Product Description

This is the ultimate gourmet, living foods "uncookbook" for busy people. You don't have to sacrifice taste or style to reap the benefits of raw foods. These delectable, easy recipes emphasize fresh, animal-free ingredients and how to include more organics into your daily diet. Chef Ani offers delicious raw, animal-free versions of: breakfast scrambles, pancakes, chowders, bisques, and other soups, cheezes, mylks, lasagna, burgers, cobblers, pies, and cakes, and more. Included are recipes for dishes such as Stuffed Anaheim Chili with Mole Sauce, Ginger Almond Nori Roll, Coconut Kreme Pie with Carob Fudge on Brownie Crust, Mediterranean Dolmas, and Chicken-Friendly Spanish Scramble. Make your own kitchen more living-foods friendly with Chef Ani's tips on Essential tools, Key ingredients, Stocking your pantry, and How-to kitchen skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30532 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"Provides a feasible...method to rejuvenate your mind and body." --Edward Kim MD, Director of Interventional Cardiology Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA

Customer Reviews

At last a raw food book I can get my teeth into!
I have tried several raw food 'cook' books of late - they all had something to offer, but they have been dominated by dips and sauces rather than the 'solid' food I was seeking. This is well illustrated, easy to follow, doesn't rely too heavily on a dehydrator (but a food processor would be useful) and generally brighter and more accessible than others I have read, still lots of dips, but much more besides.
An instant favourite.

raw food, but not for the UK
On the outset, this is a well-written, well-presented book, lots of photos, lots of tips and info, especially with regard to nutrition. However, before purchasing this book, I had no idea this author was Californian, and the fact is, this has a great bearing on the recipes themselves. Many of the ingredients are either just not available in Britain, or only available in the major cities, or are so expensive that it makes the meal only fit for special occasions. Also, many ingredients have travelled from far corners of the globe, thus contributing towards a heavier carbon footprint than I would like. So, for those who wish to tread lightly upon this world, I would recommend this book only to those living in warmer climes, where the produce is locally available. For Britons, I would look to other books, to British authors that are sympathetic to local grown produce and not that which has been globe-trotting twice round the planet.

The tastiest raw food yet?
I'm relatively new to raw food, and as such everything I make is out of one of my many new raw recipe books. I now own a number of the 'big' raw titles, but Ani's book is my definite favourite. Her recipes are generally a lot tastier and more palatable than some other raw recipe books', dominated less by the popular vinegar/namu shoyu/lemon juice/garlic/olive oil combinations, and especially good for someone fresh from a non-raw diet like me.

It's true that there are some ingredients not readily available from a UK supermarket, but this is true of all raw books, and in Ani's book there are more than enough recipes which use 'normal' ingredients found in most kitchens.

I can't rate it highly enough!