“Writing and cooking for me go together like breathing in and out.” The author Alexa Hennig von Lange cooks food that is vegan and healthy. When she is at home sitting at her desk, she sometimes likes to leave the characters in her novels be for a moment – so she can cook for herself and her family. While she is busy washing the vegetables, putting on water for the barley, and chopping the herbs, her stories are given a bit of space to further unfold. Once she returns to her computer, her mind is filled with thoughts of what’s to happen next in her novel.

Marina JERKOVIC c/o NINA RAUTENBERG photographed the artwork for the cookbook by author Alexa Hennig von Lange for DUMONT PUBLISHING.

After nearly thirty years of dieting, the author has found joy not only in cooking for others, but also in eating again herself. The key to it is eating vegan. She dug out her mother’s old recipes, reinterpreted them and cooked her way back to the days of her childhood – a time when she had still...