Good for You contains recipes that are vegan, gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian, or a combo. As someone who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic inflammation, I am always looking for new recipe ideas. I do find this more effective for me than my family as they are quite picky. I really appreciate the labeling each recipe had. In the end, I think this is for a person who is more inclined to experiment and has access to better ingredients than I do.

What a fun and interesting cookbook. I like the dairy free recipes the best. I really like how each section was clearly separated and marked! It made finding what I wanted easier!

Good For You is a great cookbook to learn the basics of vegan/gluten-free/vegetarian cooking! The easy to follow recipes mixed with the stunning photographs, this book is excellent. I found this book to be an excellent starting block for vegan/gluten-free cooking, with a great Foundations section. I also really enjoyed the dairy-free recipes, with are not super easy to find!

This book provides the reader with solid information that supports a healthier lifestyle and healthier eating options.

Brilliantly written with simple and easy to follow guides. Packed with practical advice and guidance where necessary. A useful tool for any enthusiastic home cook.

Great book of diverse healthy meals! It help bring inspiration to my kitchen! Gave me ideas to work with while meal planning.

A cookbook filled with gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan recipes. Every recipe is marked GF/DF/VG/V in both the table of contents and on the recipe itself, so it is quick and easy to find the category that you are looking for. A full list of pantry ingredients is included, along with recipes for all of the sauces, marinades and purees needed for any recipe. Each recipe is accompanied by a full color photo and easy to follow instructions. How about gluten/dairy free Pumpkin Pancakes or Weekend Waffles for breakfast? How does a gluten/dairy free, vegan cauliflower Pizza Crust with Seasonal Toppings sound for lunch? On a chilly day, a hot bowl of Smoked Fish Chowder or Chicken and Black Bean Chil (both gluten/dairy free) sounds devine. For dinner, try the Turkey Lasagna or Fish Tacos with Pistachio Mole. Let's not forget the Dark Chocolate Truffles and Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cups with Sea Salt - gluten/dairy free and vegan!

I received a complimentary advanced reader copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Healthy eating, vegan recipes, gluten-free, this book contains many ideas for reforming a meat-based diet into good tasting food with plant proteins. The influence of Indian, Mexican and Italian cuisine among others, gives these recipes a global appeal.

So happy to find a cookbook that can address my food allergies and intolerance with so much flavor! Are there recipes with expensive or hard to find ingredients , sure BUT recipes with costly ingredients are for special occasions and often I have been able to find elusive ingredients online. Most of the recipes are suitable for every day consideration. Beautiful photography and interesting text makes this cookbook interesting to read.

As someone who is a cancer thriver, I really watch what types of foods I put into my body. This book is a really great book to have for those that are looking at adding some great new recipes to their meals. I tried a quite a few of their recipes and have been successful- especially with the little kids! Would definitely recommend this to many others looking for new recipes to bring into their daily lives.

I love the versatility of food and loved that this book had so many ideas on how to pack a punch of flavor into the most bland of foods.

Typically when I review a cookbook, my partner and I make a good number of the recipes in it so that I can include them in my evaluation of the full product. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything in this one that I wanted to cook even though we cook multiple meals every day of the week, and we've been eating a lot of vegetarian and vegan food of late. Everything was a bit too fancy for us. That said, based on the download it appears to be a lovely book with great photos and design; thus, the three start rating.

Chronicle Books and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Good for You: Bold Flavors with Benefits. 100 recipes for gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets. I voluntarily chose to review this cookbook and my opinion is freely given.

This cookbook proves that you can eat well by eating healthy, without having to sacrifice flavor. Good for You is filled with wholesome recipes from simple to more advanced, meeting a host of dietary restrictions in a way that will surprise many eaters.

The cookbook is separated into logical sections. For example, there are foundation recipes like mayonnaise, marinades, and dressing. The recipes range from Breakfast offerings like Acai Bowl with Fruit and Paleo Granola, to Meat recipes like Chicken Tinga, and desserts like Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cups with Sea Salt. Eaters looking to try something new can make such offerings as Cauliflower Biryani with Mango Chutney, or Yuba Noodle Salad with Ginger Dressing and Raw Vegetables.

The cookbook offers a great layout and varied recipes. What particularly struck me was the use of spices, other than salt, to provide a great layering of flavor. At quick glance, readers will be able to see what dietary restrictions each recipes have. The photographs and the instructions help to make this cookbook one that readers will cherish. Overall, Good for You: Bold Flavors with Benefits is a cookbook that I would recommend to those looking to eat healthy without sacrificing flavor.

Good For You by Akhtar Nawab is not a book I would suggest to the people that live in my community. They would not find the ingredients in our local store and they do not have access to speciality stores. My community is rural and in an area where not everyone has access to fresh vegetables and fruit. This book is more for people who have a bigger food budget. I do like the photos in this book which is always what I want in a cookbook.

This is a beautiful and helpful book that's packed with wonderful recipes, information and techniques. I love the addition of staples, and there's a wonderful variety of recipes for all nutritional tastes and needs.

I was excited when I heard a chef was attempting healthy foods. But unfortunately I did not find his recipes exciting or creative. There wasn't really anything new... and it wasn't making me want to actually cook the foods.
The pictures were not bad.

I loved this cookbook. It came at a time when being confined for an extended time I was looking to expand a meatless but favorable menu. Well look no further. The recipes are healthy yes but they also push the cook to explore the depth of flavor to be found in simple ingredients. The language was straight forward and the pictures were helpful at least for this cook. His inspirations blended the best of several cuisines to tempt the tastebuds beyond beans and rice. A great find.Happy reading

I love cookbooks and so many of these recipes are BOMB! Thank you for giving me a chance to view this book - I'll be buying for friends as housewarming presents for years to come!

In my attempt to find new vegetarian recipes for my family I decided to download this one from NetGalley.

I enjoyed reading this cookbook with 100 recipes that are great for healthy, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and or vegan diets. While most of the recipes fall under more vegetarian, there are also dishes with meat in it. The recipes are bold in flavours and are influenced by international flavours: Indian, Southern, Mexican & Italian cuisine. The recipes seemed more complicated then I wanted to attempt with ingredients that I don't normally have on hand, however, it seemed like they would be fun for an evening of cooking and food!

The photos are stunning, colourful, pleasing and inviting. I did find myself more interested in looking at the recipes, photos and reading what Akhtar Nawab had to say rather than making the recipes.

Culinary history is a rapidly evolving specialty, and while professionals, students and home cooks alike collect cookbooks, not every volume is one to truly teach, to make a contribution. Akhtar Nawab’s Good for You is an exception, and a truly successful first cookbook. As the culinary world shifts towards traditional cuisines that have always been primarily plant-based, both as an evolution in taste and as a matter of conservation and health consciousness, it’s important that thoughtfully written guides show the way. There’s plenty here for meat eaters too,as well as carefully crafted gluten and dairy-free recipes. The gentle, wise narration provided throughout encourages, inspires and educates the novice and expert alike. It’s rare to find a cookbook that has so many really innovative recipes, using ingredients that may not be well known but should be, as so many others are mere turns on classics at best or overly fussy and ill-suited to most readers’ lives and skill set, meant only to be stared at in a glossy photograph, and never attempted. Grounded in his Indian heritage, the Mexican flavors come out of his current restaurant, Alta Calidad, an evolution he describes as “...overlap between the spices … it feels like home.”As for the photographs, Good For You’s are simply gorgeous, organic to the text, and balance the pleasantly modest narrative that explains the chef’s progress through life in and out of the kitchen. As the author states in the Desserts chapter, “...what follows are some of my favorite ways to find balance between indulgence and health.” That could sum up this beautiful book. Highly recommended.