Raw food benefits hailed
Eating uncooked food is better for digestion, boosts energy
March 3, 2010
By Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune Correspondent
Spaghetti with marinara sauce, chocolate pudding for dessert -- it all sounds delicious. And it all can be made without boiling water or turning on the oven, for those following a raw food diet. The premise, devotees say, is simple. Eating uncooked food is better for digestion, boosts energy and contributes to overall health, and going on the diet takes no special equipment or exotic ingredients, just what can be found at the grocery store and a food processor or blender.
Crown Point resident Carolyn Rodgers, certified as a raw food teacher and chef by the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Bragg, Calif., got into raw food many years ago for health reasons.
Carcinogens and cooking
NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina
March 2010 (2/28/10)
Have you ever thought of going mainly or entirely raw? You’d likely shed a few pounds. And that’s not all. Some of our favourite tastes are linked to by-products of cooking that are bad, bad, bad for us. When food is cooked, especially at high temperatures, by-products can form that pose a threat to health. Among the most notorious are heterocyclic amines (HCAs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) and acrylamide. Let’s see what’s cooking.
Raw foodie
By April Chong
Sun, Feb 28, 2010
Mind Your Body, The Straits Times
Unlike most other vegetarians, yoga instructor Linda Loo, 31, takes her diet one step further - she eats raw fruit, nuts and vegetables.
While in her mid-20s, she found herself putting on weight, losing stamina and her skin condition worsening.
That was when she decided that her 'alcohol and rich food' diet had to go. 'I don't like the thought of ageing and I admit I am a vainpot,' declared Ms Loo, who is single.
Dieting plans devised by 'gurus' which she tried did not seem to help, so Ms Loo did some research. She read about the raw vegetarian concept, tried it and liked it.
Ani's Raw Food Essentials: Durian
Ani Phyo, Raw Food Author
February 21, 2010
My love for this strange, spiked, aromatic fruit took me on a journey across the globe to Bali, Indonesia, where durian season is only during the months of January and February, and sometimes early March.
This fruit is a fatty fruit, like avocado, is rich and smooth in texture, similar to a custard, and is rich in sulfur, which gives it a scent some people find offensive. I think it smells sweet and delicious. But, don't even think about bringing it on a subway in Singapore, or you'll be fined.
Food, Virtuous Food
By: Jane Kokernak
February 15, 2010
My friend Betsy and I weren’t looking for redemption — we’re grownups who work hard to make the world better than we found it, take both vitamins and good advice, and are not given to debauchery — and yet we found it.
At a restaurant.
Grezzo, a warm and intimate place in Boston’s foodie and famous North End, specializes in raw food cuisine. It’s no salad bar, however. On a cold February night, we sampled the chef’s lively tasting menu that featured Mushroom Tea Soup, Gnocchi Carbonara, Greek Pizza, and a Chocolate Torte, among other treats. There was not a leaf of lettuce in sight.
Established by Alissa Cohen, a raw food expert, Grezzo Restaurant presents a health-based menu of vegan foods that are pressed, pureed, chopped, fermented, sliced, dehydrated, slightly warmed (not above 112 degrees), and chilled but never heated, cooked, or roasted. Cohen and her staff believe that a raw, vegan diet increases energy and youthfulness and alleviates illness, even chronic ones like arthritis, migraines, and diabetes.
Chocolate-making reinvented to satisfy those raw, vegan cravings
Krista Simmons
Feb 11, 2010
Mix a dash of business savvy, a touch of tenacity and a whole lot of raw chocolate and you've got Erika Martin's recipe for success. Her raw and vegan-friendly chocolate company, Blissed Out (blissedoutchocolates.com), is changing the way our city eats sweets. And man, do they taste good.
Food For The Soul
Boitshepo Giyose
Going More On Raw, The Real Nutritious Deal
Monday, February 8, 2010
Did you try introducing some raw foods into your diet last week? I certainly hope so because what I am about to tell you about raw foods will convince you even more to take the crunchy route.
Going vegan: A life-long carnivore gives up meat, eggs, dairy
By Grant Butler, The Oregonian
February 01, 2010, 12:01AM
Oregonian file photoA future full of fresh veggies: Going vegan means carrots are my new best friend.Meat has always been a part of my life. I grew up eating steaks and burgers, and at least once a week my mom made a seriously good tuna casserole. As an adult, I've spent years exploring Portland's dining scene, digging into the city's pork-centric kitchens while becoming a barbecue enthusiast at home.
But no more. I've gone vegan ... for a while, at least.
The Value of Eating Raw Foods
Thursday, February 04, 2010
When you think of eating a raw food diet, the thought of raw eggs and meat may come to mind, however, Beth Aldrich, the Green Mom and Healthy Lifestyle Expert, has a different take on it. She shares some interesting information about raw foods as well as a couple of recipes that will leave you asking for more.
South Burlington class to teach raw food principles
By Susan Green, Correspondent
Friday, February 5, 2010
On "House," a popular TV medical drama, the title character is a brilliant but sarcastic physician who diagnoses a mysterious deadly ailment before each one-hour show ends. Periodically, a patient's raw-food diet has been the culprit.
During one such episode, the doctor muses that if God wanted human beings to eat this way, He would've prevented the discovery of fire.
While most Americans chow down on animals and plants that they steam, stew, poach, fry, saute, grill, bake, boil, broil, toast or roast, some eschew those methods as destructive to the inherent blessing of nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables.
Raw foods workshop demos cooking meals without the stove
By Katie Freeman - Lifestyle & Arts Reporter
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Raw food is expensive, takes ample time to prepare, and is difficult to find on-the-go, but for über health food eaters, it’s the Mount Everest of diets.
On Jan. 30, the Elk Grove Library in Old Town hosted a Raw Foods workshop in the Community Room.
Lori Easterwood and Jessica Zaker, programming librarians for the Sacramento Public Library, prepared raw foods for sampling and hosted a group discussion.
Yeah baby I like it raw — two raw recipes
February 1st, 2010 by Besha Rodell in Cooking, Food & Life
This week I wrote a cover story about my 10 days on a raw food diet. Here are a couple of raw food recipes — one is the lasagna recipe I kicked the diet off with, the other is an Asian cauliflower recipe provided by Akil Amen. He swears it has converted hoards of children who’s parents insisted “My kid hates cauliflower.”
Raw lasagna (adapted from a recipe that appeared in New York Magazine and is served at Pure Food and Wine)
Eating vegetarian, vegan raw
By Janice De Jesus, Correspondent
02/03/2010
in the raw
PLEASANT HILL — Sisters Carol Brotman and Valerie Brotman-Loe have worked side by side in the kitchen almost since childhood.
Raised in Chicago and Las Vegas, the sisters grew up around the herbs, spices and rich sauces that were part of the Italian cuisine served in their father's Italian restaurant.
"We have been cooking and chopping garlic our whole lives," said Brotman-Loe.
While they garnered daily experience in the restaurant business, the siblings didn't particularly care for the heavy, meat dishes. Instead, a love of animals and the environment inspired the siblings to turn to a vegetarian lifestyle and the rest, as they say, is history — Planet Raw history, that is.
"We combined Mom's healthy, homemade style of cuisine with Dad's herbs and spices," said Brotman-Loe. "We've always wanted to open a healthy, vegetarian restaurant in Contra Costa County."
Taking the lead from their brother, Juliano, whose reputation earned him a place in the pantheon of the vegetarian raw food movement by catering to such celebrities as Cybill Shepherd and Lisa Marie Presley, the Brotman sisters opened a Pleasant Hill branch of their brother's popular Santa Monica restaurant.
Alicia Silverstone & Oprah Talk About Poop (VIDEO)
01-27-10
Longtime vegan Alicia Silverstone was on Oprah Wednesday as part of a food episode.
Silverstone has authored a cookbook, "The Kind Diet."
Since becoming vegan, Alicia says her skin has cleared up, her eyes are clearer, she is less bloated and she has tons of energy.
For local health-conscious cooks, eating is a raw deal
By Elizabeth L. Harrison, Tribune Staff Writer
January 27, 2010
Lasagna. Pizza. Mashed potatoes. Dressing and gravy. Tomato soup.
Sound like your typical winter fare?
Not necessarily.
Each of these foods can be prepared 100 percent raw.
Raw food; Shangri-la for health food connoisseurs
Jenn Silver
Monday, January 25, 2010
When you think of food in its most healthy and beneficial state, as something green for the body, mind and environment, you may likely think of fresh and natural raw foods.
The raw food diet appears at first to be just another crazy and intense food diet, but for many it has proved beneficial and has thus transformed into a lifestyle.
Tickling the vegan sweet tooth
Two-person company peddles organic macaroons and other treats
By Aaron Munzer, Correspondent
January 24, 2010
ITHACA -- Inside their underground treat production facility, the two macaroon magicians behind Emmy's Organics are working on a secret new coconut cookie they'll be rolling out for Valentine's Day. It's so secret it can't even be described on these pages -- except to say that it will be spicy.
How spicy, though, is up for debate right now.
On this warm day in January, Ian Gaffney, one-half of Ithaca's one-and-only raw, vegan and gluten-free treats company, is carefully spooning cayenne and chili into a mixer as the machine paddles the coconut, agave nectar, almonds and spices together into a sumptuous mass of sticky, raw goodness.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens on Curing Diabetes with Raw Food and on Why Going Vegan Makes Sense
by Paula Alvarado, Buenos Aires on 01.19.10
TH Exclusives (the th interview)
Over the past months, stories on animal cruelty and the downsides of eating animal products have put the subject of going vegan on the table perhaps like never before.
Whether you've already quit meat or not, this is perhaps the perfect time to listen to American doctor Gabriel Cousens. A medical doctor, psychiatrist and family therapist, he has become a household name in the subject of raw vegan food, and even sustains this diet can cure diabetes and depression.
Dr. Cousens was trained traditionally but soon realized something very simple yet essential: curing disease is not only about medications, but also about changing habits and looking at the broader picture.
Food for thought
by Marcia Dixon
January 18, 2010
One resolution many people aspire to at the beginning of any year is to get fit and healthy. One company that is helping people to do exactly that is Raw Love UK.
The company was founded by Malachi Talabi last year, and working alongside his wife Mildred, these two, twenty-something, Christians are enlightening the public about the health benefits of eating raw food by setting up a website www.rawloveuk.com.
They are also running classes that teach people how to prepare a raw food diet, or living food as Malachi likes to call it, comprising of fruit, vegetable, nuts and seeds.
Advocates of a raw food diet state that its followers it are less prone to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, experience increased energy, weight loss, better digestion and improved skin and that it helps lower cholesterol levels.
A longtime vegetarian gets a high cholesterol count
Maybe it is the fault of genetics. But she tries modifying her diet before resorting to prescription medicine.
By Barbara Lewis
January 18, 2010
My blood test results arrived in the mail last year -- and I was shocked. My report, with total cholesterol listed at 248, contained a handwritten note from my doctor in the margin: Come in to see me for medication.
How could I have high cholesterol?
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But medication seemed a drastic step. Before committing to a daily pill, I decided to try to reduce my cholesterol through diet. My meals often consisted of cold cereal, yogurt, a chocolate nutrition bar and several diet sodas -- all processed foods. I couldn't remember the last time that I had fruit or vegetables.
And so I embarked on a diet of raw food…
Raw food dishes offer healthful alternatives
No-cook recipes can be creative dishes that are delicious in their own right.
By C.W. Cameron , For the AJC
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
It’s likely that the No. 1 New Year’s resolution is to get healthier: exercise more, reduce stress, eat right. Enjoying more fruits and vegetables is high on the list of ways to build a more healthful diet. Eating less processed food and getting more fiber are also on the checklist.
So maybe this is the year you’ll dabble a little in the world of raw foods, a philosophy of eating that emphasizes uncooked and unprocessed fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains and beans.
Raw food doesn’t have to mean a plate of carrot sticks and a handful of sunflower seeds. “Raw foodists,” as they’re known, have developed a world of recipes that turn those carrots and seeds into creative dishes that are delicious in their own right.
Does cooking make food less nutritious?
By Gina Kim, Sacramento Bee
January 13, 2010
Raw foodists believe uncooked diet improves health
In the narrow stretch of kitchen in the back of the Art of Food cafe in Sacramento, Calif., one appliance is boldly missing -- the stove.
Better for you: Jill Carmel enjoys a young coconut at The Art of Food cafe and tonic bar in Sacramento, Calif., where only vegan and raw foods are served. -- the sacramento bee/scripps howard news service
"This is our stove," said chef Richard Hemsley, pointing to two dehydrators.
The "living cafe and tonic bar" goes beyond vegan food -- food without animal ingredients or animal byproducts -- by never heating dishes beyond 105 degrees. The only exception is tea.
This is raw food.
Raw ambition: Freshest foods changing diets and kitchens
By Chiara Assi
January 12, 2010
There’s been a lot of talk about raw foods lately. Vegetarians. Vegans. And now raw foodists. They insist that everything you eat should be eaten, you guessed it, raw or “living.”
But what does that mean? The “living” part refers to the enzymes naturally present in fruits, vegetables, grains and beans. Enzymes don’t do well in the heat — they start dying as soon as the cooking temperature reaches 102 degrees. By the time the food you are cooking reaches 126 degrees, they are all gone. And since enzymes aid your digestion, destroying them is something you want to avoid, according to the raw food movement.
But that’s not all. Raw foodists believe in eating an uncooked, unheated, unprocessed and organic plant-based diet. Local private chef Sal Montezinos has recently joined the movement and is eager to share his knowledge with the people in Naples.
Local raw food movement grows
The local raw food movement is gaining converts to its holistic approach to nutrition.
By: Toby McCrae
1/13/2010
GOSHEN -- "Don't eat it unless it will rot, and for heaven's sake, eat it before it does."
That's one of the mantras of a growing movement of local raw foodists, who share a lifestyle centered around eating raw, unprocessed and mostly organic foods for holistic health and environmental reasons.
"If it's not going to spoil and decay, I don't bother, because it's not real food, it's a chemistry set," says local raw foodie and yoga instructor Darlene DeChant.
The raw truth revealed; No-cook dishes offer healthful alternatives.;
'Eating this way adds something special to diet,' caterer says.
C.W. Cameron; For the AJC -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
January 7, 2010
It's likely that the No. 1 New Year's resolution is to get healthier: exercise more, reduce stress, eat right. Enjoying more fruits and vegetables is high on the list of ways to build a more healthful diet. Eating less processed food and getting more fiber are also on the checklist.
So maybe this is the year you'll dabble a little in the world of raw foods, a philosophy of eating that emphasizes uncooked and unprocessed fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains and beans.
Raw food doesn't have to mean a plate of carrot sticks and a handful of sunflower seeds. "Raw foodists," as they're known, have developed a world of recipes that turn those carrots and seeds into creative dishes that are delicious in their own right.
Phuket hosts first raw food workshop
January, 6 2010
Raw food doesn't have to mean carrot and celery sticks. A new kind of raw gourmet food is gaining popularity for its unrivalled health benefits including weight loss and anti-aging. Celebrities including Demi Moore and Donna Karan have also adopted a raw food diet.
Mom Tri’s Villa Royale is pleased to announce the first raw food workshop in Phuket. The half-day workshop will feature celebrity raw food chef and author Ani Phyo, demonstrating 6 recipes adapted for Thailand and using ingredients available here. Participants will also be able to sample the delicious creations.
Raw food dishes offer healthful alternatives
No-cook recipes can be creative dishes that are delicious in their own right.
By C.W. Cameron, For the AJC
It’s likely that the No. 1 New Year’s resolution is to get healthier: exercise more, reduce stress, eat right. Enjoying more fruits and vegetables is high on the list of ways to build a more healthful diet. Eating less processed food and getting more fiber are also on the checklist.
So maybe this is the year you’ll dabble a little in the world of raw foods, a philosophy of eating that emphasizes uncooked and unprocessed fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains and beans.
Raw food doesn’t have to mean a plate of carrot sticks and a handful of sunflower seeds. “Raw foodists,” as they’re known, have developed a world of recipes that turn those carrots and seeds into creative dishes that are delicious in their own right.
Single man props up banana economy
Thursday, 24/12/2009
He could be every fruit grower's best mate, and every livestock producer's worst nightmare.
Harley Johnstone is an elite ultra-endurance athlete who has ridden his bike over 160,000 kilometres in the past decade on a diet of fruit and water.
Bristol-based nutritionist and raw food expert serves up a healthy treat
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
This is the time of the year when good intentions about a healthy diet tend to disappear amid a seasonal culinary combination of chocolates, roast turkey and vegetables, chocolates, Christmas pudding, and yet more chocolates.
Anna Middleton will also be having plenty of chocolate over the festive season, and will be enjoying a Christmas lunch.
However, she won't be feeling any guilt, nor will she be counting calories in the new year.
For 35-year-old Anna makes a type of chocolate that is actually good for you – raw chocolate.
Kipper Lance goes vegan, and has never felt better
By Carolyn Susman, Special to the Daily News
Monday, December 21, 2009
Raw. Vegan. Uncooked.
These are dirty words to people who savor their sirloin and can't imagine life without fish or chicken.
But when you vow not to eat anything with a mother, that severely limits your food options. It also opens up a healthy world where your energy level soars and your body weight plummets.
That's the viewpoint of people like Kipper Lance, director of marketing and public relations for the Norton Museum, and a passionate advocate of the "raw" lifestyle.
Healthy Holiday Meals
Wednesday, 16 Dec 2009
by Dennis Lovelace
Los Angeles (myFOXla.com) - Holiday eating doesn’t have to mean huge meals full of fat and sugar. Raw food chef and nutritionist Kim Snyder shares some delicious, healthy holiday alternatives.
Pumpkin Pie in the Raw!
Raw food diet catches on helping people lose weight
Maggie Downs, The Desert Sun
December 17, 2009
Ken Gray knew he needed to make some kind of change.
The Palm Springs man was eating too much of the wrong things. He was drinking far too much. And as far as exercise goes, he had little to no energy.
“The few times I would exercise, it was pathetic. I was out of breath bringing in groceries,” he says.
His job as a bartender led to some unhealthy habits, like taking home a pizza after work and drinking liquor into the early hours of the morning.
So he committed to making an extreme change — Gray devoted himself to nothing but raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds for 60 days.
“It's like hitting reset,” he says.
`Raw Food' is full of surprises
By John Weeks, Staff Writer
12/13/2009
If you think the trendy raw-food diet is all about eating carrot sticks, you'll love what you find.
It will change your mind completely.
You'll learn how to whip up gorgeous and delicious meals that include appetizers as exotic as Baba Ganoush, soups as diverse as Mexican corn chowder and Spanish gazpacho, main dishes as tantalizing as pad thai, shish kebab and "Flying Falafel," plus desserts as decadent as Lemon Zinger Cookies and Strawberry Mousse Tartlets.
All raw. All righteous. All really, really yummy.
Eat less meat and dairy: official recipe to help health of consumers – and the planet
Shrinking of food and drink industry likely, says report
Felicity Lawrence, The Guardian
Friday, December 11 2009
Sustainable development commissioner Professor Tim Lang explains to Felicity Lawrence why we need to change what we eat.
The first official recommendations for a diet that is both healthy and good for the environment are published today, and they are likely to be seen as an assault on the UK's current food system.
To fight climate change and tackle the growing crisis of diet-related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, British consumers must cut down on meat and dairy produce, reduce their intake of processed foods and curb waste.
Food for thought
By Ulrika G. Gerth
Wed Dec 09, 2009
Newburyport -
Few people escape the engines of modern life: a morning cup of coffee to emerge from the daze and a glass of wine at night to return into the fog.
Anna Forkan and Kristen Overlock, the owners of Revitalive Health & Wellness, stay clear of both. They have also bid farewell to meat, fish, dairy and anything else that’s not part of the raw food diet of organic unprocessed and uncooked plant food. A combined 140 pounds lighter and free from ailments that crippled body and spirit, they now share their knowledge to help others adopt new lifestyles one meal at a time.
Vegan Adventures With Alicia Silverstone
Why she gave up her beloved gefilte fish.
By Naomi Pfefferman
December 3, 2009
As Alicia Silverstone stands at the counter of the vegan Cafe Flourish in Los Angeles, she’s not immediately recognizable as the vixen in Aerosmith music videos or the girl who played the iconic Beverly Hills princess, Cher, in the movie “Clueless” (1995). On this day, her blonde hair is in a makeshift bun; her scruffy black jacket and pants hiding her lean frame in a manner her “Clueless” character might have dubbed “ensemble-y challenged.”
Yet this Alicia Silverstone, 33, is probably the opposite of clueless in adult terms. She has become one of Hollywood’s most recognizable conservationists, a reuse-recycling advocate and all-around vegan ambassador. Her latest accomplishment is “The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet” (Rodale), a book offering both encouragement and information for a plant-based diet. The goal, she says, is to enhance health, look good and protect resources — without feeling deprived of food she calls “yummy.” The book is filled with recipes, nutritional advice, how-tos (from getting enough iron to checking the Internet for a used blender before buying new), as well as stories about her own journey to living green.
Natalie Portman transitions into adult role in 'Brothers'
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
12/2/09
NEW YORK — It's a year of firsts for Natalie Portman.
After 20 years as a vegetarian, she has become a vegan. She has moved cross-country, leaving her longtime home base of Manhattan for Los Angeles. And on screen, she's embracing her first full-fledged adult role, as a mother of two coming to terms with the presumed death of her Marine husband — and an increasing attraction to his troubled sibling — in the drama Brothers, in theaters Friday.
McCartney calls for meat-free day to cut CO2
(AFP) – 11/30/09
BRUSSELS — Paul McCartney is urging consumers to fight global warming by going vegetarian at least once a week, ahead of an address he will deliver on Thursday to the European Parliament.
"By making a simple change in the way you eat, you are taking part in a world changing campaign where what's good for you is also good for the planet," the former Beatle told the Parliament Magazine.
Cooking classes tout health benefits of a vegan diet
By Gwenn Friss
November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving dinner is over and you're feeling the drowsiness that follows a big turkey feast with all the fixings, followed by sweet desserts.
No other day of the year better illustrates that how you eat affects how you feel. And while it's important for everyone, eating well is critical for those fighting cancer, diabetes and other chronic medical conditions.
The Cancer Project began in 1991 as an affiliate of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Based in Washington, D.C., the nonprofit project promotes a plant-based diet based on research and taught by a network of trained cooking instructors such as Joanne Irwin of Dennis.
"It all started for me in 2006 when my doctor asked me if I'd be willing to give up animal products - beef, pork, lamb, poultry," says Irwin, who made the change and saw her LDL, or bad cholesterol, fall significantly.
The Check Out Line Just Got A Little Healthier
Purely Delicious raw food magazine, is now available at the register at select newsstands and Whole Foods Markets. The sole purpose of this beautiful publication is to inform a growing audience of the benefits of the raw food lifestyle made popular by celebrities such as Uma Thurman, Demi Moore, Carol Alt and Jason Mraz.
Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) November 12, 2009 -- Purely Delicious, a raw food and eco lifestyle magazine, is now available on select newsstands and Whole Foods Markets. Previously available only via subscription, the quarterly publication is informing a growing audience about the benefits of the raw food lifestyle made popular by celebrities such as Uma Thurman, Demi Moore, Carol Alt and Jason Mraz.
Raw never tasted so good
By Michael Saripkin
November 05, 2009
DOWNTOWN — For weeks, prior to my trip to Santa Monica, I had been hearing about Planet Raw and how much everyone enjoys it. Well, having been raw for a while, I expected "just another raw restaurant." Therefore, I arrived prepared to order a nice salad, maybe a vegetable pâté, a possible smoothie on the side, and maybe even an appetizer or two.
Then came the surprise.
Upon entering Planet Raw, located on an innocuous corner of Sixth Street and Broadway, it looked like any other café. There were a couple of outside tables, a front counter for the hostess/cashier, a few scattered tables, a sit-down bar, and a few coolers and shelves with products, which the public may buy. That was where "any other café" and Planet Raw parted ways.
118 degrees of flavor
Winter Park vegan cafe turns up the heat
By Tina Russell
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Hidden in a mass strip of buildings on Morse Boulevard that comprise downtown Winter Park lies Café 118°, an alternative to the saturated fat, overcooked foods we eat on an everyday basis. Café 118° serves up raw, organic food that is 100 percent free of animal by-products like milk and eggs.
The name of the cafe is quite literal. As it states in its paper menu, all of the food is prepared at temperatures of less than 118 degrees to preserve the enzymes, minerals and vitamins found in foods’ raw state.
The raw recruits
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Proponents of a diet of raw and uncooked plant-based foods say it can help the body heal itself of the most feared illnesses – including cancer, writes Clodagh Mulvey
WE HAVE BEEN bombarded for years by the marketing campaigns of the fad diet industry. Drink a slimming milkshake here and you’ll lose weight. Eat only protein there and you’ll lose weight. Eat pineapple morning, noon and night, and hey presto, you’ll lose weight.
Few, if any of these diets, have focused on the nutritional value of the food regime being employed by an army of people desperately trying to drop a few pounds before the summer bikini holiday or after the Christmas binge.
Even fewer have dared suggest that ill health and disease can be overcome by eating in a particular way. Yet this is precisely what Brian Clement, author of Living Foods for Optimal Health, is doing.
Raw Food, Fully Cooked Concepts
By Kimberly Bradley
October 26, 2009
BERLIN | Organic, local edibles that are not only vegan but … raw? In the land of the greasy currywurst? Aber ja — but of course! Since March, Boris Lauser has been quietly spreading the raw-food word, serving gourmet uncooked meals out of his own apartment in a glassy new building where Kreuzberg meets Mitte. He’s also been gathering a following of curious Berliners looking to taste something new.
“I loved having people over for dinner when I live in Italy, so when I came to Berlin, I decided to serve people at home,” said Mr. Lauser, who first became aware of the subtle tastes of really seasonal food during a stint working for the United Nations in Rome. He got his first training in raw-food preparation in Asia; then went on to learn the craft more formally at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona.
Cafe's raw cuisine surprises, satisfies
By Layne Lynch, Daily Texan Staff
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Raw vegan food is in. Kick the cow out of the pasture, the chicken out of its coop and don’t put that turkey in the oven.
Sylvia Heisey’s new restaurant, Beets Café, is on a mission: to bring raw food to Austin and to make it delicious.
The Draw of Raw: Raw-foodists believe that diet works miracles; dietitian calls it deficient
By Michael Hastings, Journal Food Editor
October 21, 2009
Before fire, there was only raw food.
In recent years, a number of Americans have embraced this diet.
A diet of raw foods, sometimes called living foods, involves eating whole, unprocessed raw foods. Most raw foodists are vegans, but some may eat meat, fish or dairy products.
Some may even eat a little cooked food, but most strive to get three-quarters of their food raw.
The diet is environmentally friendly because the produce is typically organic. It's also energy efficient, because it doesn't require stoves or ovens. But the main benefits are health and well-being.
Eating Your Way to Better Health
By Erin J. Shea
10/20/2009
In March 2008, Beth Berry was very sick. Her body was wracked with pain so severe she spent most days in bed. She suffered from a herniated disc, but more troubling, Berry's doctor diagnosed her with fibromyalgia, an autoimmune disorder characterized by widespread joint and muscle pain.
"I was given a 90-count bottle of Vicodin," Berry says. "I got mad. I was pissed, and kept saying: 'That's it? Just take narcotics for the rest of my life? I'm only 38 years old!'"
Instead of filling the prescription, Berry pored over the latest research on the benefits of diet and nutrition on autoimmune disorders and learned about the successes people suffering from symptoms similar to hers were having with raw food diets. "That's when the real journey began," she says. "Within three days of being on raw food, almost all of my symptoms had gone away."
PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian Tells SuperVegan Where to Find the Fountain of Youth
by Samantha Cohen
October 16, 2009
This woman is 70. Believe it.
Mimi Kirk is PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian Woman Over 50 of 2009. She's been a vegetarian for the last 40 of her 70 years and a raw vegan for a year and a half. An active lady who travels often, most recently around the US, Mimi occasionally stops by her home in Ramona, Cali., to tend her luscious garden and answer e-mails from jaw-dropped bloggers like SuperVegan's. (Hey, higher powers, would ya let me look half this good at 70?)
It’s a raw, raw world
by Samantha Kramer
Oct 13, 2009
“We are ALL raw foodists,” said Ariane Glazer, a raw foodist for seven years and event organizer for the Chicago raw food community. “Who doesn’t pick up an apple or orange at some point?”
After all, thirty percent of Illinois residents consume fruits and vegetables three or four times a day according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Raw foodists come in various forms from raw meat eater to raw vegetarian. The purists do not eat animal products or byproducts and do no cook food. Raw foodists believe cooking above 115 degrees diminishes a food’s nutritional value.
Tim VanOrden, founder of the Running Raw Project, an experiment VanOrden began in 2005 to see if raw foodism would support a career as an athlete, perceives cooking as a damaging practice that destroys precious food enzymes.
The raw truth
By Ulrika G. Gerth
Mon Oct 12, 2009
Newburyport -
Have you had enough of creamy clam chowders, greasy omelets and deep-fried seafood?
Then there’s a new option downtown. Grezzo, which opened this month on State Street, delivers a menu that is light years from the traditional New England fare.
The upscale restaurant with its copper tables, exposed brick walls and oil paintings of various vegetables, specializes in organic, raw, vegan cuisine. Here, a spicy, marinated watermelon radish has taken the place of pepperoni; summer squash and zucchini noodles act like pasta; and nut balls in a nut cream sauce play the role of gnocchi carbonara.
The gas stove range, which saw plenty of action while Bottega Toscana occupied the space, is destined for a long vacation as the raw and living food diet means the food temperature is always kept below 112 degrees. Diners will instead find dishes based on uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains.
Hold the cooking
Local eateries cater to raw food diets
By Liz King and Katie Curley, Staff Writers
October 07, 2009
NEWBURYPORT — It is said that the trend of eating raw and living foods is as old as the human race, maybe older.
After all, before man invented fire, raw food was the only food. But the cavemen's nuts and berries didn't have quite the same gourmet flair you can find around Newburyport here in the 21st century.
When you think raw foods, don't think undercooked steak and sushi. Raw foods include any food that is unprocessed and kept under 112 degrees so enzymes and the food's makeup aren't compromised.
The theory is that changes made to food through cooking or processing create chemicals and impurities in the foods that harm our digestive systems and, subsequently, our health. The building blocks of raw food diets are ingredients like fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
Mraz sizes up
By Mark Daniell, Canoe.CA
Friday, October 2, 2009
Last month, Jason Mraz notched the longest run of any song in Billboard's Hot 100 history. But he maintains that his chart-topping wedding staple, I'm Yours, isn't necessarily a love song.
"I wrote it between me and the spiritual world that I know nothing about. That's who I wrote it for," he admitted in Toronto.
… And it's that sense of gratitude that threads its way through his live show, which is based on a San Francisco raw food restaurant that quite literally changed how Mraz interacts with the world.
Newton couple caters to the raw food crowd with Prana Cafe
By Christine Laubenstein/GateHouse News Service
Sep 21, 2009
NEWTON — Chocolate pudding. Cinnamon mini-muffins. Cream of mushroom soup. Nachos.
All this tempting food is featured on the menu at the new Prana Cafe in Newton Corner. But there's a twist.
It's all raw.
A Newton husband and wife started a restaurant that serves raw, organic and vegan foods. It is several doors down from Prana Power Yoga, a yoga studio they have owned for the last seven years.
Taylor and Philippe Wells opened The Prana Cafe, at 292 Centre St., earlier this month. The restaurant includes a wide variety of foods, such as pizza with spicy cilantro pesto, nut cheese and marinated peppers; warm coconut and almond porridge; and chocolate cake with creme anglaise.
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