At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen ─ Celebrating the Art of Eating Well

A sophisticated vegetarian cookbook with all the tools you need to be at home in your kitchen, cooking in the most nourishing and delicious ways--from the foundations of stocking a pantry and understanding your ingredients, to preparing elaborate seasonal feasts.

With her love of whole food and her know-how as a chef, Amy Chaplin has written a book that includes all you need to eat well at every meal, every day, year round. Part One lays the foundation, educating the reader on stocking the pantry. This is not just a list of ingredients and equipment; it's real working knowledge--how and why to use ingredients--and an arsenal of simple recipes for daily nourishment. Part Two is a collection of recipes celebrating vegetarian cuisine in its brightest, whole, sophisticated form. Black rice breakfast pudding with coconut and banana? Yes, please. Beet tartlets with poppy seed crust and white bean fennel filling? I'll take two. Fragrant eggplant curry with cardamom basmati rice, apricot chutney, and cucumber lime raita? Invite company. Honey vanilla bean ice cream with roasted plums and coconut crunch? There is always room for this kind of dessert. This is whole food for everyone.

AMY CHAPLIN has worked as a vegetarian chef for over 20 years. Prior to settling in New York and working as Executive Chef at Angelica's Kitchen, Amy founded a catering company in London specializing in gourmet vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free food. Her cakes were featured in British Vogue and BBC Good Food magazine. In Amsterdam, Amy worked as a chef as Shizen, a popular Japanese macrobiotic restaurant, and as a pastry chef at the famed bakery and cake studio De Taart van m'n Tante. Currently, Amy teaches and cooks privately for clients that include Natalie Portman and Liv Tyler, consults and develops recipes for restaurants and food companies, and blogs at coconutandquinoa.com, where she shares original, seasonal recipes and health tips. Amy contributes weekly recipes to the Food Netork's Healthy Eats blog. She has been featured in Martha Stewart Living, regularly appears as a guest on WNYC radio's "Last Chance Foods," and has contributed for publications such as Whole Living, The Guardian, Delicious Living, and Reader's Digest's Best You. Her whole food cleanse was featured in New York Magazine. Vogue featured a story about Amy's private cooking classes and Vogue.com named them one of the top 10 Mother's Day gifts in 2013.