Love Vegetables

WINNER OF THE SINGLE TOPIC COOKERY BOOK AWARD AT THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2025

Love Vegetables is bursting with sumptuous, fresh, and repeatable recipes that will transform the way you perceive vegetables, making them your go-to ingredient for nourishing and adaptable meals.
 
With a focus on teasing out amazing flavor from roots, shoots, and leaves with a creative touch, these dishes are both indulgent and satisfying, for a new, vibrant repertoire you’ll want to cook time and again.
 
By shifting vegetables from colorful sides to dynamic centerpieces, author Anna Shepherd shares the insider knowledge she has gained from her many years cooking professionally and working with growers and farmers. Anna shows you just how easy and rewarding it can be to create dishes that are as generous, richly flavored, and sustaining as those with meat or fish.  
 
Organized by vegetable type, focusing first on alliums, strong and tender greens, potatoes and creamy roots, and then moving on to tougher-to-love roots, tomatoes, and peppers, sunny and savory vegetables and liveners (crispy toppings, herby sauces, and punchy salsas).
 
The book includes inspiring recipes such as:


• Sweetheart Red Curry
• Pumpkin & Cheesy Chili Baked Rice
• Scorched Cucumbers with DIY Burrata
• Five Spiced Mushroom & Walnut Ragu
• Shaved Celery Root & Hazelnut Caesar
• Eggplant Chips with Chopped Salad & Tender Halloumi 
 

Throughout these pages, Anna shares her specialist food knowledge, showing you how to make the most of fresh produce. With delicious and original combinations and useful tips and insights, this unique book will boost your vegetable confidence and truly make you love vegetables.