Modern Flexitarian: Plant-inspired Recipes You Can Flex to Add Fish, Meat, or Dairy

by D.K. Publishing

Embrace a healthier, flexible vegetarian and vegan lifestyle with the option of including meat and other animal products now and then!

Ethical meals and sustainable living have become hot topics, and making the lifestyle shift may take some time. But, making the full transition to vegetarian or vegan can be hard, and not something everyone wants to do. For those who want to get healthy, while cutting their meat intake, and environmental impact, the Flexitarian diet - with its mix of vegetarian and healthy recipes - might be the perfect way!

The Modern Flexitarian is filled with meat-free recipes, dairy-free meals and healthy cooking ideas with a twist. Each page features sustainable meals with suggestions on how to include meat, dairy, eggs or fish. Within the book, you’ll uncover;

   • More than 100 easy-to-prepare, flexible vegetarian or vegan recipes.
   • Every dish is accompanied by a full-color photograph.
   • Features recipes for every meal type, including breakfast and brunch, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks.

The plant-based cookbook helps you eat more plants while moderating your meat consumption! The Modern Flexitarian is a wonderful resource for healthy cooking ideas that will inspire you to make more socially responsible meal choices. Although entirely giving up meat or animal-related products can be difficult, this book eases the process and inspires the most delicious meat-free meals!

This inspiring book is brimming with tips on how to get started, sound advice on getting the right nutrients, and a sample weekly menu. And with plenty of options from which to choose, you can still satisfy your cravings while reducing your impact on the environment and improving your health.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food, Health

256 pages, Hardcover

Published January 7, 2020

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Lobo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Szép, szép de igazán inkább vegetáriánus szakácskönyv, ráadásul nem annyira a magyar helyzethez/pénztárcához szólnak a receptek.
Szóval tájékozódni érdekes, lapozgatni jól esik, de nem praktikus.
Tökéletes volt könyvtárból :)

[Marianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too many difficult to source ingredients and overly fussy preparations.

[Brooke · Rating 3 out of 5]

73:2025
3.5* possibly rounded up once I've made a few of the recipes from here. Whether I like it enough to buy a copy remains to be seen, but very excited to try some of these to increase the veg consumption in my diet in tasty and interesting ways.

[Rachelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Modern Flexitarian... as the title suggests, recipes provided offer flexible options for the home cook to change to her preference, including variety of cultural entrees. I was blown away by the content of the recipes - they are colorful, textural, flavorful, uniquely spiced, nutrient dense, and provide a blank canvas for alterations. The book felt like a journey through the world, reaching highlights of comfort foods and foodie inventions.

[Vanna Bells · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read everything except for the dessert section. I'm very impressed with the global cuisine in this book. I also hadn't thought of substituting the ingredients from other countries in Vietnamese spring rolls to add variety. But that's because I'm Vietnamese and I love my spring rolls.

Want to buy this book as soon as I finish up the current cookbook I'm using.

[Nancy Cohen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was really excited for this book ok because I know I need to make adjustments to my diet. These are vegetarian dishes that can be changed to be pescatarian vegan or otherwise. I found the ingredients were not always readily available as well as options that I would enjoy. I thought the concept of the book was great but maybe too difficult to translate into different options.

[Christina Nunyas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice pictures, but the recipes are not great. Multiple variations on the veggue burger, and permutations on beans mixed with grains and veggies. If you are an intermediate level cook, the recipes in this book are completely unnecessary and a lot of the vegan stuff can be found in other books done a lot better.

[Kristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great cookbook if you cook for both vegetarians and meat eaters. Includes breakfast, snacks, salads, soups, various main dishes and desserts. Lots of variety from burgers to casseroles to curries and more.

[Melia (she/her) · Rating 2 out of 5]

More mung beans than you can shake a stick at. This is for a very specific person and I’m not that person. You’d be better off making a sauce and stir frying some veggies, protein and ancient grain and calling it a day.

[Rosemary · Rating 1 out of 5]

Suckered by the title, which should have been "all about mung beans."

[Brianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Flexitarian recipes are my jam but this one wasn't as good as others I have read.

[Pam Pulizzi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is fabulous. The recipes are easy to follow. The definitions are well thought out. The ability to adjust to dairy free, or to add meat etc are really nice.

[Shonda · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars because the front section was highly informative, but the recipes themselves were not very practical or accessible. I didn't feel like this was geared towards a home chef feeding a family

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would order everything in this book in a restaurant but every single recipe was too complicated or tedious or needed too many different ingredients for me to want to cook any of them myself.

[Crystal · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t love it, the recipes I made were meh.

[Regina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like the broad array of cultures and cuisines this book pulls from. I will absolutely be trying several of them out. The photos are well-done as well.

[Gr(Ace) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love how simple the recipes are, and the combinations are great. But they often lack flavor… which is okay if you’re willing to wing it and add more spice!

[Beka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice, not amazing.

[Juli Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed in this one. The front matter is surprisingly dogmatic (especially for an inherently flexible diet), and the recipes felt repetitive and trendy. Also, this is a minor peeve, but so many of these recipes called for multiple types of cooked grains and beans; as a home cook, I am never going to take the time to cook two different grains separately for the same dish, on top of cooking beans from dry. It's just not practical. In general, I felt these recipes were too formulaic and relied too heavily on cooked grains.

[Jeffrey Ning · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good basic reference for those opting flexitarian diet from what to how. Outlining the basics in preparation to upcoming recipes is a great introduction to flexitarian concept and general rules. Written concisely with photo of each recipe and a selection of recipes that you can veganise if needed.