RAWvolution: Gourmet Living Cuisine by Matt Amsden
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Book Reviews of RAWvolution: Gourmet Living Cuisine
Book Review: FIVE BIG PHAT STARS!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can actually eat these food combinations without going yuck. YAY! for recipe books and information such as this! May all the world become healthier and happier through better eating! It's much more imaginative than any other raw recipe book I've read (and I've read most), and with it's big color pictures, it's sure to delight.
These books will make a great addition to your collection:
Raw Food And Health: The Raw Food Classic By The Founder Of The Raw Food Movement
The Advantages Of Raw Food
The Black Art Of Cooking: The Raw Truth
The Unfired Food Diet Simplified: The Raw Food Guide
Uncooked Foods and how to use them: How to use Living and Raw foods for health
Book Review: BEST Raw Foods cookbook
Summary: 5 Stars
I cured a number of ailments by going raw (RA, Lupus symptoms, two rashes--one the dermatologist said was not curable and lost my last 20 pounds of baby weight) and checked out dozens of cookbooks from the library to get me started.
The recipes were filled with exotic ingredients that I wasn't going to buy in case I hated the finished product and would be stuck with these things. They were expensive too and shipping made them worse.
Matt Amsden wrote a cookbook that is so easy to read with codes for how things are prepared, the difficulty level, pictures of each one and using readily available ingredients. He even thought to put the page numbers right in the middle of the edge so they can be found without any hassle.
I've tried lots of his recipes and ALL of them are fabulous! I've even made substitutions and those turned out great too.
My only complaint is that there are too many photos of him. They are totally unnecessary. If you can look past that, it's a great book. I even like it better than the Cafe Gratitude one that I also got from Amazon.
Book Review: A beautiful book about beautiful food.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a regular customer at Matt's cafe in Santa Monica, California and I am thrilled that he has generously made available to the public the exact recipes used to create the delicious menu items served at "Euphoria Love Rawvolution" daily. Hard to imagine a chef giving away the trade secrets used to make him successful at his work, but that is what Matt has done. The recipes I have tried so far all are surprisingly easy to prepare and come out exactly like they do at the cafe. I love the Big Matt Burgers with Cheese. They are not quick to make (one of his secrets is a long low temperature dehydration process to create tender living breads), but the recipes make a lot, and then I can keep them on hand in the fridge. It's helpful to have a shrink-wrap type Food-Savr to preserve your dehydrated foods. Another advantage of his recipe book is that he uses easily-obtained ingredients such as sunflower seeds so I don't have to spend a fortune ordering rare items in order to prepare these foods.
Book Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Beautiful book with a great introduction that includes the author's personal journey to the raw food lifestyle and wonderful re-enforcements of the benefits of a raw food diet. I drink the "Shake Your Money Maker" shake every morning. Some of the ingredients are hard to find locally - had to order on the internet, and some are fairly expensive, but wow! I drink this energy powerhouse and don't even think about food for hours. I only leave out the chocolate and agave which are a bit much for my body in the AM. We have used several of the other recipes, and every one was delicious. We have many raw food recipe books and this is one of the very best. You will need a dehydrator and a high speed blender to get the most out of this book, but that's true of the raw food lifestyle in general. Recently ate at the author's restaurant in Santa Monica, which is funky cool, but really, what we have made at home using this book is better (no offense, that's a testimony). Buy this book!Book Review: R-awesome raw cookbook
Summary: 5 Stars
If you search rawfood cookbooks here on Amazon, there's just under 20 by my count, of which I have almost all of them. Matt's RAWvolution is by far one of the easiest books with respect to preparation and the range of recipes is not overwhelming, making this a GREAT book for newbies and vets alike. I find I pick 4-5 things out of any cookbook and enjoy them the most. With this one, I'm happy to report, I'm enjoying just about 70-80% of the recipes. Raw food meals take a TON of preparation, so much so the difficultly (or pain in the rear) factor, often moves me to just eat a salad. NO LONGER... these are simple and much easier than some of the others. Don't get me wrong, ALL raw cookbooks are great, Matt's rises to the top for simplicity, which will move this more towards the mainstream and the fact that anybody can prepare his meals and truly enjoy the real flavor of real food. My fav is the onion bread and corn salad!!!