Unicorn Food - Beautiful, Vibrant, Plant-Based Recipes to Nurture Your Inner Magical Beast

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

From the publisher-

It’s among the hottest trends in the food world today—magically colorful dishes and drinks that are as bewitchingly beautiful as they are incredibly tasty and nutritious. Now, Kat Odell—a food journalist, author (the just-published Day Drinking), and entrepreneur who started selling her popular unicorn nut milks in 2015—celebrates the unicorn food movement with a rainbow of 75 recipes. The recipes are vegan. The ingredients are all-natural and super-nutritious, from fresh fruits and vegetables to superfoods like flax, coconut oil, spirulina, chia, and bee pollen. And the offerings are exactly the kinds of hyper-colorful, super-fun dishes that healthy-forward eaters love, including gently flavored nut milks, grain bowls loaded with vegetables, probiotic breakfast custards, toasts with slathers and spreads. This is health food as never seen before, filled with joy, and words can’t do the colors, the (all-natural) sprinkles, the whimsical decorative touches justice—the deep glowing yellow of a Frozen Turmeric Lassi, the greens of Soba Noodles with Arugula and Arugula Pesto, the intense oranges and purples of Sweet and Sour Radish Tacos, the tie-dye rainbow effect of Veggie Summer Sunset Rolls with Pineapple Kimchi, and the pastels of Chamomile Milk Tea Pudding with Fennel and Pistachios and Strawberry Pink Peppercorn Ice Cream Sticks. Filled with dazzling full-color photographs, published in a package as special as the dishes themselves, Unicorn Food is a cookbook of real beauty, in the look, in the recipes, in the spirit of the food itself.

An interesting approach to vegan food – colourful and vibrant foods to unicorn-up your food. Were there things I would NEVER eat? Yes --- but there were many that I would eat as well: I am pickling chick peas as I write this!! Bringing colour onto your plate is one of the best ways to eat a bit more healthily, whether you are a vegan or a bacon-avore.

I doubt that I will ever make any of the drinks on the pages and pages of recommendations on how to start your day as I do not (or try not) to drink calories in liquid form unless it is coconut milk in my coffee or, truth be told a nice cold Canadian beer. I am going to be honest, though – if I see one more recipe for avocado toast IN MY LIFE TIME I will scream my head off. Great book otherwise.