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Cookbooks

Being an “Ayurvegan” with Darshana Thacker: PYP 183

Darshana Thacker is the culinary project manager for Forks Over Knives, as well as the chef responsible for 125 kid-friendly recipes in the brand new Forks Over Knives Family book. She has been a Forks Over Knives (FOK) insider since the very beginning (in addition to being a top-notch plant-based chef, she’s also FOK producer Brian Wendel’s girlfriend).

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Timaree Hagenburger on Making Food that Loves You Back: PYP 164

Timaree Hagenburger is a full-time nutrition professor at Cosumnes River College, a professional speaker working in corporate wellness and is a Certified Exercise Physiologist. She discovered plant-based nutrition a few years ago, and hasn’t looked back.

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PYP 133: Kathy Hester on Beans, Oats, Slow Cookers, and Just Having Fun

Kathy Hester is the author of five vegan cookbooks (more if you count the Halloween ebook), including the new Easy Vegan Cookbook: Make Home Healthy Cooking Practically Effortless and OATrageous Oatmeals: Delicious & Surprising Plant-Based Dishes From This Humble, Heart-Healthy Grain.

I discovered to my delight that she’s also a neighbor, and now, after a lunch date, an interview, and a family dinner gathering to which she brought an amazing dessert, she’s become a friend.

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PYP 126: Jill McKeever on Cooking Speedy-Healthy-Delicious

Jill McKeever is not an introvert, I suspect. I began to form this suspicion when we started our video Skype conversation and I noticed she was wearing fuzzy bunny ears.

Plus she hollers “Woot Woot” every time she speaks or hears the words “Instant Pot.”

Good thing Jill is preaching the message of healthy cooking and delicious eating!

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PYP 114: Miyoko Schinner on Homemade Liberation

If there were a Nobel Prize for food, Miyoko Schinner would be rehearsing her Oslo speech right now. Committed to human health and happiness, environmental stewardship, and animal welfare, her activism tends toward the decidedly delicious.

She’s a return guest, having shared her cheesemaking secrets with the podcast a couple of years ago.

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PYP 110: Dreena Burton on Feeding the Plant Powered Family

Dreena Burton has taught an entire generation how to cook delicious, innovative, and down-home vegan meals. In her fifth cookbook, Plant Powered Families, she combines delicious, accessible, and kid-friendly to create one of the books you will never lend to anyone, ever.

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PYP 108: Del Sroufe on the Joys of Planning Meals

Chef Del Sroufe is a master of efficiency, which is a good thing. As co-owner and head chef at Wellness Forum Foods, Del feeds a crazy amount of people every week. If he didn’t have his act together, his business would be a hot mess of chaos and waste.

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Date Bars from the PlantPure Nation Cookbook

I like to bring whole food, plant-based refreshments when I give local talks. I typically just lay them out and don’t highlight the fact that they don’t have added sugar, or eggs, or dairy, or bacon, or whatever else the young people are putting into their treats these days. At the end of the talk,…

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PYP 107: Annie Oliverio on the Dance of Cravings, Denial, and Pleasure

Annie Oliverio’s mind works differently from most people’s. When she sat down to write a cookbook, she didn’t come up with chapter headings like Breakfasts, Lunches, Snacks, Soups, Desserts, and so on.

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PYP 100: Rich Roll on the Transformative Power of Mindful Authenticity

Rich Roll, along with his wife Julie Piatt, has just released The PlantPower Way. Already #38 on the amazon bestseller list, the book is a wonderful introduction to a family-centered, plant-based lifestyle, and a font of recipes, advice, and philosophical guidance.

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