The former Beatle has partnered with his daughters Mary and Stella to launch a new cookbook of vegetarian recipes. The cookbook will pay tribute to their late wife and mother, Linda McCartney and her hugely successful vegetarian recipes in the new cookbook entitled ‘Linda McCartney’s Family Kitchen: Over 90 Plant-Based Recipes to Save the Planet and Nourish the Soul’.
The new cookbook, to be released on 24th June 2021, will feature some of McCartney’s most popular dishes as well as the family’s input of other recipes with which they grew up with. The cookbook will also contain photos of the family’s kitchen, adding an intimate family element to the new release. McCartney’s most popular recipes included in the book include Shepherd’s Pie, Chili non-Carne, Vegetarian Sausage rolls and American style pancakes.
The book’s press release states, “An original food pioneer, Linda believed in great-tasting, wholesome, meat-free food, and embraced kindness and compassion in everything she did.”
McCartney himself had this to say in a recent press release concerning the upcoming tribute to his late wife, “Years ago, before anyone had woken up to the idea of environmental and health and animal welfare issues, Linda was blazing the trail with vegetarianism, telling people about it and promoting it. At home, she would cook for the family and these recipes have been now brought up to date for a modern audience, so they’re all now plant-based and fabulous.” The singer continued to add “In the book, there are family photographs and stories from those days, and of course lots of great, beautiful-tasting healthy recipes, I hope this book inspires conversations about sustainability and about modern living amongst people besides also just giving them some great recipes to eat.”
Linda McCartney was a celebrated photographer, an icon of the ’60s and 70’s, a musician and remained a passionate animal rights activist throughout her life. Her photographs remain synonymous with the era and were published in the book ‘Linda McCartney’s Sixties: Portrait of an era in 1992’. As well as a famed photographer, McCartney was also well known as the keyboardist in Wings. McCartney formed Wings with her husband Paul McCartney after the Beatles broke up in 1971, the band’s debut album, ‘Ram’ was released in May 1971. The single ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halesy’ gave the band their first number one hit in America. Linda, who was an avid vegetarian cook, had several cookbooks published and is well known to have brought meat-free cuisine into the spotlight and founded the popular vegetarian food brand ‘Linda McCartney’s Foods’. McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and tragically lost her life to the disease in 1998 at the young age of 56.
The McCartney’s have always strived to keep Linda’s passion alive and in tribute to Linda’s passion, Paul McCartney and their daughters took the lead with the ‘Meat Free Monday movement’ in 2009. The movement is involved with an international campaign tasked with the mission to introduce meat reduction to the world. In 2016 the family launched a cookbook to accompany their involvement in the campaign titled ‘The Meat Free Monday Cookbook’.
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