You Can Cook This!: Simple, Satisfying, Sustainable Recipes

A social media star chef teaches how to harness the power of plants through simple and flavorful recipes that help fight food waste, providing practical ideas for using up the whole vegetable, transforming leftovers, and storing food to maximize freshness.

Born and raised in North America, Max La Manna is a self-taught chef, an award-winning author, and has been featured in Vogue, Food Network, The Times, BBC News, and Vice. Boasting over one million followers, Max has electrified social media with simple, delicious, low-waste recipes that put vegetables at the heart of his cooking. His down-to-earth, few-ingredient approach means that he advocates for low-waste living in a truly accessible way. Max lives in the English countryside with his wife and their thirty-three houseplants.