This beautifully designed cookbook walks you through the health benefits of various spices and how to use them in your cooking. While she begins with a detailed A-Z guide to individual spices and their benefits, the real "power" part of power spicing comes from Beller's discussion of how spices work more effectively in combination with each other. The heart of the book is her instructions for health-boosting spice blends, followed by approachable and delicious spiced-up recipes with a focus on plant-based cooking. I bought this one after watching a presentation by the author through Living Beyond Breast Cancer, but her suggestions for using spices to improve the healthiness power of your food goes beyond cancer prevention and treatment to include anti-inflammatory, metabolism-increasing, and brain-boosting benefits. If you are lazy like me, you may also enjoy the organic spice blends the author sells on her website -- I bought two of them, one sweet and one savory, and I'm now power spicing all the time! ( )