RawEssence: 180 Delicious Recipes for Raw Living

I have not made one recipe from this. Many recipes seemed complex, hard to do and seemed like they would take a long time. I would not recommend this for people looking to be on a low sugar, low fruit diet. It just was not right for me. Better dust off that food dehydrator if you buy this book. You are going to need it. I can not have nutritional yeast, or tamari sauce or sesame or mushrooms which are relied on for flavor. Recipes that say they only take "15 minutes" to prepare, but they only take that long if you have the rest of the ingredients all ready made up. For example, a recipe requires a sauce or cheese or a cracker that you have to make from scratch that is an additional half an hour to an hour, etc. This may be good for many people , but for some reason most recipes had ingredients in them that I am allergic to, and I could not find many that resonated with me. Maybe you will have more luck with it. For right now in my life, it was not a good fit. Recipes looked delicious though.

What can I say! This is an OMG cookbook, full of wonderful tasty recipes that any sensitive stomach will love. It is Vegan (which I know nothing about but want to learn) labor intensive and requires several trips to the grocery to find items, BUT having written that, it is WELL WORTH THE EFFORT! Sorry for shouting, but I LOVE this book -- my sensitive stomach weighs in as well with 10 thumbs up! For meat lovers, I believe you can add portions of meat to accompany these recipes and be a happy camper. ENJOY

This book is everything I expected and more. Tons of beautiful color photos of the recipes and delicious food as well. Ingredients were all easy to find and pretty typical of what is used in most raw food preparation.The Meatless Meatballs were delicious on their own but even better used for the Teriyaki Brochettes,the Pura Vida lasagna was one of the easiest raw lasagnas I have assembled but was so delicious.Don't forget to finish your meal with a slice of the Carrot or Dark Desire cakes, both of which take a little work but are well worth the effort.This will be the book I try to "uncook" my way through in it's entirety.

I went to visit CrudeEssence in Montreal and enjoyed the food immensely. I bought their cookbook in french and had fun remembering some old french class lessons. I was excited to hear a couple months ago that they had the book translated to english! there's a lot of great recipes there that are extremely tasty so I'm happy to have the book in both languages.

First time I ever pre-order a cookbook and not dissappointed. It actully contains 180 recipes instead of 165 like the amazon description says. It has beautiful pictures and the recipes look delicious! It explainsthe techniques of soaking and germination as well as fermentation. It does have a section of dehydration, I don't have a dehydrator but don't mindsince it is only about 10 recipes from 180 in the book.

This book is a pleasure through and through. Experience and care show up in the author's presentation. I agree with other reviewers about this being one of "most-est" raw food books around. They use a clever way of setting the type, too, it's a nice job and a nice book. Thanks, Crudessence.

I love this book, it is clealy written and the colorful pictures are like an appetizer. I visited the Cru Dessence restaurant recently in Montreal and this book is a joyful reminder of the exquisite food we ate there.

This is the most professional and understandable raw diet book I have found. Well thought out and easy to follow. I highly recommend it to those like me on a plant bases diet and looking for help!

What fun, a raw food book with plenty of photos, and measuring units in both cup and imperial. Also, has many familiar ingredients which hasn't always been the case when perusing a raw food book. Make sure you have zucchini/ courgette at the ready, there are a few recipes for them in here, all of which look rather tempting. The chapatis are a favourite. The book arrived in excellent condition and in good time too. Thank you

A very good book, explains everything.

The book is very good, because it explains very important procedures and makes you want to try all the recipes!Good explanation, inspiring! I recommend!

I was impressed on the quick delivery-as usual Amazon is great. However, the recipes aren't practical for me. The ingredients needed aren't available in every grocery store and you need to have a lot of dehydrated foods. To buy such things at a specialty store is very expensive and to make the dehydrated foods yourself is tedious if one doesn't have a dehydrator on hand. Another book for the self :(

Crudessence is my favourite vegan restaurant and I'm not even a raw foodie!Even my meat eater friends are shocked at how amazing their food is - the cookbook is nothing short of that.Amazing recipes that taste much like Crudessence! Couldn't be happier with this purchase!