Blade & Glass

Eighty smoothies and juices in eight chapters, sixty of them needing nothing but a blender. A morning chapter that treats a boost as caffeine, protein and a slow carbohydrate arriving together rather than sugar arriving alone, and a vitamin chapter that names what each glass genuinely delivers and then says plainly what no smoothie can supply at all. Ice is an ingredient here rather than a way of chilling: it is what makes a drink thick enough for a spoon, it turns into water as it melts, and the recipes that use it give the weight and the loading order.

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What's inside

01 10 recipes

The Morning Riser

Only three of the ten carry caffeine and they state the dose. The other seven work on protein and a slow carbohydrate.

02 10 recipes

The Vitamin Bench

Each names the vitamins it actually delivers, with no quantity and no daily percentage anywhere.

03 10 recipes

Green, and Actually Drinkable

Bitterness has three answers -- fat, acid and cold -- and every recipe says which one it is using.

04 10 recipes

Berries, Stone Fruit and a Lot of Ice

Thick enough to eat with a spoon, and the ice is weighed like anything else in the glass.

05 10 recipes

Tropical, Frozen Solid

Coconut water and coconut milk are not interchangeable, and these say which and why.

06 10 recipes

Protein and the Glass After Training

Eight of the ten get there on food. The two that use powder call it optional.

07 10 recipes

The Juicer

Vegetable-forward and unsweetened, each saying what separates and how long it keeps.

08 10 recipes

Juice Without a Juicer

A blender and a straining bag, at about four fifths the yield, and it says so.

Sample recipe · page 12

Mango and Coconut Water, Two Ingredients

Ingredients

350 g frozen mango chunks
200 ml coconut water

Method

Coconut water in first, mango on top. That order is the whole method.
Blend 45 seconds. It will stall once; stop, push the mango down, start again rather than adding liquid.
It comes out the texture of soft ice cream and the color of a egg yolk.
Taste before adding anything. Ripe frozen mango needs no sugar, no acid and no salt, which is why this recipe is two lines long.
If your mango is bland, half a lime rescues it. That is a fault in the fruit rather than in the recipe.

Page 12 of Blade & Glass — Mango and Coconut Water, Two Ingredients recipe with dual metric weights and steps

Eighteen recipes carry a technique noteEach names one thing the drink turns on: why oats are milled dry before anything else goes in, why matcha is whisked separately, why a frozen leaf blends smoother than a fresh one, why salt beats sugar on a bitter juice. Not decoration -- the reason the glass works.

Ten pages carry no nutrition figures, on purposeThey are reference pages rather than drinks: what to keep frozen, where your own bitter line sits, how much ice before it is water, what is worth keeping out of the pulp. A per-serving figure for a page you do not drink would be invented, so there is not one.

No vitamin is given a numberThe estimator behind this shelf works out calories, protein, carbohydrate, fiber, fat and sodium, and it does not work out vitamins. Where a recipe names one it names it and stops. The chapter that trades on vitamins closes by listing what fruit and vegetables cannot supply: B12, vitamin D, iodine, and the long-chain omega-3s.