Cookbook of the Week: ‘My New Roots’ by Sarah Britton
Photo: Instagram/@MyNewRoots
Yahoo Food’s Cookbook of the Week is “My New Roots,” which is based on the popular blog from Sarah Britton, a self-taught cook and “whole-food lover.” She’ll ascribe to that term, but she’s not a fan of labels—vegan, vegetarian, raw foodist, etc. She just wants people to cook, delight in what they eat, and take care of themselves.
“I love to eat. A lot. I often joke that my current way of living evolved from needing to find a way to eat a lot and still be healthy,” wrote Britton. “Therefore the diet I follow and encourage others to is not about sacrifice, deprivation, or labels. It’s about enjoying delicious food to the fullest extent without counting calories or fat grams.”
Author Sarah Britton. (Photo: Instagram/@MyNewRoots)
The book is filled exclusively with vegetarian dishes. You might find it a bit curious, then, to see a recipe for a warm egg salad spiked with spinach and bacon; the pork product is actually “bacon,” a combination of tamari, liquid smoke, maple syrup, and coconut. Britton includes steps on how to make it. (Similarly there’s sunflower seed “tuna” for the Pan Bagnat stuffed sandwich.) She also references greatest hits from her blog, including her most popular recipe, “The Life-Changing Loaf of Bread,” to which she adds olives and caraway seeds.
My New Roots is a cozy book with beautiful photographs, lovely anecdotes, and helpful advice from Britton sprinkled throughout. She brings the same charm and food savvy to this project as she does to her blog, and it’s easy to see why she has fans around the globe, from her current home base in Copenhagen to her original hometown of Toronto.
A look inside of Britton’s new book that’s filled with vegetarian dishes.
There’s a new global green cuisine that is emerging and crisscrossing geographic boundaries, and vegan/vegetarian bloggers like Britton are behind it. Others in the movement include Ella Woodward of Deliciously Ella, Sarah Forte of Sprouted Kitchen, private chef/author Amy Chaplin. It’s a world where nut milks are swapped in for cow’s milk, raw cashew cheese takes the place of cheddar, noodles are made of “spiralized” vegetables, and ice cream is actually frozen bananas whipped in a blender. “My New Roots” captures this movement within its 100 recipes and 256 pages.
Visit Yahoo Food throughout the week for recipes from “My New Roots.”
More whole-food loving cookbooks of the week:
The Sprouted Kitchen Bowl and Spoon by Sara and Hugh Forte
