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I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude |  | Author: Terces Engelhart
Creator: Orchid
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 8004
Media: Paperback
Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1556436475
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.563
EAN: 9781556436475
ASIN: 1556436475
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
With locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Los Angeles, Café Gratitude has become well known for its inspiring environment and distinctive, flavorful organic foods. In I Am Grateful, cofounder Terces Engelhart presents her and her husband Matthew’s view of life and business philosophy. She also presents her story of personal healing, sharing highlights of her recovery from food addiction while explaining the benefits of a raw lifestyle. The book’s gorgeous, full-color photographs accompany easy-to-follow recipes for the café’s most popular items, making it easy for readers to prepare live foods at home. Recipes include café favorites such as the “I Am Luscious” raw chocolate smoothie, “I Am Bountiful” bruschetta, “I Am Elated” spicy rolled enchiladas, and “I Am Amazing” lemon meringue pie with macadamia nut crust.
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 This Is the Gourmet Answer to Raw Foods October 29, 2008
Colorgirl (NE US)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
One of the hardest things for me to adjust to when paring down my intake of food is the adjustment of making any kind of elaborate gourmet style meal if I need to, to making something out of almost no ingredients and not even be able to COOK IT!
When I switched to primarily raw foods, my family was on the verge of Mutiny. I tried RAW IN TEN MINUTES which at first was okay, but I have a good imagination. All of the recipes started to taste the same and my family went from eating everything on their plates to making excuses to avoid dinner and eat in their rooms (stashed organic corn chips etc).
When I saw I AM GRATEFUL, I figured it might be another blonger of a book, but I decided to try it anyway. It was someone's birthday the week I got it, so I decided to make a raw dessert (strawberry shortcake) and then a baked cake for everyone else.
I never made it to the cake. Everyone went berserk over the raw strawberry shortcake.
I have made about 1/2 of the recipes in this book so far and I can say OMG it is truly FANTASTIC. Our favorites are: Marinated Veggies, Falafels, Fiery Carrot Avocado Soup, Coconut Curry Soup (Thai), Thai green papaya salad , Coconut Lime Dressing, Jalapeno mint chutney, Smokey Mole (OMG that is the BEST RECIPE EVER), Marinara with Brazil nut Parmesan cheese, Pad Thai,pecan porridge, Cinnamon Rolls, Strawberry Shortcake (with raspberries is DIVINE), German Chocolate Cake, Strawberry Apple Cobbler, and Lemon Meringue Pie.
We don't eat desserts that often, or we would have ripped through the entire dessert section.
Preparation is about that of any meal- it is not too involved on some recipes- but others, take overnight food dryer time and have to be planned accordingly.
However, I find that it works out fine in some cases to do an overnight. I am really in love with the recipes in this book. They taste AMAZING and Gourmet in quality, yet they have simple ingredients in some cases. I substitute ingredients I don't have until I can get what I need quite often.
I can not recommend this book highly enough. It is like Moosewood used to be to vegetarians years ago........
Generosity June 8, 2007
P. Paoloni (new york)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
How often does a restaurant print their best receipes in a cook book. As one friend said to me," never." But having visited Cafe Gratitude in San Fran, I fell in love with their Chocolate Mousse and the receipe is in the book. It's a great cookbook and they are truly on a mission to convince everyone how eating raw can be as pleasurable as eating cooked food. I thank the authors of this cookbook and Cafe Gratitude for their generousity, in sharing their restaurant receipes with all of us.
YUM! February 13, 2009
L. Pearson (USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have tried about 5 or 6 recipes so far and they have each been SO good. I had a bunch of almonds, so I made mostly recipes with those.
The "I Am Fun" (Almond "Toast") is a great way to use the pulp from carrot (and other veggies) juice AND the fiber from Almond milk. It has a texture really like dry toast! The "I AM Bountiful" (Bruschetta) made with it is good, too.
The "I Am Great" (granola) is well named! We love this stuff!
"I Am Happy" (Almond Hummus) is also yummy and solves the quandry of trying to make Hummus with raw ingredients. It was popular when I took it to a raw food potluck supper recently.
Some recipes are pretty involved and take a lot of steps, but some are REALLY simple. Not all of them are almond based, I just tried those because I had the almonds. There is a recipe for a Thai soup, Thom Ka ("I Am Adventurous") that sounds incredible.
Most recipes have photos. I like that, too.
I already had an Excaliber dehydrator, a high speed blender and a food processor --- which is good because many of the recipes pretty much require one or more of these appliances. But, not all of them do.
All of the recipes have really nice Affirming names and that is kind of neat! At the beginning of the book their business model is explained, and I was so impressed with that, too. The next time I am in San Francisco, I really want to get to one of their restaurants to have a raw food meal!
Excellent Introduction to Raw Food and Delicious Recipes May 13, 2007
E. Ferguson (Berkeley, CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have prepared several recipes from this book, and they do taste as delicious as the food prepared at Cafe Gratitude. The book is worth it for the easy chocolate ice cream recipe alone, although all of the other recipes I have tried are very tasty and many are very easy to prepare. The book also exudes the ambience of the cafe: beautiful aesthetics, welcoming community, and a nourishing of the soul that goes deeper than live foods. If this is your only raw foods recipe book, it will provide you with a range of satisfying staples from salads to entrees to desserts and basic information about preparation that will keep you satisfied for years.
hamu May 15, 2007
bone thug
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Each page of "I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude" is a celebration of natural foods. I am inspired by the recipes to be creative in my own preparation of raw foods. As a matter of fact, since making these recipes i have had less and less desire for cooked foods. The recipes stay away from veggies like asparagas and brocolli (boring) and titilate the senses with the flavors of marvelous sauces and seasonings added to nutrient packed greens, seaweeds, mushrooms, and more. One will experience exotic flavors from coconut to miso, to curry, to kalamate by books end. Now, I'm "cookin' with mother nature! Thanks, Terces and Orchid for being so generous and sharing your way of life.
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