Editing Linda McCartney (section)

===Vegetarian cookbooks and company===
{{main|Linda McCartney Foods}}

When she and Paul decided to become vegetarians in 1975,<ref name=dateveg>{{cite web
|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/paul-mccartney-recalls-emotional-cooking-routine-with-late-wife-linda-40574400.html
|title=Paul McCartney recalls 'emotional' cooking routine with late wife Linda
|last=Roper
|first=Kerri-Ann
|access-date=December 4, 2021
|date=June 23, 2021
|work=[[Irish Independent]]
|archive-date=December 10, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210174611/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/paul-mccartney-recalls-emotional-cooking-routine-with-late-wife-linda-40574400.html
|url-status=live
}}</ref> Linda stated that she would no longer "eat anything with a face" and "if [[slaughterhouse]]s had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian."<ref name=muchmore>{{cite web
|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/linda-mccartney-profile-more-than-paul-mccartneys-muse/
|title=Linda McCartney, much more than just Paul McCartney's muse
|access-date=December 11, 2021
|last=Taysom
|first=Joe
|date=2020
|work=[[Far Out Magazine]]
|archive-date=December 12, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212040055/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/linda-mccartney-profile-more-than-paul-mccartneys-muse/
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

This shift led to the creation of cookbooks and a company. In 1989, she released her first vegetarian cookbook, ''Linda McCartney's Home Cooking'' (she credits author [[Peter Cox (author)|Peter Cox]] "for all of his help and research" on the copyright page).<ref name="McCartneysLunch"/><ref name="ObituaryLindaMcCartney">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/20/arts/linda-mccartney-photographer-of-rock-stars-dies-at-56.html |title=Linda McCartney, Photographer of Rock Stars, Dies at 56 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 20, 1998 |access-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203210005/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/20/arts/linda-mccartney-photographer-of-rock-stars-dies-at-56.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NewHomeCooking">{{cite book |author1=McCartney, Linda|title=Linda McCartney's New Home Cooking |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=1989 |isbn=0-7475-0224-2 }}</ref> Next in 1991, Linda started her own company called [[Linda McCartney Foods]], that served frozen vegetarian meals.<ref name="McCartneysLunch"/> According to ''[[Far Out Magazine]]'', ''Linda McCartney Foods'', "helped make it easier and more accessible for people to choose not to eat meat. At the time, options were extremely limited and Linda essentially made vegetarianism possible on a much larger scale. The brand is one of Britain's most established meat-free food products."<ref name=muchmore/> However, in 1999, the [[H. J. Heinz Company]] acquired the company,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=February 14, 2000|title=Ad Age's World Wire|journal=Advertising Age|volume=71| issue = 7|pages=66|via=EBSCOHost}}</ref> and in 2007, the [[Hain Celestial Group]] bought it.<ref>
*[http://www.hain-celestial.com/ "A Healthy Way of Life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511202144/http://www.hain-celestial.com/ |date=May 11, 2016 }}, Hain Celestial Group, accessed February 1, 2011.
*[http://www.newsday.com/business/inside-long-island-business-1.811933/linda-mccartney-food-line-boosts-hain-celestial-1.2446677 "Linda McCartney food line boosts Hain Celestial"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012143257/http://www.newsday.com/business/inside-long-island-business-1.811933/linda-mccartney-food-line-boosts-hain-celestial-1.2446677 |date=October 12, 2012 }}, ''Newsday'', November 10, 2010.
*That it was owned by Heinz: Nigel Slater, [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/apr/29/foodanddrink.features4 "When the McCartneys came for lunch"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704053338/http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2068978,00.html |date=July 4, 2008 }}, ''The Observer'', April 29, 2007.</ref>

Her next vegetarian cookbook, ''Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals'', was published in 1995,<ref name="linkit">{{cite book |last=McCartney |first=Linda|title=Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meat-Less Meals |publisher=Bulfinch |year=1995 |isbn=978-0821221235 }}</ref> and was nominated for a [[James Beard Foundation#Awards|James Beard Foundation]] Award in the Vegetarian Books category in 1996.<ref name=jbnom>{{cite web
|url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?year=&keyword=McCartney
|title=Awards Search James Beard Foundation
|access-date=December 3, 2021
|work=James Beard Foundation
|archive-date=December 3, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203214139/https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?year=&keyword=McCartney
|url-status=live
}}</ref> In 2021, Paul, Stella, and Mary McCartney updated and veganized a number of Linda's vegetarian recipes, and released them as the [[vegan]] cookbook, ''Linda McCartney's Family Kitchen''.<ref name=familykitchen>{{cite web
|url=https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/cookbook-linda-mccartney-plant-based-recipes/
|title=McCartney family launches vegan cookbook filled with Linda McCartney's recipes
|access-date=December 3, 2021
|date=March 29, 2021
|work=Vegan Food and Living
|archive-date=December 3, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203172030/https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/cookbook-linda-mccartney-plant-based-recipes/
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref name=familykitchen2>{{cite web
|url=https://people.com/food/paul-mccartney-family-release-cookbook-filled-wife-linda-recipes/
|title=Paul McCartney and Family Will Release a Cookbook Filled with His Late Wife Linda's Recipes
|last=Slater
|first=Georgia
|access-date=December 4, 2021
|date=March 26, 2021
|work=People
|archive-date=December 4, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204231734/https://people.com/food/paul-mccartney-family-release-cookbook-filled-wife-linda-recipes/
|url-status=live
}}</ref> ''Linda McCartney's Family Kitchen'' was nominated for an IVFF award in 2021.<ref name=IVFFcookbookcontest>{{cite web
|url=https://theivff.com/cookbook-winners-nominees
|title=International Vegan Film Festival Cookbook Contest
|last=
|first=
|date= 2021
|work=The International Vegan Film Festival
}}</ref>