Simply Plants
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Which recipe did you bookmark first, before you had any intention of actually cooking it?
What is the one comfort food from your own childhood that you would want someone to teach you to make plant-based?
The book keeps insisting that plant-based cooking can be simple. Where in your own kitchen did that promise feel true, and where did you feel a little skeptical?
Which part of the book made you feel most taken care of rather than instructed? What was it about the tone that landed that way?
Badiei writes as someone who wants you to eat well without guilt. How did it feel to read a food book that was not scolding you?
Was there an ingredient the book made you newly fond of, something you had previously ignored at the grocery store?
By the time you closed the book, had your idea of what counts as a real meal softened or shifted at all? Describe the version of yourself you pictured cooking from it six months from now.
Food habits are tangled up with family, memory, and sometimes other people's feelings. What did this book stir up for you about the meals you share with the people you live with or love?