A beautiful meeting of ancient traditions and mouthwatering plant-based cooking, Nistisima is a stunning collection of easy and delicious Mediterranean recipes that celebrate vegetables, pulses and grains and are naturally vegan.
Chosen for Jamie Oliver's Cookbook Club April 2022
No fads, no frills, just 120 vegan recipes that have stood the test of time from award-winning food writer Georgina Hayden.
Nistisima means fasting food - food eaten during lent and other times of fasting observed by those of Orthodox faith. Mostly this involves giving up meat and dairy and instead using vegetables, pulses and grains to create easy, delicious dishes that all just happen to be vegan.
In this book, Georgina draws on the history and culture around nistisimo cooking in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Eastern Europe to share the simple, nutritious and flavour-packed recipes at the heart of the practice. Whether you're vegan, vegetarian, or simply want to eat more plant-based food, Nistisima offers you tried and tested recipes that celebrate the very best of this tradition - all bursting with flavour and all surprisingly vegan.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526630681
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 1086 g
Dimensions: 246 x 189 mm
Mouthwatering recipes and beautiful storytelling – I want a seat at Georgie’s table - Jamie Oliver
This book is the sunny window that everyone needs: open it to flood your kitchen with Mediterranean sun, delicious food and great stories. Georgina takes these ancient traditions and fits them to our modern kitchens with impeccable style and flare; surely lent has never tasted so good - Itamar Srulovic, Honey & Co
There’s so much to love and to learn in Georgina’s glorious Nistisima. It’s really worth fasting to eat like this - Claudia Roden
The only proper response to Georgina Hayden’s new book, Nistisima, is greedy delight, as far as I’m concerned - Nigella Lawson
‘Georgina has collected bakes, sides, suppers and puds (all plant-based) laced with layers of flavour and dollops of love. You’ll find old chums like tabbouleh and meet new friends such as Serbian ajvar (a roasted red pepper relish) and “astonishingly tasty” briam (Greek roasted veg)’ - Delicious Magazine
‘Once in a while, a new cookbook makes you think “Genius!” This is one of those – a collection of mainly vegan recipes from countries where abstaining from meat for religious or cultural reasons is the norm… Carefully researched and lovingly written, and the recipes are excellent’ - The Independent
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