Kale with Caramelized Shallots, p.160; quite good.

This cookbook is great in the sense that it taught me how to be creative with vegetables. I love how the recipes are categorized by season to encourage the reader to utilize local farmer market produce each season. This cookbook also introduced me to several vegetables I had never cooked with and even some I have never tried. You don't have to be a vegan or vegetarian to gain something from this book either. I tend to use meat and dairy products with these recipes to better suit our lifestyle. ( )

WHERE ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS? $30 for a cookbook sans photos? Oh No Way!

Printed on pastel colored paper doesn't make up for anything..... The title font is extra large, bold and a darker color to match the page color, the paragraph under the title is a medium bold font, while the ingredients & instructions are a small regular font (which depending on the color of the page) are sometimes difficult to read.

Contents include: Introduction; Getting started; The Basics; Recipes; & Index.

Getting Started: A cleaner healthier way; Clean food; Eating for balance; & Ways to improve health & well-being.

The Basics: Tools; Basic Cooking methods; Grains; Vegetables; Legumes/Beans; Soy (GMOooooo); Nuts & seeds; Fruit; Notes about Oxalic & Phytic acids; Organic vs Conventional (and she uses soy?); Guide to reading recipes; Commonly used ingredients; and What's that.

Recipes: Spring; Summer; Fall; Winter; and Anytime.....

The reason I haven't listed the actual recipes is two-fold; she didn't make them readily visible and I didn't like the book enough to even care what they are! ( )

Kudos to short ingredients lists & simple instructions.

I'll try Mixed Berry Couscous Cake. Wish someone else would make the Lemon Berry Cream Pie.

This is a pretty neat cookbook, and if it weren't so expensive I'd probably buy a copy to keep around. (Maybe I'll ask for it for Christmas.) Most of the recipes are quite simple and only take up one page. I like the format of the cookbook, each of the recipes is on an individual page so you don't have to flip around when you're in the middle of sauteing something.

I was actually hoping this book would be a little more commentary and a little less cookbook, but I think it works just fine the way it is. There are plenty of other books to read if you want to get more information on food politics and why it's important to eat "clean food" in the first place. ( )