The No Essence Athlete Cookbook

Barbara Youel | Towpath Member & Cookbook Author

The No Meat Athlete Cookbook: Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes to Fuel Your Workouts – as well as the Rest of Your Life
by Matt Frazier as well as Stepfanie Romine (The Experiment, 2017) 

One of my favorite doctors is Michael Greger, who highly recommends The No Meat Athlete Cookbook – “a must for active people as well as athletes at every score who desire to perform at their best, spell protecting themselves from illness alongside whole, plant-based foods.”  Dr. Greger is an internationally recognized physician, writer as well as researcher (How Not to Die), who relies on the scientific discipline for his recommendations (nutritionfacts.org). How refreshing! He is non beholden to whatsoever manufacture – no dairy, no chickens, no big pharma. Yippee!!!

Co-authors Matt Frazier & Stepfanie Romine re-
invent the athlete's diet alongside this plant-based cook-
book. 

This mass is a existent primer inwards learning how elite athletes produce extraordinary things without creature poly peptide or oil.  Yes my friends, sayonara to chicken wings, Thanksgiving turkey as well as cheeseburgers. And, adios amigos to olive oil, peanut oil, canola fossil oil as well as all oils.  To escort you lot through what may survive a painful journeying is the authors’ really slowly labeling system; each of the 125 vegan recipes is clearly identified:

            FF – fast food

            SF – irksome food

            SC – irksome cooker

            CL – carbo loading

            GF/GFO – gluten- free/gluten-
            gratis option

            OF/OFO – oil-free/oil-free option

            XS – soy-free

The spectacular color photography made me desire to walk, no run to my kitchen as well as acquire going. I am peculiarly interested inwards the beet (yup, beet) bourguignon (page 125), Greek chopped salad (page 139), cumin-citrus roasted carrots (page 166) as well as chocolate-coconut-pecan chewy bars (page 220). Yummmmmm. OK, ane to a greater extent than I can’t resist mentioning, the sesame-turmeric oven fries (page 173). Woo-hoo!

Chapters are clearly divided into morning time meals, hearty meals, greens as well as dressings, modest plates as well as sides, recovery foods, season boosts as well as desserts.  Helpful guidance on nutrition, stocking the plant-based kitchen as well as repast planning are interspersed inwards this cookbook, but correct for those of you lot newbies to plant-based foods.  

The book’s forwards past times Rich Roll, a vegan-strong as well as ultra-athlete, as well as co-author Matt Frazier’s introduction are worth reading earlier you lot dive into the mouth-watering recipes. The 2 brand a company example for the benefits of a plant-based diet for ALL athletes. If it works for the pros it tin function for us amateur lawn tennis players; it is at to the lowest degree worth considering, despite our devotion to the all-meat sub sandwich (which contains such awful nitrates as well as nitrites, I cannot fifty-fifty become there).

Co-author chef Stepfanie Romine is a plant-based yogi as well as runner. She has expanded her master copy repertoire of stews, stir-fries, as well as bean-based meals to to a greater extent than root vegetables, spices as well as salubrious treats for this cookbook. Her creative recipes convey been tested on pros as well as amateurs alike. Food stylists, registered dietitians as well as novel cooks convey all vetted these recipes, giving them a “thumbs up!” Who wants to swallow nutrient that tastes similar packing peanuts? We all desire neat taste, satisfying oral fissure feel, as well as yes, the visual pleasance of anticipation of a delicious process coming our way.

The recipe format is readable as well as slowly to follow (most lucifer on ane page) but I am non a fan of the informational colored pages alongside their mixtures of fonts; however, this is actually a fry drawback. Overall, I highly recommend The No Meat Athlete!

* Co-author Matt Frazier is an ultra-marathoner. The No Meat Athlete Cookbook: Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes to Fuel Your Workouts – as well as the Rest of Your Life (The Experiment, 2017) is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, independent bookstores as well as populace libraries. 

Barb Youel, writer of First
Serve Cookbook

Towpath Tennis Member Barb Youel writer of First Serve: forty Delicious Plant-Based Recipes for a Year of Tennis Grand Slams & Club Matches, (Lean Green Living LLC, 2017). Copies are available exclusively at Towpath Tennis Center for $15.95 or 2 for $30. You tin companionship yours today at 330-928-8763.