Cookbooks
Plant-Forward Global 75: The Essential Cookbook List
A curated list of the most influential and must-read cookbooks that raise, each in their own way, the profile of vegetables and plant proteins and provide tested culinary strategies for serving them in their most delicious forms. The list includes cookbooks in English only, authored by both chefs and cookbook authors, and that are still in print.
1. Hugh Acheson, The Broad Fork: Recipes for the Wide World of Vegetables and Fruits
2. Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
3. Michael Anthony (with Dorothy Kalins), V is for Vegetables: Inspired Recipes and Techniques for Home Cooks--from Artichokes to Zucchini
4. Charlie Ayers, Food 2.0: Secrets from the Chef Who Fed Google
5. Rick Bayless, Mexican Everyday
6. Peter Berley, The Flexitarian Table: Inspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone in Between
7. Peter Berley, The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen
8. April Bloomfield, A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden
9. Cortney Burns and Nick Balla,Bar Tartine: Techniques and Recipes
10. André Chiang, Octaphilosophy: The Eight Elements of Restaurant André
11. Amanda Cohen, Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant
12. Kyle Connaughton and Naoko Takei Moore, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking
13. Carina Cooper, Ulpotha: A Kitchen in Paradise
14. The Culinary Institute of America, Vegetables: Recipes and Techniques from the World’s Premier Culinary College
15. Alain Ducasse, Nature: Simple, Healthy, and Good
16. Editors of EatingWell Magazine, EatingWell Vegetables: The Essential Reference
17. Editors of Food52, Mighty Salads: 60 New Ways to Turn Salad into Dinner--And Make-Ahead Lunches, To
18. Jeremy Fox (with Noah Galuten and David Chang), On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen
19. Joyce Goldstein, Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and-Match Dressings
20. Joyce Goldstein, The New Mediterranean Jewish Table: Old World Recipes for the Modern Home
21. Salma Hage, The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook
22. Marcella Hazan, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
23. Dan Hunter, Brae: Recipes and Stories from the Restaurant
24. Madhur Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian
25. Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health
26. Anna Jones, A Modern Way to Eat: 200+ Satisfying Vegetarian Recipes (That Will Make You Feel Amazing)
27. Jean-Christian Jury, Vegan: The Cookbook
28. Barbara Kafka, Vegetable Love
29. Mollie Katzen, The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation
30. Mollie Katzen, The Moosewood Cookbook
31. Diana Kennedy,The Essential Cuisines of Mexico
32. Matthew Kenney (with Meredith Baird and Scott Winegard), Plant Food
33. Diane Kochilas, The Greek Vegetarian: More Than 100 Recipes Inspired by the Traditional Dishes and Flavors of Greece
34. Diane Kochilas, Ikaria: Lessons on Food, Life, and Longevity from the Greek Island Where People Forgot to Die
35. Jessica Koslow,Everything I Want to Eat: Sqirl and the New California Cooking
36. Aglaia Kremezi, Mediterranean Vegetarian Feasts
37. Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby, V Street: 100 Globe-Hopping Plates on the Cutting Edge of Vegetable Cooking
38. Travis Lett, Gjelina: Cooking from Venice, California
39. Jenn Louis, The Book of Greens
40. Deborah Madison, The Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cooking from the Celebrated Restaurant
41. Deborah Madison, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
42. Cara Mangini, The Vegetable Butcher: How to Select, Prep, Slice, Dice, and Masterfully Cook Vegetables from Artichokes to Zucchini
43. Virgilio Martinez, Central
44. Joshua McFadden (with Martha Holmberg), Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables
45. Peter Meehan and the editors of Lucky Peach, Power Vegetables!: Turbocharged Recipes for Vegetables with Guts
46. Michel Nischan, Homegrown Pure and Simple: Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table
47. Michel Nischan, Taste Pure and Simple: Irresistible Recipes for Good Food and Good Health
48. Enrique Olvera, Mexico from the Inside Out
49. Yotam Ottolenghi (with Sami Tamimi), Jerusalem: A Cookbook
50. Yotam Ottolenghi, Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi
51. Yotam Ottolenghi, Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London’s Ottolenghi
52. Alain Passard, The Art of Cooking with Vegetables
53. Maricel E. Presilla, Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America
54. Christian Puglisi, Relae: A Book of Ideas
55. René Redzepi, Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
56. Tal Ronnen (with Scot Jones and Serafina Magnussen), Crossroads: Extraordinary Recipes from the Restaurant That Is Reinventing Vegan Cuisine
57. Julie Sahni, Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking
58. Suvir Saran, Indian Home Cooking: A Fresh Introduction to Indian Food
59. Steven Satterfield, Root to Leaf: A Southern Chef Cooks Through the Seasons
60. Miyoko Nishimoto Schinner, Japanese Cooking: Contemporary & Traditional [Simple, Delicious, and Vegan]
61. Elizabeth Schneider, Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference
62. Julia Sherman, Salad for President: A Cookbook Inspired by Artists
63. Martha Rose Shulman, The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking: Templates and Lessons for Making Delicious Meatless Meals Every Day
64. Nigel Slater, Tender: A Cook and his Vegetable Patch
65. Ana Sortun and Maura Kilpatrick, Soframiz: Vibrant Middle Eastern Recipes from Sofra Bakery and Cafe
66. Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart’s Vegetables
67. David Tanis, Market Cooking: Recipes and Revelations, Ingredient by Ingredient
68. Bryant Terry, Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, & Southern Flavors Remixed
69. Anna Thomas, The Vegetarian Epicure: 262 Recipes
70. Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein, Raw
71. Shizuo Tsuji (with Yoshiki Tsuji, M.F.K Fisher, and Ruth Reichl), Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art
72. Viji Varadarajan, Samayal: The Pleasures of South Indian Vegetarian Cooking
73. Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Vegetables
74. Matt Wilkinson, Mr. Wilkinson’s Vegetables: A Cookbook to Celebrate the Garden
75. Paula Wolfert, Mediterranean Greens and Grains