Bravo! is a collection of delicious, health-promoting recipes from the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. These recipes are at the core of a food-based treatment strategy to help regulate weight and safeguard against disease. More than 7,000 people have recovered from numerous chronic diseases, including diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and hypertension following their program. Chef Ramses BravoÂ’s exquisite vegan cuisine combines simple, fresh wholesome ingredients that are converted into gourmet meals that burst with color and nutrition. Completely SOS (salt-,oil-, and sugar-free), these meals are low in calories, free of harmful saturated fats and cholesterol, and rich in nutrients and fiber. Included are tips and guidelines to help readers easily transition to a diet of nutritional excellence, along with 14 days of menus to get them started. Nutritional analyses accompany all of the recipes and menus. Color photos verify how visually appealing these dishes are.
^Bravo, Ramses; Goldhamer, Alan (2014). Bravo! : Health Promoting Favorites from the TrueNorth Health Kitchen, Book Pub Co. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9781570672699 (revised Jul 2022)
^ (2013). Bravo! : Health Promoting Favorites from the TrueNorth Health KitchenECampus. ISBN 9781570672699 (revised Aug 2015)
^Ramses BravoBravo!: Health Promoting Meals from the TrueNorth Health Kitchen, Book Pub Company. Amazon. ISBN 9781570672699 (revised Feb 2015)
Oh man, I REALLY wanted to give this book five stars. I'm a former foodie and an avid home cook who's been plant based for about nine months, and the gourmet nature of the book was what I needed to keep things interesting.I've made about half a dozen recipes so far and only had one dish that I loved. But I'm going to keep cooking from this book and see what happens. I'll update this review if my opinion changes, but since it's a new book without many reviews I thought this might help others.Issues:- Measure..
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 a..
There are a lot of recipes in this book that are familiar to most Americans, oatmeal, breakfast bars, granola, chili and lasagne, but done vegan style (no animal-sourced ingredients. A problem I have with many vegan cookbooks is that the recipes call for unusual ingredients or they are "out there", meaning complicated and odd-sounding. Here, the recipes are for foods you probably already eat, and there are a few unusual ingredients (black rice, tempeh) perhaps, but mostly, these recipe require things you'd..
