Customer Reviews

Five Star Raw Spa Cuisine With Chef Bryan Au

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There are some good recipes in this book as well as his other book, "Raw in Ten Minutes", but they're overly shadowed by his constant marketing of himself and products. He's sponsored by Blendtec and, apparently, some food brands so he overly promotes them throughout the book in his recipes and commentary. I could live with the marketing if it was confined to the equipment section but it's in the recipes themselves where they call for this or that brand and instructions like; "Using my Ceramic Peeler make long ... " and "You can also add my Tibetan Goji Berries ... "

[...] You can learn to make a lot of raw food items with this book if you can stomach the constant promotions. Kind of like learning to roast a chicken by watching a Popeil informercial, the information is there but the ads are annoying. [...]

Raw food purists won't like the trying to make raw food mimic something it's not, but for someone making the transition this isn't a bad way to go. Raw food has come a long way from salads and celery sticks. Bryan has a lot to offer but needs to tone down the promoting/self-promoting and seek fame and fortune by producing quality products. [...]

I have had this book a week. The recipes are quick and not tons of ingredients. I enjoyed the RawUp and Raw Coke. The "Fried Wonton" was great. These are low in fat and nuts. Very heathy book.