Raw Family Signature Dishes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Essential Live-Food Recipes
Raw Family Signature Dishes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Essential Live-Food Recipes
While the raw food diet is the fastest growing alternative approach to eating because of its health benefits, preparing raw food dishes is so new that many people don’t know where to start. With 500 color photos, this friendly, step-by-step guide gently walks readers through recipes to create amazingly delicious and nutritious meals. Victoria Boutenko and her family are known worldwide as the Raw Family, living on a raw diet and teaching classes since 1994. Throughout the years they have perfected scores of scrumptious recipes with the idea of not only spreading the gospel of the diet’s health benefits, but also making the raw foods lifestyle realistically possible and enjoyable.
Mouth-watering rather than medicinal, simple rather than complicated, the recipes presented here include jams, scones, soup, crackers, nut milk, truffles, chocolate cake, mousse cake, and more. Complete, illustrated directions make it simple for both avid raw foodists and novice cooks alike to embrace the diet favored by Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, Donna Karan, and other celebrities.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars AWESOME!
Really love all the illustrations! There isn’t a lot of recipes, however, it does an awesome job helping you to see how to actually do some of the things that we have been trying to do all a long. GREAT JOB! I would say this is a great addition to anyone new to raw foods and anyone who has started the journey within the last year or so.
Great recipes too!
5 Stars one of the best raw food books
I think this is the best instruction ever given in raw food books for preperation. Such detail that a child could do each with ease. I especially liked the veggie burger.
One complaint—the pages started to seperate from the book after only a couple of uses. I may have to remove them all and put in a loose leaf folder.
5 Stars The photos ‘make’ this cookbook!
While I found this book to be the perfect companion to the book “12 Steps to Raw Foods”, I also believe it stands very well alone. If you are considering a raw food diet, or if you’ve already started, this book is a MUST READ. Ms. Boutenko shows you how to make her family’s favorite dishes. I must say I have NEVER seen a cookbook that is so easy to follow! Each recipe has lists of ingredients as well as tools needed and helpful informational boxes. Did I mention the HUNDREDS of color photos? The photos show EVERY step of the cooking process, so that I could literally see the dish form before my eyes. The pictures really ‘make’ this book.
I had no idea it was possible to make raw desserts like cakes and pies - they look absolutely delicious and I can’t wait to try one.
Lastly, the back of the book contains helpful recommendations on the Boutenko family’s favorite kitchen appliances that will help you make any of these dishes.
Five Stars.
5 Stars Worth the price just for the bread recipe! User-friendly photos for each step!
This book is filled with recipes that the Boutenkos would present during their workshops. “Core recipes,” they have been retested and refined over many years.
Have you ever made a recipe and found that it just didn’t turn out nearly as nice as the stunning color photo in the book? One thing that makes this uncook book unique is its step -by-step guide with photos of each step in the process.
Arguably, even an illiterate or non English reader could prepare these recipes! It makes you feel almost as though you are at a raw food demo workshop. (Incidentally, this was done because of complaints from readers that their recipes didn’t turn out as good as the Boutenkos’.)
Years ago I paid $15 for a recipe booklet with photos of each step for Igor’s bread–and it was worth it for just that one recipe! Now you can get ALL their core recipes in a sturdy book for nearly the same price! These mouthwatering recipes are sure to become staples in your diet, demanded routinely by family members, regardless of whether you “go raw” or not. Healthy alternatives to chocolate cake, bread, chocolate truffles, etc! Guilt free desserts, such as scones like they serve at Starbuck’s, but without the constipating, mind-fogging wheat! Some of the recipes are simple, some more complex, yet the photos make even the complex ones seem easy. We learn that raw jams have half the calories as their cooked counterparts, and the sensational mousse cake recipe has only 1/6 as many calories as the traditional one! Yet, no taste is compromised, and in fact, the raw stuff actually leaves the cooked way behind in flavor.
There is even a guide (complete with daily photos) on how to make sprouts. With this book, no one can use the excuse that the learning curve for making raw is too hard; indeed, Victoria may put many of us that give raw food workshops out of business!
Sprinkled throughout the book are some essays, including a list of the benefits of green smoothies, and a story about how Victoria’s husband got involved in the food prep. The back of the book has a complete listing and description of the kitchen tools and where to get them, as well as how much to expect to pay.
I have dozens of raw food recipe books, but this one is destined to become a classic—removing the mystique and fear of creating raw gourmet food once and for all!
5 Stars helpful pictures and step by step instructions
Raw Family Signature Dishes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Essential Live-Food Recipes This has very simple easy step by step instructions with pictures. Helpful for someone new to raw foods like me. I tried the salad dressing recipe and that was great. It is a hot dressing, so if you like foods that are spicey and hot then you would like it too.
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