BKD Cookbook Club

The January reviews are in ...

This month, we reviewed healthy books—and by that, I didn’t necessarily mean diet books (although there are absolutely some great ideas in these, and they obviously qualify) but rather those that are accidentally healthy: good food, real food, whole food, plant-forward … you get the idea.

Anyways, my choice for the month was Kathy Slack’s From The Veg Patch. You can read the whole review here (and check out what other members have linked up).

Spoiler alert, you need this cookbook in your life if:

• You love vegetables and want creative ways to cook and eat more (and a wider variety) of them.

• Growers inspire you and you maybe fantastise about having an allotment with chooks roaming freely, bees buzzing, and one of those French wicker baskets to put your harvest in.

• You love books where the pictures are like the spring and summers of your dreams where the overnight temperature is bearable, the humidity is low, and when it rains it doesn’t come down in sheets that make the pool overflow in twenty minutes flat. (Even though you know that the summers in the pics are more likely to be dreary approximations of summer, you still believe the pictures).

• You want a creative veg cookbook that isn’t vegetarian but rather plant-forward.

Next month: If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the middle of winter, whereas here in Australia, it’s the most feral part of summer. I’ll split the difference and review two books: Delia Smith’s Winter Collection and her Summer Collection. The link will open on February 19 at 8 a.m. (AEST).