Sheil Shukla, DO

Hi there! I am a Chicagoland-based, board-certified internal medicine physician, artist, creator, and cookbook author. I am passionate about plant-based nutrition and its applications to clinical medicine. I am the creator, recipe developer, and food photographer of @plantbasedartist on Instagram with over 90,000 followers. Although I love exploring new cultures through their foods, my culinary interests are in South Asian and East Asian cuisines including the regional “thali” tradition of Gujarat, India. I live in the north Chicagoland suburbs with my wife Rachel and three children Shrey, Radhi, and Reva.

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

I am currently writing my second cookbook (DK/Penguin Random House, spring 2026)

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Select print and online features:

• Forks over Knives

• Nutrition Facts

• Thrive Magazine (Issues 8 and 13)

• VegNews (2020)

  30 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

Please note that the information on this site should not constitute as medical advice. Please discuss any health concerns with your own medical practitioner. 

All photographs and words are my own unless otherwise stated. Copyright 2025, Sheil Shukla. All rights reserved.