Welcome to the wonderful world of power-charged cuisine.

Most people would agree that they should be eating healthy food. But often they don't know how to take the next step. The purpose of Nomi Shannon's book, The Raw Gourmet, is to introduce you to the healthiest food imaginable and to show you how to prepare it in easy, delicious and interesting ways.

Based on the programme at the Hippocrates Health Institute, The Raw Gourmet shows you how you can cleanse and heal your body with natural, fresh, organic and unrefined foods. A gift from nature, these foods provide the body with everything it needs to stay healthy and vigorous. It is a diet rich in enzymes and oxygen, both of which are lacking in processed foods, dairy products and meat.

	RAW FOOD CELEBRATIONS Party Menus for Every Occasion by Nomi Shannon & Sheryl Duruz, 120 pages. Soft Cover, ISBN : 978-1-57067-228-6 CODE 1212 34.99
Nomi Shannon, a raw food lifestyle coach, has been involved with raw foods for over twenty years. Her book, The Raw Gourmet, is a classic and has sold over 50,000 copies. Full-colour photographs illustrate how this party food is not only nutritious but attractive and appetizing as well. Includes shopping lists, easy menus, and plan ahead guides to make entertaining foolproof, easy, and fun for the host/ess. Recipes combine artfulness with simplicity. Step by step instructions can guide even a novice to prepare nutritious and scrumptious party fare that showcase the wonders of raw food cuisine. Menus range from traditional to exotic with many ethnic delights and include brunch, luncheon, and cocktail party ideas. A few of the tasty, tantalizing foods to enjoy include: Zucchini Canapés, Sweet Potato Soufflé, Ambrosia, Pasta with Marinara, and Chocolate Caramel Divine Cheesecake
	THE RAW GOURMET Simple Recipes for Living Well by Nomi Shannon. 219 pages, Soft Cover , Large Format Colour Photography. ISBN : 0-920470-48-3. CODE 1126 48.40

Finally, a healthy book designed for the busy consumer who seeks good nutrition but is unable to make tremendous sacrifices in time and budget to obtain it. The Raw Gourmet, a full-color beautifully executed and comprehensive food book contains recipes that bring us the tastes we crave and the live enzymes we need to survive on this planet in this millennium.

Filled with source information and recipes for all occasions from simple to gourmet, this complete book is all the novice or experienced raw fooder or vegan will ever need on their kitchen bookshelf. The flavors of raw cuisine will bring your taste buds to attention with recipes like apple pie, yam pie, nori rolls, stuffed mushrooms, spinach mousse, many vegetable and salad recipes plus dressings, soups, dips, entrees and more. The Raw Gourmet goes giant steps further than anything else you have read in showing how to prepare food for ourselves and our loved ones in less time than conventional cooking with flame.

Whether you'd simply like to add more fruit and vegetable servings to your daily life, or want to change your lifestyle in a more dramatic way-This Book Is For You.

• Learn about nutrition as prevention against disease
• Combat aging and restore vigour
• Effortlessly obtain 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day
• Balance your weight easily and naturally
• Enjoy delicious food that is naturally high in fibre
• Learn everything you need to know about a raw food kitchen
• Know what simple items to have on hand to create meals in 15 minutes or less
• Enjoy extravagant and healthy desserts
• Includes a three week cleanse menu plan, properly food combined recipes and more..

---"Foods that are fun and foods that heal were once thought of as incompatible. Within these pages lives a tapestry of delectable, healthful recipes which will eradicate any former notion that you may have had. Nomi's heart, as well as the experience that she gained here at the Hippocrates Health Institute, really come through in this easy to follow, step-by-step book for better living."

-From the foreword by Brian Clement, author of Living Foods for Optimum Health, and director of Hippocrates Health Institute.

Now Available on One Long Playing DVD - All 3 Classes on one DVD

Volume 1. Start Your Day the Healthy Way

After watching this engaging video you will never again wonder how to start your day the healthy way. Nomi Shannon, acclaimed culinary artist and author of the best selling cookbook, The Raw Gourmet, gives you so many wonderful ideas for breakfast and snacks that you may never have to eat the same thing twice!

From the wonder of fruits both familiar and exotic, to juices, smoothies, puddings and cereals, Nomi explores the many options you have. Whether it's about keeping it light, or learning how to start your day with healthy fare; Nomi shows you how to quickly prepare nourishing living food breakfasts and snacks that fit in with today's busy lifestyles. See Nomi demonstrate old-fashioned fruit compote, pineapple-grape ambrosia, smoothies, juices, puddings, cereals and more! Now raw breakfasts and snacks are quick to make and fun to eat!

Volume 2. Making Meals of Nuts and Seeds

In this entertaining and informative DVD, world famous culinary artist and author Nomi Shannon, author of The Raw Gourmet, demystifies the use of nuts and seeds in showing how to make hearty entrees and protein rich meals.

See Nomi prepare the incomparable Sunny Pate. Learn the best ingredients to use and why. Learn why and how to soak nuts and seeds. And, a first for raw foods, see how to make a special pate that lasts over two weeks in your refrigerator! Watch as Nomi demonstrates how to make: mock salmon, nori roll, stuffed peppers, 'neat-balls' and gravy, Asian Pate, chile rellenos, pates, loaves and burgers. Learn how to serve food attractively. Watch an easy trick to make perfect cabbage roll-ups time after time. In homes and restaurants alike the Sun Garden Burger is the most popular vegetarian burger; see how to make it in your own kitchen. Watch as Nomi demonstrates how to use a dehydrator. Raw food isn't just a handful of nuts and seeds anymore!

Volume 3. Palate Pleasing Recipes to feed From 4-400!

Watch world-renowned culinary artist Nomi Shannon, author of the best selling food preparation book, The Raw Gourmet, prepare luscious entrees and explain how to easily expand these traditional tasting recipes to feed a crowd. See how to make fabulous spinach mousse, the raw food answer to quiche! Topped with mushroom gravy, this dish is fit for royalty, or your next pot luck event. Learn how to get rave reviews with an all-raw pasta that satisfies like the pasta served at top Italian restaurants. Finish your pasta off with a marvelous traditional pesto, then with pomadoro or marinara sauce. See how to use raw food kitchen equipment like a mandoline and a saladacco spiral slicer (now known as the Garnishing Machine)! Watch as Nomi takes you step-by-step through the process of making authentic-looking and tasting raw lasagna. Learn how to make large quantities of traditional style foods so that you can entertain with pride and certainly. It's raw food party time! Raw food isn't just about salad any more!

Look what people are saying about the series:

".. And, I loved the book, but I just watched the three videos yesterday. Nomi is adorable! She made things so very easy and matter of fact and fun. As a traditionally trained chef, it was amazing how intimidated I was by the raw/living food preparation process! Thanks to Nomi, I realize it is much simpler, and much more fun, than I realized. Thanks, so very much. {Nomi is} comfortable in front of the camera, and had an easy style of communication. I felt like I was in your kitchen with you, not like it was some slick and lifeless program."

"Nomi, Got the videos yesterday and immediately sat down to watch them. What a joy! So many of the raw videos are poorly produced, but not yours. They are clear and concise and a pleasure to view. The production value is head and shoulders above anything that I've seen. Thank you so much for inspiring me. Please make some more soon!"