The Engine 2 Cookbook: More Than 130 Lip-Smacking, Rib-Sticking, Body-Slimming Recipes to Live Plant-Strong

One of my best plant based cookbooks. I'm not sure why the review score is so low here. Yes, it's American so it is slanted towards that audience, but I have had no trouble finding the ingredients used here in the UK. And yes. It is a health promoting plant based recipe book, not a vegan junk food recipe book. There are plenty of those kind of books already available. This is a beautifully bound hardback with lots of colour pictures to help inspire you. I feel the previous reviewer was a little unfair to literally judge the book just by looking at it and not by trying the recipes! To cook without oil you... Well, stop using it. There are a few products that can help and you can easily learn how to do this from Jane Esselstyn's YouTube channel. Each to their own, but if you are interested in healthy plant based home cooking then there are lots of good recipes in this book. If you are not sure if it is for you, look at the Engine 2 Plantstrong website as you could look at (and try!) some of the recipes there to see what sort of book this is. The Esselstyn family is an institution in this area. Look up who Rip Esselstyn is. Super healthy plant strong athlete, healthy lifestyle advocate and one of the producers of The Gamechangers film.

Excellent great quality cookbook perfect if you don’t want to use refined sugars or oils. So nice not to have to substitute or adapt recipes. Especially good section on dips and also dressings.

If I could leave more stars I would! Fabulous cookbook, easy recipes, gorgeous pictures. I want to try everything.

I had researched this book and the authors' web page and videos. Great quality .

I just did not like this book, the photos and stories felt like padding and there was not anything I felt like making , looked very unappealing - Stone Scones anyone ? They even looked like stones in the photo. I turned with interest to the Banana Butter recipe and it took both a page for the recipe and a full page photo to show a bit if banana smooshed onto toast- I kid you not. Plus endless recipes for Buddha Bowls, which I don’t like, salad dressings and burritos and tacos which I know I would never eat. Plus some rather horrible looking things such as a mushroom gravy which you are meant to eat with stone scones and looks like a thick liquid and a recipe for black beans where you put the beans into water along with a load of spices and cook until done - very unappealing. I wanted a cookbook to help me transition away from oil and this is not helpful, just says cook onion and garlic until done, with no explanation of how you would actually do that in a pan with no oil or liquid. I think if I was American and had health problems it might appeal , but certainly not to me as a reasonably healthy English vegan.