The WFPB Cookbook is a tutorial guide and recipe collection for plant based whole food cooking by Justin Weber. Released 11th Aug 2020 by Callisto on their Rockridge Press imprint,
it's 210 pages (for the print version) in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth
noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents
as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with
interactive formats lately. For
Kindle Unlimited subscribers, this book is currently included in the KU
subscription library to borrow and read for free.
The
introduction covers the basics of whole food unprocessed cooking and
essential accessories as well as an intro to the whole foods diet, tips, ingredients, tools,
supplies, and how-to. The following chapters include the recipes
arranged
roughly by category: breakfasts & smoothies, salads & sandwiches, soups & stews, mains, snacks & treats, and staples and partial recipes used as ingredients in other recipes.
Ingredient
measurements are supplied in American standard measurements only.
There's a conversion chart for metric measures included in the back of the book along with a short resource and links list for further reading. The
nutritional information: fat, carbs, protein, fiber content, macronutrients, etc are
listed for the recipes as well as serving sizes. Each recipe has a header with special labels such as nut-free,
gluten-free, one pot, along with a short description of the recipe and
approximate prep-times. Extra tips or recipe
alternatives are listed in text boxes in the recipes. The recipes themselves are
fairly straightforward and are made for the most part with easily
sourced ingredients. Many are very simple, none of
them are overly
complex.
The photography
is not abundant; most of the recipes are not illustrated, but the
photographs which are included are clear and well done. I wish there
had been more photographs and serving suggestions, but I do understand
that extra photography increases the price of book projects very
quickly.
This is a large collection of recipes and even allowing for the fact that
some of them are very similar to others in the same category, this will
keep vegetarian cooking fans going for ages. These are
simple "everyday" recipes which are anything but boring. We tried
several dishes and all of them were tasty and well written. (We didn't
try any of the bread or dessert recipes, but I found no glaring errors
with a quick read-through).
We're definitely going to try more of these recipes. Well written book,
tasty recipes.
Four stars. This is a solid recipe book which will be used. It would make a
superlative housewarming gift to a friend or family member living on
their own - college student, new graduate, newlyweds, kids flying the nest, etc or a friend trying to eat more health consciously with better quality plant based ingredients.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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