Books | Matthew Kenney

Raw Chocolate (Mar. '12)

Matthew Kenney and Meredith Baird apply their unique and creative culinary approach to the increasingly popular raw cacao bean, in this beautiful photographed book. With intriguing chapter titles such as ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, the authors share their proprietary method for tempering raw chocolate, and offer refined recipes that will change your perception of this beloved bean.

Raw Food Real World

Matthew’s first raw food book, where he and his co-author share their experience ‘going raw’. They teach us that raw foods are light, clean and natural, and how they make us feel healthy and sexy. This new way of life changed their outlook on eating and cooking and deeply connected them to the world around them. As Kenney says, "Raw foods and the lifestyle associated with it are so compelling and complex that we will be forever learning and growing. Already it seems that we have discovered some of the magic that life offers." In this lushly photographed book, they showed that preparing and eating raw does not mean bland, unsatisfying, or impossibly time-consuming meals, as they explore a whole new outlook on raw food that transfers beautifully and easily from their kitchen to yours -- no matter what your present diet. And you'll immediately begin to reap the benefits of healthful, delicious, life-giving raw food.

Entertaining In The Raw

In his most ambitious title, Chef Matthew takes the raw food lifestyle to exquisite new height. He combines his love of art and culture with his philosophy on food to create recipes for outstanding raw food dishes that will excite the tastebuds of all your guests. Whether it is something simple, like Orange-Pineapple Flan and Lime Syrup, or something more complex, such as his ‘Jackson Pollock Raviolo”, this book offers recipes to delight the palate and entertain the senses.

The recipes span many ethnicities, including Asian, Latin, French, and Indian, and include everything from appetizers and tapas to main dishes, breads, sauces, and decadent desserts. Kenney's focus is always on fresh fruits and vegetables, organic, and buying food locally in season. He believes eating raw food can lead to greater health and fosters creativity in the kitchen. Raw food made right will always enhance the flavors and pleasures of eating, whether alone or with a large gathering of friends.

Mediterranean Cooking

A young American chef's fresh new interpretation of beloved Mediterranean cuisine, Matthew Kenney's Mediterranean Cooking is a masterful blend of tradition, passion, and creativity. In this first cookbook, Matthew shares his signature style of relaxed Mediterranean cooking with 150 wonderful dishes anyone can prepare at home. Relying on widely available ingredients and simplified cooking techniques, Kenney makes it possible for busy cooks everywhere to enjoy the sensuous culinary traditions of the Mediterranean coastal rim, from the hill towns of Spain and Italy to the sun-baked villages of North Africa. A new classic is born.

Radiant Food (Spring '13)

Meredith Baird and Matthew Kenney show you how to improve your diet and enhance your lifestyle with the clean, fresh contemporary approach to a plant-based diet. In years to come, this will be known as the diet of the future, one which requires little compromise and lots of flavor.

Everyday Raw Express

If you love the philosophy behind and benefits of eating raw, but find it challenging to prepare, the answer is here. Everyday Raw Express offers simple and delicious recipes-fast! While raw food has captured our imaginations with its growing presence in upscale restaurants and through its beautiful, colorful imagery in cookbooks, many recipes by raw food chefs are admittedly complicated or time-consuming to make.

Enter Everyday Raw Express, bursting with recipes for full-flavored, original, and vibrant raw dishes. Each recipe is made with local, seasonal ingredients to achieve the healthiest food possible.

Try elixirs such as Lemongrass Pear Tonic or Red Beet Sangria. Savor pastas like Zucchini Noodles with Sweet Corn Pesto and Mint or entrées like Spring Vegetable Couscous with Fava Beans. The book includes delicious smoothies and salads and an entire chapter dedicated to condiments. Finish off your meal with a decadent dessert such as Banana Gelato or Spiced Pineapple with Rose Water and Pistachios.

Accessible, practical, and richly flavored, these raw food recipes utilize fresh ingredients at their peak in intense combinations. Explore your local stores, farmers markets, and artisanal products to make the freshest, healthiest food available.

Embracing the plant-based lifestyle of raw food is easier and less time-consuming than ever with Everyday Raw Express.

Big City Cooking

Early in his career, Matthew was known for innovative, urban cuisine at his multiple New York City restaurants. Bringing the same principles that governed his work in these restaurants to this volume, he produces simple yet effective recipes that take the best foods from the growing markets and specialty stores in today's big cities to produce dishes suitable for the home cook. While starting with a chapter on setting up and stocking the kitchen (which contains a complete ingredient source list), he then divides and categorizes the subsequent dishes by cooking method rather than the customary major ingredients, resulting in such sections as "Simply Raw to Barely Cooked" and "Simmering Stews and Hot Pots." Interspersed with mouth-watering photographs, the dishes are lovingly described and fully explained to help achieve delectable results. Many recipes are well within the capabilities of even the most kitchen-phobic cook, encouraging them into further forays into the kitchen.

MK Lifestyle (Fall '13): After years of showing others how to create delicious cuisine within a plant-based diet, Matthew now shares how this food can change your life and your health. This ground-breaking title explores the current state of health issues in the world, much of it related to diet and lifestyle, while providing options for those wishing to continue enjoying food while attaining optimum health. Drawing on his training as a classical chef, with his experience as an innovator and educator, he is simultaneously providing a road map for extended youth without compromise.
Everyday Raw: Enjoy raw food every day! This book is simple, straightforward, and easy to use. The recipes are for everyone interested in fresh, healthy, local, and organic food that tastes great. Whether it is a smoothie, a salad, or a midmorning snack, you will love the fresh and delicious recipes Matthew Kenney has created. The book also includes substantial main dishes, like Pad Thai and Tomato, Basil, and Ricotta Pizza, as well as decadent desserts like Frozen Goji Berry Soufflé and Chocolate Hazelnut Tart. The chapter Unbaked teaches you to make crackers and breads using raw food techniques and ingredients, and the chapter on Spreads, Dips, and Sauces is filled with favorites like Pineapple Mango Salsa and Roasted Pepper Hummus with Lime. Many of the recipes require no additional equipment, and others something as simple as a blender. Everyday Raw is for everyday people who want healthy food and great flavor. If you want to eat well and feel great, this book is for you.
Everyday Raw Desserts: In Everyday Raw Desserts, Matthew and Meredith brings their clean and modern sense of style to creating fabulous all-raw desserts. The book includes an abundance of recipes you might not typically expect to be raw, from puddings and pies to chocolate and ice cream. Try Dulce de Leche Flan, Pink Grapefruit Sorbet, Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge, White Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies, or the Strawberry Mascarpone Tart. Whether you are a raw food enthusiast or simply interested in fresh, healthy, and flavorful desserts, this book has something for you. Forty breathtaking photographs and more than seventy five recipes make this raw food cookbook something you won't want to miss.