Bryant Terry’s Corona Bean and Broccoli Rabe Sandwich
A delicious vegan dish inspired by South Africa’s bunny, from Bryant Terry’s incredible new cookbook ‘Vegetable Kingdom’
James Beard Award-winning chef and food activist Bryant Terry has been publishing vegan cookbooks full of inspired, comforting, eclectic, plants-first dishes (his Afro-Vegan is a new classic) since 2006. His latest, though, is his most beautiful cookbook yet.
In Vegetable Kingdom, Terry approaches meals starting with ingredients, organizing the book into chapters like “Seeds,” “Bulbs,” and “Fungi.” His recipes don’t rely on faux-meat alternatives or vegan cheese, but instead are all grounded in the rich, savory flavors of fresh vegetables, herbs, breads, and fruit. Vegetable Kingdom utilizes the techniques and flavors of the African diaspora that made so many of his previous cookbooks special, particularly in a community that’s often dominated by white voices, but the book is also heavily influenced by his wife’s Chinese-American background and draws on Japanese and Vietnamese influences as well.
He writes in the introduction that Vegetable Kingdom was inspired by his daughters, Mila and Zenzi, and making the diversity of plant-foods “irresistible to them,” showing them “a lifelong adventure with good…
