Robin Quivers Raw Fruit Diet
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life
Howard Stern's celebrated sidekick, Robin Quivers, presents her vegan cookbook and manifesto with more than 90 healthy recipes for the home cook.
Known for her levelheaded, deadpan comebacks to Howard Stern's often outrageous banter, Robin Quivers has developed an image as a powerful force. Yet few people know about her struggles with food—especially the high-fat, high-sugar, high-cholesterol, highly addictive foods that doomed many of her relatives to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Sick and tired of being sick and tired, she knew it was time to stop her slow slide into bad health. Quivers took a stand in her personal nutrition battle and emerged victorious thanks to a plant-based diet.
On her sometimes rocky, though endearingly hysterical, path to newfound health, Quivers discovered the power of the produce aisle in changing her body and her mindset. By filling up on soul-quenching, cell-loving vegetables instead of damaging animal products and processed foods, Quivers left behind the injuries, aches, and pains that had plagued her for twenty years. Charting her inspiring road to wellness, The Vegucation of Robin describes her transformation inside and out, and, with the inclusion of ninety of her favorite vegan recipes, she encourages readers to join her in putting their health first.
With her signature humor and wit, Quivers builds an undeniable case that the key to living the life you've always wanted lies not with your doctor but in your refrigerator. Putting a new face on the pro-veggie movement, Quivers's star power is sure to dazzle readers who want to look good, feel good, and have fun doing it.
- Cookbooks Nonfiction Cooking Food
261 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2013
- NAACP Image Award, Instructional (2014)
Robin Ophelia Quivers is an American talk show host and Howard Stern's primary co-host on his morning radio show.
Quivers' autobiography was published in 1995, revealing to the world the details of her career as Stern's on-air "sidekick" with her distinctive laugh, as well as her former experiences in the military and and employed as a hospital nurse. The book also reveals the harrowing details of Quivers' abusive childhood.
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34 reviews 8 followers
Robin Quivers's book, The Vegucation of Robin, has great info and she had a noble reason for writing it. I believe she truly wants to help others who are unhealthy and unaware that the "healthy" American diet is slowly killing them, and, certainly, the unhealthy one is torturing them. Yes, it's a vegan book, but she doesn't let vegans off the hook once they put down the animal products. I am reminded that my consumption of sugar and processed foods is putting me at risk for the same diseases, aches, symptoms, exhaustion, etc, that I am aiming to avoid by cutting out animal products from my diet. We only have one body, and we need to fuel it with good stuff.
That being said....the second half of the book is full of recipes with ingredients that are far too strange. In this aspect, Robin Quivers is the vegan equivalent to Martha Stewart: a little too fancy-pants for everyday cooking for the family. I know I live in Wyoming, so perhaps I am an anomaly, but I'm guessing there are no purple potatoes, haricot verts, sorrel, sunchokes, nettles, escarole, or fiddleheads grown or sold in this entire state. Or maybe I'm just too new at plant-based eating to have heard of any of those vegetables. Come to think of it, I was nearly nineteen when I first heard of hummus, so I'm willing to admit healthfood ignorance. :/
59 reviews 1 follower
What I said before. It's a really good account of a real (well, celebrity real) person who liked real food, who got fed up (no pun...OK, pun intended) with being sick and tired and out of shape and how she found salvation in whole, vegan food. The tone of the book is great - not too preachy but a bit 'oh my god! i can't believe this!, which some may not love, though. A little too much dropping in on a few gurus of the vegan scene, but if you can skim over those bits it's still incredibly helpful and inspiring.
654 reviews 12 followers
If I could give a book a negative rating, this one would get it.
I understood going in that Robin Quivers is vegan, and has strong opinions about it. That doesn't bother me in the slightest. What bothers me is that someone who worked as an R.N., albeit 3 decades ago, said she had "to laugh" when she hears someone say they have hay fever or restless legs syndrome. She made it sound as though just about any health condition, disease or illness is reversible or preventable with the right diet (vegan, of course, to her). ZERO compassion. She also suggested that people may not need to see their doctors or use prescription medications due to side effects or unnecessary treatments that are ordered. I think readers should keep in mind that an R.N. is not legally allowed to dispense medical advice or treatment plans. Each of us has unique medical needs and should consult our doctor and be aware of our own health history when deciding what our bodies need, whether it's what we eat, a fitness regimen, or a need for prescription meds or supplements.
I'm actually rather surprised and more annoyed by her dismissive, ableist attitude than I otherwise might be, because I sometimes listen to the Howard Stern show and I enjoy her interaction with Howard and the guests. Reading this put a damper on that, for sure. As someone who dealt with disabilities in the past, and still has health concerns that require medical care, and has friends and family with conditions that no amount of healthy eating is going to repair, I actually found her statements rather irresponsible.
The only positive? I bought it used so I didn't waste a lot of money on this. It's going in the trash. I'm not donating this to a thrift store to misguide some other person who may not see through the nonsense, nor am I going to try to resell this to someone else. I won't profit from such horrible, toxic garbage.
75 reviews 10 followers
I liked the book because it was filled with information I have not heard. I enjoyed reading the seasonal list of when fruits are in. However, there aren't many things in the book that you can make together. It's just a bunch of individual recipes and the individual recipes are not enough to eat by themselves.
86 reviews
I really enjoyed reading this book it not only takes you on a journey into Ms Quivers life and health but it was like talking with an old friend. She has quick and easy recipes and also goes into emotional aspects of eating and how to overcome cravings and how to be vegan long term ...The Vegucation of Robin is an awesome book to read not like other vegan book's.
1,193 reviews 44 followers
A humour-filled look at what was a serious matter (serious health problems) and the changes that were made for the better is what this hybrid autobiography/self-help/recipe book is, albeit with a sticker price that you might need a sense of humour to stomach at first glance.
For fans of the Howard Stern radio programme, author Robin Quivers will be no stranger, playing straight woman to some of Howard's excesses. What is perhaps less known is the author's major struggles with her diet that doomed many of her relatives to obesity, diabetes and heart disease - things were not exactly a riot for her either. One day the hammer came down, a decision was taken and the start of a plant-based diet, a vegetation was born. This is her story.
The author mixes personal testimony, opinion, science and advice carefully together with the dexterity of a master chef, managing to make the story compelling, interesting and accessible even to this most-dedicated meat-eater of a reviewer. What is particularly pleasing to this professional sceptic is the conditioned use of humour. Far too many books of this genre start off with what appears to be a bit of a tirade. The reader is lectured to and hectored about their previous "wrong" lifestyle choice and told that there is only one clear way to future salvation, their way. Think of a stereotype of a rather irritating preacher in a shopping mall and you get the message. No such worries here with this author, reading it was at times heavy going but still a pleasure nonetheless.
There is a lot of information. A heck of a lot, one is not even at the stage of getting ready to detox, let alone cook. Yet things do not feel verbose or padded out. One can sense the enthusiasm and excitement that the author holds to the subject, emboldened no doubt by her own successes and perceived benefits. This is not meant to sound sarcastic or be an act of ridicule. This reviewer wasn't swayed to change his lifestyle direction but it would be fair to say that certainly by remaining open-minded a lot of information was subsumed that will, in part, lead to subtle modification in one way or another. One person's change is another person's modification. The approach taken by the book didn't alienate so there was a greater impetus to read and possibly learn, even if one doesn't agree with everything.
Once you have examined and possibly undertaken the detoxification stage, there is still a lot more advice given as to changing your behaviour and hopefully following a new pathway rather than just yet another fad. There is no follow-by-numbers programme. You need to read through it for yourself, digest the information, want to change and make the changes. Maybe you won't go the whole hog at first, or ever, or maybe you will be instantly sold on the way forward. At least with this book's approach both ways are acceptable. There is probably no wrong answer. As you delve deeper and deeper into the book you can begin to understand why it is priced as it is. In a positive way it feels that it will never end. The recipes are detailed, contain everything you need in clear to understand blocks, there is even an estimation of the preparation and cooking times! Measures are sadly in American imperial units only though and not every dish has its own photograph. Small whinges. The book's price is a bit of an issue unless you know you really are ready for a change and will at least try to change, otherwise it could be a bit of an expensive whim purchase. When looking at the various recipes again it could still function also as a good alternative recipe book for someone who isn't "signed up to the programme" but as a spur-of-the-moment purchase it might just require a thought too many. Sure, you have to pay for quality but the higher the price the more discretionary the purchase can often be.
Reviewing a book of this kind is always difficult, particularly if you are not going to undertake a given programme. It is easier when you are sceptical towards the whole vegetarian movement, as a dedicated meat eater, even if you can accept an alternative point of view and remain objective anyway. It would be fair to say that this is one of the better, more convincing, more encompassing alternative dietary lifestyle/vegetarian books that this reviewer has considered. It is not shouty and in your face, it certainly seems to deliver on many levels and it has a great self-effacing humour shining throughout thanks to the author displaying her "warts and all" life story. A book worthy of serious consideration, whether you want a lifestyle change, a bit of a tune-up or just fancy something different that could be good for you.
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life, written by Robin Quivers and published by Avery/Penguin Group. ISBN 9781583334737, 272 pages. Typical price: USD35. YYYYY.
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123 reviews 15 followers
I bought this book at the dollar tree (if you didn't know, they get "real" books in now all the time. I've recognized several titles there). I wasn't too impressed with the recipes. There was only one or two really good ones
182 reviews 4 followers
Loved it. Funny, empowering and inspirational.
361 reviews
These recipes look really good! Will have to give some of them a shot.
58 reviews 6 followers
A lot of what she had to say related to common sense. Yet hearing it was a breath of fresh air. I don't know why we continue to believe one thing and expect different results.
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