Living Raw Food: Get the Glow with More Recipes from Pure Food and Wine

The coauthor of the bestselling Raw Food/Real World offers 100 more delectable recipes from New York’s premier raw restaurant

Picking up where Raw Food/Real World left off, Sarma Melngailis invites us inside New York’s top raw eatery, Pure Food and Wine, with 100 new recipes for delectable and healthful juices, shakes, soups, appetizers, main courses, cocktails, and desserts. The ultimate in healthful eating, Living Raw Food offers delicious fare for all seasons and occasions, and all levels of culinary skill, from Cucumber-Mint Gazpacho Soup to Mexican Chocolate Brownies with Sweet Tamale, Hibiscus Cream, and Avocado Gelato.
 

In addition to her innovative recipes, Melngailis shows home cooks how to prepare simple raw food for the entire family and gives a wealth of material on life-giving foods. Filled with sensual, sexy, and energizing food—and featuring dozens of gorgeous photos—Living Raw Food is sure to enrich the life of every reader, whether a carnivorous epicure or a raw-foods junkie.

Picking up where the bestselling Raw Food/Real World left off, Sarma Melngailis invites us inside her glamorous restaurant, Pure Food and Wine, with dozens more recipes for fresh and vibrant juices, shakes, soups, simple dishes, main courses, desserts, and cocktails.

• Whip up an antioxidant-rich Goji Tropic Shake or a sweet, cleansing Cilantro-Pineapple Shake for delicious nutrition on the go
• Cool down with a Cucumber-Mint Gazpacho Soup and an Heirloom Tomato, Fennel, and Avocado Pressed Salad with Caper Dressing, Pistachio, and Mint
• Find out what makes the Chanterelle and Kalamata Olive Ravioli the restaurant's most beloved entrée
• Celebrate with a raw Thanksgiving dinner, complete with "dark meat" portobello, "white meat" large oyster mushrooms, stuffing, mashed celeriac, cranberries, and brussels sprouts
• Satisfy your sweet tooth with a Classic Sundae and Caramel Bars

No juicer? No dehydrator? No problem! Sarma shows that raw food preparation doesn't have to be daunting, and she helps you work your way from the fastest, simplest, freshest recipes to immensely satisfying main dishes that you'll have a hard time believing are raw. A definitive list of ingredients, tools, techniques, and sources make raw food a snap, while information-packed sidebars introduce the world's most powerful super­foods, from kombucha tea to chia seeds. And Sarma is refreshingly honest and real as she describes her personal breakthroughs—and struggles—living on raw foods.

Whether you're snacking on the run, having a quiet dinner at home, or throwing a festive cocktail party, eating raw food makes you feel alive. Filled with sensuous, sexy, and energizing food, this book is sure to enrich your life, whether you're a carnivorous epicure or a raw-foods junkie.

“A book worth taking a look at, especially if you can’t take the heat in your kitchen anymore.” - Daily News

Praise for Pure Food and Wine “Manhattan’s hot new restaurant…Raw food is going glam at Pure Food and Wine.” - New York Post

“Matthew and Sarma are five-star masters of organic cuisine. I am continually impressed by the taste sensations and culinary skills they bring to their restaurant, and now to the pages of this book! It’s filled to the brim with recipes, ideas, and strategies to make your kitchen jump to life. This is the best food ever!” - David Wolfe, author of Eating for Beauty and Naked Chocolate

“Our quartet of gourmands is beguiled by tomato tartare, the spicy Thai lettuce wraps, and a pineapple-cucumber gazpacho…After zebra-tomato lasagne, hummus-slathered flatbread pizza topped with a savory salad, “creamy” golden-squash pasta with summer truffles, and dessert, I cancel plans to stop for a burger on the way home.” - New York magazine

“Whether or not you’re counting calories, your body will appreciate the innovative, health-driven summer menu at…Pure Food and Wine.” - Time Out New York

“With its burnt-orange walls, low lighting, and intimate bar, Pure Food and Wine is both urbane and seductive. The colorful food is equally stylish—the fact that all of it is prepared according to strict raw-food principles…seems almost beside the point to the diners who fill the narrow restaurant and its verdant garden every night.” - Organic Style

“At once sophisticated and rigorously raw, [Melngailis’ recipes] range from quick and easy milks, juices and items from Pure Food and Wine’s “family meal”…to intriguing dishes off the restaurant menu… And nonpreachy primers on ingredients and techniques used in raw preparations make the book accessible…for a wider audience…” - Publishers Weekly

“For those who want to know more about raw foods, Melngailis offers this comprehensive guide. ‘Raw foods’ doesn’t mean eating relish trays all day long. Many raw foods are transformed from their native state by passing them through a blender or by dehydrating them. . . . Cooks who aren’t interested in raw foods per se may discover both new ingredients and techniques here.” - Booklist

“Fashionable cuisine . . . Pure is more about uplifting discoveries than culinary I-dare-yous. . . . At a place you’d assume might be all about denial, it’s one awfully sweet reward.” - New York magazine

“This is the best food ever!” - David Wolfe, author of Eating for Beauty

Praise for New York City’s Premier Raw Restaurant, Pure Food and Wine “Whether you’re into raw food or not, Sarma’s restaurant is really great, and her One Lucky Duck Juice and Takeaway around the corner is my afternoon go-to spot when I’m in NYC. I always feel at home there!” - Owen Wilson

“My favorites are the Black Trumpet Mushroom Napoleon and the Classic Sundae!” - Gisele Bündchen

“‘Raw’ and ‘vegetarian’ are not adjectives usually associated with haute cuisine, but at Pure Food and Wine, as if by magic, such ingredients are turned into exquisite and exotically delicious offerings.” - Forbes