Cook, meet, picture, eat. That was the simple formula behind Mary McCartney’s latest creative endeavor, which blended two of her greatest passions in life (food and photography) and resulted in her brilliant new book, Feeding Creativity: A Cookbook for Friends and Family. Whether at their homes, backstage, on set, in the studio or at the park, McCartney met up with friends, family, musicians, actors, artists, filmmakers and other visionaries to feed them some of her favorite plant-based fare in exchanged for a chat and a snapshot of them and the dish. Inside this book, you’ll find sixty recipes she whipped up over the course of this project, accompanied by the portraits she took and anecdotes from the conversations shared over each meal. There’s something for every taste and time of day within these pages — a Deluxe Hash Brown for cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason; Skywalker Ranch Bars for filmmaker George Lucas; a classic Cream of Tomato Soup for actress Cate Blanchett; Roast Toasted Salad for multi-hyphenate music legend Nile Rodgers; Red Onion, Pea and Spinach Tart for artist David Hockney; Ale Stew for conservationists Jill Butler and Ted Green; Banoffee Cheesecake for ballerina Francesca Hayward; Roasted Butterbeans and Cherry Tomatoes for composer and musician Anoushka Shankar; No Cook Chocolate Raspberry Tart for actor Steve Buscemi; Creamy Green Pasta for her father, Paul McCartney, and his fellow former Beatle, Ringo — the list goes on and on! A unique celebration of culinary conviviality, McCartney also used Feeding Creativity as an opportunity to continue her famed parents’ mission for animal welfare and passion for vegetarianism by showing how delicious and easy meat-free cooking can be. As fun to cook from as it is fascinating to flip through, this is a must-have for any kitchen’s cookbook collection. 

•text and photography by Mary McCartney
•hardcover
•280 pages 

Dimensions
•8.75"W x 1"D x 11.25"H