This book is full of great ways to add beans, grains, seeds, and legumes to your diet. The photos are beautiful, and the information is a great resource for all cooks. I’ve been looking for ways to add more whole grains and beans to our menu, and this book has lots of great ideas. The format is flexible and allows you to choose from various options, which is great if you love certain beans but not others. It allows you to creatively create your own dish. Grist is well written, and packed with great information. I love this book!

I excitedly requested this book but missed that it wasn't Kindle compatible {very sad face}! I'm sure it's good but...maybe I can see it on a laptop?

This book is a great resource for those looking to incorporate different grains or legumes into their diet. Along with numerous recipes, you get basic, illustrated breakdowns of each item (e.g. oats or rice) from whole grain to milled as well as stories from farmers about their annual processes. The recipes themselves are a good mix of quick/easy and innovative, perhaps a little more labor intensive. The recipes are not, however, vegan friendly. If you are looking for plant based recipes, you must read this book with an open mind and make your personal adjustments as needed.

This is a great book on pantry staples: grains and beans/legumes. I liked the illustrations with each new chapter and the mini-interviews with the farmers producing these crops — putting a face behind the people putting food on our tables! I also really liked how she showed you different recipes to make out of one big batch of rice or one big batch of beans. This would be really helpful for anyone who likes to meal prep at the beginning of the week.

There are a lot of easy recipes in this book, and many of them with easy to get ingredients like tomatoes, lemons, and more. That was both a pro and con of this book: mostly simple recipes that aren't hard to make, but nothing too exciting for cooks looking for more interesting flavors to try. With that said, I would happily try many of the recipes I saw in here on a regular weekday if I wasn't looking for anything fancy.

Since this was a rough copy and not the final version, it was a bit hard to read since many pages would refer to an ingredient and then tell the reader to go back to "X" page, but there was no number there to actually reference. I also was interested in the Tajin Oil recipe, but all it said was "Make the bner at room temp..." and didn't explain what that was. I also felt a bit deceived that this book said it would offer recipes for grains like millet — there is only one recipe specifically about millet and just a handful of recipes about small grains which I guess millet falls under.

Grist is a cookbook on grains and legumes, including information and recipes for 29 different grains, legumes, and seeds. This is an extensive, informative and very inspiration book that comes at a great time after the pandemic, when many people bought so many legumes and grains. This will also keep inspiring everyone to cook those beans and lentils, and maybe even keep stocking up on them still.

I love the author's approach to these grains and legumes: cook them once, eat them all week in different ways. The recipes are inspiring and simple enough, although maybe not what I would cook most of the time. Still, this cookbook is very inspiring and definitely makes me want to try some more beans and lentils, as well as these recipes.

This is a really good cookbook for everyone, and especially to those who are even the tiniest bit interested in cooking grains, legumes, and seeds.

I’m sure I wasn’t the only person who early in the pandemic bought more dried beans, lentils and peas than they would eat in a year. I wanted to read Grist because of two sentences in the introduction:

“Prep the ingredient instead of the finished dish so that ingredient can be used speedily while avoiding the dreaded ‘lentil soup fatigue.’ Throughout the book there are a week without boredom grids to illustrate how one pot of lentils can feed you throughout the week while eschewing boredom along the way.“

As the proud owner of three pounds of various colors of lentils not to mention a whole grocery bag of pounds of different beans, how could I pass up finding a way to use them up—without boredom. Most of the recipes use relatively common and inexpensive pantry ingredients. That makes Grist a good choice for home chefs trying to save on their food bill. Of course, the healthy ingredients will also attract cooks trying to eat wiser. I always like cookbooks to have photographs of every recipe as well as nutritional information. Unfortunately, this cookbook fails both of those criteria so I’m deducting a star. 4 stars!

Thanks to Chronicle Books and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

I have been looking for a book to inspire me to cook more legumes for a long time. I know legumes are healthy and I want to make more for my family, but they are not exactly the most exciting ingredient. I have been disappointed by many books, but not this one.

I think I finally found the bean book I was dreaming of.

This book goes through it all, it gives formulas that you can loosely follow with what you have at hand / your favourite things to obtain a nice dish. It breaks each type lentil / chickpea / various beans into their own category to suggest many different ways to preparing them so that they are not boring or repetitive. It also had a long intro into many different world classic sauces and spice mixes, so as to always pack a punch of flavours and it has precise recipes too.

A wonderful book to have if you want to know how to cook many different legumes in many interesting ways. This book really gets you excited about the humble ingredient and I am so happy for that!

This is a stunning guide and resource! It's so much more than a cookbook. It is full of information and easy to implement strategies and ideas to live a healthy and full life. The photography is beautiful and the recipes look divine. I can't wait to give them all a try. This is one I want close by and will return to again and again.