Richa Hingle | |
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Occupation | Vegan cookbook author |
Subject | Vegan/Plant-based cookbooks |
Notable works | Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook. (2015) Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond. Hachette Book Group, 2022. |
Richa Hingle is a Vegan/Plant-based cookbook author, and is known as the blogger, Vegan Richa.
She was forced to give up her career as a software engineer after a Craniotomy in 2006. [2] During the recovery period, she adopted a rescue dog and became involved in animal welfare. [3] She also began to blog about baking and learned about veganism. [3] [4] [1] [2]
Hingle started her blog "Vegan Richa" in 2009, [1] and fully shifted to a vegan diet around 2010, [2] motivated by her rescue experience. [1]
Vegetarian Times listed her first cookbook, Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook (2015), as one of their "favorite" cookbooks of 2015, [5] PETA listed it as one of "7 Must-Have Vegan Cookbooks" in 2016, [6] Good Housekeeping named it one of the 15 best meat-free cookbooks in 2019, [7] Women's Health (magazine) refers to it as one of the "20 Best Vegan Cookbooks Of 2022 For Every Type Of Cuisine And Interest." [8] VegNews named it one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time," in 2024. [9]
VegNews listed Hingle as one of the "37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food" in 2023, [10] and gave her a Bloggy Award in 2016. [11]
In 2022, Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond was nominated for an IVFF award. [12]
Hingle lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband. [1] [2]
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