Fresh: New Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes from the Award-winning Fresh Restaurants [Paperback]

Ruth Tal (Author), Jennifer Houston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2011

More nutritious, modern, and utterly delicious recipes from Fresh—the award-winning restaurant chain in Canada

Longtime patrons of Fresh know what to expect: scrumptious meatless meals made from all-natural, wholesome ingredients, full of exotic flavours and energy-boosting nutrients designed to make them feel incredible. In their new cookbook, founder Ruth Tal and co-owner and head chef Jennifer Houston offer Fresh fans even more recipes from their enticing and healthy menu. Loaded with nutritious recipes as well as tips on maintaining a healthy and balanced vegan/vegetarian diet, Fresh balances good eating with great taste on every page.

For born food lovers or lovers of the new and trendy restaurant scene, the book also re-creates the dining experience at Fresh, with dozens of colour photographs that showcase the restaurant's funky urban decor.

• Fresh has been featured on Food Network's Best of Show as one of the top juice bars in North America and named one of Toronto's top 20 influential restaurants of the past 20 years by Now magazine
• The authors' previous book, reFresh, was a North American bestseller
• Fresh offers 150 new recipes for smoothies, salads, sandwiches, and other delights

A cookbook designed to make healthy eating a daily inspiration, Fresh brings the revitalizing creations of the award-winning Fresh restaurants right into your kitchen.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'A cookbook that tells a story, which makes it a worthwhile addiction to anybody's collection.' (The Vegetarian, May 2012)

From the Inside Flap

It's been twenty years since Ruth Tal founded the juice bar that became the hugely popular Fresh restaurant chain. Ruth blazed a trail for vegetarians and vegans with juices and smoothies that are good for our bodies, good for the Earth and wildly good-tasting. In fresh, she and her business partner Jennifer Houston present a whole new range of possibilities for eating and drinking, in more than 200 recipes.

Many of these irresistible dishes and drinks are familiar favourites from the Fresh menu, including smoothies, juices, sandwiches, salads and sweets, alongside dozens of new classics. This is food to satisfy, to replenish—and to help you live lightly on the planet.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470677961
• ISBN-13: 978-0470677964
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #449,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Excited About This! January 26, 2012

By NotThatGirl

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I just received this cookbook today so I haven't even gotten a chance to make anything yet but felt I needed to provide a review that would hopefully prove helpful to others deciding on this book. I am not a vegan or vegetarian but I am trying hard to make more veggie centered meals and not make meat the star of every dish. I have experimented with vegan dishes before but I wouldn't say I am an expert on vegan cooking by any stretch of the imagination. This is a really cool little book with lots of tasty sounding recipes in it. While glancing through the ingredient lists of the recipes there isn't anything that looked like I would have trouble tracking it down (we live in an area where it can be a little tough to find some ingredients but for the most part I can find everything I need through some local health food stores or the internet. I can find nutritional yeast, tempeh, and all sorts of tofu with no trouble, but I am still looking for miso paste if that gives you an idea)and even though some were a little long, once you checked it out you could see that many of the items required were already pantry staples (apple cider vinegar, safflower oil, salt & pepper for example). The book is divided into two halves; there is the food section, and then a juicing and smoothie part. This is one of my favorite parts of the book. There are some helpful introductions to each part of the book with equipment recommendations too(peelers and juicers, tongs, kitchen basics on prep of some ingredients & spices, stuff like that). If your looking strictly for food recipes in this book, know that that back half is going to be all liquid recipes. If your looking for more than just food this will fit the bill! At the time of this review there is no way to "look inside" the book so the contents chapters are as follows: Appetizers, Soup, Salads, Sandwiches+Wraps, Entrees, Sauces+Dressings, Brunch+Sweets, Ect. The fresh juices/smoothies chapters are as follows: Cleanses, E3Live+Wheatgrass Smoothies, Fresh+Greens Plus, Power Shakes, Espresso Shakes, Avocado Smoothies, Fruit Smoothies, Vegetable Cocktails, and Lemonades. What I find helpful in this book is that the author not only offers substitutions for some of the ingredients called for, but she also explains why something is good for you to try or what benefit there is to be derived from it. At times I have run across healthy cookbooks that just have a recipe but no real information on it. While not being wholly informational, this gives you more than just a recipe to follow. There is no nutritional information for any recipes (I wish there was) and there aren't pictures for every dish either. There are pictures though and they are pretty, some of the food just looks so bright and colorful and really tasty. A big selling point for me is this being a combo vegetarian/vegan cookbook. I have a book on cooking veg (Fast Fresh & Green) and a vegan one (Spork Fed) but I wanted something that combined the two a little more and this is it. In one of the introductions the author mentions this the only one of their cookbooks that includes vegetarian recipes too. I was considering their other book 'refresh' but chose this because of the combination. None of the recipes look very time consuming either which is a plus, I wanted something on the quick and easy side rather than something filled with 'weekend'type recipes. This cookbook is a great addition to the others in my collection and I am looking forward to using it.

0 of 26 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting October 30, 2011

By Susan M. Morgan

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My husband and I are new to vegetarianism. This cookbook is a little out there for us at this time...but may be useful in the future when we are farther along in our vegetarianism walk!