Affordable, sustainable, good for gut and overall health, good for the environment, a solution to eating less meat, packed with protein and fiber--pulses are the future of home cooking.

Health practitioners advise us to eat more fiber, environmentalists tell us to eat less meat and in Mediterranean Europe--a region that is widely considered to have the holy grail of healthy cuisines--eating pulses is a daily way of life. We are finally starting to embrace the multi-faceted benefits of eating pulses.

Covering dried, canned, and jarred pulses, and including meat, poultry and fish, this book demonstrates how easy it is to cook with pulses through 75 delicious recipes as well as highlighting their nutritional benefits. Pulses can be deeply comforting, light, and delicate, crisp and crunchy, or soft and luxurious. Knowing how to cook with them is key. Every recipe in this book will transform a humble bean or lentil into something aspirational and appealing.