Customer Reviews

Feasting on Raw Foods: Featuring over 350 Healthful No-Cook Recipes for Every Part of a Meal -- from Appetizers through Main Course Dishes to Desserts

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I bought this book because I was interested in old school raw recipes.

* I knew the book would be outdated, but I like reading older stuff like that. One outdated thing about the book is that they considered raw food to be anything heated under 140F degrees. It says, "tempureturs between 140F and 160F start to bring about undesirable changes in the composition of food". Raw foodists now consider enzyme loss to be between 105F - 120F degrees.

* One thing I didn't like about the book is that they are VERY much against 100% raw. The highest they recommend is 80%.

* Another thing is the title is false advertising, lol! Almost EVERY recipe calls for milk, cottage cheese or yogurt. There's hardly any truly raw recipes at all.

I'm going to try some of the recipes and just use a raw vegan version of the non raw animal products.

So, in my opinion, this book is okay. I was hoping it was going to be a 100% raw old school recipe book, but it wasn't.

This book has a wealth of recipes to choose from. Making recipes from easy to procure foods inspire you to try your own favorite alternatives in the recipes. Plenty of selections to satisfy your sweet tooth. These are great alternatives to: french fries, chips, high carb items, and toast with jelly in the morning!

However, he believes in cheese eating and if that's not in your raw food diet, you will have some problems with this book. Good basics, nothing spectacular but solid.