200 pages paperback

Does the idea of a raw food mean a salad and fruit to you? What if you could actually sit down to a delicious feast of Tomato Bisque, followed by Wild Mushroom Tart and Apple Pie for the dessert?

Going raw is an adventure because even though it seems intuitively to many of us to be the best way to eat, a raw food lifestyle is still somewhat counter-cultural. Successfully becoming and staying raw requires a zest for learning not just about new foods and methods of preparation, but new ways of relating to food emotionally, mentally, spiritually and socially.

The diversity of foods and preparations possible is amazing. Unlike traditional cuisines such as French, Chinese or Middle Eastern, raw gourmet is still evolving and exploding creatively. The food also has an almost spiritual quality - one that can only be described as "aliveness."

The benefits of eating more living foods will quickly become apparent. Like water on a parched desert, your body will welcome the new enzymes and nutrients made available by eating raw food. You will feel an almost immediate increase in energy and a spiritual awareness that was not previously available to the body and mind.

Eating raw food will improve your health, on all levels. With gourmet raw food, you'll have guilt-free pleasure in eating as well as more energy and vitality. If you want to have your cake (raw and delicious) and eat it, raw gourmet is the way to go.

Endorsements

"This book is not only most helpful in its statements and advice on what plants to grow, it also gives good advice on our attitudes towards ourselves and our spiritual connections with our environment. I look forward to trying out raw potato chips!"

Dorothy Maclean, co-founder of the Findhorn Community

"Gabrielle has written a book that has touched me deeply. I felt her genuine honesty from the first pages to the last. If I had the chance to start a raw life from the very beginning again and could choose only one book it would be this one. Filled with sincere stories, charming humor, and great recipes, Gourmet Raw is a gift to humanity that will inspire people all over the world to become healthier."

from the Foreword by Victoria Boutenko