Natural Feasts: 100+ Healthy, Plant-Based Recipes to Share and Enjoy with Friends and Family

Food blogger Mills (Deliciously Ella Every Day) conveys the ease of entertaining and eating well in her third cookbook, which includes recipes such as lemony Hasselback potatoes, thyme-fried mushrooms, and blueberry scones with vanilla cream. Mills shares suggestions for healthy eating habits and living a plant-based lifestyle, encouraging readers to introduce these concepts slowly without pressuring friends and family. Her passion is apparent in the creativity of her recipes, and the care she takes in pairing dishes to make full meals ensures readers are getting the most out of this cookbook. To pair with her kale, sun-dried tomato, olive, and sweet potato salad, she suggests baked sweet potato and sesame falafels for a “fantastic desk lunch.” Her herbed guacamole and her maple and rosemary butter beans create a satisfying, savory brunch. While Mills includes honey in a handful of her recipes, this nonvegan ingredient is easily replaced for those with stricter plant-based lifestyles. However, readers with an aversion to garlic may be put off by its frequent use throughout this cookbook. Mills’s recipes, such as the Salted Maca and Tahini Fudge and the three bean stew (lima, cannellini, and black bean), are rich and hearty but have few ingredients, which makes them easy and inexpensive to create. For a plant-based entertainer who wants to serve the most delicious, natural, and healthy food, this cookbook is a must purchase. (Oct.)