As the foreword to The Taco Cleanse explains, cleanses are “socially acceptable starvation disguised as health” that “demand you choke down lemon juice swirled with cayenne pepper and your tears so that you can lose those last five pounds.” In other words, they are “the f***ing worst.” There’s just one exception: one cleanse that is more like the f***ing best. This cleanse will help you forge a new path of wellness and self-discovery that you’ll want to stay on for the rest of your life. It will increase glow in your face and forehead, provide an uplifting sensation in your core chakra, stimulate your nocturnal imagination, and retroactively prevent hangovers. It’s satisfying, scientific, and best of all, simple: All of your meals must contain tacos.That’s right, it’s the #TacoCleanse.
Every recipe happens to be vegan, but this cleanse is NOT for vegans only: It’s for anyone who experiences recurring feelings of hunger on a daily basis, frequently lacks access to eating utensils such as forks or chopsticks, and tilts their head to the left while inserting food into their mouth. Does that describe you? Then it’s time to cleanse.
About the Authors
Wes Allison, Stephanie Bogdanich, Molly R. Frisinger, and Jessica Morris live in Tacotopia (Austin, TX). They introduced the Taco Cleanse at the 2013 Vegan Month of Food by eating tacos for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 30 days. Veganmofo.com said, "It should come as no surprise that the newsworthy, tortilla-stockpiling Taco Cleanse . . . not only tops my own list of memories, but everyone else's."
Industry Reviews
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"I only ate tacos for a week and it made me so much healthier."--Esquire
"Diets don't get any better than this."--Eater
"Now, here's a cleanse we can get behind."--People
"There's a new cleanse in town that fully embraces solid foods like corn tortillas, refried beans, and *praise hands* guacamole. It's called TheTaco Cleanse, and it's real. *Praise hands*."--Cosmopolitan
"Possibly the best diet strategy ever."--E! Online
"The next trendy cleanse to hit Los Angeles incorporates avocados, kale, tempeh, tortillas--and plenty of margaritas. It's called the taco cleanse, it's vegan, and it's here just in time for all those New Year's resolutions you have every intention of keeping."--Los Angeles Times
"Hallelujah and pass The Taco Cleanse."--Washington Post
"Pretty much the best, hottest cleanse of all time."--Isa Chandra Moskowitz, author of Post Punk Kitchen
"The Taco Cleanse is the only cleanse we want to try this year."--Huffington Post
"The book pokes fun at the tired diet industry while providing the reader with some kick-ass recipes along the way."--MindBodyGreen
"Close your eyes. Now, imagine a world where a health cleanse means a steady stream of tacos for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now open your eyes. That day is here."--Today.com
"The recipes are no joke."--Everyday Health
"The Taco Cleanse is the only cleanse you'll ever need."--Jezebel
"The glorious guide to achieving all your wildest dreams (i.e., living on tacos) is laid out in the eponymous cookbook The Taco Cleanse."--Bustle
"Your New Year's detox can be a lot more painless than you anticipated."--Refinery29
"So this will be the year I finally try a radical dieting plan, now that we have the culinary equivalent of God skysurfing by with finger guns ablaze, saying, 'Hey bud, I like your style.'"--Jake Kilroy, Playboy
"The Best Non-Diet Ever"--Women's Health
"The diet that you'll actually be able to stick with."--The Daily Meal
"This taco cleanse is the new year's resolution of your dreams."--PopSugar
"Sign us up!"--Metro US
"Damn if counting taco calories doesn't sound a lot more palatable than counting alfalfa sprouts or glasses of lemon water."--Thrillist
"The world's best diet."--Marie Claire (UK)
"The empowering, guilt-free, and soul-satisfying journey you're about to take your body and mind through will be not only supremely delicious (as tacos are involved) but also life-changing."--from the foreword by Laura Beck, author of Vegansaurus
