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Getting 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day has never been so delicious and easy. Jennifer Cornbleet, the well-known Chicago-based cooking instructor, shares her favorite no-cook recipes, in smaller quantities ideal for one or two. While full of gourmet flavor, these recipes are surprisingly simple to make, calling for common equipment and ingredients found in any well-stocked grocery store. Essential time-saving tips and techniques, along with Jennifer's clear instructions, prove you don't have to toil in the kitchen in order to enjoy nutritious, delicious raw food.  Simply Double the recipes for a family of 4!

The decision to go raw was shocking at first for these two ex-carnivorous chefs, but they soon found that preparing and eating raw food made them and their guests feel their physical best. Melngailis noticed a difference almost immediately -- "Light, clean, natural, and alive foods make you feel light, clean, and more alive. And sexy." This new way of life has changed their outlook on eating and cooking and connects them to the world around them. As Kenney says, "Raw foods and the lifestyle associated with it are so compelling and complex that we will be forever learning and growing. Already it seems that we have discovered some of the magic that life offers."

Following a vegan, raw foods diet does not mean you have to give up your favorite delicacies or condemn yourself to a life of celery and carrot sticks. As renowned raw foods chef Matt Amsden reveals in this vibrant, inspiring book, raw cuisine represents the discovery and innovative use of luscious natural ingredients. From imaginative new dishes such as cactus salad, onion bread, and spirulina pie, to tantalizing variations on everything from pizza, tacos, and cookies, to the signature "Big Matt with Cheese," Amsden's mouthwatering recipes feature soups, sauces, salads, appetizers, entrees, and even desserts.

Medical researchers have found that a high-fat, high-sugar diet, combined with environmental pollutants and stress, can lead to a buildup of toxins in the body collectively known as chronic degenerative disease. Here holistic physician Gabriel Cousens provides a dietary regimen that may help reverse this process by introducing whole, natural, organic, and raw foods into the diet. These restorative "live" foods can reverse chronic disease and bring back health and vitality. This eclectic cookbook shares 250 delicious vegan recipes from chefs at the Tree of Life Cafe. Dishes include Avocado Salad with Rosemary, Green Dragon Broccoli, Raw-violis, Lavender Milk, and Carob Coconut Cream Eclairs. International entrees, juices, and aromatherapeutic remedies are also featured.

The phrase "raw foods" conjures images of food as punishment — think uncooked carrots and celery, with perhaps a spinach juice cocktail as a chaser. However, uncooked doesn’t have to mean unappetizing, as this combination cookbook and guide to the raw foods lifestyle shows. Gabrielle Chavez explains how to use the wide range of fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables, spices, and seasonings for delicious, healthy — and healing — dishes. Anytime entrees from Stuffed Portabellos with Mushroom Gravy to Thai Hazelnut Pesto are here, along with seasonal treats like Halloween Soup and basics such as Simple Sweet Bread, with ingredients expressed in both metric and American measurements. In addition to current information on raw foods’ nutritional value and success as an alternative for people with food allergies and disorders, The Raw Food Gourmet takes readers on Chavez’s personal journey as she discovers the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of this diet

In RAW, six-time James Beard Award–winner Trotter collaborates with Klein to produce a landmark collection of over 100 recipes—the ultimate tribute to the culinary heights that this dynamic cuisine can reach. The chefs exalt the innate wholesomeness and beauty of fruits and vegetables in such innovative, remarkably flavorful dishes as Heirloom Tomato Soup with Alberquina Olives and Shaved Fennel; Peppercorn-Crusted Cashew Cheese with Honey Comb, Medjool Dates, and Dried Apricots; Polenta with Wild Mushroom Ragout; and Watermelon Soup with Sharlyn Melon Granité. Artfully presented, healthful, and deeply satisfying, raw food is not about austerity, but rather the celebration of food in its glorious natural state. In such skilled hands, it’s nothing short of a revolution in the way we cook and eat. Roxanne Klein’s eponymous restaurant in Larkspur, California, has become a mecca for raw-food devotees.

In addition to incredible healthy recipes for raw puddings, pies, pastas, soups, salads, sauces, and dressings, this incredible book contains an encyclopedia of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and other natural foods provided by Mother Nature. The book describes the health benefits of and basic techniques involved in creating amazingly nutritious raw vegan food that can revitalize your life. There is invaluable and important information contained in the book's chapters on organic foods, wild foods, genetically engineered crops, and transitional tips to a healthy diet.

RAW is the first major guide to preparing gourmet raw cuisine, an introduction to the finest dining this planet has to offer, with unique dishes made entirely from vegetarian and living foods. RAW offers ultimate pure flavor, thousands of textures, and beautiful effects on body, mind, soul and the environment! This isn't 100 variations of salad, but an ultra-gourmet cuisine, which fuses ancient culinary techniques with a modern and practical lifestyle. From sun-baked pizzas, satisfying sandwiches, vegan sushi, the best burritos and sprouted-rice dishes, to sangria and shakes, cookies, pudding, and pies. You're about to acquaint yourself with the vibrant flavors and miraculous nutrition of plant life in a way you never have before. (One of the best recipe books available!)

Life force foods are those found wild in nature and served uncooked. A life force diet is vegetarian, and mainly vegan, congruent with the philosophy that good food choices promote a sustainable future on the planet. This book applies life food principles to daily life. The authors explain how the LifeFood diet can strengthen the mind and body and also show how to make lotions, tinctures, and potions with food. Including illustrations throughout and over 150 easy-to-follow recipes to maximize health and well being, some of the dishes featured are Aztec Quiche, Emerald Broccoli Soup, Spicy Ginger Tofu, and Pina Colada Cookies.

Forget everything you have been taught about eating raw. This is not a boring book about bland salads and munching on carrot sticks for breakfast lunch and dinner —The Raw Food Primer is filled with fifty delicious, easy-to-follow recipes that are sure to make your tummy growl.

For many, raw food is already a way of life. But when we try to explain it to friends, family or students who don’t yet know the pleasures and the benefits of eating "raw", they may say, "You can’t keep up your energy with raw carrots" or "Yuck! That sounds really boring" or "I can’t give up my pasta!" To answer such remarks, Chef Alex has written The Raw Food Primer. She gently introduces "first timers" to the concept of raw foods and a vegetarian diet. Encouraging them to add raw food slowly to their diet, she avoids a zealous approach that may frighten off people curious about "uncooking" but not quite ready to give raw cuisine a full embrace. With her charming, low-pressure style, Ferrara eases the reader into true eagerness to try tasty raw dishes and reap the health benefits like more energy. Many people who have gone raw report that they have a leaner structure, clearer skin and eyes, and they no longer experience problems with allergies or fatigue.

Living foods are the fastest-growing trend in natural nutrition. From Ann Wigmore's wheatgrass juices to Rev. George Malkmus' Hallelujah Acres raw food diet, uncooked vegetarian foods are all the rage. And you don't have to limit yourself to salads, juices and dips. Try Spinach Mousse, Pumpkin Seed Loaf with Walnuts and Yams or Mango-Lime Parfait, all are made with raw fruit, vegetables and sprouts. Discover the art of eating quick, simple, and nourishing uncooked foods.  Over 250 wonderful recipes with 125 full color photographs will help you to decide what you want to make for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack.

From leading chef, restaurateur, instructor, health-care provider, and dietary consultant Rita Romano comes a groundbreaking recipe book that combines the techniques of macrobiotic, vegan, allergy-free, and raw food disciplines. 700+ recipes.

Seven Days of Mouthwatering Recipes.  Finally a collection of exciting raw food recipes that can be prepared by anyone.  Over 50 recipes to choose- from pate to pizza, from "cream" pie to cookies, from smoothis to sorbet.  Free of cholesterol, sugar and saturated fats.

Dishes awesome to taste—RawSome because most of the ingredients are Raw, complemented by Some organic and whole cooked foods.  Whether you are a pure raw vegan or lacto-vegetarian, or merely a curious explorer seeking to transition to a healthier way of eating, you are sure to find exciting, palate-pleasing recipes in this book.  A variety of original recipes make up the bulk of RawSome Recipes, almost all of which can be prepared without expensive or complicated kitchen equipment and utensils. Readers will also find a wealth of valuable information.

Whether you want to jump into an all-raw diet or just want to introduce more raw foods into the diet, Mars offers gentle encouragement and practical instruction. Readers will find advice on planning a balanced diet to meet their nutritional needs, combining foods for best effect, presrving raw foods, equpping the raw kitchen, sprouting, juicing, and evey other technique that makes the raw foods diet simple,delicious, and healthful. In-depth profiles describe the nutritional and health benefits of hundreds of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seasonings. Perhaps most important, the author provides more than 200 kitchen-tested, real-people-approved raw foods recipes. Under Mar's instruction, readers will enjoy making everything from juices and shakes to salads, soupsdressings, yogurts, crackers, spreads, dips, vegetable burgers, curries, vegetable pastas, wraps, and more. And let's not forget desset: brownies, ice cream, lemon bars, fru! it leathers,pies,cakes, puddings, and other delectable treats. For people who want the vibrant energy and health that raw foods offe but don't want to give up the taste of good cooking, "Rawsome!" provides the answer.

Rated a "must buy"  some of the most creative recipes I have ever seen.  The Almond Cheese is a "must eat". A Bountiful Harvest of Earthly Delights...  Angel Foods has something for everyone in search of healthy, fast, easy and delicious plant-based recipes- from purist to fun foods.

This book can change your life. Rose Lee will inspire and motivate you to renew and rejuvenate your life with her raw living food recipes. Rose Lee has lost 150 pounds of fat and cured a very sick body of cancer, chronic fatigue and gout.  Learn:  How foods can heal the body, How to create a new lifestyle that's easy and healthy, How to prepare desserts that are healthy and delicious and How to bring incredible joy into your life.

Rhio has written a book that is in plain language, easy to read, and a total guide to the Raw and Living Food lifestyle. The first half of the book teaches you from step one all the things you need to know about getting started. The second half of the book contains almost 350 delicious power food recipes designed to please the most finicky palate.

Over 5 years of hard research has gone into the creation of this book, and the information in the book is designed to help people maintain optimum health by taking charge of their own well-being.

"Living foods" are foods eaten in their fresh, natural state, without chemical additives or other harmful additions and served, for the most part, raw. For more than 30 years, the Hippocrates Health Institute has been teaching people how to eat living foods and improve their health. Complete with sample menus and more than 100 appetizing recipes, this guide, prepared by the director of the Institute, makes the latest research and instructions available to all.

Ann Wigmore, one of the for most advocates of living foods, noble prize recipient, and co-founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute, offers many of her recipes which have been used in Hippocrates over the years. As with some other raw food recipes books, she includes some tidbits on sprouting and raw food preparation, and offers advice on transition diets. She includes an some fermented foods such as sauerkraut, seed cheeses and dishes, along with of an assorment of soups, vegetable loafs, salads, living breads and deserts. Ann Wigmore was also well known for advocating wheatgrass juice therapy, and she travelled the world offering her experiences in living foods.

Explains the world-famous diet plan that utilizes uncooked foods, including sprouts and wheatgrass juice, to assist the healing process.  Includes more than a dozen living food recipes.

The best raw food desert book written, delicious cookies, pies, tortes, puddings, candy and more!  All recipes made from uncooked foods without any added sugar or salt.

Turn nuts, vegetable seeds, grains and beans into gourmet food! Sprout breads, cookies, crackers, soups, dressings, dips, spreads, sauces, non-dairy milks & ice-creams. Chapters on making sprout bread, food dehydrating, juicing, natural sodas, alternatives to dairy and salt, smart vegetarianism. Glossary of healthy foods. Recipes are raw, flourless, dairyless, low temperature, low salt & vegetarian. 250 Recipes. Fully illustrated. Photographs & Charts.

A new way of preparing delicious vegetarian soups that preserves vital enzymes, vitamins, and other nutrients that are often destroyed by traditional cooking methods. More than 150 outstanding recipes that add delightful variety to your daily intake of fresh foods. The recipes require an absolute minimum of heating of the ingredients yet produce soup that is hot and delicious and satisfying. Illustrated.

A valuable book on raw food meal suggestions. Victoras introduces some simple salad combinations, some decent soups, and some great ideas for sauces and salad dressings, such as his red beet delight and his green sauce. While some of the food prepartion techniques may be outdated, there are some great simple dishes, along with some ideas for transitional diets. Also includes a small section on growing wheatgrass indoors in 1/2" of soil.

Over 60 dairy-free recipes promising to energize you with the new smoothie cuisine, made mainly from uncooked foods.

This exciting new book by Rhonda Malkmus is the perfect companion piece to God’s Way to Ultimate Health because it begins where the theory and rationale for the Hallelujah Diet leaves off. With more than 400 nutritious and delicious recipes, our prayer is that this huge 8 1/2 by 11-inch spiral bound book will eventually be treasured in every kitchen in the land. Healthy food tastes wonderful, and this book proves it! Has important chapters on how to feed children and young adults, along with menus and even a section on feeding babies. Detailed index lists recipes not only by chapter but also alphabetically.

40 of the most original dairy-free milk recipes ever, made almost entirely from uncooked foods. Great recipes for children and teens.

If you liked the first recipe book from the popular vegetarian restaurant, Delights of the Garden, then you'll love their follow-up to it. Containing scores of delicious new recipes from their new menu, it's not just a cookbook but a whole life handbook for taking your eating habits and quality of living to a whole new level. It doesn't matter if you are a veteran vegetarian or just interested in cutting back on the animal and dairy products in your diet, in 30 short days, Delights of the Garden will help you bring about the changes you've been wanting to make in their lives.

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