Strength and Stone

Strength & Stone is a high-protein cookbook by Cooking With John Grouber rooted in ritual, discipline, and endurance. These are meals built to fortify—slow-cooked, deeply satisfying dishes designed to sustain muscle, steady the body, and sharpen resolve without excess or noise.

Here, protein is treated with reverence. Only real ingredients prepared with intention, balanced by restraint and patience. Each recipe honors the quiet work of becoming stronger: meals that support long days, heavy labor, and lasting vitality.

This book is for those who seek power without spectacle. For cooks who understand that true strength is built meal by meal, habit by habit, in the steady rhythm of nourishment. Strength & Stone invites you to eat with purpose, train without haste, and endure.

Light the fire. Grind the mortar.

Strength is set in stone.