The WFPB Cookbook

by Justin Weber

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Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

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 sweets 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.