Raw and Beyond: How Omega-3 Nutrition Is Transforming the Raw Food Paradigm

138 Pages·2012·0.67 MB·English

by  Victoria Boutenko

ALSO BY VICTORIA BOUTENKO
Raw Family (with the Boutenko family)
Green for Life
12 Steps to Raw Foods
Raw Family Signature Dishes
Green Smoothie Revolution

Copyright © 2012 by Victoria Boutenko, Elaina Love, and Chad Sarno.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Boutenko, Victoria.
Raw and beyond : how omega-3 nutrition is transforming the raw food paradigm / Victoria
Boutenko, Elaina Love, and Chad Sarno.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58394375-5
1. Raw food diet. 2. Vegetarian cooking. 3. High-omega-3 fatty acid diet—Recipes. I. Love,
Elaina. II. Sarno, Chad. III. Title.
RM237.5.B6925 2011
613.263—dc23
2011036659
v3.1
We dedicate this book to Cherie Soria,
master chef and inspiration to us all.
CONTENTS
Cover
Also by Victoria Boutenko
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
A Note from the Authors
Three Stories of Raw Transformation
PART ONE
Victoria Boutenko
Elaina Love
Chad Sarno
Recipes
PART TWO
Appetizers, Antipasti, and Finger Foods
Salads
Dressings
Soups
Breads, Crackers, and Chips
Entrées
Desserts
Drinks
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS
In this book we present our revised approach to raw food. All three of us
discovered the benefits of eating raw at about the same time, some
sixteen years ago. Throughout this period, we often participated in the
same events, either serving raw food or teaching others how to prepare
it. In 2010, our paths crossed again at a Living Light Culinary Arts
Institute in California. We were intrigued that we had all independently
come to similar conclusions about our diets and had begun practicing
“beyond raw” cuisine. As we discussed this coincidence, we decided it
was important to share our adjusted raw food diet with our followers.
PART ONE
Three Stories of Raw Transformation
VICTORIA BOUTENKO
TWO MAJOR MISTAKES I MADE
IN MY RAW FOOD DIET
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than
a life spent doing nothing.
—GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
For the last nineteen years I have been a raw food pioneer, and as a
pioneer I recognize the mistakes I’ve made as well as the successes I’ve
had on this path.
I became interested in the raw food diet in 1993. As there were very
few books about raw food at that time, I was able to read most of them
within a couple of months. I became especially inspired after reading
Raw Eating by A. T. Hovannessian and Enzyme Nutrition by Edward
Howell. The latter book I read aloud to my family. I became convinced
that the raw food diet was the most natural diet for all creatures in the
world, including humans.
In his book, Dr. Howell advised readers to consume a diet as high in
raw food as possible. I was so motivated by Howell’s research, and my
family was so in need of healing beyond what the medical establishment
could offer us, that in January 1994 I put my whole family on a 100
percent raw food diet. Today, eighteen years later, I still wholeheartedly
appreciate that decision. I believe that it saved my life and healed such
serious illnesses in my family as arrhythmia, diabetes, rheumatoid
arthritis, and asthma. I won’t repeat my family story here as it can be
found in all of my books and on the internet. Rather, I would like to
discuss the mistakes I made in my raw food journey and how I corrected
them. I view my family’s eighteen years of eating raw as an opportunity
to present the raw food diet to others in a more practical way.
For many years the theory of the raw food diet seemed so flawless to me