A free physical copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book is gorgeous! The pictures are beautiful and the recipes sound delicious. I like that the recipes are clearly marked with what diet restrictions they meet. I can't wait to try a few of these recipes and pass this book along to my sister who lives a more plant based lifestyle.

Fabulous cookbook, great vegetarian dishes. Beautifully photographed, well written and easy to follow recipes.

Ok...the cover is straight up eye catching... my love for asparagus. Gluten free, dairy free is my thing but this cookbook is certainly not for beginners but still mouth wateringly beautiful. Pictures galore of some exquisite looking recipes.

What did I like? 100 recipes but this book had some amazing pictures. I’m almost scared to make any of these recipes...afraid that I won’t be able to come close to these amazing pictures. The author boasts Mexican, Indian, and Italian dishes .... and a gluten free bread that caught my eye. Not to mention the gorgeous salsa’s.

Would I recommend or buy? These are some amazing recipes.... if you know or love exquisite dining recipes...this would be a go to book. I have several friends who adore cookbooks and this would be a wonderful cook for any aspiring cook or chef.

I received a copy and this is my honest opinion.

Good for You by Akhtar Nawab provides recipes that are Either Vegan, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, or Vegetarian, or a combination thereof.

It starts with a section of Foundations which includes recipes for tomato paste, homemade mayo, and a Vegan Soubise which will mimic cream in savory sauces.

The breakfast section is a little underwhelming for me as there are a lot of smoothie recipes, granola, and pancakes, but the Poblano Shatsuka Eggs and Egg Tostadas did catch my attention.

Sandwiches, Salads , Soups, Stews, Desserts and Dinner follow in additional chapters. The recipes and ideas are fantastic and use vegetables and spices in creative ways. The Desserts section is a little limited.

Some of the Gluten Free and Dairy Free recipes do have meat in them but the majority of the recipes do not.

The chapter on Aiolis, Dressings, Salsas, and Chutneys includes a Raisin Salsa, Lemony Vinaigrette, Paleo Thousand Island Dressing, and a Caesar dressing that is Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and Vegan.

If you follow one of the above ways of eating or just want to incorporate some of of it into your diet in delicious and healthy ways, you will enjoy this book.

I received a free copy of this book from the publishers and Netgalley. My review is voluntary.

A cookbook filled with gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan recipes. Every recipe is marked GF/DF/VG/V in both the table of contents and on the recipe itself, so it is quick and easy to find the category that you are looking for. A full list of pantry ingredients is included, along with recipes for all of the sauces, marinades and purees needed for any recipe. Each recipe is accompanied by a full color photo and easy to follow instructions. How about gluten/dairy free Pumpkin Pancakes or Weekend Waffles for breakfast? How does a gluten/dairy free, vegan cauliflower Pizza Crust with Seasonal Toppings sound for lunch? On a chilly day, a hot bowl of Smoked Fish Chowder or Chicken and Black Bean Chil (both gluten/dairy free) sounds devine. For dinner, try the Turkey Lasagna or Fish Tacos with Pistachio Mole. Let's not forget the Dark Chocolate Truffles and Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cups with Sea Salt - gluten/dairy free and vegan!

I received a complimentary advanced reader copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

This was a fun cookbook. It had lots of interesting recipes I'd love to try, such as the Mexican Marinade and Smoked Fish Chowder. The downside was that there were some ingredients in various recipes that I have no access to.

I checked this book out of the library because I was looking for healthy food recipes and the image in the cover is a vegetable dish. I was very pleasantly surprised to discover just how many recipes in this book are dairy free. This was such a great find for this lactose intolerant human.
The recipes are a mix of Indian and Mexican dishes with a sprinkling of recipes inspired by other cuisines.

Beautiful pictures and easy to follow recipes will help chefs of any skill level make delicious meals!

I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

Good For You is a cookbook with recipes that not only are good for you but also taste good! Nawab believes that healthy eating doesn't have to mean eating boring foods, and he uses his background in various cuisines to put together a diverse cookbook of filling and satisfying healthy meals. The cookbooks is also filled with gorgeous pictures of the recipes included. At the end of the book, there is an indexed list of all recipes featured so you can find one easily.

I love that the first chapter is dedicated to recipes of sauces and similar things that will be used in the recipes listed in the rest of the book, as building blocks for your meals. These recipes are definitely for those who love cooking, not for those looking for quick, simple meals to make for their family. I believe this cookbook will have a niche market among those who love making meals entirely from scratch and fans of Iron Chef America.

Good for You by Akhtar Nawab is a beautiful cookbook, in the subset of cookbooks I call "Whole Foods Cookbooks." Which is to say, big and beautiful and full of sumptuous recipes, often with obscure ingredients and/or complicated, lengthy preparations, billed as healthy. But the term healthy in books like these is nebulous, a sort of Whole Foods healthy, wherein meat and fish are still consumed (despite the misleading subtitle about vegetarian and vegan diets, most main dishes are meat or fish centric), and olive oil by the cupfuls, and eggs are frequently praised. But there's no gluten or dairy, and the author recommends bison instead of beef and cashew-based sauces as replacement for dairy. Occasional mentions are made of environmental benefit from choosing certain ingredients, but only for those ingredients which are environmentally friendly. No mention of the other, more environmentally harmful aspects of other frequent ingredients. This is not an environmentally friendly cookbook overall, nor, by my definitions, is it particularly healthy. More healthy than McDonalds or frieds foods at the county fair? OK, sure. But ingredients like acai juice and a lack of decadent dessert recipes does not necessarily qualify food as healthy.

Does this mean that I hated the cookbook? No, actually, not at all. I bookmarked many recipes in hopes of trying them before my digital advanced copy expired. There are some lovely soups and sides, for instance, and a number of sauces and other staples that sound quite promising. Everything seems a little fussier than my preferred every day recipes (The Butternut Squash Soup with Ginger and Chile, for instance, has 16 ingredients listed!), but the recipes I did bookmark seem worth giving a try on my days off. Ginger Blueberry Smoothie sounds delightful, as do Black Bean and Sweet Potato Burger, Black Chickpeas and Lentils with Spinach, Lentil Hummus, and Cardamom Almond Milk, as well as basics like Cremini Mushroom Sauce, Mojo de Ajo, Romesco Sauce, and homemade Tomato Paste, not to mention the Vegan Soubise that is central to so many recipes in this book. Oddly enough some of the recipes I am not interested in trying are the very gluten free ones I came here looking for--the texture of his gluten free breads, pastas, and crackers, as described, sound very unappealing and not worth the extra work.

I also appreciated all the little informational asides throughout the book, explaining the benefits of toasting spices prior to use or of soaking meat in brine or marinade, for instance, or how to make the best basic marinade, or the benefits of coconut flour, as well as a handy key at the beginning of the book for labeling recipes as Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Vegetarian, or Vegan (Those keys are used not only on each qualifying recipe's page, but also by the recipes listed under each chapter heading, which certainly makes locating applicable recipes more efficient.) and a thorough index at the back. As mentioned before, the book is just lovely too, full of gorgeous food photography and sweet photos of Akhtar with his daughter Ela, or of a fit and healthy-looking Akhtar by himself.

Akhtar, as you might guess from his name, is of Muslim Northern Indian-American heritage, and he devotes a lot of space to talking about that, mostly about how it influenced his cuisine, and other aspects of his background, from his childhood as an overweight brown-skinned boy growing up in a mostly white rural southern area of the USA, as well as his experiences working at restaurants around the county, starting and running restaurants of his own and visits to rural areas in Mexico and Italy to learn about their cuisine. The resulting cuisine of the book is a sort of Northern Indian-Mexican-Italian fusion that sounds tempting. Sometimes his stories start to feel like name-dropping, when he mentions yet again the chefs with whom he's worked and restaurants at which he's worked or which he's run. He also seems to exist in that Whole Foods economic bracket wherein running to places like Whole Foods for koji or a bottle of acai juice or a jar of ready-made fig paste is realistic logistically and economically. Alas, we don't all live in that bubble. My husband and I probably spend too much of our income on food, and even we don't keep the kind of expensive and somewhat obscure ingredients he often calls for (I love trying new spice blends, but even I'd never heard of Tajin seasoning.).

Overall a nice aspirational cookbook, pretty to look at and full of interesting ideas, but maybe not practical for everyday cooking for the non-chef working adult on a limited food budget. Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading it and looking at the photography, and appreciate #NetGalley and Chronicle Books lending me a free digital advanced copy of #goodforyoucookbook . This is my honest review.