Salads for Good is the second cookbook from Cook for Good – an award-winning social enterprise, which rather ingeniously turns corporate team building days into a genuine force for good.
Founded in 2019 by Karen Mattison and Robinne Collie, Cook for Good is based on a housing estate in London’s King’s Cross, where it tackles social isolation through its community surplus food pantry, free cooking classes, community meals, training and work experience.
Like their previous book, Soups for Good, all profits from sales of Salads for Good will help tackle food insecurity and social isolation – but that’s not the reason to buy the book. The reason is the recipes within.
Featuring 52 sensational salad recipes, 21 toppings, dressings and dips – created by their in-house team, community members and big-name chefs and celebrities including Jamie Oliver, Honey & Co, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Claudia Winkleman – plus mini nutrition guides (from fibre heroes to healing herbs and spices), and moving interviews with contributors, Salads for Good is a book you’ll come back to again and again.
I was particularly taken with their plant-packed grilled chicken salad – a vibrant dish which sees chicken breast, courgette, cavolo nero, radishes, sugar snap peas and butter beans piled atop a zingy-green pea and spinach/ wild garlic puree, with a rather revolutionary dressing featuring tomato and cucumber.
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Our food editor, Victoria Prever, meanwhile, is a big fan of their roasted roots and fruits salad – an endlessly adaptable dish, which comes with an entire page of mix-and-match options for every element, giving you the knowledge and power to build a salad to sate your own unique tastes.
But aren’t salads just for summer? Not. At. All. And in fact, the cookbook even contains a handy guide explaining which salads are best suited to which season – and which taste and feel good all year round.
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