Thug Kitchen started their wildly popular website to inspire people to eat some goddamn vegetables and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Beloved by Gwyneth Paltrow (‘This might be my favorite thing ever’) and with half a million Facebook fans and counting, Thug Kitchen wants to show everyone how to take charge of their plates and cook up some real f*cking food.
Yeah, plenty of blogs and cookbooks preach about how to eat more kale, why ginger fights inflammation, and how to cook with microgreens and nettles. But they are dull or pretentious as hell -and most people can’t afford the hype.
Thug Kitchen lives in the real world. In their first cookbook, they’re throwing down more than 100 recipes for their best-loved meals, snacks and sides for beginning cooks to home chefs. (Roasted Beer and Lime Cauliflower Tacos? Pumpkin Chili? Grilled Peach Salsa? Believe that sh*t.) Plus they’re going to arm you with all the info and techniques you need to shop on a budget and go and kick a bunch of ass on your own.
This book is an invitation to everyone who wants to do better to elevate their kitchen game. No more ketchup and pizza counting as vegetables. No more drive-thru lines. No more avoiding the produce corner of the supermarket. Sh*t is about to get real.
My Review
Okay, I am a cookbook addict. And I have pretty much every vegan cookbook ever published in some format. So when I was in the bookstore with my 17-year old daughter yesterday and she recommended this book I wasn’t overly impressed. But I love to curse and the title really did appeal to me. I flipped through and was amused by the commentary throughout so I bought it (they had me at Carpe F*cking Diem – Breakfast).
But this has now become my favourite vegan cookbook of all time (yes, even on the level of Veganomicon, which if you don’t have it is the mother of all vegan cookbooks). I love the recipes in this book, the tips and hints, the simplicity and straight-forward approach. I’ve already pre-ordered their next book (Thug Kitchen Party Grub: For Social Motherf*ckers) and shipped another copy of this one to my son who is in college in Toronto.
Now if you’re easily offended you probably won’t like this book. Which is too bad for you because the recipes are outstanding. If you can get past the colourful language and want to eat healthy – go buy this book. Personally I love everything about this book. Now I gotta go cook!
