num_pages: 400
description: James Beard Award Winner (Vegetarian)IACP Award Winner (Healthy Eating)A sophisticated vegetarian cookbook with all the tools you need to be at home in your kitchen cooking in the most nourishing and delicious waysfrom the foundations of stocking a pantry and understanding your ingredients to preparing elaborate seasonal feasts.Imagine you are in a bright breezy kitchen. There are large bowls on the counter full of lush colorful produce and a cake stand stacked with pretty whole-grain muffins. On the shelves live rows of glass jars containing grains seeds beans nuts and spices. You open the fridge and therein you find a bottle of fresh almond milk cooked beans soaking grains dressings ferments and seasonal produce. This is Amy Chaplins kitchen. It is a heavenly place and this book will make it your kitchen too.With her love of whole food and knowledge as a chef Chaplin has written a book that will inspire you to eat well at every meal. Part One lays the foundation for stocking the pantry. This is not just a list of food and equipment; its real working informationhow and why to use ingredientsand an arsenal of simple recipes for daily nourishment. Also included throughout are tips on living a whole food planning weekly menus why organic is important composting plastics vs. glass drinking tea doing a whole food cleanse and much more.Part Two is a collection of recipes (most of which are naturally gluten-free) celebrating vegetarian cuisine in its brightest whole sophisticated form. Black rice breakfast pudding with coconut and banana? Yes please. Beet tartlets with poppy seed crust and white bean fennel filling? Ill take two. Fragrant eggplant curry with cardamom basmati rice apricot chutney and cucumber lime raita? Invite company. Roasted fig raspberry tart with toasted almond crust? There is always room for this kind of dessert.If you are an omnivore you will delight in this book for its playful use of produce and know-how in balancing food groups. If you are a vegetarian this book will become your best friend always there for you when youre on your own and ready to lend a hand when youre sharing food with family and friends. If you are a vegan you can cook nearly every recipe in this book and feed your body well in the truest sense. This is whole food for everyone.
language: English
title: At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the Art of Eating Well
publisher: Roost Books