Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body, Heart, and Table

by Lily Diamond

Overview

Born out of the popular blog Kale&Caramel, this sumptuously photographed and beautifully written cookbook presents eighty recipes for delicious vegan and vegetarian dishes featuring herbs and flowers, as well as luxurious do-it-yourself beauty products.

Plant-whisperer, writer, and photographer Lily Diamond believes that herbs and flowers have the power to nourish inside and out. “Lily’s deep connection to nature is beautifully woven throughout this personal collection of recipes,” says award-winning vegetarian chef Amy Chaplin. Each chapter celebrates an aromatic herb or flower, including basil, cilantro, fennel, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, lavender, jasmine, rose, and orange blossom.

Mollie Katzen, author of the beloved Moosewood Cookbook, calls the book “a gift, articulated through a poetic voice, original and bold.” The recipes tell a coming-of-age story through Lily’s kinship with plants, from a sun-drenched Maui childhood to healing from heartbreak and her mother’s death. With bright flavors, gorgeous scents, evocative stories, and more than one hundred photographs, Kale&Caramel creates a lush garden of experience open to harvest year round.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501123412
Publisher:	Atria Books
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	165 MB
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About the Author

Lily Diamond is a writer, photographer, and proponent of wildness in the kitchen. In 2012, she created the award-winning, much-beloved blog Kale & Caramel. Lily grew up on Maui and graduated from Yale University. She lives in California.

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Kale & Caramel

Editorial Reviews

02/20/2017
Lifestyle and wellness blogger Lily Diamond (Kale & Caramel) collects 80 innovative plant-based dishes and beauty formulas that “transcend the boundary between food and body products.” Celebrating the healing power of herbs and flowers, Diamond advocates “wildness in the kitchen,” sharing recipes for vibrant vegetarian dishes and nourishing potions and lotions. Each chapter showcases an herb or flower. Cilantro lime crema tops black bean bisque; rosemary-laced goat cheese enhances a roasted fig pizza; a mix of minted tahini and cumin-fried chickpeas dresses Greek salad. Elixirs include a pomegranate spritzer with thyme, and lemonade with cucumber and basil. There’s an abundance of dessert options, such as mini no-bake goat cheesecakes with lavender blueberries, and fragrant wine-laced rhubarb fennel ice cream. Diamond provides instructions for storing herbs and flowers, as well as infusing aromatics into natural oils, honey, sugar, or salt. She includes a chart describing each herb’s floral profile and flavor pairings. In an enchanting narrative, Diamond describes her awakening to the power of plants, crediting her herbalist mother and childhood on Maui as inspiration for her guiding philosophy: “What beautifies within beautifies without.” (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Lily is a magician of plants and a wizard of salads, a fierce friend and storyteller. She has coached me through chamomile infusion woes and mint surpluses with the patience and humor of a wise old soul. While I selfishly don't want to share her, with Kale & Caramel the world can finally have its spirulina and eat ice cream too. (It's ok, I didn't know what spirulina was either until Lily came into my life.) Through this book, you will not only learn beautiful new ways of using your favorite garden staples and approachable methods of trying less common ingredients like bee pollen and hemp seeds, but you will also gain a friend, laughter and tears included.

Molly Yeh

A plant whisperer is born.

Booklist

"Lily’s deep connection to nature is beautifully woven throughout this personal collection of recipes. Whether it’s the healing power of herbs, delicious and unique flavor combinations or the stories of her mother’s natural medicine, Kale & Caramel truly is a book for body, heart and table."

Amy Chaplin

Thank you, Lily Diamond, for your brave and sassy and beautiful words. For your sumptuous photos. For your decadent, comforting, and healthful recipes. And most of all, bless you for teaching me to put olive oil in my mint ice cream, lavender in my hair, and honey on my face.

Phyllis Grant

I'm captivated by Lily's story of healing, and how she called upon the innate, beautiful power of plants to nourish body and soul. These are powers available to all of us, and Lily is the perfect guide. It's pure pleasure to dive into Lily's beautiful, delicious world.

Sarah Copeland

Kale & Caramel is full of so many quizzical yet immediately appealing flavor combinations it’s hard to decide which recipe to make first!

Hawaiian Islands edible

"I am so happy Lily Diamond has expanded her exquisite blog into an actual book. Her ability to frame solid instruction (both herbal and culinary) with a deeper take on what it means to live through our senses is a gift, all articulated through a poetic voice, original and bold."

Mollie Katzen

This is a remarkable book of food and longing, tending as much to our deep human need for storytelling as our hunger for vibrant, life-sustaining nourishment.

Rebecca Walker

"I want to inhale and grow and cook and slather on every single thing in this book! Lily has carefully crafted each recipe to harness the healing powers of flowers and herbs in a simple and accessible way. A gorgeous guide to plant-based self-care!"

Laura Miller

A plant whisperer is born.

Booklist

02/15/2017
Writer and photographer Diamond has adapted her popular blog Kale & Caramel (kaleandcaramel.com) into an emotional first cookbook that touts the healing powers of herbs, flowers, and other aromatics. Ingredient-focused chapters (e.g., basil, fennel, jasmine, orange blossom) are filled with recipes for foods and body-care products (e.g., facial cleansers and masks, body scrubs). Featuring compelling flavors, dishes such as kabocha coconut fritters with pomegranate mint raita, sage-salted caramel ice cream, and jasmine cucumber water will appeal to cooks interested in holistic lifestyle advice. VERDICT Diamond's unusual debut offers a fresh perspective on eating and self-care. Her sensuous prose may strike some readers as oversentimental, so buy for demand.

Library Journal