Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes

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. From Booklist A cookbook dedicated to raw food appears oxymoronic to the uninitiated, but people who aim to pursue a raw vegan diet soon realize that eating uncooked foods involves more than simply chomping into whatever sits on grocers' produce shelves. Phyo shows how to create more complex flavor harmonies. Nutmeats of all sorts serve as a basis of many recipes, offering a spectrum of uses from cheese substitutions to pie crusts. Dates stand in for the sweetness less healthfully derived from refined sugar. Raw zucchini strips mimic fettuccini. A close reading of the nutritional analysis for each recipe reveals the high levels of dietary fiber this diet introduces. Although most of Phyo's ingredients are readily available, she does occasionally call for unfamiliar items such as liquid aminos, a replacement for soy sauce. Phyo also provides recipes for raw vegan dog food. Illustrations consist mainly of photographs of the author. Knoblauch, Mark Review "As a personal trainer, fitness instructor, runner, and athletic club manager we have always searched for ways to gain more energy, stay in shape, and still be sound of mind. Incorporating the raw diet and philosophies of SmartMonkey Foods into our daily lives has boosted our energy levels, helped us shed those last few pounds, and made us feel all around healthier than we have in years!" -- Alissa Leeper "Her array of delicious recipes will convince you that eating raw is not impossible and definitely not boring."--"Curve" "Ani's food is...inspiring. This book...makes raw cuisine accessible for everyone to enjoy."--Juliano Brotman, author of "Raw, The Uncookbook" "Provides a feasible...method to rejuvenate your mind and body."--Edward Kim MD, Director of Interventional Cardiology Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA About the Author Ani Phyo is a renowned raw food chef and show host, health coach, nutritionist, and author of four cookbooks, including Ani's Raw Food Essentials and Ani's Raw Food Kitchen. She lives in Los Angeles. aniphyo.com; @aniphyo