Sheil Shukla, DO

Dr Sheil Shukla a Chicagoland-based, board-certified internal medicine physician, artist, creator, and cookbook author. He is passionate about plant-based nutrition and its applications to clinical medicine. He is the creator, recipe developer, and food photographer of @plantbasedartist on Instagram with over 90,000 followers. He loves exploring new cultures through their foods, and his culinary interests are in South Asian and East Asian cuisines. He lives in the north Chicagoland suburbs his wife Rachel and three children.

His second cookbook, Kari: Reimagined Plant-Based Indian Recipes (DK/Penguin Random House, August 2026) is now available for pre-order! Click here for more details

His first cookbook, Plant-Based India: Nourishing Recipes Rooted in Tradition (The Experiment, August 2022) is available wherever books are sold! It was a 2023 James Beard Award nominee for Vegetable-Focused Cooking and a New York Times 2022 Best Cookbook of the Year.

Read more about his story here.

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Select print and online features:

• Forks over Knives

• Nutrition Facts

• Thrive Magazine (Issues 8 and 13)

• VegNews (2020)

  33 Vegan Asians & Pacific Islanders to Follow on Instagram

Also featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Woman’s Day, NPR, Food52, Williams-Sonoma, and more

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