A COUPLE COOKS: PRETTY SIMPLE COOKING

Popular husband-and-wife bloggers and podcasters (acouplecooks.com) offer 100 recipes with an emphasis on easy prep, whole foods, and healthy dishes--and getting into the kitchen together.

The pair's debut cookbook, A Couple Cooks--Pretty Simple Cooking, is a combination of spirited writing, nourishing recipes with a Mediterranean flair, and vibrant photography. All recipes are vegetarian, with plenty of vegan and gluten-free options. Intended for eaters of all kinds who want to eat more vegetables, Sonja and Alex dubbed the book a "vegetarian cookbook for non-vegetarians"--and it stuck.

At the book's heart are the couple's top ten lessons for a life-long approach to enjoying cooking and a healthy approach to food. Each lesson is meditative and inspired, featuring a corresponding custom watercolor drawing by author and blogger Ashley Rodriguez. It's a beautiful coffee table book that's food for thought, at the same time providing real food recipes for eating around the table.

Sonja Overhiser is a writer, recipe developer, podcast host, and healthy and sustainable food advocate. Along with her husband Alex, she created the A Couple Cooks website, a collection of whole foods recipes and inspiration for healthy and sustainable eating.

Alex Overhiser is food photographer, recipe developer, podcast host and web designer. Alex's food photography is nationally known and has been featured in the Huffington Post, People.com, Food52, Buzzfeed, The Kitchn, and Indianapolis Monthly.