Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes

These recipes are quick, simple and easy to make. Yet they turn out wonderful Gourmet looking dishes that consistently get oohs and ahs from my guests.

The book is packed full of information regarding nutrition, indredients and impacts.

Can't wait for her next book!

Good start for anyone wishing to make a transition into eating more raw foods. The recipes are good and have complex flavors, something I did not expect. Why four stars? Because some very important scientific facts she gets wrong in her book, which she attempts to pass as fact. Otherwise a good cookbook.

I have a number of raw food books-with the oldest dating back to the 1970s!--and the thing that makes Ani's book my favorite out of the bunch is the relative simplicity or the recipes compared to others. I love the recipes in the other books too--but some of them take 20+ ingredients. By the time I finish chopping and grinding all that my feet hurt from standing in the kitchen so long--and my wallet hurts even worse! Ani proves that you don't have to just eat plain "roots and shoots," but that you don't have to go over the top either.

Sandwiched in between the recipes are short essays on environmental and health topics that might be familiar by now to someone who's been living an environmentally conscious lifestyle or eating raw for a while, but this has turned out to be one of the reasons that this is the first book I give to others who are interested in what the heck we are doing when we explain we eat raw. She also does a good job of discussing unusual ingredients and food preparation techniques which also makes this an excellent first raw recipe book. You still get over 150 recipes (we counted once because another raw book promised "100 recipes" and this led to one of those debates people get into when they could be doing so many other things besides counting recipes in a book.), as well as some dog food recipes (a boon for our gluten intolerant golden retriever).

I am a life member of Hippocrate's Health Institute. I am always looking for new and interesting recipes that follow in Wigmore's footsteps. While many of the recipes are common, there are a few that are new, interesting, and tasty! The only thing that I would have changed is not make so many of the pictures about her. Why aren't there more of the finished recipe in amazing raw, fresh colour? If you are new to the raw food diet, or increasing fruits/ veg to your diet. This book is a good one to have.

THIS IS A FANTASTIC BOOK AND WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT. I CAN'T ENCOURAGE YOU ENOUGH TO TRY THE RECIPES IN THESE PAGES.