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Title: The Complete Book of Raw Food: Healthy, Delicious Vegetarian Cuisine Made With Living Foods--Includes Over 350 Recipes from the World's Top Raw Food Chefs by Julie Rodwell, Victoria Boutenko, Elysa Markowitz ISBN: 1-57826-143-0 Publisher: Hatherleigh Pr Pub. Date: 15 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: 350 recipes for preparing uncooked fruits and vegetables
Comment: Raw Food: Healthy, Delicious Vegetarian Cuisine Made With Living Foods is more than a cookbook featuring 350 recipes for preparing uncooked fruits and vegetables; it also offers a wealth of experience and insight into juicing, cutting, drying, and other methods creating delicious raw meals. Whether one is reluctant to heat foods above 115 degrees (F) in order to preserve their health giving enzymes, or simply wants to enjoy the natural flavor of nature's bounty, Raw Food is a superb primer and resource for enjoying the best of the best. Includes instructions for making great salads, soups, smoothies, cheese substitutes, and more. Note that Raw Food is a vegetarian cookbook and does not cover sushi or other fish and seafood preparation.

Rating: 3
Summary: Partially good, partially unwise, all sloppy
Comment: As a longtime vegetarian and proponent of whole foods, I've greeted the raw food movement with some admiration and some skepticism. Eating lots of vegetables and nuts in as natural a state as possible can indisputably enhance your health, and some of the recipes in this book offer delicious and non-intuitive flavor and texture combinations.

But I believe quite strongly that the "movement" has a very unsavory cultish side to it, and following this diet strictly can lead to undernourishment if not anorexia. Following vegetarianism as long as I have, I've had the distress of seeing more than one friend grow alarmingly thin and frail on similar, obsessive diets. And sorry, but the "science" behind a lot of the movement's proclamations on enzymes and what heat does to substances are just pure snake-oil junk science.

Most of these recipes are very, very time intensive, and many require dehydrators, large sprouters and expensive juicers. By time intensive, I mean they require chopping, blending or processing, mixing and then 12 hours or more of dehydrating. It's not a cookbook you can leaf through to decide on what to make for dinner tonight.

The majority of the dishes are for desserts, sweet soups, and the like. Based on my personal observations, that is because people on raw-foods diets become obsessed with "healthy" substitutes for "junk food." And so you see recipes for things like "pizza crisps" and raw approximations of "refried beans" in this book.

But some of the recipes, like the sprouted chickpea hummus and guacamoles, are delicious. The dressings and nut-lump-things are OK if you don't mind the grassy/woody taste of soaked raw nuts. The "breads" I've tried bordered on inedible.

Technically speaking, the editing in this book is atrocious. I don't remember the last time I read something with so many typos, omitted words and flubbed tables. Additionally, there is an interminable section near the back filled with pointless, self-serving bios of the contributors. This should be another tip that you're in authoritative, lionizing guru-land.

You can take some nice dishes and approaches from this book, as long as you're aware that it's the macrobiotics of the '00s. Bottom line: It's a diet of raw vegetables, fruits, seeds and soaked nuts. It is nothing more, and it's not magic any more than some pill that claims to give you instant health.

Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Recommended
Comment: This book is packed with recipes and preparation skills from the top raw chefs around. Well edited and beautifully presented. An important book to own.

I met several of the contributing chefs at a recent event...over 40 in total...each with their own unique style. From gourmet raw cusine to simple every preparations and everything in between, this book has it all. It's nice to be able to experiment with such a range of recipes.

Color pictures are included that show select final dishes and serving suggestions. Complete index, resource directory, shopping hints, and more are also a bonus.

A terrific value for the price.

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