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Très Green, Très Clean, Très Chic: Eat (and Live!) the New French Way with Plant-Based, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Season

by Rebecca Leffler
Experiment. 2015. 240p. photos. index. ISBN 9781615192519. pap. $19.95; ebk. ISBN 9781615192526. COOKING
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After living and working in France, Leffler learned a few important lessons about the French approach to food: take your time, enjoy every bite, consume in moderation, and eat food that's in season. She puts a healthy spin on those ideas to create a book of vegan recipes that are free of gluten, soy, and refined sugar. Features such as yoga poses, music playlists, and food-based beauty products demonstrate her philosophy that food can be combined with other aspects of life to promote overall wellness. Taking center stage, however, are Leffler's easy, flavorful recipes that are accompanied by colorful photos and nutritional profiles of ingredients. Readers who don't have access to the occasional specialty ingredient will be glad for the concluding resource section.
VERDICT This work joins the great recent cookbooks that focus on healthy vegan eating and food sensitivities, such as Gena Hamshaw's Choosing Raw, Heather Crosby's YumUniverse, and Lindsay Nixon's "Happy Herbivore" series. With so many choices, cooks who gravitate to Leffler will do so because of her unconventional blend of recipes and informational text that's peppered with puns, French phrases, and fun.
Reviewed by Jude Baldwin, Coll. of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA , Jun 15, 2015
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