Rating: - Half of it can be done in the real world
I really like this book and do find it inspirational. However, many many of the recipes just can't be made. They take too long, the ingredients are difficult to find or prohibitively expensive.
I still think this book is worth buying though for the remaining recipes that can be made. The cool smoothies, salads, juices and some of the cookies and sweets.
Rating: - Definitely going the right way, however UK sourcing is a nightmare.
Their sentiment is sound and the writing style invigorating. I've tried a number of recipes but tend to go for the simpler ones bc of the time to a)soak and b)dehydrate involved for many of the dishes.
The greatest problem for us raw vegans in the UK is sourcing - whilst they list US websites, they don't do similar for the UK and I've only had partial success finding even half the ingredients they talk about.
So be warned!
Rating: - I would love to be able to follow it
Lovely book.
Great photos.
The only down side is that for most recipies you would need special equipment like a dehydrator.
Rating: - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL A N D USEFUL
2 Weeks ago, before heading for my first trip to N.Y., which should include a dinner at PURE FOOD AND WINE, I finally ordered the book, though I swore myself to not buy any further raw food cooking books (the ones I own are more than enough).
The dinner at PURE FOOD AND WINE was impossible to describe. I had the highest expectations, but what we experienced was really overwhelming!!
My husband really was freaking out about the delicious food!!! We couldn't believe it was raw!!
When we came home the book was in front of our house door and it is our most loved souvenir now. But in fact it is the most beautiful book on raw foods I own. It's done in such an outstanding high quality layout/photos/texts/graphics, that you ... Read More:
Rating: - Raw Food Forever
Two years ago I re-aquainted myself with the tenets of raw food, starting with Leslie Kenton who convinced me back in the mid 1980's. Many of my life and food choices changed with that. However, over the next 20 years my love of cooking became just that - cooking, with occasional forays into raw food again when I needed to lose weight/feel better. While holidaying in the US around 2000 I found "Juliano" who has been heralded with kick-starting the raw food movement there (with celebrity endorsements such as Demi Moore) but many of his recipes are very west-coast US specific with an emphasis on Mexican ingredients and mixing sweet and savoury things together which aren't to my taste. It inspired me with lots of everyday food but still didn't ... Read More: