Forks Over Knives - The Cookbook: Over 300 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating All Through the Year

New York Times Bestseller

A whole-foods, plant-based diet that has never been easier or tastier learn to cook the Forks Over Knives way with more than 300 recipes for every day!

Forks Over Knives the book, the film, the movement is back again in a cookbook. The secret is out: If you want to lose weight, lower your cholesterol, avoid cancer, and prevent (or even reverse) type 2 diabetes and heart disease, the right food is your best medicine. Thousands of people have cut out meat, dairy, and oils and seen amazing results. If you’re among them or you’d like to be you need this cookbook.

Del Sroufe, the man behind some of the mouthwatering meals in the landmark documentary, proves that the Forks Over Knives philosophy is not about what you can’t eat, but what you can. Chef Del and his collaborators Julieanna Hever, Judy Micklewright, Darshana Thacker, and Isa Chandra Moskowitz transform wholesome fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes into hundreds of recipes classic and unexpected, globally and seasonally inspired, and for every meal of the day, all through the year:

 

- Breakfast: Very Berry Smoothie, Breakfast Quinoa with Apple Compote

- Salads, Soups and Stews: Kale Salad with Maple-Mustard Dressing, Lotsa Vegetable Chowder, Lucky Black-Eyed Pea Stew

- Pasta and Noodle Dishes: Mushroom Stroganoff, Stir-Fried Noodles with Spring Vegetables

- Stir-Fried, Grilled and Hashed Vegetables: Grilled Eggplant “Steaks”

- Baked and Stuffed Vegetables: Millet-Stuffed Chard Rolls

- The Amazing Bean: White Beans and Escarole with Parsnips

- Great Grains: Polenta Pizza with Tomatoes and Basil

- Desserts: Apricot Fig Squares, Bursting with Berries Cobbler ... and much more!

Simple, affordable, and delicious, the recipes in Forks Over Knives The Cookbook put the power of real, healthy food in your hands. Start cooking the plant-based way today it could save your life!

Published on: 2012-08-14

Original language: English

Dimensions: 10.00" h x .81" w x 7.50" l, 1.80 pounds

Binding: Paperback

368 pages

Review 

“Pure elegance. Del’s recipes show just how sophisticated plant-based cooking can be. If you think gourmet can’t be healthy, be delightfully disproved with this book.”

- Lindsay S. Nixon, author of The Happy Herbivore Cookbook, Everyday Happy Herbivore and Happy Herbivore Abroad

"The recipes in this book are versatile, simple to prepare and, most important, tasty."

- VIVMag

"Forks Over Knives meals are good for the body and the pocketbook."

- Indianapolis Star

"The arguments for a plant-based diet in a resource-strapped world are increasingly convincing: It's cheaper, better for the environment, and can be a healthier option."

- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Sroufe's mean green smoothie is a nutrient-rich, fiber-filled, antioxidant-packed dream."

- Chicago Tribune

“These recipes are so delicious ... you’ll never miss the fat.”

 - Our Hen House

About the Author 

Del Sroufe has worked as chef and co-owner at Wellness Forum Foods for six years, a plant-based meal delivery and catering service that emphasizes healthy, minimally processed foods, produces a line of “in the bag mixes,” and offers cooking classes to the public. He has worked in vegan and vegetarian kitchens for 22 years, including spending time as a vegan personal chef. He lives, works, and cooks in Columbus, OH.

Isa Chandra Moskowitz is an American cookbook author, magazine columnist, and former host of the community access cooking show Post Punk Kitchen. Her best-selling cookbooks include Vegan with a Vengeance, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Veganomicon, Vegan Brunch, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar, and Appetite for Reduction. She maintains the popular vegan website Post Punk Kitchen and lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, is known as the Plant-Based Dietitian. She is the executive director of EarthSave, International, the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Gluten-Free Vegan Cooking, a nutrition columnist at VegNews, and the coproducer and star of the infotainment documentary To Your Health. 

Darshana Thacker teaches traditional Ayurvedic food preparation at Vapika Spirit in Los Angeles (www.vapikaspirit.com). Her intimate, kitchen-based classes illustrate the simple preparation of well-balanced meals planned according to the season.

Judy Micklewright always had an affinity for plants but never realized their full potential, or how one day they would change her life. After battling numerous ailments unsuccessfully, it occurred to her to give a plant-based diet a try, and the results were profound. She has since set out on a path of discovery into plant-based living, personalizing the diet, and enjoying newfound vigor in her mind, body and soul. Now a mother, Judy continues to dedicate herself to unearthing tasty, plant-based good-for-you goodness.