1 🧵 /Plant Based /Alexander Gershberg / Short Review
I approached this latest book with a fair amount of scepticism - oh yeah, another plant based book that has no care for the needs of people on a plant based diet.
But I was nicely surprised. And as I browsed this book while eating plant based food at Topiary in Adelaide's north east, I fell in love with it. This recently published book is a translation from Dutch - Alexander is a Netherlands-based chef, cooking teacher and cookbook author (https://alexandergershberg.com).
Plant Based, by Alexander Gershberg
Published: 2023
Pages: 300
Publisher: Smith Street Books
Price: around $42AU, but look around as prices vary. Ebooks are often cheaper.
Ok, let's get my one negative out of the way. The PR says "The ingredients Alexander uses are 100% vegan and organic, preferring locally grown vegetables and whole foods rather than processed and commercially refined foods." But he uses dashi made from dried fish in one of his recipes. It is only a side-note that you can, in-fact, make dashi in other ways. I was disappointed by this one slip.
