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132 Delicious Salads, Dressings And Dips

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About Gabrielle

Gabrielle Raiz is a successful author, editor, a keen foodie and health-loving educator who perhaps surprisingly started her working life as a dentist. She has a knack for making things practical and understandable and has a flexible approach to her food and her yoga.

Gabrielle's talent as an author was crystallized through much online writing and of course with the publishing of her highly successful first book: Hot Yoga MasterClass. First published in 2008, it continues (in its tenth year) to sell well on Amazon and through her own websites and garner excellent reviews (averaging 4.8 stars). The book was initially available as a large-format hard cover spiral-bound book, re-released as a paperback in 2012, in 2017 as an e-book, and in 2022 as an updated hardcover.

Both her cookbooks were top sellers. Green Smoothie Magic was one of the first green smoothie books way back in 2012 and 132+ Delicious Salads, Dressings and Dips was number 1 of all paid books, albeit briefly but hey, it's a stat that's worthy of a small amount of bragging. All of her recipes are fuss-free, adaptable and most importantly use easy to find ingredients that anyone can find. Some embody beautiful simplicity of 1 or 2 ingredients while others are marvelously complex, but never hard to make!

Her hallmark style has an easy, intelligent and conversational tone with a touch of humor!

In both her currently chosen fields of nutrition and yoga she has built a solid reputation for creating products of beauty and above all, quality. "What you eat and how you move are 2 fields in which being mindful and present are vital", Gabrielle says. "I love that I help people do both!"

As the Hot Yoga Doctor she helps tens of thousands of people every month in every corner of the planet improve their yoga practices by demystifying all things yoga, hot yoga and Bikram Yoga™.

And as a professional fiction and non-fiction editor, she loves to apply her detailed wordsmiths skills to help other authors scale new heights.

Something you may not know about Gabrielle (and rather unusual for a yoga instructor) is that she used to race motorcycles! But as she's been known to say "the last time I rode a motorbike was to go and buy a pregnancy testing kit". Her daughter is now 20!

what people say

Book Reviews

Hot Yoga Masterclass

This book is a MUST READ for anyone and everyone at any level who is doing Bikram/Hot Yoga. When in class, the script is the exact same and does not help improve or teach your individual practice. When the teacher calls out a correction, I always think she is talking to me. This book has shown me the minute details of each asana so that I can practice safely and correctly. I am only 4months into my journey. I have been an avid runner for 30years and never stretched. Suffered from shin splints and severe leg knots and tension so that I could not run the first 6months of this year. After 4 days of yoga, I was healed. Since then, I have continued almost daily and this book, the ongoing emails and assistance from hotyogadoctor.com have healed me of the typical aging issues one hits after 50. I feel like I am 30 again! This book has been invaluable and I study it daily to continue to focus on correct position and to avoid injury. It is priceless!!!!

Julie Burt

Hi Gabrielle! I completed my 200 hour yoga teacher certification in Feb. 2017. I have been practicing Bikram Hot Yoga since 2010, and I've known for a long time that I wanted to teach hot yoga. I've seen first hand how it has changed me in so many ways, not to mention the incredible benefits of this yoga sequence and the hot room! At my teacher training, I learned a lot in a short amount of time, but I felt like I needed more knowledge of the postures and the anatomy to safely teach others.The manual, dvds, and mp3 are exactly what I needed to enhance my yoga teacher training. This is the best reference material out there. I've been actually teaching hot yoga now for over a year. I turn to your books and dvd's daily; I make it a practice to study each posture, even making myself some flash cards of each posture, hi-lighting information so that I can bring the information to my students. I compare your information to the information in my teacher training manual, and it's basically the same information in each manual every time (give or take a few different words). I cannot say enough wonderful things about the Hot Yoga Doctor Master Class package. Whether you're a student looking to deepen your own practice, or a teacher looking for more information to bring to your students and enhance your teaching, if you don't already own the books, dvds, etc., it's a very wise purchase. Money and time well-spent. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Gabrielle!

Julie McNulty

Thank You! I have been seeing improvement in my practice both in listening to the dialogue and reading and referring back to the book. We have finally realized our vision of having a yoga studio in our home. It is really small. My wife and I have only practiced individually here for about 2 weeks. We have both practiced sporadically but fairly consistently for average 1 day a week beginning in 2002. It has been bikram style hot yoga almost exclusively in those 16 or so years. I have been experiencing some real growth in my practice in the past 12 months with a real acceleration in my progress since getting the program. I was reading the book for about 2-3 weeks before we got our home studio fired up so I was still only at 1 day a week in the crowded studio. The book really emphasized the importance of the meditation. I was able to reach a new place without even hearing the dialogue part of the program. Now I have upped my practice to 4 days last week and looking like 3 this week so I've been through the dialogue a few times and I love it. I've seen big improvements using some different approaches to what i've been taught in the studio. I look forward to more. Thank You so much for sharing your wisdom. I am forever grateful. Namaste

Richard

Dear Gabrielle, I am so pleased with my purchase of the "Hot Yoga MasterClass Set". Your full colour book and descriptions on how to and how "not to", do the poses is exactly what I have been searching for. I do attend a Bikram studio in my area and the breakdown of the poses in your book have helped me significantly with the poses. I also teach Vinyassa Hot Yoga, so the knowledge I have obtained from you book has helped my teaching immensely. I especially love the DVD's so I can take my Bikram practice with me wherever I go!!!! Thank you so much!!

Jeanette

132+ Delicious Salads, Dressings & Dips

This is so much more than a recipe collection. It's obvious that the author loves healthy salads and wants to impart that love to others. In addition to the more than 100 basic salad and dressing recipes, she includes suggestions of how to incorporate changes to make them uniquely your own. Moms will appreciate the recipes that even kids like. To me, a special bonus are the recipes for pesto and hummus and -surprise- non-dairy sour cream, cream, mayonnaise. I would recommend this book for anyone who likes salads, anyone who is not big on salads but would like to eat healthier, in short - everyone.

HilDan

I am a college student and the Freshman 15 hit me hard and I've continued to gain weight for the past year. I am DESPERATE to lose weight before I graduate and start applying for jobs, so I began looking at recipes for healthy eating. I found this book and am truly in love. I have found a great way to eat more salads and low calorie foods and am already down 5 pounds since beginning.

Hannah E.

What a great book. There's really nothing about salads that isn't covered here. I've been making salads for years, yet I found so many new ingredients to use that I could make a different salad every day for a year and still not run out of ideas.

I can't see how anyone could give this book less than 5 stars. This book is amazing.

Glorybee

I am a 48 year old, vegan, mother of 3 teens that aren't (vegan)! Her Hot Yoga Masterclass changed my yoga practice and my life with insightful tweeks to my yoga practice with great DVD's and a beautifully illustrated book that explains the do's and don'ts of hot yoga in more detail for a successful practice. Her Green Smoothie book gave interesting and great tasting options for smoothies that aren't the same old leafy greens, and the recipes are not always green! Now, Gabrielle does it again with great ideas for how to jump start your salads! It has suggestions on how to make more interesting salads than just plain greens and the usual toppings. There are also salad recipes that don't include leafy greens. There are REALLY great ideas for kids that have a tough time with veggies, like mine. These wonderful recipes will definitely make more interesting options and there are a lot of vegetables mentioned that don't get the attention they deserve:-). This book is easy to follow and written with Gabrielle's great sense of humor I can't wait to dig in!!

vegan mom

I am awed by this book on Salads, Dips & Dressings. These are tremendous ideas for preparing beautiful salads, each one different from others, and for getting my dinner guests & family to eat the healthy stuff with gusto. Just when I thought I had read & seen it all on healthy nutritious eating, I am learning how to choose ingredients that complement each other, equipment to make the job easier & fun, and --- most important for my needs --- here I find how to make the "dinner salad" something exotic, yummy, unusual, comforting, trendy and/or gorgeous, with these innovative ideas and techniques.

Ventana Amico

Green Smoothie Magic

While reading the book, I felt like I was being taken on a personal journey into the "lifestyle" of an experienced, vegetarian, vegan, raw foodie who figured out how to get her child to eat more greens by drinking "green smoothies" long before drinking green smoothies became the most popular, healthiest way to lose weight, feel great and maintain great health. Gabrielle doesn't miss anything on Smoothies, Raw Food, Greens or anything in between!

Wendy Ann Walker

As a physician I will prescribe this book to most of my patients....that's basic knowledge you need for living a better life....and it's well presented, so just go for it! Good and wise nutrition should be our most important medication....I hope that more and more of my colleagues remember these words from Hippocrates!

Dr. Mark Schmid-Neuhaus

I thought I was very creative with my smoothies and then I read these recipes...boy! I don't think one could possibly think of a question regarding smoothies that doesn't get answered in this book. Nut milk, seeds, nuts, spices, veggies,fruits,storage, blenders...you name it, Gabrielle Raiz talks about EVERYTHING to help you get the hang of being a smoothie master! Everyone needs a copy of this book, your family/friends/kids/ YOU will love it!

Smoothie Lover

Green Smoothie Magic is the best ever MAGIC that ever happened to my long-time search! I have been looking for this kinds of smoothie preparation for so long that is not fancy, expensive, difficult... Eureka! at last I found it at Green Smoothie Magic. When life is easy, affordable, accessible locally, nutritious, what still can one ask for? I am so grateful I have this book on my side every waking moment of my life! ROI [return of investment] for every penny spent buying this book and actualizing the best practices in smoothie preparation is really worth it, REAL MAGIC INDEED!

Blessed Yogini