Title:	The Kitchen Commune: Meals to Heal and Nourish Everyone at Your Table
	Author:	Chay Wike
	Published:	January 9, 2024, Flashpoint
	No. of Pages:	256
	Cover Price:	$29.98 Hardcover, $11.99 Kindle

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Special diets are the norm today, and it is certainly a challenge to keep up with them and still feed your family and friends good meals. The Kitchen Commune: Meals to Heal and Nourish Everyone at Your Table by Chay Wike is loaded with ideas that conform with special diets and still taste good. The first chapters are dedicated to stocking the kitchen and other organizing tips to make it easier to prepare the recipes.

This is a well-written cookbook and interesting to read. Many of the recipes are appealing to everyone – those on regular diets and also those on special diets. The recipes are mostly easy, and they are presented in the traditional manner with the ingredients listed first, followed by step-by-step instructions. The author has also added notes, tips, and helps at the beginning of each recipe.

Many of the recipes do call for specialty ingredients which may require shopping for ingredients at specialty and/or health food stores. Most families with special need diets already shop for those items.

One of the best things about this book is that there are beautiful, professional photographs of most of the recipes, which helps cooks decide what to make next.

All told, this cookbook is great for healthy cooks and those who cook for people on special diets.


Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.