Sensational Salads to Cool the Earth by Beth Love, with a foreword by Neal Barnard, MD, is the first book in the Tastes Like Love series. In this delightfully evocative book, Rev. Chef Beth Love reveals the connection between your plate, your health, our Earth, and more. Get this book to gain inspiration, recipes, and support to eat vibrant food, reduce your risk of disease, and live more gently on the planet. Here are a few things you will learn about:
Five Urgent Reasons to Eat More Plants
Fears, Myths, and Barriers About Plant-Consumption
Six Guiding Principles for Fabulous Flavor
Resources to Support Plant Eating
Your taste buds and body temple will be tantalized by such amazing creations as:
Spinach Salad With Candied Pecans and Roasted Veggies
Corn Salad With Chipotle and Lime
Cucumber Dill Raita Salad
Minted Lemon Spice Salad
Indian Spiced Beet and Coconut Salad
Eight-Layer Raw Pasta Salad With Three Sauces
Cherry Berry Basil Salad With Pomegranate Chia Dressing
Strawberry Apricot Salad With Avocado Lime Cream
Love conceived of the Tastes Like Love book series in response to her great passion for human health, environmental sustainability, animal well-being, and food justice. A whole foods chef for over 50 years, Love is renowned for creating amazingly delicious and deeply nourishing foods. Her life’s purpose is inspiring transformational choices that promote wholeness and sustainability. She was motivated to write by her great love for the children of the world. Her vision for them is to live healthy lives on a habitable planet, two outcomes that will be well served by increasing human plant-eating and reducing or eliminating consumption of animal products.
Beth Love has been a member of Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) for many years. She is inspired by the organization’s prolific and extremely effective work to improve human health and animal well-being. PCRM was the recipient of all of the first-day royalties from the first edition of Sensational Salads to Cool the Earth. Love is also inspired by the nonprofit Eat for the Earth, which she founded in 2019. Eat for the Earth makes it easier for people to eat more plants and less animal products to sustain all life on Earth. Partial proceeds from the entire Tastes Like Love series are being donated to both of these organizations.
Praise for the book:
Sensational Salads to Cool the Earth is a perfect addition to any kitchen, whether you’re just starting your plant-based journey or you’re well versed in vegan eating. I hope you enjoy all the valuable advice and fabulous recipes Ms. Love has waiting for you, and that you can invite others into your own kitchen to cook and share some of her nourishing salads together.
—Neal Barnard, MD, President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
In Sensational Salads to Cool the Earth, Beth Love proves to the world that healthy food can truly be delicious. The recipes are mouthwatering and the book is festive—but don’t be deceived. These irresistible delights just could save your life—and help you save the planet.
—Ocean Robbins, CEO, Food Revolution Network
Beth Love has created a wonderful collection of creative recipes built from whole plant foods. These recipes avoid the added salt, oil, and sugar that compromise the nutritional integrity of most cookbooks. Including these health-promoting meals in your routine can protect your health and the health of the planet.
—Dr. Alan Goldhamer, director of the TrueNorth Health Center
In Sensational Salads to Cool the Earth, author Beth Love has provided not just delicious, whole food, plant-based, SOS-free salads, but tips for creating meals that will enhance your life, the lives of all beings, and the life of the planet we call home. The colorful images delight the eye and whet the appetite, calling out to be recreated with love. Using the unique power of plants, Sensational Salads to Cool the Earth offers a transformational way of eating and living that can help save the planet, while also saving you money and your health. Find new inspiration to create salads and dressings for any occasion with the wise guidance of Beth Love. Your healthy gut, heart, and skin will thank you!
—Rachael J. Brown, author of For Fork’s Sake: A Quick Guide to Healing Yourself and the Planet Through a Plant-Based Diet
Based on sound scientific research, Beth Love’s Tastes Like Love: Sensational Salads to Cool the Earth offers health-enhancing recipes which have been tested in the laboratory of her own kitchen and relished by those who have been fortunate enough to sit at her table. Written with warmth and wisdom, she makes it obvious that properly nourishing the body temple is vital to us as individuals, to the planet, and to our human family.
—Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation, Agape International Spiritual Center
Beth Love makes a very compelling case for a plant-based diet. She pitches this in a way that can appeal to anyone on the spectrum—everyone can move a little closer to the fully plant-based end of the spectrum and feel and be all the better for it!
—Alix Schwartz, Berkeley, California
Beth Love has created a collection of recipes that celebrate healthy, mindful living while dazzling the senses with taste, color, and unique, creative combinations of plant-based foods that beg for second helpings. This book will delight vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores alike and will become a kitchen staple, never sitting long on the shelf. It is truly a work of love that rejoices in our relationship to this planet and to each other.
—Deborah Stern, Silver Spring, Maryland
Chef Beth’s food is LOVE. Who knew that plants were anything but a side dish? For the committed vegan or even the vegan-curious carnivore—these dishes are rich and nutritious, inspiring, and just downright YUMMY. Amazing!
—Ruth Poe, Scotts Valley, California
