Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes »

Ani Phyo is an Executive Chef overseeing everything created by SmartMonkey Foods, the premier resource for vegan, raw and living cuisine that’s full of flavor, design, creativity and packed full of fresh local organics. A sought-after speaker and educator on the topics of health, fitness, and overall wellbeing, she is based in Portland, Oregon.

This is the ultimate gourmet, living foods “uncookbook” for busy people.
You don’t have to sacrifice taste or style to reap the benefits of raw foods. These delectable, easy recipes emphasize fresh, animal-free ingredients and how to include more organics into your daily diet. Chef Ani offers delicious raw, animal-free versions of: breakfast scrambles, pancakes, chowders, bisques, and other soups, cheezes, mylks, lasagna, burgers, cobblers, pies, and cakes, and more.
Included are recipes for dishes such as Stuffed Anaheim Chili with Mole Sauce, Ginger Almond Nori Roll, Coconut Kreme Pie with Carob Fudge on Brownie Crust, Mediterranean Dolmas, and Chicken-Friendly Spanish Scramble.
Make your own kitchen more living-foods friendly with Chef Ani’s tips on Essential tools, Key ingredients, Stocking your pantry, and How-to kitchen skills.

Judith Sutton - Library Journal

Model Alt's first book, Eating in the Raw, was more about the details of her switch to a raw-foods diet, though it did include about 40 recipes. Her new book includes menus with recipes for lunch and dinner and ten recipes each for breakfast, drinks, and snacks. The recipes are fairly simple; however, as is often true of raw-foods dishes, many require advance prep such as presoaking or dehydrating. Alt also includes a handful of case studies of people (including her sister) whose health problems have apparently been solved by a raw-foods diet. Expect demand.

Phyo is the chef for SmartMonkey Foods, a source for vegan and raw ingredients and foods. She offers more recipes than Alt-most of which are quick to make-and they call for fewer hard-to-find ingredients. Phyo also emphasizes "living green," and she includes helpful tips and suggestions for recycling and related topics. Her book is more substantive than Alt's and is recommended for any subject collection.