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your own personalized recipes. Look for my SmartMonkey to point out my simple basic recipes.
    I will show you that you don’t need to spend hours in the kitchen to prepare sophisticated, delicious, healthy food. It can be done quickly and easily.
NUT ALLERGIES
    This book uses nuts and seeds extensively, though there are some nut-free recipes. If you’re allergic to nuts, this may not be the best book for you.
IN LOVE AND COMMITTED
    Once you’ve fallen in love with making and eating raw foods, you may want to venture deeper and deeper into the world of dehydration and fermentation. I’ve included a dehydration chapter full of easy-to-make foods that require several hours of patience as they dry, before you can eat them. But still, the prep time remains short and fast. Recipes that require dehydration include breads, pizza crust, chips, vegetables, wraps, pancakes, and jerky.
    Cultured foods are extremely beneficial for any diet. I include pickled vegetable
recipes for making sauerkraut, cucumber pickles, and Korean-inspired kimchi, and also a cultured drinks chapter where I’ll show you how to make probiotic drinks such as kefir and kombucha. These recipes are easy to make but require time to brew and ferment.
RESOURCES
    At the end of this book, I provide additional resources for green living, my recipes and online uncooking videos, ingredients, and kitchen tools.
TRANSITIONING TO AND FROM COOKED FOOD

    All natural food starts out raw, whether eaten immediately or cooked and eaten later. When you make my food, you can enjoy it right away without having to cook it. However, if you are just starting with raw foods or maybe it’s a chilly day and you want something that’s warm, you may decide you want to cook or heat my recipes, such as a soup, burger, sauce, or pizza, after it’s been prepared. Feel free to change my recipes to suit your liking, even if it means heating or cooking them. At least the ingredients started with all fresh, whole food, and preferably organic ingredients. So, it’s still a very healthy option free of fillers, chemical flavors, or artificial colors snuck in along the way.
    You’ll see places throughout this book with a cooked-food icon. This is where I recommend transitional ways of enjoying more raw foods. For example, eat my Sun Burgers on a sprouted whole-grain bun, roll up my wraps in a spelt or whole-grain tortilla on the outside, or toss a raw sauce or cheeze over cooked rice noodles.
    If adding a bit of cooked food to my recipes helps you to enjoy more raw foods, then I think that’s great! Remember to have gratitude, be happy, and celebrate life.

    AT A GLANCE

    SPIRALIZER

    MANDOLINE SLICER

    CITRUS JUICER

    VEGETABLE JUICER

    WHISK

    ICE CREAM SCOOPER

    GRINDER

    SIEVE

    FOOD PROCESSOR

    LEMON ZESTER

    COOKIE CUTTER

    COCKTAIL SHAKER

    MASON JAR

    BAKING TRAY, PIE, OR TARTLET PAN

    CHOCOLATE MOULD TRAY

    GLOVES

    TRANSITIONAL COOKED FOOD
    TIP ICONS
    Throughout this book, I’ve included tips to help make things easier while inspiring you to live life greener and happier.

    WELL-BEING TIP

    GREEN LIVING TIP

    GENERAL TIP

    BASIC RECIPE

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    RAW BASICS AND TECHNIQUES
    Dehydrating, Soaking and Sprouting, Fermentation and Pickling, and Substitutions
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    The essential information in this chapter will have you quickly on your way toward dehydrating, to make delicious flatbreads to use in the same way as you woould any toast. I’ll show you how easy it is to soak and sprout nuts and seeds, too.
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    I’ll help you start making your own fermented vegetables, using cucumbers to make pickles that will help add probiotic goodness to your diet, so you can absorb more nutrients from the food you eat. I’ll also explain how to make substitutions of your favorite ingredients.
    Later, in chapter 3, I’ll be showing you how to make cultured drinks such as kombucha and kefir. Drinking probiotics works wonders for your digestion and is the