A book worth taking a look at, especially if you can’t take the heat in your kitchen anymore.” — Daily News
“Matthew and Sarma are five-star masters of organic cuisine. I am continually impressed by the taste sensations and culinary skills they bring to their restaurant, and now to the pages of this book! It’s filled to the brim with recipes, ideas, and strategies to make your kitchen jump to life. This is the best food ever!” — David Wolfe, author of Eating for Beauty and Naked Chocolate
Praise for Pure Food and Wine “Manhattan’s hot new restaurant…Raw food is going glam at Pure Food and Wine.” — New York Post
“Our quartet of gourmands is beguiled by tomato tartare, the spicy Thai lettuce wraps, and a pineapple-cucumber gazpacho…After zebra-tomato lasagne, hummus-slathered flatbread pizza topped with a savory salad, “creamy” golden-squash pasta with summer truffles, and dessert, I cancel plans to stop for a burger on the way home.” — New York magazine
“Whether or not you’re counting calories, your body will appreciate the innovative, health-driven summer menu at…Pure Food and Wine.” — Time Out New York
“With its burnt-orange walls, low lighting, and intimate bar, Pure Food and Wine is both urbane and seductive. The colorful food is equally stylish—the fact that all of it is prepared according to strict raw-food principles…seems almost beside the point to the diners who fill the narrow restaurant and its verdant garden every night.” — Organic Style
“Fashionable cuisine . . . Pure is more about uplifting discoveries than culinary I-dare-yous. . . . At a place you’d assume might be all about denial, it’s one awfully sweet reward.” — New York magazine
“This is the best food ever!” — David Wolfe, author of Eating for Beauty
Praise for New York City’s Premier Raw Restaurant, Pure Food and Wine “Whether you’re into raw food or not, Sarma’s restaurant is really great, and her One Lucky Duck Juice and Takeaway around the corner is my afternoon go-to spot when I’m in NYC. I always feel at home there!” — Owen Wilson
“My favorites are the Black Trumpet Mushroom Napoleon and the Classic Sundae!” — Gisele Bündchen
“‘Raw’ and ‘vegetarian’ are not adjectives usually associated with haute cuisine, but at Pure Food and Wine, as if by magic, such ingredients are turned into exquisite and exotically delicious offerings.” — Forbes
“At once sophisticated and rigorously raw, [Melngailis’ recipes] range from quick and easy milks, juices and items from Pure Food and Wine’s “family meal”…to intriguing dishes off the restaurant menu… And nonpreachy primers on ingredients and techniques used in raw preparations make the book accessible…for a wider audience…” — Publishers Weekly
“For those who want to know more about raw foods, Melngailis offers this comprehensive guide. ‘Raw foods’ doesn’t mean eating relish trays all day long. Many raw foods are transformed from their native state by passing them through a blender or by dehydrating them. . . . Cooks who aren’t interested in raw foods per se may discover both new ingredients and techniques here.” — Booklist
Matthew and Sarma are five-star masters of organic cuisine. I am continually impressed by the taste sensations and culinary skills they bring to their restaurant, and now to the pages of this book! It’s filled to the brim with recipes, ideas, and strategies to make your kitchen jump to life. This is the best food ever!
Our quartet of gourmands is beguiled by tomato tartare, the spicy Thai lettuce wraps, and a pineapple-cucumber gazpacho…After zebra-tomato lasagne, hummus-slathered flatbread pizza topped with a savory salad, “creamy” golden-squash pasta with summer truffles, and dessert, I cancel plans to stop for a burger on the way home.
Praise for Pure Food and Wine “Manhattan’s hot new restaurant…Raw food is going glam at Pure Food and Wine.
With its burnt-orange walls, low lighting, and intimate bar, Pure Food and Wine is both urbane and seductive. The colorful food is equally stylish—the fact that all of it is prepared according to strict raw-food principles…seems almost beside the point to the diners who fill the narrow restaurant and its verdant garden every night.
Whether or not you’re counting calories, your body will appreciate the innovative, health-driven summer menu at…Pure Food and Wine.
Praise for New York City’s Premier Raw Restaurant, Pure Food and Wine “Whether you’re into raw food or not, Sarma’s restaurant is really great, and her One Lucky Duck Juice and Takeaway around the corner is my afternoon go-to spot when I’m in NYC. I always feel at home there!
A book worth taking a look at, especially if you can’t take the heat in your kitchen anymore.
My favorites are the Black Trumpet Mushroom Napoleon and the Classic Sundae!
‘Raw’ and ‘vegetarian’ are not adjectives usually associated with haute cuisine, but at Pure Food and Wine, as if by magic, such ingredients are turned into exquisite and exotically delicious offerings.
My favorites are the Black Trumpet Mushroom Napoleon and the Classic Sundae!
"My favorites are the Black Trumpet Mushroom Napoleon and the Classic Sundae!"
This follow-up to Raw Food/ Real World offers 100 new recipes inspired by the New York City restaurant Pure Food and Wine, where Melngailis is a partner and executive chef. The restaurant is swanky and the book is irreverent (there's even a photo of the author smoking)-it's hardly a paean to an obsessively ascetic raw lifestyle. But the recipes are legit: at once sophisticated and rigorously raw, they range from quick and easy milks, juices and items from Pure Food and Wine's "family meal" (that's the staff meal, in non-restaurant speak) to intriguing dishes off the restaurant menu. Baby fennel and truffle-cream tarts; beet ravioli with pine nuts and goat cheese; pumpkin gnocchi with walnut cream sauce, spiced pumpkin seeds and crispy sage; and vanilla panna cotta with tarragon-peach sauce all have gourmet appeal well beyond those already committed to the raw food movement. And nonpreachy primers on ingredients and techniques used in raw preparations make the book accessible and usable for a wider audience than might typically go for a raw foods cookbook-if cookbook is even the right term for a volume of vegan recipes in which nothing is heated over 118 degrees Fahrenheit. (July)
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Pure Food and Wine is Melngailis's sophisticated vegan raw food restaurant in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood. Her first book, Raw Food/Real World, coauthored with then-partner Matthew Kenney, introduces readers to a raw food diet, with recipes from the newly opened restaurant; here are more recipes and tips (along with more than enough photographs of Melngailis in various poses). Buy for demand.
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