Vegetable Kingdom

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Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes
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Author Bryant Terry
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin
Publication date
February 11, 2020

Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes, often shortened to Vegetable Kingdom, is a 2020 cookbook by Bryant Terry. It received positive reviews and won an NAACP Image Award. Recipes are based on the cuisines of the African diaspora. The book provides a song pairing for each dish.

Contents

Soundtrack

For each recipe Bryant suggests a song pairing, which he calls the recipe's "soundtrack". [1] The pairings include Cab Calloway’s "Jumpin Jive" with a recipe for stuffed peppers, “Flat of the Blade” from Massive Attack with a recipe for dirty cauliflower, and Solange’s “Stay Flo” with a recipe for mashed kabocha. [2] [3] Bryant, who comes from a musical family, has said he considers food and music inseparable and refers to his pairings as "cooking as collage". [1] [2]

Influences

According to Francis Lam, Terry has said his "approach to cooking is inspired by hip-hop producers", which Lam describes as "taking a little bit of this, taking a little bit of that, and remixing things." [1] The recipes are vegan and based around the flavors of the African diaspora. [4] [3]

Reception

The book was one of Splendid Table's Spring Picks in 2020. [1] It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly [5] and won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional . [6] The New Yorker called it "a stylish, inspiring love letter" to cooking with vegetables. [4] Joe Yonan, writing in The Washington Post, said "I can’t think of the last time I marked this many dishes to try, the very first time I flipped through a book." [3] It was named to several "best of" lists, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post , San Francisco Chronicle , Food & Wine , and Vogue . [4] [3] [7] [8] [9] [10] VegNews named Vegetable Kingdom one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024. [11]

Publication

The hardcover and ebook were released by Penguin on February 11, 2020. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The basic pleasures of eating inside Bryant Terry's Vegetable Kingdom". www.splendidtable.org. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  2. 1 2 Puckett, Susan. "Plants reign supreme in 'Vegetable Kingdom'". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN   1539-7459 . Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Yonan, Joe (9 December 2020). "Our favorite cookbooks of 2020". Washington Post .
  4. 1 2 3 Rosner, Helen (2020-12-15). "The Best Cookbooks of 2020". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  5. ↑ "Lifestyle Book Review: Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes by Bryant Terry. Ten Speed, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-58104-5". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  6. ↑ Bosselman, Haley (March 28, 2021). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List". Variety .
  7. ↑ Koenig, Leah (3 November 2020). "10 Of The Best Cookbooks In 2020". Forbes .
  8. ↑ Maitland, Hayley (2022-01-20). "15 Vegan Cookbooks to Inspire You to Join the Plant-Based Revolution". Vogue . Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  9. ↑ Bitker, Janelle; Ho, Soleil (2020-12-02). "The best cookbooks of 2020". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  10. ↑ Soll, Megan Soll (7 January 2020). "17 Vegetarian Cookbooks to Live By in 2020". Food & Wine . Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  11. ↑ Pointing, Charlotte (January 10, 2024). "The Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time". VegNews . Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry: 9780399581045 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
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