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

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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1600940005
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Average Customer Review: (From 68 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

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.

Customer Reviews

Fresh outlook by Welsh Bard
This book is like a fresh morning rain! I really like the author’s style. Although some of the recipes have some esoteric ingredients, I would attempt them with alternative ingredients because she does have suggestions for them. Wish she had some cat food recipes, though. . . she does have dog food recipes! But overall I really think it’s carved a niche in the market of raw foods.

YES–finally someone’s made it easy! by Anita Williams
I did lots of research, and I can honestly say that this book has the most accessible information, and provides the most realistic approach to raw foods for the average person or family. Simple, fast, clean, delicious recipes using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen right now, with just enough theory to keep you motivated about raw foods. BUY THIS ONE FIRST–you won’t be sorry!

I Should Have Actually Given This 3 Stars… by M. Mattenson
I am relatively new to the raw food lifestyle; I have been reading and learning about it on the internet, and when I saw this book at Borders it looked really good so I thought I’d give it a try.

I would say this book disappoints in as many ways as it is good. As far as the integrity of the recipes, when I first got it home I tried 5 to 6 recipes. 2 of them were really good, and the rest of them were REALLY bad. This sort of put me off from it for a good while, but I decided after a while to give it another shot and made a few more things, all of which were pretty good.

For specific examples: The taco nut meat is excellent. It does actually have a taco meat flavor and the consistency is appealing. On the other hand, the “nacho cheeze” recipe was revolting. This is a cheeze recipe with it’s main flavors coming from turmeric, cayenne, and lemon juice. It tasted like a weird mustard sauce — not surprisingly, and was nothing like what the name would suggest it was.

Things I like about this book: She gives some good background for beginners; the recipes overall are simple, quick, and accessible. If you’re just starting out, there are few things in here that could overwhelm you.

Things I don’t like about this book: There is a picture of her on almost every page, whether it be her making something, eating something, or doing something completely unrelated to the book. She has a broad but shallow range of recipes — there are many, but most are built off of each other.

I could also really do without the pet food section in the back — she talks about feeding her dog a raw VEGAN diet, and I personally think this is just asinine.

most usable raw food book I’ve read by Sarabeth xvx
The number one thing that makes this (un) cookbook the best one I’ve ever read, and I have 6 others, is that it is simple and does not require many special tools. As a previous reviewer stated most recipes really only require a blender. If you have a food processor also, great, but not required. Most of the recipes require very little prep and a small amount of ingredients. My biggest set back in using other raw books is that by the time you soak, sprout, blend, and dehydrate you are looking at eating your food about a week out from starting the recipe. With Ani’s book the average prep would be soaking some nuts or seeds overnight and then less than 30 minutes of assembly.

It is a beautiful book with pleasing colors and design, it’s very readable and can be a little repeatative but I didn’t find that to be a negative. It just helped to solidify the ideas.

I would recommend it to anyone interested in raw food, but it would be extra helpful to anyone new to raw food prep as it is so encouraging that the recipes are simple and turn out delicious. I have tried a few so far and plan on continuing as produce is in season. I added a photo to the customer photos above of a raw apple pie I made which was SO delicious! I would try it first thing! Shop around for your dates though and try to find them cheap…