Living Cuisine

Raw foods chef Renee Underkoffler’s gourmet dishes have been popular with vegan actors like Woody Harrelson and Alicia Silverstone. Her recipe book Living Cuisine brings more than 300 beverages, soups, salads, appetizers, side dishes, sushi, entrees, and desserts inspired by a wide range of ethnic and regional foods to your kitchen. It also includes great information necessary for transitioning into living foods. This book provides step-by-step instructions for raw-foods preparation techniques like juicing, sprouting, culturing and fermenting, dehydrating, and blanching. While some of the recipes can be very time consuming to prepare, they are delicious and perfect for healthy, gourmet meals.

Maui based raw foods chef Renee Underkoffler’s Living Cuisine is a great resource for delicious, gourmet living foods. This book also does a good job of laying the foundation for raw eating by explaining the benefits of eating uncooked fruits and vegetables. Full of useful tips and bits of information, this book is a great addition to a raw foods kitchen.