Fresh: The Ultimate Live-Food Cookbook

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"Fresh" manages a balancing act very few alternative cookbooks achieve: presenting a sophisticated collection of recipes for knowledgeable raw foodies, while gently providing all the introductory information required to guide the uninitiated (and even the previously uninterested) toward a fulfilling and flavorful live-food diet. The authors review the most common questions and answers and set out a blueprint of the three common stages involved in adapting to the raw food lifestyle, based on their work and experience with the thousands of clients and community members worldwide who have converted and shared their stories with the Boutenkos.They present the nine advantages of the diet and lifestyle and offer a wide range of perfectly raw foods, including savoury dishes, desserts, fermented foods, drinks, and edibles in the wild. Techniques common to the recipes are introduced and clearly explained, including an inventory of uncommon fruits and how to handle and prepare them, as well as an immersion into the five basic flavours and the herbs, fruits, vegetables, and grains that help chefs bring out each flavour best. The authors provide a concise review of minimal equipment requirements and ideal appliance additions for the well-stocked raw kitchen. They even provide sections on getting kids involved in a raw kitchen and some of their favourite raw jams and pies.

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Raw food makes us healthy, reverses aging, and improves our appearance, and now you are holding in your hands the proof of raw food's value in rearing exemplary youth. On every page of this book, the authors will surprise and delight you with fresh insights and deep understanding into the child-parent relationship. Their intelligence is vivid, their wisdom is astute, and their love for others is stupendous. Whether you are a parent or child, you will gain insight from this book.
Tonya Zavasta, author of Your Right to Be Beautiful and Quantum Eating

Sergei and Valya share much wisdom and wit with sound nutritional guidance. They have been well taught and have a unique ability to share with others their perspective on the path to ultimate health.
Brigitte Mars, author of Rawsome!, Beauty by Nature, The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine, and Addiction FreeNaturally

Valya's and Sergei's new book inspires and encourages people to explore, persevere, and also to be courageous and imaginative with their new way of eating. They offer helpful and practical guidance and recipes that provide a foundation for success and enjoyment on a raw vegan diet.
Vance M. Logan, MD

Not only do Sergei and Valya prepare the most delicious raw foods, which is talent enough, but the clarity, wisdom, and insights they share about food and health are breathtaking. This book is a must-read for any aspiring health seeker-no question. What they teach now is unbelievably cutting-edge, and everyone should know it.
Karen Knowler, the Raw Food Coach

The Boutenkos are so far ahead of their time in nutritional wisdom, but draw from the oldest and most simple, instinctive knowledge The first quarter of [Fresh] is full of insight and information. The rest is comprised of recipes that are accessible and loosely written as to encourage experimentation.
Eco Mamas Guide to Living Green

Most of the recipes are quite simple and made with ingredients that are readily available Fresh: The Ultimate Live-Food Cookbook is a really good place to start if you are interested in exploring the world of raw food.
Mindful Momma

The compassion, presence and creativity one finds in Fresh will touch the lives of anyone who reads it, just as Sergei and Valya's love, clarity and maturity continue to impress and inspire in person.
VegFamily Magazine

Fresh has many savory dishes, fermented foods, travel and survival foods, drinks, and desserts, plus an inventory of all the uncommon fruits youve wanted to eat, but didnt know how to handle Youll find the special section that introduces foraging for wild edibles and suggestions for ways to get kids involved in a raw kitchen.
Vegan Raw Ranch

Author Bio

Sergei Boutenko and Vayla Boutenko are second-generation members of the Raw Family, among the foremost authorities on raw foods. With their father Igor and mother Victoria, the award-winning author of Green for Life, they have inspired raw food communities to form worldwide. They live in Ashland, OR.