Super simple is right and maybe it was just too simple for me. I felt like everything seemed too simple for my tastes.

I have been following Lily Kunin on her blog Clean Food Dirty City for awhile and was SO excited when I heard that she was coming out with a cookbook!!

Let me start by saying that cooking is not a passion of mine. I appreciate good food, and the work that goes into it, but I do not like to be the one doing that work.

Reading Good Clean Food makes me want do that work! This book is not a certain "diet" but a beautiful cookbook with each recipe highlighting clean eating in its simplicity. Each recipe will help you make healthier food choices and there are some delicious recipes to help get you started if you are new to clean eating.

The recipes in Good Clean Food are are not what you will find in a normal plant-based cookbook. There are unique recipes for things like hair and face masks, and what's even better is they are easy!

The recipes call for ingredients that are easy to find which is a major plus for me. I don't know how many times I've been excited about a cookbook only to go from recipe to recipe and have no idea what some of the ingredients even are! That is usually the first and last time I pick up that book!

I have to say my favorite part of Good Clean Food has to be the pictures. The pictures are absolutely stunning and so motivating! I want to make these recipes!

Needless to say, this is my new go-to cookbook! Highly recommend!

This is a cookbook that will definitely appeal to some, but very not so much to others. To those dedicated to living a cleaner, more "natural" way of living based upon a plant-centric diet, then this is definitely one to add to the collection.

However, like many other recipes books of this kind, "Good Clean Food" falls short. Its prime audience is clearly one of a certain level affluence with possession easier ability to both find and afford certain ingredients and goods. And as it goes almost without saying, this ends up excluding its recipes from more than a few kitchens of others. No one will deny the beauty and quality of the recipes. However, Kunin's book unfortunately ends up filling what feels like an already overcrowded market of recipe books that provide a particular brand of healthy eating lifestyle that is far more accessible for some than others,.

Healthy and guilt free recipes with the healthy ingredients....... Each recipe are unique......

Earlier this year, my husband and I began tinkering with some vegetarian and vegan recipes; I blame this on his recent discovery of documentaries like Forks Over Knives, Super Size Me, Food, Inc., and Fed Up. We both ate a meat-free, veggie-ful diet for several weeks, even going the vegan route for a couple of weeks, just to see what changes, if any, we might notice.

Since then, we have reincorporated meat products but not at the level we were eating them previously. We have both become more thoughtful about our choices, making attempts to incorporate more vegetables in every meal, and becoming less reliant on our standard "meat and potatoes" (or some variation) main course.

Thankfully, this style of eating has become more prominent and resources abound; when I first heard about Lily Kunin's new release, I was intrigued. In addition, I am a huge fan of Bobbi Brown (creator of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and advocate of options that help everyone feel their best) so when I discovered that she'd worked with Lily and wrote the introduction for her book, I decided to check it out.

Lily, of Clean Food Dirty City, has produced not only a beautiful cookbook, but also a great resource for those who may be like me: somewhat lazy in the kitchen; short on time; not very creative; and eager to find food options that help me feel good in my body.

After having tried a few of the recipes from this book, I can surely say that I will refer to this one frequently. One of my early favorites is this recipe for Walnut Orange Globes, perfect for a quick bite pre-early morning run (or late afternoon, for my husband) or when you need just a little something, but not too much.

Filled with ingredients like raw almonds and walnuts, orange and lemon juice, maple syrup and hemp hearts, they are both delicious and filled with nourishing substance (and they look cute!).

There are fantastic dressing recipes, soups, muffins, desserts, salads and, my favorite, her section on creating your own bowl meals. Did I mention that I'm not very creative? I love making bowls but I get stuck on what to include, especially when I want to make sure that it has enough nutrients.

Lily offers wonderful combinations, recommendations, and ideas for those of us who are tired of making decisions by the time we land in the kitchen; I've already tried out a few and we love them!

Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of cookbooks, but this one will not become dusty on the shelf; I would definitely recommend Good Clean Food to those of you who don't mind leaving out the meat (but you could certainly add your own) and are looking for simple, plant-based recipes that are both reasonable to make and satisfying.

I was not aware of health coach and blogger Lily Kunin of “Clean Food Dirty City” fame who has over 100 thousand followers on Instagram before picking up her debut cookbook. After reading Good Clean Food cover to cover and trying a number of the recipes, I am now a fan. I honestly feel this effort stands out in my sea of cookbooks. It makes me want to gush.

Kunin has common sense and a simple approach to eating a satisfying meal chock full of healthy ingredients while also meeting gluten-free/dairy free restrictions. Even those who don’t have restricted diets and want to simply get back to basics or feel better will love this cookbook. You can also throw in your protein of choice many of the recipes. Lily begins with a few basics like cooking beans, grains, dressings, preparing veggies. Great info even if you aren’t making her specific recipes. She then lays out her recipes, grouping them creatively in chapters such as “awaken”, “nourish”, “sustain”, “savor”. Her colorful photos scattered throughout the 100 plant-based recipe pages are mouthwatering and let me tell you, the food tastes as good as it looks. My results were satisfying and delicious, not to mention colorful. An added bonus is that many of these recipes are served in bowls. My husband has this thing for meals in bowls. Not even sure when/why that started but the fact that Lily includes a small section on “build your own bowl” thrilled him and he’s looking to invent his own variations. Good job, Lily Kunin.

Good Clean Food is a cookbook that focuses on gluten free, dairy free, plant based recipes. That’s not to say that all the recipes are vegetarian or vegan; some do contain pasture raised eggs. However, the recipes containing eggs always have the option either to omit the eggs or to substitute a vegan option – such as flax eggs – for the pasture raised eggs.

Lily Kunin begins her book Good Clean Food with her story about becoming gluten free. In her sophomore year of high school, she began suffering migraines. At one point in college, she recalled that an osteopath had told her that her sickness might be coming from something that she was eating. She hadn’t fully explored that route earlier because her blood work came back clear without indicating any allergies. With nothing to lose, she went gluten free and was headache free within forty-eight hours. After college, she moved to New York City and learned to adapt her favorite childhood recipes to her dietary restrictions in her small City kitchen.

The introductory material includes sections about equipping a kitchen and stocking a pantry. When I first read the kitchen equipment section, I found it curious that the author considered both a blender and a food processor to be “truly essential.” But then I saw how often the recipes in the book actually used either a blender or a food processor. To properly execute these recipes, you would really need to own both – and not just a mini food processor like I own. The other oddity that is considered “truly essential” is the spiralizer or julienne peeler. That I did not see used all too often in the book. You could probably get away without owning one, and buying the vegetable “noodles” precut at the supermarket. The pantry essentials section is fairly generic in places, listing items such as “vegetables + herbs,” “fruits,” and “citrus.” There is a fairly detailed list of different types of oils and fats, as well as sweeteners and condiments. The list of superfoods ranges from flaxseeds and chia seeds to chlorella and hemp hearts. Each type of oil, fat, sweetener, condiment, and superfood has a short paragraph describing the benefits and uses of the item. Of course, there is no mention of the potential impact, if any, that consuming hemp hearts may have on a workplace mandated drug-screening test. Those figure in at least seven recipes, including the vegan parm, which is used liberally in several other recipes. Each of the dozen or so spices listed had a short sentence about its benefits and uses as well.

The introductory material also includes basic recipes, such as roasting vegetables, steaming vegetables, making cauli-rice, cooking grains and legumes, and making and cooking veggie noodles. Having these recipes up front allow the later recipes to list “cooked lentils” or “zucchini noodles” as ingredients without having to list the steps for their preparation in the recipe. The recipes for dressings, salsas and pesto are also in the introductory material so that they can be used as ingredients in the later recipes. Finally, there are the recipes for the crunchy elements, such as the vegan parm, gomasio, and candied walnuts. The introductory material continues with a lovely colorful chart on how to build your own bowl using a base, a protein, some greens, toppings, extras and a dressing and then four full-color photographs of sample seasonal bowls. This section concludes with recipes for plant-based milks and vegetable broths.

After the introductory material, the recipe chapters are divided by “feeling verbs”: awaken, nourish, detox, restore, sustain, savor. Each recipe chapter begins with a short description of the types of recipes that follow in the chapter. For example, the Awaken recipes are good for “when you could use a boost of energy or even just need to maintain it throughout the day” and the Savor recipes are for “when you are craving something sweet but don’t want to fall off the wagon.” After the short description, the chapter proceeds into approximately seven to ten food recipes and ends with one beauty recipe. Each recipe clearly indicates the number of servings under the title. The recipe headnote usually highlights the health benefits of the key ingredients in the recipe. The layout of the ingredients list and the method in the food recipes takes some getting used to. The ingredients list is a vertical column or two at the left of the page, with the measurement in both American and metric systems and the ingredient name underlined. The method is also written in vertical columns starting to the right of the last column of ingredients. The method is written in paragraph form with breaks between major steps. Because the text is so dense, it can get a little awkward to read the food recipes where there is the headnote plus four columns of text. The beauty recipes are formatted differently than the food recipes. There is a headnote that explains the benefits of the beauty treatment. The ingredients are all listed separately, with an explanation of their individual benefits, and then listed again in a central column with their measurements. The method is written in a central column under the ingredients list in a single paragraph. Usually, the method is followed by a note that provides additional details on the beauty treatment. Personally, I found the layout of the beauty recipes easier to read and comprehend than the layout of the food recipes.

Interspersed among the recipes were call out boxes with details on specific ingredients. These were very interesting and educational. For example, the call out box on beets in the Detox chapter discussed how beets support the liver and how beets are high in antioxidants and iron. It also talked about the different varieties of beets, the different uses of beets, and the different uses of the different parts of the beets. The call out box on mushrooms in the Restore chapter discussed how mushrooms are sources of antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antibactierial properties. These call out boxes seemed to pop up every five or six pages or so, but I didn’t do a scientific analysis of their occurrence.

The full-color photography in this book was gorgeous, in a very minimalist way. The minimalist feel was enhanced by the recipes being styled only in white serving pieces and only against white backgrounds. Even in the two-page spreads with the party menus, the linen napkins provided the only color; otherwise, all the serving pieces and background was white. Most recipes were accompanied by a highly styled full-color photograph of the finished recipe to give the home cook an idea of what she or he is aiming for. The bowls topped with fresh fruit were particularly well styled to look vibrant and delicious. Some recipes are followed by a panel of four full-color photographs that illustrate a particularly complicated series of steps in the recipe. For example, the Walnut Orange Globes recipe is followed by a panel of four full-color photographs showing (1) the mise en place, (2) the crumbly mixture of small chunks in the food processor, (3) the mixture formed into balls, and (4) the final product of the balls rolled into hemp hearts.

On a whim, I tried the recipe for the Coconut Coffee Body Scrub at the end of the Awaken chapter. I had all the ingredients in my house except for the raw cacao powder, which was an easy trip to Whole Foods. Because the recipe called for coffee grounds – as opposed to ground coffee – I measured the grounds out of the filter from my morning pot of coffee. Since the grounds were still fairly moist, the recipe came together very quickly and easily. The scrub smelled absolutely heavenly, although it did make a bit of a mess in my bathtub. The coconut oil from the scrub left a light moisturizing coat on my skin, even after I washed with soap! The recipe made much more than the “couple of tablespoons” that I massaged into my skin, so I have half a bowlful left in my bathroom. That is a good thing, because I enjoyed using it. I would definitely make it again, and am considering making a batch as a gift for a friend who sent me a homemade bath scrub for Christmas one year.

I would not add Good Clean Food to my collection of cookbooks. My style of cooking, much to my nutritionist’s chagrin, is less organic and less wholesome than the approach advocated in this book. I come from an Italian heritage, so I most definitely cook with meat, seafood, gluten, and dairy, although all in moderation. However, I did recommend this book to my good girl friend out West, who is following a strict ketogenic diet.

I have yet to prepare any of the food recipes from this book. When I do I will update my review.

Perfect for those interested in clean eating. Put together well and informative.

Bobbi Brown is an enthusiastic and she started the foreword of Good Clean Food telling that she discovered Lily Kunin the author of this book thanks to her Instagram page Clean Food Dirty City.
The book will be published this March 7th.

Lily proposed on hr Instagram page very healthy food, gluten-free food able to make us all feeling better, because light and mainly healthy because in most cases vegan.

But why Lily an enthusiastic of this diet?
Because everything started from and with her illness, a strong gluten intolerance who caused her big headaches and migraines per years.

Being more than OK and first of all very happy for her life and her health now she wants to share with all of us her secrets for staying well.

The big change in NYC where Lily personalized completely her diet. Gluten-free, plenty of smoothies, delicious and adorable dishes the main word is "Staying well with yourself." The cookbook is plenty of healthy ingredients. Lily doesn't forget meat for whoever loves it, it can be added of course in her dishes, but in very little quantities and thinking as she says at "How you feel your body."

Eggs are pastures eggs, and every food Lily cooks is biological.

Every recipe can be changed and of course can be modified by the reader according to his/her taste and occasion.

What it is important to understand is how food make us feel. Does it make us feel good? Joyous, and most importantly happy and healthy, quick, or sick, depressed, tired? In this final case we should change something isn't it true?

It's from this base that it will be necessary to start this culinary trip that it is also something else: a long life with less Western health problems. Being the USA a place where pasta is not the primary food I remember that an American lady intolerant at gluten I knew two years ago, said me that the USA is not developing the same strong health policy for curing this illness if compared to Italy.


Lily starts to give to the reader advices for finding great food, tools necessary for cooking like also most of the food you should keep home. And it is impressive!
From salsa to sausages passing through pesto, Lily will continue to guide us in her wonderful, colored, perfumed world of veggies.

How to build the perfect dish? First of all Lily says, choose veggie proteins: it can be whatever you want to pick them up and then some greens, topping extras and a dressing.

You will cook of course also staying focused on the various ingredients offered by nature during the various seasons of the year, and using organic seasonal fruits and veggies you will see that it will be better. You will be seasonal but don't worry because Lily will suggest you the best dishes and soups for starting.

She will teach you how to prepare the perfect veggie broth but also how to start a super-day with, also, a lot of yummy smoothies.

There are some recipes for our skin in every chapter of the book.

What to eat for breakfast?
Sweet potatoes, blueberry buckwheat pancakes for example.

But if you need a detox?

No problem: the book suggests you a super green smoothie, a mom's minestrone, pesto zucchini noodles, and why not to try an ice-cream? A berry beet pops.

You need to restore?

Good: a sunny immunity bowl can be the answer like also a red lentil earth curry.

And for sustaining your body?

Mint chip shake, a lazy lentil salad, zucchini almond dip, kidday maccha latte.

Should we forget sweet treats? No. A goji granola, apple plum crumble, salted caramel bonbons, choc chip cookies, double chocolate chews some of the recipes you are more than invited to try.

In Parties the final section of this stunning and truly colored yummy cookbook we will re-meet a lot of the recipes we know and we met in the past chapters of the book. All of them chosen and put together in number of three for create some ideas and suggestions for special menus for your friends when you want to invite them for a lunch, dinner or another occasion.

Great book! I highly suggest it to everyone.

I thank NetGalley and ABRAMS books for this book.

Good Clean Food by Lily Kunin is a beautiful collection of recipes using natural ingredients. Each recipe includes full color photos of all ingredients, along with a definition of the ingredients and why they are being used in the recipe (what they are good for medicinally.) Very impressed with the layout and look of this book. Some of the recipes were a little elaborate and might not be something I would try. But, for those who have taken the clean living plunge, or are considering it, this is a great title to add to your collection.

A must-have for plant-based lifestyles. (5 stars)

As much as I love to eat clean, coming up with ways to make it happen are just not my strength. Fortunately, there are inspiring and inspired folks out there like Lily Kunin who not only give you recipes, they make it a feast for the eyes too.

Good Clean Food would be worth buying just for the beautiful food photography but Kunin proves she's more than just an Instagrammer with her recipes. You'll find nourishing soups, filling Power Bowls, creamy plant-based puddings, and so much more. Even, a few recipes for hair and face masks!

In particular, what I feel is a very stand-out part of this book is the Back to Basics chapter. It teaches how to use dried pulses and grains—which can be daunting to many cooks—as well as how to make nut milks and veggies noodles, as well as how to batch roast vegetables. For novice clean eaters and vegans I think that chapter alone makes this book a very worthy investment.

From cover to cover I was impressed. Stunning food photos, a lot more acquirable ingredients than similar offerings, and recipes for year-round nourishment make this a must-have. I loved it and will be recommending it to my many friends, family, and colleagues who are vegetarian/vegan/flexitarian and so forth.

Good Clean Food is the debut cookbook from Lily Kunin, who you may recognise as the health coach behind popular foodie Instagram account Clean Food Dirty City. In the book's introduction Lily shares the story of how she came to have such an interest in healthy eating and it is inspiring to learn how she managed to improve her own health issues by changing her diet.

Of course the main focus of the book is the food with 100 plant-based and gluten-free recipes that not only sound delicious but look it too! The book is full of beautiful photographs of the dishes and the overall minimal design means that the colourful creations really pop against the white background.

Recipes included cover everything from the basics such as veggie broth and salsa to everyday dinners and even party dishes. It is worth noting that whilst the recipes are mostly plant-based and free from both dairy and gluten they are not all suitable for a Vegan diet as some do include ingredients such as eggs and honey. Of course, there’s no reason that many of these can’t be adapted with substitutes if necessary and Lily even encourages readers to ‘make these recipes your own’.

The book also has another unique element that makes it stand out from the crowd; beauty and skincare recipes! Scattered between the foodie pages are several product recipe ideas for hair and skin which utilise many of the same ingredients as the dishes. These include a Coconut Coffee Body Scrub and Brightening Green Tea Face Mask which sound perfect for a little pampering. As someone who has an interest in non-toxic/natural beauty and homemade products this crossover was a pleasant surprise and I loved that these little extras were included.

Naturally, I was keen to try out one of the recipes from the book and selected the Red Lentil Earth Curry (pictured above). I actually hadn't cooked anything similar to this before but the recipe was very easy to follow and the final dish tasted great! After testing out the curry I'm looking forward to trying out more of Lily's recipes - the Choc-Chip Cookies and Mexican Chocolate Pudding both sound amazing.

With an impressive variety of plant-based recipes and a beautiful vibrant design Good Clean Food is definitely one to add to your bookshelf.

This is a fabulous little book not only does it contain food recipes but also body scrubs, hair treatments and face masks.

Back to Basics:
This is an incredibly useful section showing you how to cook the basics.
Beans, lentils and grains.
Vegetables roasted and steamed.
Plus caul-rice, veggie noodles, dressings, salsa and pesto and crunch.
Build your own bowl ideas plus recipes for summer, spring, fall and winter bowls.
Plant based milks.
Basic veggie broth and more.

Awaken:
This starts with morning rituals including oil pulling.
Now one of my daughters swears by this and the first time she had me try it was just with coconut oil and it didn't go well let me assure you the peppermint is essential although it's something I'm still not comfortable doing.
This is followed by several recipes and a lovely coconut coffee body scrub.

Refresh:
Smoothies, pancakes, breakfast bowls, flatbread, spaghetti and mushroom meatballs, and an interesting looking zucchini lasagne.
Coconut Mint Hair Treatment

Detox:
Smoothies, salads, noodles etc
Dirty Detox Bath.

Restore:
Bowls, soups, red lentil earth curry etc
Healing Honey Face Mask

Sustain:
Brightening Green Tea Face Mask

Savor:
Here you have the puddings, cookies and ice cream sandwiches.
Hydrating Coco-Avo Face Mask

Like I said this is a fabulous book, there's some lovely food recipes the first ones I'm going to try are these:

Falafel Bowl with Mediterranean Millet and Green Tahini
Curry cauli-bowl
Zucchini lasagne
Flatbread
Spaghetti with mushroom meatballs
Pesto Zucchini Noodles

But for me the highlight was the body scrub and the hair treatment.

I voluntarily read a review copy kindly provided by NetGalley and Abrams

I savored this cookbook, lingered over the photography, paused to imagine cooking and inhaling and eating the recipes. My favorites included Carrot Soup, Chickpea Salad and Mom's Minestroni. I look forward to blending a Super Berry Smoothie and to dipping my spoon into Sweet as a Pie Smoothie Bowl (made with sweet potato).

This cookbook is a meal in itself!

Nice pictures for your next book on plant based recipes. Best things in my opinion are the clear explanations and the nice pics. Plus there is the introduction with some nice tricks and tips to survive in a toxic environment.

Belle foto per l'ennesimo libro di ricette vegano. La cosa migliore sono secondo me le spiegazioni per i piatti e le foto che le accompagnano. Inoltre nell'introduzione ci sono dei suggerimenti pratici per sopravvivere in ambienti inquinati.

THANKS TO NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!

If you're fully committed to a clean food lifestyle then this book is for you. Recipes are more or less vegan, with non-vegan foods being suggested accompanyments rather than the main feature, for example, one recipe states 'you can easily add....a poached egg'. Some food ingredients may need to be soaked for some time, which often makes the recipe time-consuming. Photos are very vivid, although maybe a little too perfect looking. However, they do entice the cook to try out the recipes. Overall, a nice book with a good variety of recipes.

I chose to read this NetGalley ARC for which I have given a voluntary and unbiased review.

An excellent beginners guide to clean and healthy eating, including basics that other cookbooks may gloss over or assume readers already know. While it may seem intimidating to casual dieters, this book is indispensable to cooks looking to make drastic lifestyle changes for their health and wellness.

This is a book that you check out from the library and end up buying for your personal collection. The photography is beautiful, and the book is full of seriously easy and tasty recipes. Plus, it addresses other facets of "cleaning living" including tips on healthy living recipes such as detoxing baths, face masks and scrubs made with ingredients in your cabinets. It's really a lovely book with a lot of depth.

Great book to have as a resource or give as a gift!

Great book! Lots of super useful information if you plan to follow clean eating!