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The Raw Food Primer [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Suzanne Ferrara (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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Book Description

January 1, 2003
Forget everything you have been taught about eating raw. This is not a boring book about bland salads and munching on carrot sticks for breakfast lunch and dinner —The Raw Food Primer is filled with fifty delicious, easy-to-follow recipes that are sure to make your tummy growl.

Eating is more than just taking nutrients in. It's also pleasure, communion, and the taste of life. With the blossoming of raw food as an artistic cuisine, eating is also about discovering intense natural flavors and enticing high palate food lovers to explore new/old ways to eat. As the raw food movement enters the culinary mainstream, Chef Alex is right here to help with The Raw Food Primer as a starter kit. Those who try these succulent recipes will enjoy deep comfort, great nutrition, and fresh paths to glowing health.

For many, raw food is already a way of life. But when we try to explain it to friends, family or students who don’t yet know the pleasures and the benefits of eating "raw", they may say, "You can’t keep up your energy with raw carrots" or "Yuck! That sounds really boring" or "I can’t give up my pasta!" To answer such remarks, Chef Alex has written The Raw Food Primer. She gently introduces "first timers" to the concept of raw foods and a vegetarian diet. Encouraging them to add raw food slowly to their diet, she avoids a zealous approach that may frighten off people curious about "uncooking" but not quite ready to give raw cuisine a full embrace. With her charming, low-pressure style, Ferrara eases the reader into true eagerness to try tasty raw dishes and reap the health benefits like more energy. Many people who have gone raw report that they have a leaner structure, clearer skin and eyes, and they no longer experience problems with allergies or fatigue.

The Raw Food Primer is perfect for curious students of this revolutionary food experience or the more experienced raw foodist — or anyone who merely appreciates delicious food.



Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Ready to go raw? Artistic cuisine and intense, natural flavors abound in the recipes of The Raw Food Primer. Adventuresome chefs and their developed palates will discover new and ancient ways to enjoy eating with Suzanne Alex Ferrara, author, artist, chef, and uncooking instructor for over twenty years. With her charming, low-pressure style and vibrant illustrations, Ferrara eases the reader into true eagerness to try the tasty, healthful benefits of eating raw.

From the Publisher

With Chef Alex’s beautiful Santa Fe-style illustrations, expert guidance, delicious recipes, The Raw Food Primer is an affordable, timely, delicious and delightful antidote to the ills of "Fat America."

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Council Oak Books (January 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1571781307
  • ISBN-13: 978-1571781307
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,084,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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68 of 80 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars BORING!, July 14, 2004
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This review is from: The Raw Food Primer (Hardcover)
Having read literally DOZENS of great raw foods books, (as a raw foods nutrition specialist, I have to know this subject, backwards and forwards,) I must say, I was underwhelmed. This book just simply is NOT a raw foods primer, as the title states, but the "artist's" self-promotion.

A primer would teach basic raw foods techniques. You'd be better off with Steve Meyerowitz' Sproutman's Kitchen Garden Cookbook. At least you'd learn how to sprout, how to juice, how to dehydrate, etc. This book assumes you already know that.

A primer would teach basic recipes. You'd be better off with Rhio's Hooked on Raw. At least you'd have dozens upon dozens of simple, basic recipes you could go home and fix up for dinner TONIGHT.

All this book is, is several pages the "artist's" ART work, and a few pages of boring, overly-complicated froo-froo cuisine.

This is NOT a primer. It's showing off.

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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Enticing Raw Foods, April 29, 2004
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Artist Barbara Garro (Barbara Garro at http://www.ElectricEnvisions.com in Saratoga Springs, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Raw Food Primer (Hardcover)
I am beyond excited about the possibilities of wonderful new, raw foods for summer thanks to "The Raw Food Primer" and the creativity of Chef Suzamme Alex Ferrara. As an artist, I could tell right away that she was an artist, too.

Everything about the book is happy, bright and inviting. It told me what I needed to buy to begin and also told me that a lot of the foods I am eating lend themselves to the raw food regime. How exciting!

What fun to make "Flying Eggplant Pizzas" and "Raw Raviolis." And, best of all, I am excited about the seed bread and crackers, all deliciously wheat-free.

I am shocked that raw could be this good. Hot summer, cold healthy foods, sounds like a plan I'll enjoy.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Raw Food Primer, January 15, 2006
This review is from: The Raw Food Primer (Hardcover)
As a long time predominantly raw vegan, I am always interested in user-friendly recipes for my ultra busy life. There are two recipes in this book that I can use to impress any type of palate, including my own. The apple pie I have made repeatedly for special get togethers. At a raw gathering in Minneapolis I actually had people introducing me as the one who brought the apple pie. The candied walnuts I made as gifts for family, my mailman, my boyfriend, my co-workers and think I will do it year after year. I am being asked to make and sell them. You must try it to understand. You will need a dehydrator for the walnuts.
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