This is a bad ass cookbook! Recommended to me by a health coach I am carefully picking out what I want to make first. Love the variety of foods and all of the different palettes it caters too.Fun, flavorful, easy to follow recipes are beautifully pictured in this colorful cookbook. It's a keeper, no doubt!Meat-eaters and Vegans alike can get behind this book. I got this as a gift a few years back and I love so many recipes in here. I recently bought this for a mentor of mine. I didn't realize it was vegan when I received it and honestly, you won't be able to tell that there are no animal products in any of the recipes. The recipes can be very time-consuming, so plan accordingly. I end up making double all of the sauces to save time later down the road. The enchiladas are to die for!!This is my favorite veg cookbook! I love the recipes in it- although I'm no longer strictly vegetarian, I was for almost 20 years, vegan for 3 of those, and still choose that option often. I've cooked professionally for a decade and bought this as a gift for a fellow chef who was an old-school, strictly meat-and potatoes kind of guy. he loved it! I bought another copy for myself, then another for a vegetarian friend. Big hit all around! I can see how some people may be offended by the colorful language, but to me, it just another day in a kitchen before my open-kitchen design days :)Love these cookbooks. I have the set…. Have gifted them also many times. Good quality and value. Buyer beware, you can’t be a prude to have these books!My husband is vegan so I bought this cookbook to try out and we love all the recipes. It does have cuss words in it so if they offend you I would not buy it.I really like the recipes in this book. Simple, fun intro to vegan / plant based meals. However, the font is very small, so it's hard to read. I recommend the book with that caveat.I cringe as I write this because I know about the controversy, I do. I don't agree with cultural appropriation, I don't agree with ignoring social issues, but as an Aussie I feel, rightly or wrongly, very removed from the connotations of the "Thug" title and the writing style; the culture that I have been told they reference is not prevalent here, and my thoughts on first encountering Thug Kitchen had nothing to do with race or colour, and everything to do with eating a plant based diet and living a vegan life in the way I feel it SHOULD be approached - no holds barred, no apologies given.That disclaimer of sorts out of the way, onto why I have given this book five stars; I love the recipes, pure and simple. The recipes sound like things I want to make, the pictures look like things I want to make, and the recipes I have tried have turned out beautifully; writing style aside, that is all I can ask for in a cookbook.I wish I'd read some of the reviews before I bought this. First and worst, the swearing. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with the occasional bit of bad language but this really does take the mick. It's just constant and I found it really detracted from the topic. If you can't get your message over without this level of crudeness, then just don't bother.Second, as it's American, the recipes are all in cups which is a pain to convert for the UK. If you can cope with that (and I couldn't), a lot of the recipes have ingredients that you just can't get over here or, if you can, they're hard to come by and expensive.Bottom line - would you be happy for your kids/grandkids to read this? If yes, then you're OK but I wouldn't so I'm selling my copy here. Such a shame - the message has value but the method of delivery is bad.The book itself is brilliant , no problem at all with that. It is very informative, funny and excellent guides to vegan cookery with fabulous recipes. My problem lies with the the format: the KINDLE version is terribly presented, it is almost like the pages have just been photographed and uploaded. I have a visual impairment and always prefer my books on Kindle as they are easier to read, however with this product, the text is blurry and exceptionally small : it can only be enlarged by a small amount and is therefore no good at all for people with poor eyesight. Real shame !Yes, it's true, this book is not for the faint of heart. If you dislike cursing, this book is absolutely not for you. I have no problem with such words, and yet there are times when I feel almost exhausted from seeing how the writers obviously felt the need to include at least one curse word per page. I mean, if it had been only when it made sense, it could have been funny, but if you go through and read page after page, you'll find yourself dizzy with all the eye rolling you'll do. I mean, it's just so sadly obvious that they felt they needed to include cursing for every single page and recipe. And I actually enjoy cursing! But even still, there's not always a need for it.That bit out of the way, on to the recipes. I have tried a good many in this book, and they are all amazing!!! I love everything I've tried, as does my family. Personally family favourites- Mixed Veggie and Tofu Chilaquiles, the dressings in the salad sections (I often just use them for inspiration), Smoked Almond and Chickpea Salad Sammies, the tofu marinades (I've even combined parts to make my own), Pumpkin Chilli, Blended Earl Grey Lattes, Creamy Horchata, and the Sweet Potato, Squash, and Black Bean Enchiladas.If I'm honest, I've tried a few recipes out of this book and, frankly, they don’t wow me. It is naturally highly Americanised, with clear Mexican and Latin-American influences, but a lot of the recipes are fanciful, require specialized ingredients or are simply needlessly complicated or wouldn’t whet a large appetite.If there is a once saving grace the enchiladas recipe is to die for, but whether that’s worth the price of the whole book is up to you. If you are more of a health-freak then this cookbook might suit you well, but for everyday cooking I avoid it like the plague and save it for those special meals. Even then there are other works, like Peace and Parsnips, that produce more exciting and bespoke food.This is a fantastic recipe collection or people who're looking to reduce the amount of meat in their diet, those who're considering going vegan or even long-term vegetarians.However, it's written in an incredibly tiresome way. The tone is enthusiastic but sounds like an embarrassing uncle trying to impersonate someone younger and more urban than they obviously are.Skip past the laboured, toe curling forced swear words and out-moded street slang and you've a collection of genuinely tasty vegan meals.