This is one of those health food cookbooks by a young, rich, beautiful girl who used to be a model. It’s hard for me personally to take health and diet advice from someone who has never been pregnant, overweight, chronically ill or through menopause and who is younger than some of my canned goods. That said, these seem like tasty, healthy recipes. Almost all of them have a photo (often with her looking beautiful and pretending to eat it), though in my ARC the photos came at the end of the recipes, which often took several pages. I sometimes got to the photo and then scrolled back again to read the recipe more closely if it looked good, which is a rather awkward way to read a cookbook.

Limited nutritional information is provided — only calories and protein, not carbs, fiber, fat or sodium. This seems to be one of those instances of a cookbook author deciding what she considers most important and deciding for the reader that the other information is unimportant, which doesn’t work for people who have to track this information like diabetics or people working to up their fiber (which she herself says is important). There are also a lot of processed carbs in the recipes (toast, pasta, etc), though she also says to eat fewer simple carbs.

Time and effort for the dishes is medium. These are from scratch meals with mostly real food ingredients, other than sometimes calling for things like premade gnocchi, so there’s a fair amount of cooking, blending, making sauces and so on. The recipes generally call for relatively accessible and affordable ingredients, though not necessarily the most frugal. It doesn’t generally require specialty stores or expensive meats and seafoods.

The formatting, lack of full nutritional information and carb-heavy nature of the book make it one that I would not use often, but the recipes do seem like good ones and it’s likely to be a good fit for many readers.

I read a temporary digital copy of this book for review.

Nice cookbook with color photos. Not really for me in terms of the cooking style but I'm sure others will enjoy it.

I was not aware of the author until I had opportunity to review her new cookbook. Although Emily is a certified nutritionist, the recipes she's put together do not deprive of enjoying comfort foods at all. I was very happy to see feta appear in several different recipes, which were all balanced and simple to make. There is definitely an English twist on things and some ingredients may be more difficult to track down in the States, such as the mix for the fish pie. Overall, I am very thankful to have some new healthy yet delicious recipes to add to my arsenal.