The Raw Food Primer
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.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars this book is an absolute joy.
i love the recipes but i’m also drawn to just flipping through the pages and enjoying the artwork. this is a well crafted and beautiful approach to food.
1 Star BORING!
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.
5 Stars Fantastic Foods for All
I have been a raw foodist for years and I have gone back and forth between many types of eating. This book is perfect for all eating forms. It is health, simple, creative, and extremely tasty. I have eaten at many raw food restaurants and tasted many recipes, they work with the natural elements and it can be difficult to make dishes satifying enough to consider a meal.
I can assure anyone who wants to get this book that it will bring you a varity of new favorite recipes. These recipes will be simple, rich, luxurious, and something you can share with everyone, especially your self.
Everything you make will be savored and consumed in the most pure fashion.
5 Stars The Raw Food Primer
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.
5 Stars The Raw Food Primer
This is a delightful, non-itimidating book for anyone wanting to explore raw cuisine. Beautifully illustrated, it also makes a great gift. I have given copies to friends and family members as an introduction to flavorful, energy-packed, unique dishes. The response has been very positive.
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