2015 by Sayuri Tanaka
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Author: Sayuri Tanaka
http://www.yummtumm.com
http://www.theseedsoflife.net
ISBN: 978-602-71673-5-3 (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-602-71673-4-6 (e-book)
Credits:
Photography : Sayuri Tanaka, (Kino & Tims photo by Tom Rosenthal) , Milla
Design: Sayuri Tanaka
Production: Darlene Swanson
Proofreading : Jody Amato
This book is dedicated to my beautiful friends, whom I have come across in my journey around the world.
I further dedicate this to my dearest mother and father, who have given me infinite love, which has always been the source of my love within and in my food.
This is also dedicated to you, whom I luckily came across through this book.
Love and gratitude,
Sayuri
2015
CONTENTS
Sayuri Tanaka
Retreat chef and raw food trainer
As a raw/vegan/macrobiotic chef and teacher, Sayuri offers individuals an experience of what its truly like for the body to be nourished and the heart to be opened through her food. As a teacher, she demonstrates the simplicity of physical and spiritual transformation through food. This knowledge has taken her around the world to share with others for decades. A yoga practitioner herself, Sayuri has catered for yoga retreats in India, Bali, Australia, North and South America, and Europe, and studied at some of the great academies and institutes of raw food and macrobiotics, which has given her a greater understanding of preparing foods for yogis individual needs.
Sayuri encourages and promotes a healthy, sustainable, and highly conscious lifestyle for all of us, the earth, and the future through teaching the healthy way of eating and training around the world, and by sharing the love and knowledge she has within.
As yoga transforms you, so does her foodguaranteed!
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I have finally put together a collection of the most popular, easiest, and yet yummiest and healthiest recipes that have been enjoyed by many yogis and yoginis whom I have been cooking for in retreat centres around the world. I have kept all the recipes vegan and noted alternatives for people who have allergies to certain foods, so everyone can enjoy the entire menu!
Using lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, beans, tofu, tempeh, nuts, and seeds, I have strived to satisfy not just vegans, but also non-vegans and vegetarians. Raw, living foods are also introduced here and there in the recipes. For men who need satisfying meals, for kids and elders who need fun and gentle meals, and of course for busy women who need simple and easy preparation, this recipe book is suitable for everyone!
My philosophy of cooking is to be creative, especially with vegan and raw food. You may think, Oh, I dont have this and that so I cannot make this and that... Nooooope! If your imagination is unlimited, your cooking can be as well. In fact, the dishes you create include so much of you. Remember, the recipes are just guidelines. Dont worry too much about them and be experimental with measures and flavours to achieve the taste that is right for you. Each person has different tastes and needs, so play with ingredients or what is available to you.
It is very important to choose organic ingredients whenever possible. By doing so, you are making a stand against damaging our bodies and the Earth with toxins and chemicals, as well as supporting organic farmers. By choosing a vegan diet, you are also helping to protect animals from cruelty and saving the limited resources of our planet.
Preparing the food in a harmonious way will not only make you feel good, it will also help those who eat your creations to connect with nature. Isnt it wonderful to be a bridge between those two?
I am blessed to have been given this opportunity to cook for people in this way. It is an absolute joy and privilege for me. Its been nourishment for me to see the smiles on my friends faces whenever they enjoy my culinary creations!
This book was created to share the joy of cooking, especially cooking for others. I hope your body, mind, and spirit will be nourished through the food made with love.
So have fun and enjoy cooking! Make yourself happy, make people around you happy and full, and make the world better! Make our future beautiful! Yes, your choice of food does matter! As yoga transforms you, I guarantee you that good food equally transforms you and the world!
Although the word vegetarian is widely understood to describe those who do not eat animal products, originally it comes from the Latin word vegetus, meaning lively and vigorous, with the suffix -arian.
Many choose this diet for health, ethical, religious, and many other reasons, and often it encompasses their way of living, with individual beliefs and ethics of nonviolence, animal rights, environmental issues, etc.
Vegans, strict vegetarians, do not eat food derived from animals even indirectly, such as dairy products, eggs, and honey. Many vegans have a rigid philosophy on animal rights, and even avoid wearing leather, wool, silk, and down that is made from animals, and cosmetics that are tested on animals. Many vegans believe strongly in an environmentally sustainability world, as industrial farming of animals is environmentally damaging and unsustainable.
Macrobiotics is the practical application of the natural laws of change; the constantly changing nature of all things. A basic tenet of macrobiotic thinking is that all things are composed of yin energy (outward moving) and yang energy (inward). The macrobiotic approach to diet emphasizes whole grains and fresh vegetables, which make it easier to achieve a more balanced condition within the natural order of life.
There are also other vegetarian diets: a pescetarian diet includes fish; a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs, etc. In Hinduism, the Indian pure vegetarian diet includes dairy products, but not eggs;in Buddhism, Japanese traditional vegetarian monk food is basically vegan.
A raw, living-food diet includes high percentages of live, unheated, unprocessed foods, such as whole fruits, vegetables, seaweeds, nuts and seeds, fermented foods and sprouted foods. Although some raw food enthusiasts eat animal products, the raw food that I share in this book is vegan. By eating highly vibrational, nutritionally dense food, we achieve harmony with nature and health in body, mind, and spirit. As well as vegetarian, vegan, and macrobiotic, this is not just a diet, but reflects a way of life, thought, philosophy, and ethics.