You don’t need to be a pro to create authentic Viet dishes. James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and instructor Andrea Nguyen Nguyen isn’t. She’s been demystifying Viet cuisine with clarity, cheer and fabulous recipes since her 2006 cookbook Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. She does a deep dive into Vietnamese classics with books like Asian Tofu,…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Miyoko Schinner
“The way I work, I’m all in,” says Miyoko Schinner and let us say hallelujah. Dubbed a vegan revolutionary by UN Women, Miyoko is the author of four cookbooks including her most recent, The Homemade Vegan Pantry. She her husband Michael founded Rancho Compasión animal sanctuary. You probably know, though, her as the force of…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Jason Wyrick
The Vegan Taste’s Jason Wyrick wants you to know there’s more to Mexican cuisine than Taco Tuesdays. “People think Mexican cuisine is one thing,” he says,“but Mexico is almost as big as the United States and it’s as varied as the cuisine we have here.” That includes tacos, and Jason wrote the book on them,…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Linda Watson
As Hurricane Florence made landfall in the Carolinas, I contacted Cook for Good’s Linda Watson and urged her to stay safe. Her My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes guest post could wait for a better time. Linda came through anyway, despite rising flood waters, her local environmental advisory board meeting and hosting a screening of…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Vegan Richa
These are rough days for the America I value and fight for, the one of compassion, inclusion and acceptance. We can — and must — resist and persist but then we have to refresh and nourish before going back into the fray. That’s why on the day Trump buddied up to Putin and aimed to…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Hetty McKinnon
Hetty McKinnon and I haven’t met yet but we’ve bonded, whether she knows it or not. We’re salad sisters, united in the belief that salad is so much more than lettuce. Salad is an opportunity to give each season’s fresh vegetables and fruits the love they deserve, to enhance them with a defining hint of acidity…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: The Immigrant Cookbook
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: The Immigrant Cookbook My husband and I live next door to Spaniards on one side, Jordanians on the other, across the street from Jamaicans, Venezuelans and Swiss and down the block from an Asian family and a gay couple. This to me is what America is. So is The Immigrant…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Pat Tanumihardja
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Pat Tanumihardja I fell in love with Pat Tanumihardja with the release of her first book, The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook. Born and raised in Indonesia, Pat definitely has the Asia thing down, but never knew her grandmothers. Because of that, she was drawn to traditional Asian cookery, connecting to her…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Victoria Moran
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Victoria Moran Once upon a time, Victoria Moran believed she was weird. Her mother agreed. “We used to think there was something wrong with you — doing that yoga and eating that tofu.” Creative, charismatic and glamorous, Victoria (PETA’s sexiest vegan over 50) isn’t weird, she’s vegan, and has been…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Lidia Bastianich
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Lidia Bastianich There was a time when Lidia Bastianich, James Beard Award-winner, bestselling cookbook author, Emmy Award-winning star of Lidia’s Italian Table, restauranteur and buddy to Mario Batali, had a brief fling with boxed cake mix. She was a girl when she came to New York with her family…
