The Garden Pantry
by Tana Jackson with illustrations by Melanie Thorpe
The Garden Pantry is a cookbook with a collection of delicious recipes using unprocessed, completely natural plant-based produce with a nod to some good old-fashioned favourites.
Vegan friendly, the book is ideal for people with food intolerances as the recipes contain no meat, fish, dairy, gluten, salt, sugar, honey or nuts.
Tana was inspired to write the book as she has been eating a vegetable-based diet for the last few years. To begin with she found herself developing a number of food intolerances and gradually eliminated the different types of meat, fish, dairy, fats, salt and nuts, etc from her diet until she was left with a diet consisting mainly of vegetables and carbohydrates.
Tana started to look into the many products that have been developed to substitute the meat, fish and dairy etc that is missing from a vegetable-based diet and was disturbed to find that these products could easily be described as some of the most processed food in the Western world.
When she was eating meat, fish and dairy she avoided processed food because it is supposed to be so bad for you, but when she started to buy the substitutions this became a minefield, so she started to work on creating recipes using unprocessed, completely natural, plant-based produce.
The book is a reflection of that journey and Tana shares her recipes in a fun and creative way.
Ideal for people with food intolerances the recipes in the book are vegan friendly and do not contain any meat, fish, dairy, gluten, salt, sugar, or nuts. The recipes do contain beans and legumes, but these can be substituted for vegetables if you cannot tolerate them in your diet.
Did you know that in the UK, an estimated 2 million people are living with a diagnosed food allergy, and 600,000 with coeliac disease.
Clear simple instructions make it the perfect book for every cook and the delightful illustrations of the inventive little Cheflings are an inspiration.
In collaboration with Melanie Thorpe who is a super talented illustrator, they have created some friends called the Cheflings who will help you to experiment and have some fun in your kitchen making good wholesome food for you and your family to enjoy.
The illustrations of the inventive little Cheflings throughout the book were produced using an XP Pen graphics tablet.
Connected to her mobile phone Melanie draws onto the tablet using the stylus and the drawing is viewed on the screen of her mobile phone. The technique produces the drawings as wonderful vibrant digital watercolours.
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