I’d never heard of Sara Forte and her blog, The Sprouted Kitchen, until her book (photographed by her husband, Hugh Forte) arrived. With natural-foods books popping out of the woodwork every five minutes or so, I was prepared to be underwhelmed.

Yet, like the food and photography of Heidi Swanson, another natural-foods blogger who’s made it big as an author, the visions in “The Sprouted Kitchen,” also turn out to be filled with light, flavor, and new ideas.