Genius Kitchen: Over 100 Bestselling Easy, Healthy Recipes to Energize Your Mind and Strengthen Your Body (Genius Living, 3)

Max's trilogy is inspirational and life changing. The Genius Kitchen is my personal favorite of any cookbook and I have bought a lot that just sit on the shelf. Max is personable and relatable. He makes cooking beautiful and healthy with creative dishes fairly easy for anyone to make. I kept turning the page to find another mouth watering meal to make and enjoy. A couple of my favorite new preparations were the salmon skin "bacon" which I never thought of outside of sushi and the sweet potato boats. All Max's cooking tips and kitchen prep are really helpful as well. I am buying copies of this book as gifts as it is so beautiful and filled with delicious recipes and insight for living a healthy lifestyle. Congratulations Max and thank you!

Max Lugavere delivers again! He is one of the only voices in the nutrition space that I continue to trust. One of Max’s goals with this new book was to provide readers with healthy and delicious recipes that can be enjoyed in the company of their friends and loved ones; I can honestly say that this has proven to be very true for me as I have brought these recipes to life. Genius Kitchen builds on Max’s previous two books, Genius Foods and The Genius Life, and it is so much for than a just a cookbook. It is organized into two parts: Part 1 - What to stock your kitchen with; How to build healthy eating habits. Part 2 - Over 100 recipes, with beautiful photographs to go along with them. The recipes for a “Genius Life” includes meals to help break your morning fast, small bites, main dishes, sauces, and wraps up with desserts. Some of my favorites include: Spicy Sesame Broccoli Slaw, the Insanely Crispy Gluten-Free Buffalo Chicken Wings, and the Almond Olive Oil Cake. Each recipe includes a brief excerpt of how the dish has impacted Max’s life in some way, shape or form, and step-by-step recipe/directions. They are easy to follow for anyone, regardless of experience in the kitchen. Not only is Max a good writer & extremely knowledgeable when it comes to science-backed food information, he is a great human-being. Genius Kitchen is a resource that I will keep coming back to over and over again. For anyone looking for a new cookbook to add to their collection in 2022, I would strongly encourage you to make it this one!

More involved recipes. I don’t have all the ingredients so I really haven’t used it. Nice book but more than I can handle.

One of my biggest struggles, since I started my “get healthy” journey about 2 years ago has always been nutrition. With Genius Kitchen, Max has done a great job laying out most of the things you need to know to answer the question: What to eat. And if you are thinking it is only about the recipes, you are in for a pleasant surprise beacuse the book is so much more than that and the index gives it all away: From stocking your kitchen, to what food does in your body, to tips on how to take your cooking to the next level. Learning how to cook is the most powerful tool you can use to stop eating junk food because it will get you used to how real food actually taste like, and I promise: Once you start enjoying cooking for you and your family, there is no going back to eating whatever. And the best part of cooking, experimenting with herbs and spices for then tasting how much they can change the food you are eating. One of the quotes I took as my motto and paraphrasing Max is: Not because something is healthy means it has to taste bad or plain. The only thing I was this books had, was a picture of the every recipe alongside it. I’ve prepared 35% of the recipes so far, and I know I have ignore some of the best ones just because I can not see how tasty it is. At the end of the day, this is one a book I will keep in my kitchen: For the delicious recipes and the knowledge it contains.

As a big fan of Max Lugavere and his books Genius Foods and The Genius Life, I was not disappointed by his cookbook Genius Kitchen. Even if you have not read his books you will enjoy eating your way through Genius Kitchen. The recipes are healthy, but also packed with flavor. They are approachable and easy to execute and I've added many of them to my weeknight meal planning. The best was when I shared some of the bites with my gluten and dairy loving friends and they devoured them. When you buy the book you must try the Bake Almond "Breaded" Artichoke Hearts! You won't miss the bread or the dairy! I love Max's story and food/life philosophy which he shares in the first part of the cookbook. The pictures are beautiful and the amount of recipes are abundant! I plan to "gift" this book to all of my foodie friends.

This book is not only full of really tasty, healthy, easy to make recipes, but there’s tons of education behind Max’s genius foods philosophy. He breaks down the genius foods simply but also makes all the information about these foods easy to understand. He offers a quick guide to good, better, and best options and really makes the genius food lifestyle easy to understand and put into place. The ingredients required in his recipes are easy to find or you most likely have on hand and I have already made so many recipes from the book and they’re amazing!! So tasty & so satisfying. You can truly feel that you are nourishing your body and it just feels good. Such a great book!

The good: The first 90 pages are packed full of valuable information on nutrition, cooking hacks, and creating good habits. I think the book is worth reading simply for the health information provided. The recipes are truly clean and healthy! There are no corners cut, no bad ingredients. This is a huge bonus. If you are someone that eats clean, you know how hard it is to find a cookbook with clean, healthy recipes. Most cookbooks claim to be nutrition/health focused but are really just “better” versions of the SAD diet. Thankfully this book is not one of them. If you are wanting to eat cheese, bread and sugar, don’t buy this book. There are a wide variety of recipes so most meal types are covered. Some are complex, some are super simple. Some cheap, some expensive. The recipes are different than most of what I’ve seen in other books. Many of the recipes are based on staples from other cultures. They use ingredients differently than the SAD diet. If you don’t like to try new foods, this may be intimidating. The bad: Some of the ingredients are hard to find and some I couldn’t find at all. If you live in a large metropolis area, this probably won’t affect you. E.g. I live in an Arkansas town of 30k and couldn’t find some of the ingredients, even online. We stop at Trader Joe’s when we are in Little Rock and couldn’t find ingredients there either. I point this out because the book was marketed as accessible and easy for everyone. The recipes don’t have nutritional information. This surprised me because of how health conscious Max is. To be fair, when eating this clean, one doesn’t need to worry about calorie intake and meals are based around maximizing vitamins and minerals. Tracking calories/fats/carbs becomes somewhat inconsequential because you’re eating healthy fats and carbs. However it would be nice to see macro and micro nutrients. Most of the recipes are not kid friendly. I have found this subject lacking in the health food world. As a clean eating parent of little kids, I’m always trying to find healthy options and meals they will like too. My kids do eat a lot of vegetables and are open to try different things but most kids wouldn’t touch these recipes. Maybe a good topic for a another book or podcast Max?

I love the Genius Kitchen book! Why? I was born and raised in Italy and recently moved to California a few years ago. Food isn't only about feeding my body, but it represents a way of living and enjoying life. We grow up learning how to taste, combine ingredients and cook with Nonna (Granma) and enjoy the pleasure of eating our creations. Food is a social thing! Max was able through this book to deliver high-quality recipes nourishing both the body and the mind and giving me back those childhood memories when I was learning this inspiring art of cooking. I love reading the book and learning how we can combine ingredients to send a signal of pleasure to our brain based on ingredient combinations. Max got the point of combining science, taste, and fabulous functional recipes for our well-being. The book is a must for all passionate about the art of making food with the addition of boosting your health, immune system, and brain through delicious well done recipes!

I’ve been following Max for a while now and am so stoked to get my hands on this cook book . It tells you what to shop for and why and is written so simplistically . The recipes have few ingredients and are easy to put together . Absolutely delicious stiff and indeed so so good for you !!

Excellent easy to read. Very informative about ingredients needed. Directions to buy ingredients and how to prepare are clear .

Love this book. Very upto date and fresh

What a beautiful addition to any kitchen. This book provides very nicely placed knowledge to understand every ingredient in the kitchen and gives you an insight on how these ingredients combined can result into a beautiful and tasty meal that will .ake you feel good. I'll be cooking guided by this book from now on as much as possible!

I received Max's book in the mail on Tuesday and immediately had to make something for dinner out of it. There are so many delicious recipes to choose from but I made the Beef & Purple Potato stew and it was so easy to make and the flavour was next level. Don't hesitate to buy this book---and the first 100 pages are loaded with nutritional facts to help your pantry and your brain thrive!