Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as F*ck: A Cookbook

by Thug Kitchen

The creators of the New York Times bestselling cookbook series Thug Kitchen are back to deliver you the sorta gentle, but always hilarious shove you need to take the leap into healthy eating.

Thug Kitchen 101 includes more than 100 easy and accessible recipes to give you a solid start toward a better diet. TK holds your hand and explains ingredients from chickpeas to nooch so you'll feel confident knowing exactly what the f*ck you're cooking. This kickass kitchen primer also serves up health benefits and nutrition to remind everyone, from clueless newbies to health nuts, how a plant-based lifestyle benefits our bodies, minds, environment, and pocketbooks. THAT'S RIGHT. EAT GREEN, SAVE GREEN.

So scared of commitment you can't even dedicate some time to cook? Thug Kitchen's here to fix that sh* All recipes in TK 101 are guaranteed to be faster than delivery, so you can whip up some tasty meals with simple ingredients regardless of when you stumble home from work. You're too damn important to be eating garbage, so TK has made it easy to take care of #1: you. No needless nonsense or preachy bullsh*t. Just delicious, healthy, homemade food for all the full-time hustlers out there.

"Thug Kitchen backs up its bluster with good, solid recipes." ― New York Times

"Funny, self-aware, and full of delicious-looking recipes that I want to make right this second." ―Epicurious.com

"F*cking delicious." —Popsugar.com

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction, Reference, Humor

240 pages, Hardcover

Published October 11, 2016

About the author

Thug Kitchen is here to help your narrow dietary mind explore some goddamn options so that you can look and feel like a fucking champ. We hope readers reconsider what kind of behaviors they attribute to people who try to eat healthy. Everyone deserves to feel a part of our push toward a healthier diet, not just people with disposable incomes who speak a certain way. So we're here to help cut through the bullshit. Promoting accessibility and community are important as fuck here at Thug Kitchen. We've got a big table and everyone is welcome to it.

Source: Thug Kitchen FAQ.

Reviews

[Staci]

Absolutely not for those who prefer to avoid the f-bomb.
If "colorful" language is not an issue for you, and you like blunt but useful information in your cookbooks, give this one a try.
Plenty of basic information provided without talking down to people. Not everyone grew up around someone who cooked from scratch and while this book will encourage folks to use common sense, it won't leave you hanging if you've never even cooked your own rice before.
For folks who are already comfortable in the kitchen, I think you'll still find interesting recipes to try. The book includes basics, but it is by no means only for beginning cooks. Lots of "faster than takeout" recipes, information about which recipes are suitable for freezing, which are gluten-free, and more.
Yep, the recipes are plant-based and the authors give reasons, but there is no preaching, and no condemnation dripping from the pages (unlike some other cookbooks) aimed at those who do not follow a strictly vegan lifestyle.
This book gives straightforward info, recipes with ingredients found at most major grocery stores (and suggestions of where to find them within the stores if they are new to you), and tells you how to make food that tastes good.

[Rebecca Johnson]

I love this cookbook. It's easy to follow simple instructions making cooking easy even for those of us that despise it and struggle. I really appreciated all the secondary instructions, like what is nooch, or how to cook beans. That may seem lame to some of you but for me, it's a lifesaver. I can't ever remember these kinds of things and I don't cook as often as I should.
The language doesn't bother me and quite honestly I like the witty little quips surrounding each recipe. If foul language bothers you, well don't buy it or don't read them. It's very obvious that the book has some considering its title! If you're looking for a good vegan cookbook for new or old vegans, or cooks, with easy to follow recipe's then give this one a try!

[Iper Junberry]

Recipes are easy to follow, and the few I've tried so far are delicious

[Brooke]

I like more recipes in this book than their first one. It helps that these are quicker and easier to make.

[Hope]

This cookbook is wonderful! I really enjoyed the first Thug Kitchen cookbook and this is another winner! I will be buying this one as well for my personal collection.
I still get "zinged" every time the "F-word" is used (which is EVERY page of the book) but the recipes really are amazing and produce incredible results!

[Penney]

This not your typical cookbook, and that's a great thing. Expect profanity, insults, human truths like "wanna stuff your face with tacos" and simplicity. I doesn't read as a vegan cookbook, pleasantly.

So far, recipes are spot on. I think substituting ingredients isn't ideal for these though, as when I have, it's been bland.

[Katie]

One of the better and more accessible vegan cookbooks I've come across. I'm no longer vegan, considering I take everything from zero to 100, but in general, this has some really good recipes that I actually have time to cook (even on weekdays).

[Mariah]

There are so many plant based recipes I want to try from this. I know they made a new version of this by Bad Manners but I found this second hand and was unsure what (beyond title) might have changed in this series.

[Ietrio]

Profanity can make someone interesting. Or amusing. But adding profanity just to sell a list of recipes without a theme is plain boring.

[Brindi Michele]

bigger fan of the recipes in the first book

[Christopher Newton]

Plant based cook book with delish recipes. Cannot get enough of this food...

[Carol Avery]

Unique and fun, particularly for my grandson

[Bob]

Hilarious and one of the best cookbooks I’ve encountered recently (and I read a lot of them). Had this from the library but just popped for it on amazon. It’s going to get a lot of use in this house!

[Eric Madery]

This one really outshined the "Party Grub" book IMO, maybe even the first book. Its fantastic, the meals super quick and easy, ingredients are pretty simple to find.

[Savanna]

I'm a picky fucker, so this wasn't my favorite Thug book. Most of the recipes started with ALL the onions.

[Kristel]

Food is all right, a lot of it has similar tastes. Takes time to make (more than what the author suggests). Uses oils but does try to avoid the bad oils and use less refined oils. Way too much use of vulgar language makes it hard to read the recipes. Totally uncalled for in a cookbook. Very off putting and makes this a book I would never give as a present or suggest to anyone.

[Cristhian]

Otro libro de TK es otro libro de puro win.

Este, a diferencia de los demás tiene dos cosas que lo hace diferente:
- Tourist Traps con datos falsos del estado de CA
- Tiempo de preparación (era realmente necesario)

Fuera de eso, es lo mismo, recetas que uno no creería que fueran tan buenas como se leen hasta que se preparan.

5/5

[Kris]

I never thought I'd have to keep a cookbook away from my kids for language. It is a good series in general. Some of the recipes need more spices, but the lack of sugar, meat, and dairy make these great recipes to introduce more meatless nights into your family meals.

[Doan]

Tasty recipes...once again, just ignore the language if it bothers you.

[Hanna]

What a hilarious cookbook read! The cover recipe looks delicious and the majority of the recipes in the book are also very pleasing to the eye. While I am not vegan, I am very open to these. My mouth watered just reading this. The language was hysterical and was very appealing, I'm sure, to the "manly millennial" or just your "average savage," myself being the latter. I got the biggest kick out of reading all of these and was tickled to tell my husband which recipes were the funniest, read wise, and which were the ones that we were going to try.

My favs are: Chipotle Caesar Salad (p32), Creamy Squash Mac and Cheese (p90, also on cover), Nachos with Tex-Mex Queso (p124, though I wasn't fond of part of the recipe being previous cook book recipes that are not included in this book), Jade and Juice (p135), and lastly, the Brown Sugar Blueberry Polenta Scones (p158, wake and bake... what a hoot). The rest of the recipes look good too, but these are the ones that are favorable to me (as a not vegan who's willing to try most any food once!).

[Carl Adams]

to use Thug terminology; F'ing awesome