This book of beautiful recipes (cue mouth salivating!) is chock full of dishes that are both appetite-whetting and Good For You. Split into 8 chapters of 'Foundations', 'Good Breakfast, Good Morning', 'Sandwiches and Salads', 'Soups and Stews', 'Whats for Dinner?', 'Sides', 'Desserts', 'Aiolis, Dressings, Salsas, and Chutneys', Chef Akhtar Nawab presents 100 recipes that are at least one (and very often at last three) of the following: gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and vegan. I can't wait to try more and more of these dishes!

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any recipes I wanted to try in this book. They were all way too complicated.

Excellent recipes. As a geriatrician, obesity medicine specialist, and culinary medicine specialist who provides in office cooking classes, I enjoyed these recipes immensely. My patients and friends are extremely interested in the healthy properties of various herbs and spices. When they also make food taste better it is literally the icing on the cake if you will. I plan to utilize these recipes at home and also with patients who are interested in expanding their palates and enhancing their health. Thank you to NetGalley for this advanced copy to peruse

This cookbook has gorgeous photos and a clean design. I was particularly excited by the extensive number of vegetarian and vegan options. Many of the recipes, particularly in the foundations section, look like they could really become staples in a home kitchen. I love that most of the recipes fit on a single page, which is really helpful when you are trying to cook from the cookbook and don't want it flopping shut on you. Many cookbooks, particularly ones that are branded as healthy or vegan include many ingredients that may be hard to source or too expensive for those of us living in the middle of the country. Refreshingly, there are only a few of those in this cookbook. I'm looking forward to testing out many of the recipes. The Morning Glory Muffins look like something I want to make right now.

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Good for You is beautifully photographed with recipes arranged in a clean, minimalistic aesthetic. Even though I have not cooked any of the recipes yet, but I can tell that they are realistic for most home cooks with very few requiring lengthy ingredients lists or steps. Besides the core adjustments of Nawab's recipes that make his recipes healthier that will likely become your new staples, most ingredients and kitchen tools used are commonplace despite the worldwide influences. This cookbook will be an excellent addition for personal and library collections to spice up mealtimes.

*Thank you to the Publisher for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Looking at this cookbook was a pure eyegasm, just as much as making those recipes was a full on foodgasm. Weird? Maybe. But it's true. As a vegetarian and former vegan, I struggled to find a good breakfast-to-dinner-to-drinks cookbook which would have original AND HEALTHY recipes that don't take hours to make or require too many niche ingredients. With the extremely aesthetically pleasing presentation, this is certainly one of them

The recipes are actually doable, and the author puts forth many tips and tricks to make healthy cooking easier. I mean, the idea of vegan soubise (page 26) blew my mind - blended steamed onions, rice, coriander and almond milk to make soups and stews creamy without loads of transfats? Yes, please.

The part that enhances the reader experience the most, aside from mouthwatering food photographs, is the incredible background to all the text in this book. This is often overlooked by publishers. In this one, however, pictures that go underneath the recipes and other texts are so diverse and simply full of texture that I couldn't help but stare at them with pure delight; unevenly painted surfaces, spilled salt and spices, oil, marble, rough paper, cloth... The photographer did an incredible job here.

What's more, it was nice to get to know the author and find pictures of him cooking across the book, even though this is not a cookbook based on the author's image. His weight loss and the success story of running multiple restaurants speak to his authority.

The only suggestion I have is that it should probably be clearer this this isn't an entirely vegetarian cookbook. The description promises "100 recipes for gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets," so it's somewhat of a bad surprise to find a photograph of a salmon salad in the opening pages.

I always enjoy reading cookbooks about healthy food. I'm flexitarian, I eat mostly plants but I still eat meat (chicken or fish) occasionally. I'm not that strict about my diet. I believe we should eat what makes us happy and healthy. This book has 100 recipes, it covers some basic foundations, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desserts. In the breakfast chapter, you can find like smoothies or pancakes. The other chapter covers salads and dressings as well. In between, it has a "Good to know" section, it's trivia about certain food. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. Not every recipe has its picture tho. It covers recipes for vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free diet. There are some recipes with chicken too.

This is a lovely book to browse through and to read. I loved the illustrations and the idea of cooking some of the recipes, but they were probably just a bit too fussy for me. There were ingredients I hadn't heard of and definitely wouldn't know how to resource. However there was also a lot of good basic information on how to eat well and what to use. I was intrigued by the tomato puree information (and will definitely be checking the ingredients next time I buy it), and loved the simple recipe for making your own. It is a book with the authors heart and soul in it and you can tell it has been written with passion. It is probably more suited to those who have a real passion for food and cooking. I think there are a lot of people out there who will adore this book, and it would make an excellent gift.

When I saw this book listed I was intrigued. I'm normally a everyday food type of person, but I am interested in eating foods that are a little more unusual and healthier. Reading this book, there are some really fabulous sounding foods. I was thinking it was going to be foods that would be strange, but most of them sound like a step up from everyday without being over the top.
This was an ARC copy from Netgalley.