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Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes
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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.
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Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes
- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press; 2007-05-06
- Label: Da Capo Press
- Studio: Da Capo Press
- ISBN: 1600940005
- Average Customer Review: based on 97 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #2395
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Summary: An unintimidating introduction to raw foods 2008-11-16
Comment: I can easily see why Ani has escalated to raw food fame over the past few years. This is actually the second raw food cookbook I have trialed (as a non-raw foodist). The first was the Raw 50, and I unfortunately found it uninspiring and too complex. However, Ani has recaptured my curiosity about the raw food diet.
Since I have yet to dive into raw foodism, beyond salads and smoothies, I don't yet have the helpful equipment like a food dehydrator and a spiralizer. Ani recognizes that though many of us may be interested in dipping our toes in the raw food diet, we don't want to rush out and buy a car load of kitchen equipment just to give it a trial run. There were a surprising amount of recipes I could make with just a knife and my blender, though a food processor would be helpful. For those like me who are small appliance impaired, each recipe actually has little, easy-to-notice pictures next to them that let you know what equipment will be needed, whether it is simply your hands, a knife, a blender, a dehydrator, or one of those spiralizer do-dads that I still have never seen. I thought this was a very cool feature.
The recipes are also surprisingly unintimidating. For the most part, they have short ingredient lists with brief instructions, but the results are flavorful, especially if you use good quality and in-season ingredients (this is key). Ani is another chef who emphasizes that the quality of the ingredients is really what makes the dish rather than adding a myriad of different flavors. The huge selection of recipes with less than ten recipes even made me feel like I could take on a mostly raw diet.
Of course, I still didn't jump in with both feet, but I have had fun dabbling. Though it is a bit more work without a food processor, the fresh Mango Cobbler is delightful, the simple veggie dishes like the Thai-Style Cucumbers were good starters, and I loved the huge selection of "mylks" and smoothies. Most of Ani's shakes and smoothies are quite thin, like a slightly thick beverage, so I learned to tone down the liquids and add more ice since I prefer them thicker and frostier, but to each their own.
As many people have commented, the book could be cut down a bit in size with less wording and photos. While we all love food photos, and it is inspiring to see how healthy Ani is, I think a few less personal photos and a trim down on the overall writing would make this book feel more cohesive. I do love that Ani includes several tips and ideas throughout, but like many raw food cookbooks I have perused, the message of why to go raw seems to be repeat itself a bit much.
Nonetheless, this is a true find. I can't speak on behalf of veteran raw foodists, since I am far from one, but for newbies or those of us who are just curious, this is a great starter book filled with easy recipes.
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Summary: A MUST-HAVE! 2008-10-27
Comment: I have several raw food recipe books but this one tops the cake. Yes, there are a lot of pictures of her in the book but her info is so helpful-from beginner to more experienced Raw Foodist; this book is what you need. She is very informative and the recipes are delish. I'm enjoying some chocolate mlylk now...
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Summary: I love Ani's Raw Food Kitchen 2008-10-22
Comment: Of course I love Ani's Raw Food Kitchen, since it is my book. :)
Just wanted to post a note since many of you have been commenting and asking me questions.
Thank you for enjoying my book. It means all the world to me to know you are enjoying it, that it is making a difference in your lives, that it is inspiring new ways of thinking.
Some are critical about the number of photos of me throughout the book. I didn't intend for all these photos of myself to be included, but the publisher thought it looked best this way. Also, I really wanted to show a glimpse into the lifestyle of living and eating green. The raw food diet is so much more than just a diet for me. It's changed my life, how I live, how I relate to other living beings, how I treat our planet.
A decision was made to keep the cost of the book as low as possible. I wanted the recipes to be in the hands of more people, rather than less because the book cost $45. This means black and white printing, rather than color. And, much of the food photos didn't look good black and white. However, the lifestyle photos worked in black and white. I just didn't want a black and white book that was all text. Wanted lots of photos and a nice visual feel throughout.
My next book, Ani's Raw Food Desserts, will be all color with a photo for almost every recipe. It'll be available in early May 09. Please keep a lookout for it. And remember to visit my website for more recipes, tips, organic ingredients, and to watch my free uncooking shows on various online networks:
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Thank you for your support and for choosing to live green and healthy! RAWk on.
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Summary: YUMMY! 2008-10-17
Comment: There are soooo many great recipes. Simple and exotic. This book is a must for your collection.
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Summary: ignore all the pics of ani and you'll be fine 2008-10-11
Comment: Ok, I gave this cookbook five stars because I personally feel that the recipes are scrumptious and delightful. This is a fantastic cookbook. There, I've said it. If you are new to raw food, pick up a copy of this little beauty. The recipes aren't too frightening, and she rarely uses a dehydrator. Dehydrators can be scary and intimidating if you aren't accustomed to using one, and I think Miss Ani considered that.
Sure, when I was thumbing through it I got a bit peeved at all the silly pictures of pretty Ani and her raw-food-eating-planet-saving-self. And yeah, I kinda felt like beating my head into the wall after reading all her blurbs on living green and loving animals and all that stuff. I mean, jeez, it's a COOKBOOK.
but then i realized just how much thought she put into her cookbook, and how proud she must be of the recipes and the book as a whole... and you know- that's pretty nice.
besides, sarma and mathew's book (raw food real world) is littered with cutesy couples pictures. ani won points for not going THAT far off the deep end. i much preferred the pictures of her dog, kanga.
do you think raw foodists are just more prone to being elitist snobs that are in love with themselves? meh, i forgive them.
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Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes
