Our reviews
11 cooking & food books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
11 reviews match
Lysa TerKeurst
Best for: Women in the evangelical Christian tradition who have cycled through conventional diet advice and are looking for spiritual and motivational grounding — rather than another meal plan — to address their relationship with food.
M.D. FACLM Michael Greger, Gene Stone
Best for: Health-motivated readers who want a rigorous, peer-reviewed, disease-by-disease case for whole-food, plant-based eating — and are ready to commit to nearly nineteen hours of densely evidenced argument rather than a quick prescriptive plan.
Oreste Cannavacciuolo
Best for: Seniors — or their caregivers — who are new to DASH-style eating, managing hypertension or age-related cognitive concerns, and want a single structured resource that combines a 30-day meal plan, color photography, and supplementary video instruction without needing to piece a programme together themselves.
Ina Garten
Best for: Readers who love richly detailed narrative memoir and want to understand how Ina Garten built her career — from a cold Connecticut childhood and a White House desk job to the Barefoot Contessa empire — alongside a decades-long love story at its centre.
Lysa TerKeurst
Best for: Christian women who feel emotionally exhausted by the perpetual restart cycle of conventional dieting and are looking for spiritually grounded motivation to make lasting lifestyle changes alongside a practical health plan they already follow.
Gene Stone
Best for: Readers who saw the Forks Over Knives documentary and want a credentialed, consolidated printed resource that combines the film's whole-food, plant-based argument with 96 practical recipes for every meal of the day.
Jeanna Miller
Best for: Beginners to high-protein, low-carb eating who want a structured, time-conscious starting point — specifically busy readers who prefer a ready-made 90-day framework over curating their own meal rotation.
Heather Choate
Best for: Budget-conscious home cooks who want a structured, follow-this program — not a browsable collection — combining high-protein, low-carb eating with a hard $7/day cost ceiling and quick weeknight-friendly recipes.
Michael Greger
Best for: Chronic dieters who have cycled through trending approaches without lasting results and want a rigorous, evidence-based explanation of why those approaches fail — and what the science actually supports instead.
T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
Best for: Readers already curious about or committed to whole-food, plant-based eating who want a thorough, epidemiologically grounded argument — complete with mechanistic reasoning and a critique of reductionist nutrition science — for eliminating animal products from their diet.
Michael Greger and Gene Stone
Best for: Readers of Michael Greger's How Not to Die who want a structured, science-backed recipe companion to put its whole-food, plant-based dietary recommendations into daily practice.
