. Amy Chaplin’s second cookbook is beautiful - The layout, the photography, the overall vibe of the book is stunning. It has actually spent the last two years in my house as a coffee table book!
If you’re looking to do an elimination diet, look no further, because you won’t find refined sugar anywhere in these pages. It also looks to free you from gluten and dairy. There is inspiration in these pages. Amy primarily starts with “base” recipes, and then transitions to variations of that base recipe, offering the reader options for how to expand. But a lot of the base recipes are delicious in their own right.
Amy is quite impressive as well - a celebrity chef of sorts who’s work has been celebrated through her two cookbooks and her online contributions to American Vogue, Martha Stewart Living and the Food Network.
This is a very nice book. It’s a serious book. But your Auntie has serious days where her gut is crying out! And if you can’t find anything you want to cook in this book, it’ll look great on your coffee table.
