The Raw Truth

Blenders are used to grind food into liquids. BLENDER CUP: A small jar that fits upside-down on the blender base, allowing you t ...

which helps to solidify it as it curds. Dehydrators These tools are used to remove water and dry food. CABELA’S: A great dryer, ...

Raw Techniques The basic skills discussed in this chapter are the foundation of raw food preparation. Although some of these tec ...

and wild food guide for pictures of what each herb or green looks like. It is also helpful to contact native or indigenous peopl ...

Recipes Food can be art. The best chefs are artists who combine visual appeal with flavor and texture. Once you know how to use ...

Drinks Almond Mylk Banalmond Mylk Banana Mylk Cashew Mylk Green Dream Storange Smooth Black Raspberry–Prickly Pear Tangy Tango F ...

Almond Mylk I never really understood the concept of humans drinking milk from a cow. Cow’s milk is designed to take an eighty-p ...

Banalmond Mylk This power-packed drink is great for providing extra energy. It’s a favorite of a body-building couple I know. Th ...

Banana Mylk In Hawaii, banana trees grow everywhere; from seed, it takes only nine months to get a hundred-pound stalk of banana ...

Cashew Mylk This sweet and rich nut mylk is one of the most delicious and filling treats. Cashews blend up better than any other ...

Green Dream Spirulina, an ocean algae, contains more protein than any other food on the planet. I talk to people all the time wh ...

Storange Smooth This is a vitamin C-packed smoothie. Many people think of oranges as a great source of vitamin C. Although orang ...

Clockwise, from top: Banalmond Mylk, Green Dream, Storange Smooth, Black Raspberry–Prickly Pear ...

Black Raspberry–Prickly Pear Prickly pears grow prolifically in Hawaii and in the Southwestern United States. Many native tribes ...

Tangy Tango Kiwis are also known as Chinese gooseberries. There is actually a miniature strain of kiwis and a golden kiwi. All o ...

Fruit Root Combining the fruit of the tree and the root of the earth creates a tasty and well-balanced drink—the best of the ear ...

Banaberry This is your standard smoothie. All I can say is it is berry good. SERVES 1 OR 2 ½ cup raspberries ½ cup hulled strawb ...

Banacado One day while traveling the road to Hana, on Maui, I had the pleasure of harvesting both a ripe stalk of bananas and so ...

Ruby Cooler (Sun Tea) Sun tea uses concentrated sunlight to extract flavor and essence from herbs, fruits, and flowers. The pH o ...

Sprout Power Sprouts contain some of the most abundant life forces on the planet—they’re the potential energy of a whole plant. ...