Kristen Suzanne's EASY Raw Vegan Sides & Snacks: Delicious & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Side Dishes, Snacks, Spreads, Dips, Sauces & Breakfast [Paperback]

Kristen Suzanne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 20, 2008

Mounting evidence has shown that heat destroys many of the nutrients found in raw, living food, rendering it harder to digest and nutritionally diminished. Raw food is catching on! From Hollywood stars with personal chefs, to a host of chic new Manhattan restaurants, the Raw Food movement is sweeping the country as people learn about the dramatic health benefits derived by eating a vegan diet in which food is never heated above 118 degrees Fahrenheit. Entrees may get all the attention, but side dishes quietly make the meal. And let's face it, snacks make life worth living! Every recipe in this collection of amazing sides and snacks is SUPER easy to prepare. You'll never be out of ideas for rounding out a meal or what to take to a potluck. And speaking of parties, this book's section on spreads and dips will have your guests craving your FABULOUS appetizers without even realizing they're eating the world's healthiest food. Includes an extra bonus chapter on Raw vegan breakfast! This Raw food vegan recipe book also includes a "Raw Basics" introduction to Raw food (with 7 basic "must have" recipes) for people who are new to the subject.

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About the Author

Kristen Suzanne is an accomplished Raw food chef with a passion for helping people live life to the fullest with the healthiest cuisine in the world. Through radio, television, books, and her popular blog and email newsletter, Chef Kristen Suzanne helps individuals live and love the Raw lifestyle. For more information about Chef Kristen Suzanne, please visit KristensRaw.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Green Butterfly Press (November 20, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981755658
• ISBN-13: 978-0981755656
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #631,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi, I'm Kristen Suzanne, a Raw vegan chef, author and teacher with a passion for helping people succeed with the Raw vegan diet. I have been studying nutrition, fitness, and food preparation for 15 years. My passions for animals, food, health, and the environment are the driving factors behind my business' mission. I live in Arizona with my husband, daughter, and rescued dog, where we love and enjoy the constant sunshine, mountains, and palm trees.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Good Value for Amazing Tasting Recipes, April 14, 2009

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Terry (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kristen Suzanne's EASY Raw Vegan Sides & Snacks: Delicious & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Side Dishes, Snacks, Spreads, Dips, Sauces & Breakfast (Paperback)

Just about everybody familiar with the raw food books available out there knows that Kristen Suzanne is especially famous for amazing, subtle flavors and wickedly cool combinations, tasting so good in fact that many people who've previously been disappointed by raw food (because so many raw recipes fall flat, taste like mush, or at best all taste the same) end up truly embracing the lifestyle after trying Ms. Suzanne's completely unique recipes. In short, if you haven't tried her books, you haven't begun to experience all that raw food has to offer.

I'm compelled to write in response to the reviewer who called this book a "pamphlet" (despite buying Ms. Suzanne's other books?)... this is baseless. They are short only in that they cover one type of dish or topic (desserts, entrees, smoothies, etc.), but they cover that topic more completely than any book that I've come across yet. I love the format. It really lets you dive in and explore, offers something for veterans but is also 100% accessible to beginners too. Which brings me to my next point...

Pamphlet lady said that the books repeat recipes. Let me clarify: Each of Ms. Suzanne's books (so far as I know) comes with a standard intro for beginners that includes six "basic" recipes that everybody exploring raw food should have (such as rejuvalac and nut milk). If you've read this in one book, you're just supposed to skip it in her subsequent books. This isn't rocket science; it's really helpful for beginners and is spelled out really clearly in the intro, and also on Ms. Suzanne's website, which includes a list of all of the recipes in all of her books (http://kristensraw.com/recipe_lists.php#sides).

Regarding the recipes, this book has a whopping 60 recipes, broken down as follows: the 6 basics (these are the ones repeated in all her books), 24 side dishes, 18 spreads, dips, and sauces, 6 snacks, and 6 breakfasts. Trust me, there's more great sides and snacks here than I've found anywhere, which again, is the nature of Ms. Suzanne's multi-book format... tons of recipes, you just choose the books you want.

This book is 80 pages and only costs twelve dollars. So for 60 recipes, it's a great value and calling it a pamphlet is just the empty gripe of somebody who's more into bells and whistles, and big books with lots of white space and airy quotes... than super amazing recipes you won't find anywhere else. This is one of my favorites of Kristen Suzanne, along with her soup and holidays books. I've found the types of "everyday" recipes are great for adding lots of raw into your life, whereas the entrees and desserts books are great for family meals or exposing new people to raw by taking dishes to parties, etc, that everyone asks about. (I haven't tried her hemp book but I just confirmed that the Whole Foods near me carries hemp products so I plan on getting that one next.)

Highly recommended.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and Delicious, December 10, 2008

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Christine Terlesky (Royal Oak, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kristen Suzanne's EASY Raw Vegan Sides & Snacks: Delicious & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Side Dishes, Snacks, Spreads, Dips, Sauces & Breakfast (Paperback)

Kristen's Easy Raw Vegan Sides and Snacks offers easy and great tasting dishes to go with any entrée or salad, or just plain by themselves. If you're someone like me who has a hard time eating plain vegetables than this is the book for you. Her recipes are very flavorful, use a variety of spices and don't require a lot of time to prepare. She includes a wide variety of vegetables, sauces, mixes and spreads to dress up your veggies so you won't get bored. Her Tuscan Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and Flying Dragon Broccoli are awesome. I love to snack on the Simply Sweet Pumpkin Seeds and throw the Sweet Vanilla Rain Sunflower Seeds on my salads. She makes the most amazing Cheezy Nacho Sauce I've ever tasted. It's goes great with her South of the Border Pate (entrée's) and as a dip for her Frais Fries. It's really great to finally find a recipe book that makes veggies easier to eat and enjoy. I would highly recommend all of Kristen's books. You won't be disappointed.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Live past 100 and still look hot! And the food tastes great!, January 25, 2009

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Maeven - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kristen Suzanne's EASY Raw Vegan Sides & Snacks: Delicious & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Side Dishes, Snacks, Spreads, Dips, Sauces & Breakfast (Paperback)

People are catching on about the benefits of eating raw, but in the early years most recipes pretty much tasted like cardboard. Well, thanks to the ingenuity of many experimental raw chefs like Kristen Suzanne, now your food can taste incredible, too! I absolutely LOVE Kristen's recipes. I've been raw for 8 years and have a ton of raw books and recipes. When people new to raw ask me which book I most recommend, I always point them to Kirsten Suzanne. I use all of her books more than any other. They are my favorite and the most delicious raw recipes I have. I've taken her "Greatest Hummus in the World" to potlucks and parties and it's always a favorite. Raw garbanzos just don't taste quite right, and this one is bean-less. Non-raw people can't even tell the difference and think it's the best they've ever had! I've been extremely pleased with all of her recipes. I like that she also pays a lot of attention to the beauty of the dish as well. I think most people (certainly myself) don't realize how much presentation plays into our experience of food and our perceptions of how it tastes. I also really like her "How to Get Started and Succeed" intro to raw, as it's very concise, backed up by medical research, and pretty much to the point without any raw Nazi propaganda or unnecessary content filler. She breaks it down and gives great tips for success, some of which are in this book and all her others. Simple, to the point, inspiring and delicious! Definitely my favorite raw author! Be sure to check out her website, too! [...]