The 23 Best Cookbooks of Spring 2023. It may be easy to think of summer as the best time for salads, but for Sheela Prakash, every season can be salad season if you know how to build a great one. In this book, Prakash, a cookbook author and contributing editor at The Kitchn, teaches you the fundamentals of salad making, like how important it is to season and taste your ingredients as you go, and she will inspire you to think outside of the sad box of salad greens you may be accustomed to. The bittersweet radicchio salad dressed in a punchy vinaigrette of pomegranate molasses, orange juice, and olive oil got me through the dreariness of winter when all I wanted was something crisp and juicy while the caramelized fennel and white bean salad has become a favorite lunch staple of mine. There are no sad desk lunches in Prakash's world, just fabulous salads no matter the season. - Bon Appetit
If you know the Department of Salad at all, you know that our world would completely stop spinning if lemons became extinct. So I was thrilled when I came across this surprising and impossibly delicious salad in Sheela Prakash's upcoming book, Salad Seasons: Vegetable-Forward Dishes All Year, which we featured in the last bulletin. (If you haven't placed her recipe for Spring Carrots with Burnt Saffron Butter and Labneh in your to-make file, you really should.) - Emily Nunn, DEPARTMENT OF SALAD
'Salad season can be all seasons-that is, if you know how to build a great one,'' Sheela Prakash writes in the introduction of her new cookbook, Salad Seasons. The book makes the delectable and convincing case that salad can - and should - be eaten all year round. - EATER
I love salads, but the truth is that I have a rotation of two or three that I make on repeat, and they're getting kind of old and boring. Salad Seasons cannot arrive sooner. It's by a long-time and beloved recipe developer for Simply Recipes-I love her Roasted Sweet Potato Salad and the best Cast Iron Skillet Pizza I've ever made. I won't be bored of salads for a while. Some of the recipes I'm most looking forward to making are Crispy Rice Salad with Miso-Buttered Mushrooms and Spring Pea and Orzo Salad with Bacon Gremolata. -SIMPLY RECIPES
Sheela has an incredible knack for creating nourishing, good-for-you recipes that don't sacrifice a single ounce of pleasure. I'm fully here for this new salad bible, bursting with colorful inspiration that gets me excited to put a veg-focused dinner on the table. Salad Seasons is exactly the upgrade my weekly meal plan has been craving.- Camille Styles, founder of lifestyle site CamilleStyles.com
Mustardy Carrot Slaw? Parmesan Rind Croutons? Blackened Broccoli Rabe Caesar? I want all of this in my life right now. It's all too easy to get stuck in a romaine rut, but I know with this book by my side in the kitchen I'll feel inspired to reach new salad heights. I love how the recipes are broken up by season; it's a great reminder that winter is salad season, too. - Jenna Helwig, food director at Real Simple and author of Bare Minimum Dinners
I have said for years, the produce section of the grocery store is the most exciting... and still the most misunderstood and underutilized. Prakash's Salad Seasons helps home cooks see the greatest potential of produce and enjoy it in simple, yet profoundly inspirational, doable ways. - Chadwick Boyd, cookbook author, TV host and produce champion
Whether you grew up thinking that salads started and ended with iceberg lettuce and ranch dressing, or whether you are a longtime devotee of salad-for-dinner, Salad Seasons is a true game changer. With recipes like Farro Tabbouleh with Whipped Tahini, Cacio e Pepe Shaved Brussels Sprouts, and Roasted Garlic Kale Salad with
Parmesan Rind Croutons, Sheela takes familiar seasonal flavors and shows us how to add crunch, spice, and pizzazz. Guaranteed, you'll never call salads 'boring' again. - Emma Christensen, associate general manager at Simply Recipes
As a decidedly non-salad-enthusiast, it takes a lot for me to get excited about salads, and Sheela's book does just that. She shares the basic building blocks of creating a great salad - and in every season too! Mouth-watering salads in winter? Sign me up. - Alisha Ramos, founder of Girls' Night In
