Dreena Burton - Dreenas Kind Kitchen: 100 Whole-Foods Vegan Recipes to Enjoy Every Day

Praise for Dreenas Kind Kitchen

Once again, Dreena Burton proves that her cookbooks should be a staple in any plant-based home. The recipes in Dreenas Kind Kitchen are replete with nutritious ingredients to fuel a healthy body.

T. Colin Campbell, PhD, coauthor of The China Study and the New York Times bestseller Whole

Dreena Burtons Kind Kitchen engages, embraces, and inspires every individual who steps into her extraordinary culinary world. I love everything about this bookheartfelt stories, the visual appeal, the exquisite recipes, and the compassion that is woven through every page. Whether you are just beginning your plant-based journey or are a well-seasoned plant-based advocate, this book is destined to become a cherished kitchen companion.

Brenda Davis, RD, plant-based pioneer and author

Your kitchen can be kind for your health, kind to animals, and kind to the planet. And now, enjoying a kind kitchen is easier (and more delicious!) then ever, thanks to Dreena Burtons brilliant gem of a book. Youll find mouth-wateringly delicious (and incredibly nutritious) recipes, and practical tips to help you implement and love your kind and healthy lifestyle. This book is a road map to a happier, healthier, and tastier future.

Ocean Robbins, CEO of the Food Revolution Network and author of 31-Day Food Revolution

Also by Dreena Burton

Plant-Powered Families
Let Them Eat Vegan!
Eat, Drink & Be Vegan
Vive le Vegan!
The Everyday Vegan

Dreenas Kind Kitchen copyright 2021 by Dreena Burton

Food photographs by Angela MacNeil Photography

Lifestyle photographs by Sarah Amaral Photography

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To my mother, whose strength of spirit is surpassed only by her kindness.

Contents

By John Robbins, best-selling author and President, Food Revolution Network

N ot that long ago, plant-based eaters were found mostly on the fringe or margins of society. They were typically tolerated, but they were rarely appreciated. Most people considered plant-based diets to be just another dietary fad.

And a particularly annoying one, at that.

In 2015, a study looked at attitudes toward vegans and vegetarians compared with attitudes toward other groups of people who experience prejudice. The authors concluded that only drug addicts were evaluated more negatively than vegetarians and vegans.

But now, look at how fast things have changed!

In recent years, interest in plant-based eating has been skyrocketing. Now you can find plant-based milks in the dairy section of almost every supermarket and grocery store, often outselling the dairy options. And now you can find plant-based burgers at almost all the major restaurants and fast-food chains.

According to a report by the research firm Global-Data, in 2014, 1 percent of US consumers were vegan. But in 2017, only three years later, that number had risen to 6 percent. A 600 percent increase in veganism in the US in only three years would have been a stunning development if it had stopped there. But it didnt. In fact, the growing interest in plant-strong eating has only continued to increase and expand since then.

Its not a fad. Its not just another food craze. Scientific inquiry has produced a compelling, convincing, and coherent wave of studies demonstrating that plant-based eating leads to greater health and vitality, and to longer lives with far less disease and disability. Whole foods plant-based eating in particular leads to dramatically reduced rates of heart disease, diabetes, dementia, obesity, high blood pressure, and a host of other problems. Meanwhile, plant-based eating happens also to be a food path that leads to fewer greenhouse gas emissions, less damage to the life support systems of the planet, cleaner air and water, dramatically reduced health care costs, and far less cruelty to animals.

Theres a lot to like and a lot to love about that, which helps explain why plant-based eating has been growing so rapidly in recent years. And when the immensely popular food author Michael Pollan offered his dietary advice in seven pithy wordsEat food. Not too much. Mostly plantsthe numbers of people eating mostly plants, or only plants, jumped yet another notch. As more and more people have become vegans, more and more people have also been shifting from a meat- and dairy-heavy diet to a flexitarian one.

Which brings us to this beautiful book by the plant-based cookbook author Dreena Burton. For years, shes been showing people how to prepare foods that are beautiful, lush, nutrient-rich, colorful, exciting, abundant, and above all, delicious. And this may be her finest and most useful offering ever.

Dreena began her plant-based journey gradually, taking it a step at a time. And she did so when there were no vegan cheeses, no dairy-free ice creams, and no plant-based meats.

But she kept going because her body had never felt better. And because she had a deep appreciation for the fact that her food choices were now no longer causing harm to animals or the environment.

As Dreena wrote cookbooks that were widely read and used and loved, she acquired the remarkable ability to help people find their comfort and joy on a healthy eating path. And this may surprise you, but her gifts went beyond just providing recipes that are easy to make, hugely healthful, and decidedly delicious.

In this book, Dreenas Kind Kitchen, youll find marvelous recipes, of course. Dreena Burton has long been one of our most trusted sources of fabulous plant-based recipes, and in this book she gives you a wide variety of her tastiest and most popular and most healthful ones.

And youll also find much more. Youll gain the tools to trust your own food intuition so you can look at whatever ingredients you might have on hand, and immediately see ways that you can quickly pull together a delicious and healthy dish without a recipe.