Other raw books?

[faith4u]

Hi everyone!

I love Alisa's book and DVD but am wanting to order some more books. Do any of you have any recommendations on other great raw books?

Thanks,
Tracy

[sport]

If you are only starting then "The Raw Food Detox Book" by Natalia Rose is ok but it is too lenient for me because it allows too many transition foods. At the other end of the spectrum is "Living Food For Radiant Health" by Elaine Bruce. This is good because it goes further than food and has lots of lifestyle tips but her idea of food is too strict and not much fun. Good to get you started sprouting and growing stuf though.

[exurb]

I didn't like the Raw Foods Detox Diet myself.

My top "likes"

Living Cuisine - Renee Loux Underkoffler (Woody Harrelson's raw chef on his tour)
Raw Food Real World - Sarma Melngailis, Matthew Kenney - nice book and filled with pictures.

Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein's "Raw" is very gourmet, I like it when I want a knockout dish, but don't uncook from it all that often. It has less recipes than some.

Gab Cousens Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine has lots of recipes. some are sort of average tasting though, but some are quite good. IMO too much use of flax too.

When I started to get too many raw books, I found a lot of the recipes seem similar and there's a lot of cross adapting from each other's books...

Another one some people like but I don't is The Complete Book of Raw Food. IT's inexpensive, has lots of recipes, the concept is good in that it is a compilation from a bunch of raw chefs. What I don't like is two things, 1, I've made too many "dogs" from that one, and feel like they didn't test their recipes, and 2, I get the impression it is put together by people not that knowledgable about raw foods, because it uses way too many blatantly not raw ingredients (such as rolled oats) and would give a newby the wrong impression of what is raw.

The first two books I listed, everything I made from them was good, Charlie Trotters book, everything I made was awesome, except the cauliflower soup which was absolutely vile. :o

[Revvell]

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5064

[Punky]

I didn't like the Raw Foods Detox Diet myself.

My top "likes"

Living Cuisine - Renee Loux Underkoffler (Woody Harrelson's raw chef on his tour)
Raw Food Real World - Sarma Melngailis, Matthew Kenney - nice book and filled with pictures.

The first two books I listed, everything I made from them was good, Charlie Trotters book, everything I made was awesome, except the cauliflower soup which was absolutely vile. :o

I have to agree with Exurb, on her recommendations.
My favorite uncookbooks are Alissa's, Living Cuisine by Underkoffler,
and Raw Food Real World. Those are the three that get *left out* while
the rest are shelved.
I also have Charlie Trotter's RAW and it is beautiful. It's not for the everyday
and ultra gourmet. I recommend looking thru it before buying it since
their are some hard to find exotic ingrediants in some of the recipes.
I haven't had a chance to make much from it
yet though except a couple of juice recipes, but can't wait to make a few
to try out (I am eyeing the Dolmas).

I have the "RAW Food DETOX Diet" on my XMas list, so waiting to see
what it's all about.

[faith4u]

Thanks everyone.

It sure helps to get opinions. I don't want to end up with hundreds of raw books like the tons of vegan cookbooks that I now have but I would like to read more.

Knowledge is power!!

Tracy

[Sharon in Colorado]

Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 people by Jennifer Cornbleet is a winner.

The Raw Food Detox diet is a good book for transitioners but not if you are way beyond transitioning, and have a pure diet. It is great and practical for a raw library to share with others and get them introduced to raw food without scaring them. I just sent one to my BIL who is mostly vegan and interested in health.

Raw Truth by Jeremy Safron has a lot of promising recipes.

[eatyourbroccoli]

Hey

I've recently purchased RAW: The UNcook Book by Juliano

Has anybody read this? Is it good/bad?

I've browsed through it and a lot seems to be more..gourmet I guess you could say. But I haven't really taken the time to sit down and read it so who knows..maybe the 9 or 10 pages I happened to open were all just the more difficult recipes

:)

[Raw_Medic]

I have Juliano's "Raw, the Uncook boook." It has some great recipes in it... I've found some of them very involved, but if you like to cook a lot, you'll like it.

I have eaten some good recipes, but also some bad ones too....the spicy carrot soup...yuck!

good luck!