Raw foods and raw food recipes are starring in meals prepared by top chefs on TV and receiving standing ovations from diners at upscale restaurants from coast to coast, while heartland home cooks are finding new ways to ‘un-cook’ their favorite cooked recipes.

But for the Next Food Network Star and your next door neighbor, alike, the biggest challenge comes at the end of the meal. Although many people are excellent cooks, they are lost when it comes to making dessert. More science than art, baking involves precise temperatures and methods that even master chefs find challenging.

It’s raw food to the rescue...with vegan desserts, gluten-free desserts, and raw food recipes of all kinds!

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I love to cook...or, more accurately, I hate to cook, but I serve interesting tastes and textures when I dine. And I especially love easy party recipes that allow me to spend time with my company rather than be a slave to a hot stove.

Is it any wonder that I'm a fan of raw foods? They're simple to prepare and are always a hit with guests...especially those who have been craving vegan dessert recipes, gluten-free desserts, and raw food recipes that are sweet rather than savor

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You've undoubtedly heard the phrase 'as American as apple pie.' But here's a surprise: it seems that ice cream is the dessert of choice from sea to shining sea in the USA. A recent survey noted that each American consumes a yearly average of 24.5 quarts of commercially produced frozen dairy products...

...and that translates into a lot of saturated fat and

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Washington, D.C. has always been ‘fertile soil’ for politics, but something new is taking root at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – a vegetable garden. For the first time since Eleanor Roosevelt planted her famous Victory Garden, the most famous family in America has turned the most famous house in America into a celebration of freshly harvested food.

Everyone knows it is healthy to eat fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables every day. That isn’t a new concept. What is new is the idea that these foods should be most of what we eat.  

Enjoying an abundance of assorted fresh, colorful fruits and vegetables is the basis of a raw food diet.

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My name is Jennifer, but sometimes when I’m cooking, my alter-ego -- ‘Saucy Susan’ – takes over.  You see, I love what sauces do for the flavor and texture of a recipe, and I’m always looking for ways to sauce-up a meal or snack.

The problem is that I don’t like what the ingredients in traditional sauces do for my waistline or my arteries.  That’s why it was important to me to re-imagine sauces in both of my raw cookbooks, Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People andRaw for Dessert. 

You might be wondering what kind of sauce recipes would be appropriate to a desserts cookbook.  Raw food sauce recipes, like their traditional counterparts, can be sweet or savory. Some of my favorite raw food sauces serve as the ‘crowning glory’ on ice cream sundaes.

So in this article, I’d like to invite everyone to ‘get sauced’ the healthy way...with some delicious raw food sauce recipes that 

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