Plant Academy: The Cookbook: Plant-based techniques & recipes for creative cooking - Hardcover

Lovatt, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711290482 ISBN 13: 9780711290488

Publisher: Leaping Hare Press, 2025

Synopsis

PLANT ACADEMY: THE COOKBOOK is theinspirationalcookery manual for tasty and beautiful vegan food, teaching the essential ingredients and key techniques you need to create delicious and stunning plant-based dishes.

Lauren Lovatt, visionary founder of pioneering culinary school Plant Academy and author of Mind Food, shares her unique teaching expertise, demonstrating that whole-food, plant-based cooking is not only rich in textures and flavour profiles but also refined and appetising on the plate.

Focusing on over 50 techniques,including how to make nut milks and cheeses, how to handle ferments and how to create intriguing flavour and texture profiles, this contemporary handbook is a must-have for anyone who wants to elevate their plant-based cooking. Starting with the staple ingredients that should be in every vegan's pantry, the book moves on to explain all the elements of building a successful plant-based dish, from curating creative combinations to refining the way in which you plate up. 

Featuring over 40 recipes, including:
- Seasonal poke bowl
- Massaged kale
- Fermented ginger cheesecake
- Wild Rosti
- Adaptogen adobo
- Courgette cannelloni

With contributions from Plant Academy experts such as celebrated Michelin-green-starred chef Richard Buckley, plant-based food consultant Carolina Chinea, and award-winning author Rachel De Thample alongside striking photography from Sara Kiyo Popowa (@shisodelicious) and delightful illustrations from Sophie Dunster (@Gung_ho_london), this innovative, inspiring cookbook is sure to get you fired up for plant-based living.

About this title

About the Author

Lauren Lovatt is a plant based chef, culinary educator and entrepreneur who founded Plant Academy cookery school in 2019, a school created to inspire passion through plants through inviting the leading minds in the industry to teach on their signature Plant 123 chef training program. As well as a passion for plants Lauren’s main focus is bringing the conversation of Mental Health to the table through her revolutionary book Mind Food, released in 2022 after many years of curating supper clubs, hosting events at festivals, such as Wilderness and Shambla, and leading retreats on this important concept. Having travelled the world cooking and teaching she previously consulting for HOY Paris, Paris’ first plant based hotel, and currently working with Alchemy Academy Bali Lauren is forever evolving her own food art and conscious impact on the food world.

Sara Kiyo Popowa is a food photographer and recipe developer @shisiodelicious with over 106,000 followers. She is the popular author of Bento Power and The Opinionated Guide to Vegan London. Sara has been an integral part of Plant Academy since the beginning, first coming on board to teach masterclasses about her book Bento Power and photography and going on to open a joint venture with Lauren Lovatt ‘The Food Studio’ where they created the Plant Academy online courses and so much more. Sara’s passion for plants and incredible photography skills brought Plant Academy to life in a brand new way and all of the photos and animations for the courses, online and for this Plant Academy book, have been created by her over the last four years. She shares with Lovatt a devotion to the power of the visual and for communicating plant-based food in a mesmerizingly bold and aesthetic way. This book and all of Plant Academy would not be the same without her.

Sophie Dunster is an illustator and the founder of sustainable fashion brand Gung Ho, and her mission is to educate and inspire change through design.

Instagram: @gungho_studios
Website: gunghostudios.co.uk

Edition details

• Publisher: Leaping Hare Press
• Publication date: 2025
• ISBN 10: 0711290482
• ISBN 13: 9780711290488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Dunster Sophie