Mind Food
Mind Food is a delicious and revolutionary invitation to eating whole foods, with a mind-nourishing twist – inspired by years of research around how food can make us happy and boost our moods.
Founder of the Plant Academy and the woman behind Feed Your Mind Candy, plant-based chef and food educator Lauren Lovatt mindfully reconnects readers to the adage of ‘we are what we eat’ in this appetising new-wave cookbook.
Drawing on her own experiences of mental health, Lovatt presents an empowering approach to food and wellbeing which is nourishing, sustainable and good for both us and the planet.
Focusing on hero ingredients of plants, whole grains, healthy fats, legumes, and tonic herbs, vibrant vegan recipes offer emotional balance with a splash of creativity, and a sprinkle of magic!
With recipes presented by season in order to make the most of freshly-grown produce and to maximise the benefits according to our different needs at each time of year, ideas in this book include:
- Flavourful and brain-boosting kimchi and black bean tostadas;
- Delicious pumpkin arancini, filled with healthy fats and rainbow vegetables;
- A destressing CBD stir-fry with wild rice, ginger and sunflower seeds;
- An energy-boosting mind food fry-up of qi beans, scrambled tofu, caramelized tomatoes and smoked mushrooms...
And many, many more!
Mind Food is about connecting with yourself and the world around you, and offers a holistic toolbox of insights into how to live in sync with the world. It shares lifestyle practices that inspire new activities, and delicious sweet and savoury recipes focused on seasonal ingredients and tonics to support your brain through each life-affirming season.
Nurture your mental and physical health with Mind Food, a must-have cookbook for every kitchen library.
Lauren Lovatt is a plant based chef, culinary educator and entrepreneur who founded Plant Academy cookery school in 2019, a school created to inspire passion through plants through inviting the leading minds in the industry to teach on their signature Plant 123 chef training program. As well as a passion for plants Lauren’s main focus is bringing the conversation of Mental Health to the table through her revolutionary book Mind Food, released in 2022 after many years of curating supper clubs, hosting events at festivals, such as Wilderness and Shambla, and leading retreats on this important concept. Having travelled the world cooking and teaching she previously consulted for HOY Paris, Paris’ first plant based hotel, and currently working with Alchemy Academy Bali Lauren is forever evolving her own food art and conscious impact on the food world.
Sara Kiyo Popowa is a food photographer and recipe developer @shisiodelicious with over 106,000 followers. She is the popular author of Bento Power and The Opinionated Guide to Vegan London. Sara has been an integral part of Plant Academy since the beginning, first coming on board to teach masterclasses about her book Bento Power and photography and going on to open a joint venture with Lauren Lovatt ‘The Food Studio’ where they created the Plant Academy online courses and so much more. Sara’s passion for plants and incredible photography skills brought Plant Academy to life in a brand new way and all of the photos and animations for the courses, online and for this Plant Academy book, have been created by her over the last four years. She shares with Lovatt a devotion to the power of the visual and for communicating plant-based food in a mesmerizingly bold and aesthetic way. This book and all of Plant Academy would not be the same without her.