Foreword by Michael Pollan
From the authors of the award-winning The Pollan Family Table, a beautiful flexitarian cookbook that offers more than 100 delicious, simple, seasonal recipes for a plant-based lifestyle.
“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” With these seven words,
Michael Pollan—brother of Lori, Dana, and Tracy Pollan, and son of
Corky—started a national conversation about how to eat for optimal
health. A decade later, the value of a plant-based diet is widely
accepted––and yet for many people, easier said than done.
So what
does choosing “mostly plants” look like in real life? In families where
not everyone is on the same vegetarian page the word “mostly” is key.
The point isn’t necessarily to give up meat entirely but to build a diet
that shifts the ratio of animal to plants to create delicious––and
nutritious––meals sure to appeal to everyone.
There has never been
a better time to cook with vegetables—and to move plants to the center
of the American plate. Even if plants weren’t the better choice for your
health, they make the case for themselves purely on the basis of
deliciousness.
This approach to eating—also known as a flexitarian
diet––strikes the best balance on our plates between flavor and
pleasure, and nutrition and sustainability. In Mostly Plants, readers
will find inventive and unexpected ways to focus on cooking with
vegetables—dishes such as Crispy Kale and Potato Hash with Fried Eggs;
Tandoori Chicken and Vegetable Sheet Pan Supper; Salmon Farro Bowl; and
Roasted Tomato Soup with Gruyere Chickpea “Croutons”. Here are recipes
that keep the spotlight on the vegetables, at a time when the quality of
fresh produce has never been better.
In Mostly Plants
readers will find recipes that satisfy or can be adapted to almost all
dietary needs; vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and dairy free. And the
best part: many of these dishes can be on the table in 35 minutes or
less! With skillet-to-oven recipes, sheet pan suppers, one-pot meals and
more, this is real cooking for real life: meals that are wholesome,
delectable––and mostly plants.
“Ever wonder what Michael Pollan’s mother and sisters serve for dinner?
This loving collaboration welcomes you to find out. Try a few of these
delicious recipes, and you’ll feel like you’re sitting with the Pollans
around their family table. Everyone finishes everyone’s sentences—only
in this case, it’s the food completing Michael’s now-classic
healthy-eating ‘haiku.’ I will definitely be cooking from this book,
and imagining I’m there.” -Mollie Katzen, author of Moosewood Cookbook