3 cookbooks to help you eat more consciously in 2021

Concerned about meat consumption? Your health? The health of the planet? These cookbooks might provide some direction, says Ella Walker.

Sweet potato soup from Be More Vegan by Niki Webster.

January gets a bad rep. A month of enforced abstinence, chocolate avoidance and down-to-the-bone cold, compare it to May or August – months of sunshine and Bank Holidays, asparagus and strawberries – and you might as well strike out the first 31 days of the year entirely.

And yet, January 2021 carries with it a sliver of hopefulness, a soupçon of positivity (please let it not be crushed…). So while most of what’s going on is largely out of our hands, it is within our power to approach the new year with pragmatism, optimism, and an arsenal of cookbooks to nourish us beyond just dinner.