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Living in the Raw: Recipes for a Healthy Lifestyle
Rose Lee Calabro
An early, comprehensive recipe collection from one of the pioneers of the modern raw-food movement. Rose Lee Calabro gathers more than three hundred recipes — breads, crackers, cakes, and ice creams alongside appetizers, hearty main dishes, and soups — all prepared without cooking, and walks the beginner through the techniques that make a living-foods kitchen work, especially sprouting and dehydrating beans, grains, seeds, fruits, and vegetables. Along with the recipes it offers practical guidance on setting up such a kitchen and Calabro's case for why a raw diet leaves people feeling and looking better. Approachable and thorough, it became a standby for people transitioning toward raw eating, more a hands-on manual for a lifestyle than a book of occasional dishes.
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The author
Rose Lee Calabro is an American raw-food author regarded as one of the movement's pioneers, who came to the diet through her own health journey and went on to write several living-foods cookbooks. The book carries a foreword by Gabriel Cousens, a prominent (and controversial) figure in raw-food and alternative-health circles.
The book
Living in the Raw (Book Publishing Company, first published 1998, later reissued) collects over 300 uncooked recipes with instructions on sprouting, dehydrating, and equipping a living-foods kitchen.
How to read it
As a practical entry point to raw-food preparation, it is genuinely useful — clear techniques, lots of recipes, beginner-friendly. Its health framing deserves a caveat, though: claims that a raw diet will make "anyone" look and feel great, or heal illness, are not established by rigorous evidence, and all-raw regimens can risk nutritional gaps if not planned carefully. Enjoyed as a cookbook and approached sensibly, it delivers on the food.
For more context
Registered-dietitian guidance on plant-based and raw diets provides the nutritional balance the book's rhetoric lacks.
Sources - Living in the Raw — Goodreads - Living in the Raw — publisher listing, Amazon
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Rose Lee Calabro
- Publisher
- Book Publishing Company
- Year
- 1998
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Craft & How-to
- Location
- Colorado