Meera Sodha brings 120 plant-based recipes from across Asia to your weeknight table in East, a collection of vibrant, fuss-free dishes inspired by home cooks and gourmet chefs from Bangalore to Beijing.
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Vegan cooking here spans Japanese and Mexican traditions to Mediterranean fasting fare, stretching from plant-based dairy to family recipes reworked entirely without animal products.
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Meera Sodha brings 120 plant-based recipes from across Asia to your weeknight table in East, a collection of vibrant, fuss-free dishes inspired by home cooks and gourmet chefs from Bangalore to Beijing.
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Big Vegan Flavor by Nisha Vora teaches you how miso-seared scallops, chai custard tarts, and 148 other globally-inspired recipes prove that vegetables don't need permission to be the main event.

Vegan JapanEasy proves that Japanese soul food without the sad substitutes or missing umami is entirely possible, and Tim Anderson shows you how in over 80 recipes.

Provecho by Edgar Castrejón reclaims Mexican home cooking for a plant-based table, where tradition and compassion taste exactly like family.
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Nistisima by Georgina Hayden unearths 120 vegan recipes from Greece, Cyprus, and beyond that have quietly sustained Mediterranean tables for centuries through the ancient tradition of plant-based fasting.

Kansha reveals how gratitude for nature's gifts becomes 100 vegan recipes rooted in Buddhist temple cooking, Japanese history, and Elizabeth Andoh's decades of culinary immersion.
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Strawberry ice cream that doesn't need a cow to be creamy—and that's just the start of what Miyoko Schinner delivers in The Vegan Creamery, where plant milks become French soft cheeses, tangy spreads, mozzarella, and rich desserts that taste like the real thing.

Meera Sodha's Dinner serves up 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes that turn the question 'What's for dinner?' into a delicious answer, from whole roast cauliflower pilaf to miso eggplant to bubble tea ice cream.
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Crispy, soulful, entirely vegan, and unmistakably Bronx—which is exactly what Lyana Blount serves up in Black Rican Vegan.

Plant Protein by Gigi Grassia delivers 80 recipes that fuel your body without the lecture, turning everyday ingredients into the kind of meals that work as hard as you do.

Updated August 2026
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