Healthy is wealth, and you should not compromise your health for anything. We’ve been hearing these statements from childhood. Still, in the marathon of life, we keep health as our last priority despite knowing its value.
Due to one’s schedule, one might not be able to work out or do yoga, but one can alter one’s diet. Building up your strength, endurance, and muscles is 70% diet, and the rest is workout. So, today, let’s discuss that 70% and see 10 Healthy Cookery Books.
1- Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook
2- Plantas: Modern Vegan Recipes for Traditional Mexican Cooking
3- Vegan Mob: Vegan BBQ and Soul Food [A Plant-Based Cookbook]
4- The Whole30. The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom: Melissa Hartwig Urban and Dallas Hartwig
5- Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck: Thug Kitchen
6- The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Angela Liddon
7- The Healthy Indian Diet Paperback: M.d. Patel, Raj R
8- How Not to Die: Michael Greger, M.D., and Gene Stone
9- Indian Superfoods: Rujuta Diwekar
10- The Blue Zones Kitchen: Dan Buettner
1st Healthy Cookery Book:
Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook by Jess Damuck
Famous writer, food stylist, and recipe developer Jess Damuck launched her new book in 2024. In the past, she gave us the fantastic Salad Freak, a national best-selling book.
The new book Health Nut has also become a USA Today Bestseller. It starts by discussing the energy associated with food, passed on when we consume it. So, we should appreciate and take care of the food we eat and the source from which it reaches us.
The book content goes as follows:
- Breakfast, Smoothies and Tonics
- Beans and Legumes
- Soups and Grain Bowls
- Snacks, Starters, Sides and Salads
- Plant- Forward Main Dishes
- Deserts and Baked Goods
- Staples, Dressings and Sauces
Almost every dish in the book has a story associated with the author, which makes the readers feel more connected. Along with that, it also mentions:
- The items required to prepare the food
- Source of protein, if any
- The preparation process (before you start cooking)
- Steps to cook
- Assemble and Serve
- An image of the final dish
The book’s descriptions of the details are easy to follow, and after reading it, you will have no questions; every bit has been explained in detail.
2nd Healthy Cookbook:
Plantas: Modern Vegan Recipes for Traditional Mexican Cooking
As the name of the book suggests, it covers Traditional Mexican Cooking. The book describes how Mexican cooking is rooted in plants, corn, beans, rice, tomatoes, cacao, chiles, spices, fruits, etc. How rich the cooking culture is and what its history is.
The book also mentions the must-have Traditional Mexican Kitchen and Vegan Mexican Cooking and Pantry essentials and a few steps to preserve/cure the food.
The content of the book goes as follows:
- The basics
- Breakfasts
- Salsas
- Starters and Little Cravings
- Tacos
- Mole
- Main Dishes
- Desserts
- Drinks with and without Alcohol
Every dish has a little story associated with Mexican tradition and history and how it differs from what people make in other parts of the world. It also includes ingredients, steps, serving size, and a picture of the final dish.
3rd Healthy Cookery Book:
Vegan Mob: Vegan BBQ and Soul Food [A Plant-Based Cookbook]
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Chef and Owner of Vegan Mob Toriano Gordon came up with a book this year. The author mentions that the tastes and recipes he was introduced to and learned were from his family, especially her grandmother.
The author’s grandmother relocated from Texas to the Bay and brought all her techniques and recipes.
The content of the book goes as follows:
- The Soul of Vegan Mob’s Soul Food
- Elements of Vegan Comfort Food
- The beginnings of Vegan Mob and Mob Dishes and Sauces
- Mob Fusion
- Let’s Party: Food, Drinks, And Desserts for a Mob
Towards the beginning of every dish page, the author mentions how he got introduced to or invented the dish; either way, his grandmother was his helping hand. The procedure, serving size, and a fantastic image of the final dish follow.
Towards the start, it also breaks down the sub-chapters, mentioning all the vegan substitutes for meat and dairy used in upcoming dishes.
4th Healthy Cookbook:
The Whole30. The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom: Melissa Hartwig Urban and Dallas Hartwig
Melissa Hartwig Urban is a six-time NYT bestselling author and a prominent social media keynote speaker on branding and health trends. Dallas Hartwig has been a licensed physical therapist since 2001 and a specialist in strength and training.
They have come together and completed this book, so you can imagine the depth and value that it will provide.
‘The Whole30’ is not just another book. It’s a transformative guide that challenges you to commit to a 30-day journey. This journey is designed to help you overcome obstacles, improve your sleep quality, energy levels, mood, and self-esteem, reduce cravings, improve digestion, and strengthen your immune system. With over 100 recipes, this book is a comprehensive resource for your health and well-being.
You will be getting more than 100+ recipes for those 30days challenge, and the content of the book goes as follows:
- Welcome to the Whole 30
- Everything you need to know
- Whole30 Kitchen Fundamentals
- Whole30 Recipes
- In Closing
The book is divided into 5 parts, with 15-20 sub-parts in each part. It is a long book of 1300+ pages.
5th Healthy Cookery Book
Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck: Thug Kitchen
The book wants you to switch from regular to healthy eating habits. The author wants you to think before putting anything in your body because we consume 3 meals daily, making it a bit important to pay attention to.
It focuses on you stopping at the drive-thrus and having homemade food, especially Vegan food, because health is wealth.
The content of the book goes as follows:
- Carpe Fucking Diem (Breakfast)
- Short Order Shit (Salads, Sammies and Mini Meals)
- Big-Ass Cup of Cozy (Soups and Stews)
- The Munchies (Salsas, Sips, and snacks)
- The Main Event (Burritos, Bowls, and other meals)
- Sweet Talk (Desserts)
6th Healthy Cookbook
The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Angela Liddon
Angela Liddon is a famous Canadian blogger who started her blog 5 years ago, telling people how good, healthy food can transform your life. It is still one of the most popular and searched vegan recipe blogs on the internet, “Oh She Glows.”
The book Oh She Glows has received several medals and features, including VegNews’ Best Vegan Blog award and Chatelaine’s Woman of the Year Hot 20 under 30 awards. It has also been featured in the Guardian, VegNews, O Magazine, National Post, Glamour, and Best Health.
Although I’m not a hardcore non-veg, people loved the book and its recipes. Hence, I would highly recommend it if you struggle and think there’s nothing good to have and eat in a vegetarian, mainly vegan diet.
The content of the book goes as follows:
- My Natural Foods Pantry
- My favourite kitchen tools and equipments
- Breakfast
- Smoothies, Juice and Tea
- Appetizers
- Salads
- Soup
- Mains
- Sides
- Power Snacks
- Desserts
- Homemade Staples
- Basic Cooking Chart
Each dish is accompanied by a short story from the author, followed by the ingredients, procedure, chef tips, and, last but not least, an image of the dish.
7th Healthy Cookery Book
The Healthy Indian Diet Paperback: M.d. Patel, Raj R
Here’s one more Indian Cuisine book to the list, which labels to help prevent heart diseases, Diabetes and cancer. M.D. Raj R Patel is a physician-writer focusing on how nutrition and food can help prevent chronic diseases.
He has studied the scientific literature on multiple cuisines and their effects on humans. This book will help you with healthy diets and dishes and prevent chronic diseases.
The content of the book goes as follows:
- The Science of Chronic Diseases and Food Basics
- The Healthy Indian Diet
- Healthy Indian Recipes
Towards the start of the book, the author describes in detail how a British physician came to India, spent three decades there, and researched where nutrition, diet, and health intersect. The book also covers how food choices have changed over time, increasing the percentage of obese people worldwide.
The book also includes 33 recipes to help you avoid diseases.
Here’s what the author has to say about the book:
8th Healthy Cookbook
How Not to Die: Michael Greger, M.D., and Gene Stone
Michael Greger is a NYT bestselling author, physician, and internationally recognized speaker on clinical nutrition. Gene Stone is also an author specializing in animal rights and plant-based food.
The book has so much information about how to keep oneself healthy. The content has even been designed to cover information and diet based on the body’s vital organs.
The content of the book goes as follows:
- How not to die from Heart Diseases
- How not to die from Lung Diseases
- How not to die from Brain Diseases
- How not to die from Digestive Cancers
- How not to die from Infections
- How not to die from Diabetes
- How not to die from High Blood Pressure
- How not to die from Liver Diseases
- How not to die from Blood Cancers
- How not to die from Kidney Disease
- How not to die from Breast Cancer
- How not to die from Suicidal Depression
- How not to die from Prostate Cancer
- How not to die from Parkinson’s Disease
- How not to die from Iatrogenic Causes
- Part 2 ( Ingredients to change your life)
I recommend that everyone read this book because it can be one of the most eye-opening.
9th Healthy Cookery Book
Indian Superfoods: Rujuta Diwekar
Language available- Hindi and English
Rujuta is one of the most followed nutritionists worldwide and a best-selling author with more than 1.5 million copies sold. She has written more than 12 books teaching people about nutrition, food, and how to live a healthy and happy life.
She has been consulting famous personalities like Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Anupam Kher, and the list continues.
The book Indian Superfoods explains each superfood’s benefits; everything about it, like who should eat and who shouldn’t, tells about it from the point it gets in our body. The content of the book goes as follows:
- Ghee: The Fat Burner
- Kokum: The natural Antacid
- Banana: The Recharger
- Kaju: The Antidepressant
- Ambadi: The Stomach Soother
- Rice: The Grain that sustains
- Coconut: The calmer
- Aliv: The beauty pill
- Jackfruit: The fertility booster
- Sugar: The anti-ageing secret
10th Healthy Cookbook
The Blue Zones Kitchen: Dan Buettner
Dan Buettner is an American author and longevity researcher. He also holds three geniuses’ world records for distance cycling.
I always thought cookery books are only focused on recipes, and what to prepare, but The Blue Zones also covers how to achieve a longevity rate that touches and even crosses 100 years. Those are as follows:
- Sardinia, Italy
- Okinawa, Japan
- Nicoya, Costa Rica
- Ikaria, Greece
- Loma Linda, California
The book talks and tells about:
- The food that people eat in these zones
- Their ideology toward food
- How they prepare their food
- What do they avoid and if something is consumed in moderation so even that is covered
- Top Longevity ingredients
Conclusion
Writing this blog awakened me because I didn’t know how simple recipe changes could make such a big difference over time. Reading those books was a fantastic experience. I wish and challenge you to take the lessons from the books and inculcate them in order to live a better and healthier life.
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