Plant over Processed: 75 Simple & Delicious Plant-Based Recipes for Nourishing Your Body and Eating from the Earth

Earthy Andy blogger Hannemann offers a mix of detox challenges and inventive vegan recipes in her delightful debut. She writes of how she overcame chronic health issues including celiac disease, asthma, and hypothyroidism by going vegan, and though she doesn’t provide scientific case studies to support her claims, she believes her diet was key to relieving her symptoms. To get started, she lays out a 30-day challenge to eliminate processed foods (which includes rules like “If you’re hungry, eat!” and “Eat raw until dinner”) and recommends consuming 80% of each day’s calories from raw fruits and vegetables and 20% from cooked plant-based foods. The recipe chapter offers a tasty vegan niçoise salad, a nondairy coconut yogurt, a cauliflower chickpea masala, a pea smash (a twist on avocado toast), and raw chocolate mousse cake. Hannemann also gives readers a glimpse of her life via photos of her Oahu home and charming stories, such as about her move from Canada to Hawaii at 18 for college, where she quickly met and married her surfer husband. Vegan home cooks of all skill levels will want to take a look. (Dec.)