Plant-Strong: Discover the World's Healthiest Diet--With 150 Engine 2 Recipes

This is a reprint of My Beef With Meat. I believe it does have a few additions, but it is basically the same book. If you already have that book be aware of that. I didn't, and I am delighted with this book. The Esselstyn's are a fantastic family. Rip Esselstyn who wrote this book is the creator of the Engine 2 diet of which he also has a book and cookbook. He created this diet to rescue the health of his firecrew. His father Dr Caldwell Esselstyn is an absolute pioneer. You can see them both in Forks Over Knives documentary on NetFlix and Dr Esselstyn in What The Health Documentary. Dr Esselstyn has dedicated his life to reversing and preventing heart disease with a plant based diet. His book How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease and the corresponding cook book of the same name are fantastic. His wife Jane Esselstyn has a YouTube cooking Channel which is fantastic to follow she does some of the recipes from this book and the prevent heart disease book. If you are interested in Whole Plant Based for Health Dr Greger How Not To Die book and cook book are fantastic, he also appeared in said documentaries, as well as of course Dr Neal Bernard. Look up his talks on dairy on YouTube and his book the Cheese Trap. These doctors are leading plant based pioneers. All of these books are fantastic resources.

I only bother with cookery books with pictures. This one had a few, but in two sections, not for every page. I still recommend it though, it's very upbeat and American and quite a few of the recipes are Mexican or tex mex which I love, but gets a bit repetitive as so many vegan books are the same. I liked the author's ethos and was a bit shocked by the "beef council's" petty antics giving out free briskests to fire stations on the day of the book launch!

The main benefits of this book for me is the information chapters which precede the recipe chapters. It is easy to understand and to read . The recipes are a good base to start although they need to be adapted for me because I live on my own and I am gluten-intolerant. There are quite Lot of extra ingredients to buy , all of which are available on-line but once you have them they last for some time so don't work out expensive in the long term .

Do not bother buying if you have another of his books called my beef with meat,it's the same book with a different title

A really excellent presentation of a difficult , confusing subject for most people. I'd love to see a Kindle version of it for my travels.