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I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude | 
 enlarge | Authors: Terces Engelhart, Orchid
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 23169
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1556436475
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.563
EAN: 9781556436475
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
With locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Los Angeles, Cafe 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 cafe’s most popular items, making it easy for readers to prepare live foods at home. Recipes include cafe 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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 A Fabulous Guide January 6, 2009
I have had the good fortune of being able to visit this cafe in Berkley, CA and was completely blown away from their food. I follow a vegan lifestyle and am always interested in live and raw foods as well. I got this cookbook for my brother and the two of us have had a lot of fun whipping up recipes. One word of caution is definitely that you will need some serious kitchen appliances to do a number of the concoctions described. Other than a good food processor and nut grinder, a dehydrator is key and a "spiralizer" (??) is mentioned often.
Be prepared to be blown away by the recipes and learn a lot about vegan and live food preparation!
Terces December 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WOW I am so grateful for all the reviews and was inspired to write my own. The book is intended to introduce you to making your own Cafe Gratitude favorites at home and yes, we learned a lot in writing this. For one, Irish Moss is now available on our website. Yes, raw foods can be rich, you needn't eat large portions and be sure to mix your diet with great green juices and fresh veggies and fruits.
Thank you so much for your comments and partnership in working more closely with nature and supporting our community. With a very grateful heart. Love, Terces
I am Grateful November 17, 2008
This is an awesome book. The receipes are the MOST wonderful tasting of all and it is so inspiring in its concept. Each receipe name is so affirming. I love it. Yumm
This Is the Gourmet Answer to Raw Foods October 29, 2008
3 out of 3 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........
 Just an FYI September 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unlike some recipe books, these guys made sure each recipe was tested. I know this because I was one of the testers. So, yes, you can count on those recipes. I tested the Thai cocount soup. I love their soup and am glad they do it, because it took me 30 minutes to figure out how to open that coconut, LOL. I wish I'd asked for a cake recipe instead.
Their strong point is the desserts. Just go to the back of the book for those. Hazelnuts....mmmmmmm.....
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