Giving Compass' Take:

• According to multiple recent reports, having a diet that is more plant forward not only provides health benefits but may also have a positive environmental impact. Food Tank highlights 10 cookbooks to help eating greener be easier. 

• How can research help to push a more plant-based diet? How are restaurants doing their part to create a more sustainable and zero food waste environment?

• Learn about different menu innovations that entice healthier eating. 

Many world-renowned chefs have taken note of the importance of plants because they add flavor and color to dinner tables. To help celebrate World Health Day, Food Tank is highlighting cookbooks that place plants into center stage.

  1. Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters (1996). Founded in 1971, Chez Panisse has been described as one of the restaurants that gave California Cuisine its identity. The reverence for vegetables shines through Alice Waters’ part cookbook, part compendium for how to treat and select produce. Chez Panisse Vegetables focuses more on ingredients than it does on methods, allowing flavors to speak for themselves and only heightening them through simple techniques and combinations.
  2. Crossroads by Tal Ronnen (2015). The plant-based chef to the stars, Tal Ronnen earned his fame while cooking for Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Arianna Huffington, and for the first ever vegan dinner at the United States Senate. Crossroads is based on recipes from his Los Angeles restaurant of the same name, which opened in 2013 to showcase high-end vegan dining with Mediterranean flavors.
  3. Dreaming in Spice by Hari Pulapaka (2018). Hari Pulapaka is the Executive Chef and Owner of the acclaimed Cress Restaurant in DeLand, Florida, and is a tenured professor at Stetson University. Pulapaka’s self-described cuisine is “globally inspired” and “vegetarian focused” and is intended to showcase food that “nourishes the body and frees the soul.”

Read the full article on 10 plant forward cookbooks by Danielle Nierenberg at Food Tank.