Our cookbook of the week is Plant Magic by Vancouver-based dietitian Desiree Nielsen.

Jump to the recipes: cumin lime black bean burgers, herby potato salad with grainy mustard vinaigrette and grilled pineapple with toasted coconut.

There’s so much noise about diet and nutrition. Social media only seems to make it noisier, whether it’s “Oatzempic” — oats blended with lime juice, for the uninitiated — or the supposedly immune-boosting “swamp soup.” Amid the cacophony, the ethos of Vancouver-based author and registered dietitian Desiree Nielsen‘s fourth book, Plant Magic, is refreshingly reasonable.