Fresh: The Ultimate Live-Food Cookbook
by Sergei Boutenko, Valya Boutenko
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Author: Sergei Boutenko, Valya BoutenkoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-22
ISBN: 1556437080
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Book Review: A fresh-food cookbook
Summary: 3 Stars
This book authored by brother and sister team offers help for both adults and youngsters interested in healthy cooking. The authors narrate their personal struggle in the fight against obesity and its related illnesses that almost devastated their family. Their parents with sheer determination, courage, and very rigid regimen of fresh food and pure vegetarianism helped their kids to outgrow the addiction to greasy food, and eventually become healthy. This is a wonderful biography as well as a cookbook. In many instances they had to take a bold step of going against the advice of medical and nutrition experts in following fresh food cooking.
There are six chapters in the book including a chapter each for vegetarian appetizers, marinated and fermented food, desserts, and drinks. The first chapter entitled "Raw immersion" gives an introduction into fresh cooking and pure vegetarianism, and how you need to use your imagination to be creative. In one example the authors illustrate a recipe for green smoothie consisting of mango, spinach and water, had to be substituted with banana and kale because they did not have mango and spinach: The new recipe became instant success. Similarly Sweet and Sour Coconut Truffles were discovered because the ingredients for the original recipe were not available. There are some helpful discussions about helping your kids to grow healthier by following fresh food cooking. This chapter also includes an interesting discussion about the fiber and its beneficial effects. I found the discussion about "Understanding the five flavors" very interesting as this gives you an insight into what you may include in a recipe and how it contributes to the overall flavor of the cooked food. Aloe, dill, and bay leaves gives bitter flavor; where as lemon, and orange gives sour taste; radish and mustard green gives spicy flavor.
The recipes extensively use dehydrators rather then traditional oven or gas burners. The highlights of some of the recipes are; Tiny pizza using Zucchini and sunflower seed base instead of all purpose flour, and cheese substituted by nutritional yeast and nectar (page 56), Fresh salad roll does not contain all purpose flour (page 57), Spicy tomato salad does not contain any spicy ingredient except for red onion (page 62), Home grown sandwich consist of flax seeds base (page 85). Gorilla burgers, flax seed/walnut base instead of traditional red kidney beans or chick pea used for Veggie burgers (page 87), Turkey-less turkey suggested for thanksgiving is certainly a fun-dish for Thanksgiving (page 93). Chocolate cheese using cacao powder (page 104), energy nuggets with nuts and berries and no minerals (page 107) are some examples to illustrate how the recipes differ significantly from what you traditionally use.
The main appliances you need to have are; dehydrator, food processor and a juicer. I have one word of caution; this is truly a great experience if you have the ability to stay away from meat and greasy food which are less costly and available in plenty. In contrast to this, fresh food in general is expensive, not every one can afford to shop at health food store or buy fresh and sometimes exotic vegetables. Fresh cooking needs a lot of determination and discipline.
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