Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This cookbook is charming and very well composed. There are great photographs, creative and tasty recipes and ideas, and most of them offer extreme flexibility in terms of ingredients as well as options for cooking (yes, cooking!). The emphasis here is healthy food and the idea of "Practically Raw" really applies to many raw foodists who occasionally eat a cooked cracker here and a cooked soup there. What makes this book so special is that it really applies to everyone who wants to eat healthy, raw foods. It offers am open-option, rather than closed-restriction. It is one of the first books that I've read that actually reflects the way I personally eat and live, and that is...practically raw. Although I am a raw food chef and have a lot of experience with raw foods, I was surprised to learn a few things from this book that I never thought to question! For example, I've always considered coconut butter something expensive that has to be purchased in a glass bottle. To see the inclusion of a recipe for coconut butter, I literally could not believe I never made it myself, nor thought that it was possible to do at home! (The same can be said for some nut butters.) I'm really excited to try so many of the wonderful recipes that I've found myself bookmarking page after page, after page. There are so many flavors and textures, combinations and techniques that I get the feeling these recipes have been used, tasted, tested, and implemented from the vantage point of someone that actually makes these recipes for herself. This cookbook is not simply an exhaustive list of recipes/ingredients that happen to temp the reader with familiar ''cooked'' food flavors and/or creative ideas of all things possible while cooking in the raw. It is, instead, a wonderful addition to any raw food cookbook collection that will surely offer many great surprises, tasty recipes and certainly accurate information. Very creative, inspiring, and provoking. I hope to see more from this author in the future!