The Kew Gardens Salad Book Jenny Linford
Description: The Kew Gardens Salad Book celebrates the rich possibilities that culinary plants and fungi offer in the kitchen through a diverse selection of tasty and easy salad recipes.

Utilising a varied array of plant foods, author Jenny Linford enables and empowers readers to broaden their palates, improve their health, protect the environment and prevent biodiversity loss while enjoying delicious salads.

The variety of flavours and textures offered by edible plants is remarkable: the appealing freshness of leaves, the crunch of cabbage, the cheerful juiciness of tomatoes, the satisfying density of roots and squashes, the luscious sweetness of fruits, the fragrance of herbs and spices. Drawing inspiration from cuisines and ingredients from around the world, these 65 varied vegetarian salads prove that eating well can be simple and satisfying without any need to sacrifice flavour.

Eating plant-based benefits our health and the planet. The world’s current diet, dependent on just 12 plant and five animal species for 75% of our food, threatens biodiversity and food security and cannot be sustained. Expanding the range of plant-based food sources we consume is an easy way to have a positive impact on the environment.

This enticing salad book is illustrated with stunning photography of the dishes and their ingredients, drawing on the botanical nature of the research and conservation carried out by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with recipes created especially for Kew.

Jenny Linford is a London-based food writer and a longstanding member of the Guild of Food Writers. 

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Review
This is a beautiful book celebrating the very best of vegetarian recipes incorporating a rich variety of salad ingredients. 

As usual with books created by Kew, the production values are high with stunning photography and delicious recipes created by the inspiring Jenny Linford.

In addition, this informative book contains everything you need to know from how to create the most delicious salad dressings and how to grow your own salad ingredients to the important work being carried out by Edible Science: Kew’s Kitchen Garden.

The richly varied and delicious recipes are divided into:

Leaves, Stems and Brassicas
Fruits, Nuts and Herbs,
Beans, Peas, Pulses and Grains
Roots, Squashes, Tubers and Bulbs
 
Each one beautifully photographed and with Jenny’s easy to follow step-by-step instructions. 

The joy of this book is not only that it illustrates the rich biodiversity that exists in plant based food, but that many of the recipes require no cooking at all and often lead to an improvement in gut health. 

This delightful book is a wonderful addition to any kitchen library. Highly Recommended! 

The Kew Gardens Salad Book by Jenny Linford, is published by Kew Publishing.