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Thrive Energy Cookbook: 150 Plant-Based Whole Food Recipes Paperback – March 4, 2014

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Packed with 150 plant-based, nutrient-dense, whole food recipes developed within the Thrive nutritional philosophy, Thrive Energy Cookbook brings concepts that started the functional, plant-based nutrition revolution to life. Recipes are all vegan and allergen-free (or with gluten-free options) to eliminate wheat, yeast, gluten, soy, refined sugar, and dairy from your diet.

Easy-to-make and performance-enhancing, these chef-created recipes merge purpose driven functionality (every ingredient has a nutritional purpose) with mouth-watering appeal. From the alkaline-forming, plant protein-packed Vanilla-Almond-Mocha Motivator Smoothie to Roasted Red Pepper & Sweet Potato Soup, Thai Green Curry Rice Bowl, and desserts such as Raspberry Chocolate Pomegranate Tart, Thrive Energy Cookbook will have you quickly preparing nutrient-packed and delicious dishes.

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Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Praise for Brendan Brazier:

"Brendan gets it! His nutritional approach is what supercharges results."
—Tony Horton, creator of P90X, the world's bestselling workout program

"Thrive Energy Cookbook is a must-have for gourmets and athletes alike."
—Sean Hyson, C.S.C.S., Group Training Director for Men's Fitness and Muscle & Fitness magazines

"When world-class athletes want to get even better, Brendan is the man who gets the call."
—Brendon Burchard, New York Times bestselling author of The Charge

"As our head of nutrition, Brendan's implementation of purpose-driven nutrition has allowed our pro cycling team to meet the demands of grueling training better than ever before."
—Matt Johnson, President of Garmin-Sharp Pro Cycling Team and founder of The Feed

"Brendan's commitment to the study of plant-based nutrition and research makes for a wonderful cookbook."
—Joe Hogarty, Baltimore Orioles strength and conditioning coach

"Brendan's systematic approach to performance plant-based nutrition has helped me to reduce inflammation, speed my recovery, and has boosted my overall performance. The recipes are delicious!"
—Mike Zigomanis, NHL player and member of the 2009 Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins

"Former Ironman triathlete Brendan Brazier is nothing short of a phenomenon. Not only did he show the world that professional athletes can excel on a vegan diet, he is the creator of the Vega line of plant-based nutrition products. When thumbing through his brand-new Thrive Energy Cookbook (Brazier's fourth book), I was astounded by the quality of his 150 whole-food recipes--which include a delightful chia seed blueberry pudding, a sumptuous yellow peanut curry rice bowl, and a mouthwatering strawberry-goji berry dark chocolate cheesecake. I want it all."―VegNews (Cofounder Coleen Holland)

"From the bestselling author of the Thrive series comes 150 plant-based, nutrient dense recipes. Athletes or anyone in need of an energy boost will enjoy dishes like kale chips with edamame hummus; avocado, black bean, and chipotle burger; and even the decadent cashew chocolate mousse layer cake."―New You

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Brendan Brazier is the international bestselling author of Thrive, Thrive Foods, and Thrive Fitness. Brendan is head of nutrition for the Garmin-Sharp Pro Cycling Team and nutrition consultant to several NHL, MLB, NFL, MLS, UFC, and Olympic athletes. He is a former professional Ironman triathlete, two-time Canadian ultramarathon champion, and creator of Vega, the award-winning line of whole food nutritional products.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Lifelong Books; Illustrated edition (March 4, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0738217409
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0738217406
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.64 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.88 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #791,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #819 in Vegetable Cooking (Books)
- #2,605 in Vegan Cooking (Books)
- #85,990 in Health, Fitness & Dieting (Books)

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Brendan is the formulator and cofounder of Vega, bestselling author of the Thrive book series, creator and host of the Thrive Forward web series, and editor in chief of Thrive magazine. He’s also a former professional Ironman triathlete and a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion. Brendan is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on plant-based performance nutrition, and therefore works with several NHL, NFL, MLB, UFC, and Olympic athletes. Brendan now invests in and works with socially responsible food & tech companies whose mandate is to fix our food system and reduce the environmental strain of food production.

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J Paige

I wanted to like this more.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2014

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I really wanted to love this book. I am still not completely vegan but I don't eat dairy or land animals at all and have been transitioning for the last few months to a whole foods diet and thought this book could be a good fit.

He means transitioning if you are still used to eating burgers and want fake meat and cheese! There are so many burger recipes in this that use the same aioli and the same sprouted buns over and over again. Plus wraps. I think he just made the sauces so complicated to justify a wrap recipe. One burger recipe consists of 5 different recipes. Same goes for desserts. Incredibly long ingredient lists--one cheesecake recipe says prep time is only 20 minutes. It took me 20 minutes just to read the recipe!

I love to cook and probably spend 2 hours a day cooking and some of these recipes are so ridiculously complicated in their ingredients, preparation, and time that I don't even want to tackle them. Also, I was surprisingly turned off by all the photos of him running and bicycling. He comes across as a total ego-maniac. (It's as bad as the mommy bloggers that get cookbook deals and then put a zillion photos of their children in their cookbooks.)

In short:
If you want an adventure and have a high-speed blender, this is the book for you.

If you have a busy life and not a lot of time or have apprehension in the kitchen, probably not a good book for you.

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S.

Clean eats but so time-consuming!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2014

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Let me start by saying I respect Brendan Brazier. I have followed him and his progresses and discoveries on clean vegan nutrition for years. I am a firm believer that we need to clean up our diets and that natural sourced foods are the way to go for a better health, disease prevention, and for... thriving!
However, as good as his recipes look or sound like, they also are time-, energy-, and money-consuming. The ingredients for the recipes are often exotic and hard to find at your local grocery store (even at a co-op or natural store). You will have to go through three markets (including probably an Asian one) to find all for the coconut lime lemongrass soup as tempting as it is! Also for the spice mixes, you will have to find powdered reiki, or echinea and astralagus.
At last, his desserts and drinks recipes sound oh! so yummy, but come on! ...I need a high speed blender, slow-speed juice extractor, and high-speed juicer! I can't even start to think about making a green juice following his mighty king chlorophyll juice!
To sum up, I would say it's a great book with amazing, tasty, healthy recipes for people who have a lot of time and quite some money on hand and live in big cities where health stores flourish.

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Rea Frey

Best Vegan Cookbook on the Market

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2014

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As a vegan author, I love to cook. But only when the recipes are quick, clean and easily digestible. So many plant-based cookbooks have ingredient lists a mile long, are full of soy and processed items and are just too involved. I've been a follower of Brendan since Thrive, and these recipes are by far the best he's ever put out.

The recipes have short lists, clean, easy-to-find ingredients and very simple instructions. For those who love to sprout and soak their nuts and seeds, you can always take these recipes a step further by germinating, dehydrating, etc. But if you really want to eat clean food that tastes GOOD, these recipes nail that objective simply.

I love the "athlete" section for those who want good pre and post-workout food. So often, we don't know what to eat around our workouts and the book offers some simple, delicious solutions.

Even if you've never eaten plant-based, these recipes are perfect for any palette (however resistant you might be to "healthy" foods). As a 15 year vegan and an athlete all my life, this book is what I've been waiting for.

Because even when we're healthy, we can get into ruts eating the same things again and again. Thrive Energy breaks us out of that rut - for good.

21 people found this helpful

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Stacie

Disappointing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2014

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I am a huge fan of Brendan Brazier and I loved his Thrive Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life, but I have to say I am quite disappointed in the Thrive Energy Cookbook. The description on the back of the book states "Recipes are all allergen-free (or with gluten-free options) to eliminate wheat, yeast, gluten, soy, refined sugar, and dairy from your diet." Many of the recipes say "gluten-free option", but then never state what that option would be. One can assume to replace sprouted bread with gluten-free bread, but it probably should state that. Now what about the claim to eliminate yeast? I'm pretty sure all of Silver Hills gluten-free bread, which is the frequently recommended substitute, has yeast in it. Or then there are the recipes which use miso or tempeh, which is made from soybeans! I was also sad to see Wildwood Zesty garlic Aioli included in several of the recipes. The first ingredient is canola oil and it contains soy protein. Do we really consider these plant-based, whole food ingredients? How about creating a cashew garlic aioli from scratch instead or using a homemade hummus? I do appreciate that he labels a lot of these recipes as "transition", which is helpful if you are new to clean eating.

I think the description that "recipes are ALL allergen-free" is a false claim, especially when it states specific allergens. If you are looking for an allergy friendly cookbook, this is not the one. If you're looking for some new plant-based recipes, there are some good ones in there and the pictures are great, but I think the original Thrive book had many more truly plant-based, whole food recipes. I was very disappointed in this one.

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Carla Sparrow

An absolute MUST HAVE for plant based living!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2018

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Wow! Wow! and Wow! While I am not fond of all the recipes because some of the ingredients are out of my reach, this book is a must have for anyone wanting a clean plant based diet. The recipes I tried came out delicious and the cake I made from Brendan's book turned out so pretty it was hard to make the first cut. Brendan gets it! HIs book and cookbook will help any man realize there are other protein sources outside of meat. This book will help any man eat healthier and still look muscular and will help women look more fit, while feeling better.

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I really loved the graphics of this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 12, 2017

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I really loved the graphics of this book. Almost all recipes come with lovely photographs which I really appreciate in cook books. However, I found a lot of recipes to be over complicated. I haven't tried many of them simply because of the long list of hard to obtain ingredients. On the other hand, some of the recipes seemed absolutely pointless to me, for example a few recipes on sandwich preparation - I think most people know how to make a sandwich using absolutely anything. Also, some recipes reference to other recipes, adding to their number but not the book contents (eg. a recipe for a bean patty and then a separate recipe on putting together a burger using that patty).

9 people found this helpful

sea

Nutrition based vegetarian cooking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 5, 2017

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Great book for vegetarian cooking. Bought for a sports mad grandson who needs good nutrition to keep him going. The burgers were a hit. Only one thing against - there are a few ingredients mentionedthat I'm not sure you can get in the uk.

4 people found this helpful

Canhill

Great source of inspiration

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 2, 2018

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I love this book full of good photography and recipes. I originally bought the thrive foods book which I also loved and has a big section dedicated to exposing the ecological and physiological benefits of plant based eating.
This book has much less of that and is more focused on recipes.

One person found this helpful

Steve W

Unfamiliar ingredient names make it hard to read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 2, 2016

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Didn't recognise a lot of the ingredients used and couldn't find them at the supermarket easily. Half the time the book seems to use the 'proper' name for the ingredients and after googling you discover its just a type of lettuce. Not a user friendly book in my opinion.

4 people found this helpful

ali baba

Good book but ingredients not always accessible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2019

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This is actually an engaging and well-researched book, written by someone who lives his work and passion. However, many of the ingredients are hard to come by, unless you live in a cosmopolitan city and can afford to buy at Whole Foods or organic health shops every week.

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