Raw Food from Whole Foods--cookbook recommendations?
December 23, 2021 7:11 AM   Subscribe

So two family members recently drove to the fancy part of the state and had a delicious lunch at Whole Foods consisting entirely of raw foods. I would like to find a cookbook, ideally one with awesome photos, that has a lot of great recipes that are similar to what they had for lunch. So really, any great, photogenic raw foods cookbook would probably fit the bill.

I apologize that I don't know exactly what they had, but I know it consisted of various vegetables with various marinades and sauces and that the found it delightful and are increasingly tired of our current diet of overly cooked meat and roasted vegetables.
posted by craniac to Health & Fitness (7 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Response by poster: And cheese. We are seriously eating too much meat and cheese.
posted by craniac at 7:13 AM on December 23, 2021




More importantly, it will depend on what appliances they have in their home. Many raw food cookbooks have recipes that require high-end blenders, food dehydrators, food processors, etc.

Do your family members have these devices as the book recommendations will depend on if they do. I owned a raw catering company about 15 years back for a hot minute so am familiar with most of the books from that time and most would be useless without those appliances. For blender it would need to be Vitamix or Blentec at the minimum.
posted by dobbs at 7:58 AM on December 23, 2021 [1 favorite]


I am a huge fan of I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude. Their desserts are a lot of work, but always blow people's minds when we bring them to shindigs, and then doubly blow people's minds when we say "they're raw and vegan".

(I am not a lifestyle raw and vegan person, just eat a lot of veggies.)

I have a few other older raw cookbooks, including Sweet Gratitude, and Raw by Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein sure has some gorgeous pictures in it, but though we've got some sticky notes in that one I don't end up using it a lot (see comment about "not a lifestyle...").
posted by straw at 9:21 AM on December 23, 2021 [2 favorites]


"Raw" by Solla Eiriksdóttir is good and would probably fit the bill, depending on how you feel about food with a Scandinavian bent. Nazli Develi's books are Michelin-restaurant style cookbooks with lots of raw food that you would never make at home but is very pretty to look at. Then there's the more accessible "Raw and Radiant" by Summer Sanders (not the Summer Sanders, by the way - different person).
posted by rjacobs at 9:38 AM on December 23, 2021 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Update: We have a Blendtec, food processor, spiralizer, mandolin slicer, Bosch mill, Instant Pot, sous vide and other kitchen appliances. Thanks for these recommendations.
posted by craniac at 2:19 PM on December 23, 2021


I was raw vegan for a year, and I LOVED Matthew Kenney's cookbooks. You will need a dehydrator and a good blender, and patience, but it pays off! I recommend "Raw Food, Real World," and "Everyday Raw".
posted by Dr_Janeway at 12:13 PM on December 26, 2021 [1 favorite]


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