[Updated May 2016] I have been in touch with the author, Chloe Archard, who very kindly provided a PDF version of the book. Now, having read the first few chapters (and being fairly familiar with Paleo concepts), I can say that the author has an excellent grasp of Paleo and appears to know her stuff!
In the first 40+ pages, she gives a good summary background about what the Paleo style of nutrition is all about and why it may be better for many people who are suffering from various food-related issues. Ms Archard is what I would call a middle-of-the-road Paleo proponent, allowing for differences in personal preferences and requirements, as well as putting forth the reasons why she believes Vegan diets are not optimal. She goes on to give what a basic Paleo meal comprises, with suggestions for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks and drinks. There is a few helpful graphics, along with a table of "swaps" to help you change over from what you may be used to eating. For example, rather than cornflour, you may want to use arrowroot powder to thicken sauces. There are checklists of ingredients and a page full of resources.
Although I have not yet had a chance to try the recipes (pp 42 - 179), but they do look really quite good and I cannot wait to make some of these! This section of the book is laid out in the format of recipe cards, one (or two related) recipes per A4 page, with colour photos, along with an indicator of difficulty, prep time, number of servings, descriptive list of ingredients, method, and serving suggestions. Some of the recipes are quite simple and others are a bit more complex. The value in the recipes is perhaps not so much in the method as in the suggestions for how to combine ingredients to produce a healthy Paleo meal. This is important because it is quite normal for Paleo newbies to use the "subtractive method" by simply taking out those foods they no longer wish to eat and end up with boring one-food meals, causing them to give up after a relatively short time. Rather, the recipes show you how to combine Paleo foods to create tasty and visually stimulating meals within the Paleo framework, giving you variety as well as healthful eating. This recipe book delivers quite well on this score.
HOPEFULLY HELPFUL HINT: As the recipes are one-pagers, the recipes can be easily printed out individually, if desired. The pages in this PDF run true to print, so just make a note of the page number in the PDF and use that to print just the one page using your PDF viewer's PRINT button. Usually, if I have tried the recipe and like it, I print out that page and put it into my "keeper" notebook. If you do, you may wish to use headers/footers to get the attribution of where the recipe originated, so you can go back to that source for more recipes!
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