Richa Hingle
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Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond. Hachette Book Group, 2022.
Richa Hingle | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Vegan cookbook author |
| Subject | Vegan/plant-based cookbooks |
| Notable works | Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook. (2015) Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond. Hachette Book Group, 2022. |
Richa Hingle is an Indian vegan/plant-based cookbook author, known as the blogger Vegan Richa.
Career
She was forced to give up her career as a software engineer after a craniotomy in 2006.[2] During the recovery period, she adopted a rescue dog and became involved in animal welfare.[3] She also began to blog about baking and learned about veganism.[3][4][1][2]
Hingle started her blog "Vegan Richa" in 2009,[1] and fully shifted to a vegan diet around 2010,[2] motivated by her rescue experience.[1]
Awards and reception
Vegetarian Times listed her first cookbook, Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook (2015), as one of their "favorite" cookbooks of 2015,[5] PETA listed it as one of "7 Must-Have Vegan Cookbooks" in 2016,[6] Good Housekeeping named it one of the "15 best meat-free cookbooks in 2019,"[7] and Women's Health (magazine) refers to it as one of the "20 Best Vegan Cookbooks Of 2022 For Every Type Of Cuisine And Interest."[8] VegNews named it one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time," in 2024.[9]
VegNews listed Hingle as one of the "37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food" in 2023,[10] and gave her a Bloggy Award in 2016.[11]
In 2022, Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond was nominated for an IVFF award.[12]
Personal life
Hingle lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband.[1][2]
