Richa Hingle is a Vegan/Plant-based cookbook author aka Vegan Richa on Instagram. 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, PETA listed it as one of “7 Must-Have Vegan Cookbooks” in 2016, Good Housekeeping named it one of the 15 best meat-free cookbooks in 2019, 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. VegNews listed Hingle as one of the “37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food” in 2023.