Kew Gardens Cookbook : A Celebration of Plants in the Kitchen

This lavish vegetarian cookbook aims to broaden our palates and protect biodiversity.
 
From our first cup of coffee in the morning to the stir-fry, salad, or spaghetti with tomato sauce we enjoy for dinner, there’s no denying that the kitchen is where we come in contact with plants in a very special way. This new cookbook celebrates both the glorious variety of edible plants that make up a human diet as well as the vital work that the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew undertakes to better promote and support global biodiversity.

The Kew Gardens Cookbook is an anthology of vegetarian recipes gathered from leading chefs and food writers—such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Fuchsia Dunlop, Olia Hercules, and Claudia Roden—savoring a huge array of plants and fungi that can both broaden our palates and prevent biodiversity loss. Organized in six sections—leaves; roots, squashes, and tubers; grains and pulses; fungi; herbs and spices; and fruits and nuts—this book features more than sixty delicious and unusual vegetarian recipes. One hundred illustrations, including a host of new photos of the recipes and Kew’s grounds, as well as vintage images from the Kew archives, are the perfect side dish for this cornucopia of botanical delights.
 

Jenny Linford is a London-based food writer and a longstanding member of the Guild of Food Writers. She is the author or editor of several books, including The Missing Ingredient, The Kew Gardens Cookbook, The Kew Gardens Christmas Book, and The Great British Food Tour. She has written for numerous publications including The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, and National Geographic Food. She makes a cheese-centric podcast called A Slice of Cheese for Food FM Radio, which has found an audience around the world. Her interest in food stems from living as a child in Singapore and Italy, places where good food is important to the community, both taken for granted and relished as a great pleasure.

Hugh Johnson is a food and drink photographer based in London and Italy.