Adventures with aquafaba: Chantelle Nicholson’s vegan recipes

Tredwells’ chef-patron is neither vegan nor vegetarian. So here’s why she’s written a cookbook of only plant-based recipes

It seems impeccably well-timed, but Chantelle Nicholson insists she didn’t anticipate the massive surge of interest in veganism when she came up with the idea for her new cookbook, Planted: A Chef’s Show-stopping Vegan Recipes, a year and a half ago.

“The whole reason I did a plant-based recipe book was that I liked the challenge,” says the 37-year-old, who is neither vegan nor vegetarian. “It’s something a lot of chefs just ignore and don’t think is important. When I looked around to find resources for plant-based cooking at a restaurant level, there were hardly any.”