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