Plant Academy: The Cookbook: Plant-based techniques & recipes for creative cooking - Hardcover

Lovatt, Lauren; De Thample, Rachel; Rodríguez, Carolina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711290482 ISBN 13: 9780711290488

Publisher: Leaping Hare Press, 2025

Synopsis

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COOKERY BOOK AWARD – GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS 2026**

Unlock a lifetime of luscious, satiating vegetable-centred meals by mastering the core ingredients and techniques of plant-based cooking.

Plant Academy: The Cookbook is the definitive foundational guide to plant-based cooking, placing natural, biodiverse, whole foods at the centre of the plate. Lauren Lovatt, visionary founder of the pioneering culinary school Plant Academy and author of Mind Food, shares her unique teaching expertise, demonstrating that plant-empowered dishes – free from meat, dairy and eggs – can be extraordinarily rich in texture and flavour, and beautiful to behold.

Starting with the staple ingredients that should be in every vegan’s pantry, the book moves on to explain all the elements of building a successful plant-based dish, from curating creative combinations to refining your plating style.

Learn over 50 techniques, including how to make:

• Essential stocks and sauces
• Nut milks and cheeses
• Sprouted seeds, beans and legumes
• Enticing smoked ingredients
• Gut-healthy fermented foods
• Key baking ingredients, including plant-based butter, flax ‘egg’ and gluten-free flour blends

The techniques and base recipes are accompanied by 40 full recipes, including:

• Seasonal Poke Bowl
• Adaptogen Adobo with Mushroom Mole
• Smoked Broccoli Arepa
• Courgette Cannelloni
• Fermented Ginger Cheesecake
• Almond, Peanut & Cacao Cookie Sandwiches
• Kombucha-litas

With contributions from Plant Academy experts such as celebrated Michelin-green-starred chef Richard Buckley, plant-based food consultant Carolina Chinea, and award-winning author Rachel De Thample, alongside striking photography from Sara Kiyo Popowa (@shisodelicious) and delightful illustrations from Sophie Dunster (@Gung_ho_london), this cookbook is both authoritative and alluring.

Elevate your plant-based cooking with this innovative and inspiring essential guide.

About this title

About the Authors

Lauren Lovatt is a plant based chef, culinary educator and entrepreneur who founded Plant Academy cookery school in 2019 to inspire passion through plants by inviting the leading minds in the industry to teach on their signature Plant 123 chef training program. As well as a passion for plants Lauren's main focus is bringing the conversation of Mental Health to the table through her revolutionary book Mind Food, released in 2022 after many years of curating supper clubs, hosting events at festivals such as Wilderness and Shambla, and leading retreats on this important concept. Having travelled the world cooking and teaching she previously consulted for HOY Paris, Paris' first plant-based hotel, and is currently working with Alchemy Academy in Bali. Lauren is forever evolving her own food art and conscious impact on the food world.

Sara Kiyo Popowa is a food photographer and recipe developer @shisiodelicious with over 106,000 followers. She is the author of Bento Power and The Opinionated Guide to Vegan London. Sara has been an integral part of Plant Academy since the beginning, first coming on board to teach masterclasses about her book Bento Power and photography and going on to open a joint venture with Lauren Lovatt 'The Food Studio' where they created the Plant Academy online courses and much more. Sara's passion for plants and incredible photography skills brought Plant Academy to life in a new way and all of the photos and animations for the courses, online and for the Plant Academy book, have been created by her. She shares with Lovatt a devotion to the power of the visual and communicating plant-based food in a mesmerizingly bold and aesthetic way. This book and all of Plant Academy would not be the same without her.

Edition details

• Publisher: Leaping Hare Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0711290482
• ISBN 13: 9780711290488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dunster Sophie
• Number of pages: 192