Bravo!: Health Promoting Meals from the TrueNorth Health Kitchen

Bravo! is the right title for this book - and not just because Chef Ramses Bravo is the author! Cooking without salt, oil, and sugar (SOS) can be tricky at first. Most of us are used to using them and consuming them. It's great to have a cookbook that doesn't even include them. Yes, at first, your tastebuds will be disappointed by the lack of SOS. After a few meals, though, you'll taste the food and your tastebuds will awaken to a world of wonder. The Red Lentil Loaf with Bell Pepper Coulis is too fabulous for words! I love the Polenta Croutons - what a great idea! This small book is packed with excellent recipes that will inspire you to get healthy and stay that way - for life!

I have been waiting for this book to come out for so long and my copy finally arrived today. It was definitely worth the wait. While there are many talented plant based chefs who write beautiful cookbooks, their food is not very healthy, replete with tons of oil, sugar and salt. It's pretty easy to make anything taste delicious if you are using those three addictive ingredients!!! Try and make food taste good WITHOUT them. To do that, you need a true culinary genius which you have in Chef Bravo. With all the vegan crap like agave and olive oil that is being touted to as as healthy, it's refreshing that there are a few talented chefs out these who can make truly health promoting food delicious AND beautiful. Sure, if you are still eating sugar, oil or salt these recipes may taste a bit bland to you, at first. But as Dr. Alan Goldhamer always says "if this food doesn't taste good, then you really need to fast". No one needs to eat sugar, oil or salt. All three of those ingredients are disease promoting. Chef Bravo shows you how to avoid all of these toxins and makes it easy and delicious. This book is a masterpiece! Try his recipes and finally lose the excess weight and clean up your palate while enjoying the healthiest food on the planet. Or better yet, visit True North and experience Chef Bravo's incredible cuisine in person. Love & Kale, Chef AJ [...]

The book is nice quality and full of amazing recipes that taste good and are relatively simple to create. But while the recipes are great there are a few items that really bother me about the layout. First, the list of ingredients is on the left side of the recipe as per usual. However, if there are a lot of ingredients then there is a strange break and the ingredient list continues on the next page even if there is plenty of room on the first page to fit it all in easily. I actually went in with a pen and wrote (More ingredients on the next page) on the bottoms of some of these because it is confusing and weird. It seems that there is some need to make the book look balances instead of, the more important aspect, to keep it tidy, functional, and easy to follow. Second, there are certain recipes that have beautiful pictures, however, the picture is across from a completely different recipe 25-30 pages away. It may be me and my old-school beliefs but if a recipe has a picture, that picture should be on the same page as the recipe, not half the book away with a reference to the page where the recipe is found. This really bothers me. I'm not sure what this is for. I already purchased the book. I don't need picture-advertisements for different recipes while I'm cooking. It would be ions more helpful to see what I'm trying to make instead of a picture of a cake while I'm trying to make spaghetti. Just saying. So there it is. The editor needs to be sat down and talked to about their weird antics. Otherwise, the recipes are beautiful, healthy and the authors are genius!!!

If you are familiar with Dr. John McDougall MD Internist's Starch Solution and The Most Perfect Diet In The World cook books, or Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn MD's How To Reverse Heart Disease cookbook, or Dr. Colin Campbell's China Study or Whole Cookbooks, then Chef Bravo's cookbook will be not only a great complement, but a tremendous upgrade. I love the recipes in this book that much that I think that highly of the. Chef Bravo works at the True North Health Clinic, which is a clinic specializing in Medically Supervised Water Fasting to reverse malignant hypertension, Type-2 Diabetes and other metabolic issues. Dr. Michael Klapper MD, Dr. Allen Goldhammer, and Dr. Doug Lyle (all on youtube) provide all the supervision for long term water fasting to reverse dietary diseases. Chef Bravo teaches how to shop and cook a new healthy lifestyle full of flavor at the True North Health Clinic so that when the patients leave, they can have the knowledge how to eat healthy and not get back into the old SAD (Standard American Diet.) I highly recommend Chef Bravos book. Hope he writes another one.

Great Cookbook written by the Chef at The Inpatient fasting clinic that my MD and Chiropractor work out of. Easy to do and tasty recipes and because he works for this clinic I know that they are all healthy as well which is a huge plus. Since I am Vegan as well as doing my best to avoid added bad fats, salt and sugar and highly process foods in my diet these recipes work well for me as they are all free of those items as well. Good book and highly recommend it.

I LOVE this cookbook. I eat mostly low fat raw, no sos, and am amazed at how spectacularly tastey food with no oil, salt or sugar can be! Only a truly great chef can so this. All the other raw low fat recipes I've tried made me feel deprived. I eat a tremendous amount of salad greens and before this could not find one low fat salad dressing recipe I really loved. All of them are great. Not to mention all the sauces for my steamed veggies.. there are lots of fairly gourmet recipes for family gatherings too so no one has to pity me for my unappetizing plate. Even my husband who is very entrenched in his Sicilian family foods, thought some of the recipes sounded appetizing. Thanks for making food pleasurable for me again!

Great Book. If you're trying to get rid of salt, oil and sugar from your diet. this is the book to go...

I really like when I can see a photo in a book, so I can image the end result - unfortunately this book does not provide photographs of all dishes. Cooking for one person is a difficult task to complete, because majority of recipes require plenty of ingredients that makes storing the fresh ones impossible. THIS BOOK IS BASED ON BASIC INGREDIENTS AND THE LACK OF PHOTOS IS BEING MADE UP WITH THE SugarOilSalt-FREE MEALS.

Love the many easy to make recipes.

This book is a great tool when trying to eliminate SALT OIL & SUGAR. These recipes make the transition to a healthier diet easier.

Great vegan book, interesting information. I think this would be a good basic starting book for someone new to a vegan diet. I have bought it as I wanted to include some vegan meals into my vegetarian diet. I have tried a few recipes with good results, and I am now prepared with lots of ideas when vegan friends come for dinner.