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updated 8/6/06

Raw meal is a winner

Liz Kohman, Gannett News Service
July 26, 2006

Summer is a great time to experiment with a raw or living foods diet.
People who choose to follow a raw diet don't eat any foods that are cooked, but that doesn't limit them to carrot sticks.

Raw food eaters — a group that includes actress Gwyneth Paltrow — eat a vegan diet based on fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Raw foods chefs have found ways to replicate pizza, burritos, burgers, lasagna and more.

Many people on a raw food diet say their diet provides them with more energy and that foods even taste better.

World-renowned chef enjoys warm welcome

By Lisa Lucero
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Sentinel Staff Writer

When the doctor can't prescribe something that works, maybe trying a raw fruits and vegetables diet will cure the sickness or disease.

Internationally acclaimed author, educator and raw food chef, Paul Nison, 35, recently brought his knowledge and skill to McPherson at the upper floor of the Button Hole and Health Food Market.

Nison spends 10 months of the year traveling, mostly in the United States. The results of the raw diet with all the people he has interviewed is 100 percent cureable.

Raw food craze hits Connecticut

(Hartford-WTNH, July 10, 2006) _ What started out on the West Coast is gaining in popularity here in Connecticut.
We're talking about a new way to eat healthy.

It's called raw food.

Supercharge Me ... 30 Days Raw': Documentary Film Scheduled for Release This Summer

Thursday June 22, 2:21 pm ET

SARASOTA, Fla., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- If you have ever heard of "Super Size Me," the junk food documentary, then get ready for a stunning look at the other side of the dinner table. Scheduled for release this summer is "Supercharge Me ... 30 Days Raw."

Eating well the raw food way

Claire Kellerman
June 22, 2006

“Raw food is the only diet I have found that simultaneously nourishes the mind, body and soul. I know I am eating in a way that has minimal impact on the planet. It really is in harmony with the environment, the natural order, and it lets me support my community eating local organic produce,” Dave Elberg of Makawao.Making the switch to eating only raw foods is easy and fun says local raw food chef, Dave Elberg of Makawao.

“In general, people are so amazed with what you can do with raw foods. Last night at a potluck in Huelo, we made a raw coconut ice cream banana split with raw chocolate syrup and goji berries, a veritable tropical eruption, akin to Haleakala, in terms of the size of its success as a crowd pleaser,” says Elberg.

Raw Food Made Easy

By Lisa Gross
6/14/2006

Jennifer Cornbleet is the Rachael Ray of raw food. Her new cookbook, Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People promises to teach you how to make delicious and simple, uncooked, vegan dishes in less than thirty minutes.

North County home to two raw-foods restaurants

By: Louise Esola
Wednesday, June 7, 2006

A "Royale Cheeseburger" with all the trimmings.
It's not what you think. Nothing's been touched by heat or flame, and everything came from a plant, served cool and raw.

Going raw is full-time vegan passion

Marian Bond
Reno Gazette-Journal
6/6/2006

After becoming a certified raw food teacher, Schall Adams became so busy she was able to quit a full-time professional level position and devote her time exclusively to training others in the preparation of raw foods.

A Dish Best Served Cold: Raw Food

Raw food restaurants win over hippies and hipsters alike.

June 1st, 2005
By Annie Wilner

Since luxury well-being is the new urban chic, where health and peace of mind are the ultimate status symbols, a sprinkling of vegetarian raw food restaurants have cropped up across the country—from Bryan Au’s restaurant Pa-raw-dise in San Francisco, to Quintessence and Counter Vegetarian in New York and Karyn’s in Chicago.

Darien goes raw, gets healthy

By Susan Chaves
Jun 1, 2006

So long fast food. Adios junk food. Good-bye carbs. Hello raw foods?

Noshing on portobello fajitas and sipping coconut water has become a popular alternative for people seeking a healthier lifestyle.
Darienites Michelle Mauboussin and Kim Walsh are two faithful followers of such cuisine that uses organic fruits and vegetables, seeds, nuts and sprouted greens.

“I love to eat this way,” said Mauboussin, adding that the change in her diet has resulted in clearer skin, a need for less sleep and an increased energy level. “It makes me feel so good that if I veer off it, I really feel the difference.”

The joy of uncooking

Tue, May. 30, 2006
From staff and wire reports

Raw food diet lets you toss out the oven
In the mysterious world of raw foods, "bread" is baked in a dehydrator. "Cheese" is crafted from cauliflower. And parsnips might masquerade as rice.

Dining in the raw

Louise Crosby, The Ottawa Citizen
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Natasha Kyssa is lean, fit and glowing. At 45, she is a picture of youth and vitality. She says it's the raw food.

For the past 14 years, this Ottawa woman has eaten "living foods" almost exclusively. In the vegan raw foods culture, this means only fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and grains, much of which is made more digestible by soaking, sprouting, blending, juicing and fermenting.

That means no meat, chicken or fish, obviously. No dairy foods, sugar, coffee or tea. No canned fruit or vegetables or commercial fruit juices that have been heated or pasteurized. No bubbling macaroni and cheese, wood oven-fired pizza or sizzling stir-frys. No steaming, roasting, grilling or baking.

It sounds restrictive, but raw foodists have come up with clever and imaginative ways of turning raw ingredients into gourmet masterpieces.

In the raw: Matthew Kenney's vegetable cuisine comes to Darien

By Meghan Flynn
May 17. 2006

Mention vegetarian dishes and labels such as rabbit food, bland or not satisfying often come to mind. But if one chef has his way, gourmet will be the new vegetarian mindset.

"People think of vegetarian food as side dishes trying to be a meal," says Chef Matthew Kenney, who just opened a Blue/Green juice cafe in Darien. "Vegetarian food has gotten a bad rap because many times it is prepared by people who are not culinary professionals. I think like a chef. What influences me is twofold. I like to eat food that is good for me and good for the environment. And I do not like to do things that have already been done by someone else. I like to do it better.""I am a chef who has tried everything," says Kenney. "You name it -- I have prepared and eaten it. Yet what has fulfilled me the most is eating vegetarian, mostly raw. It has changed my life."

The Raw Food Diet

by Sylvia Riley
May 3, 2006

The raw food diet is as much a life-style as an eating plan; a naturalistic approach, which excludes, in addition to cooked and animal foods, processed and refined ingredients.

In the ever-hungry quest for new fads and health panaceas, the raw food diet, with adherents such as Woody Harrelson and Donna Karan, is growing in mainstream popularity. Unlike many other bandwagons however, raw foods (also referred to as 'living foods'), offer unarguable health benefits and one can reap rewards even as a 50% dabbler. To be a 100% extremist takes commitment, discipline and education and is best introduced gradually to avoid the overwhelm of inevitable detoxification.

Raw Food Diet Has Cured My Arthritis

By Claire Collins
May 3, 2006

AS THE Daniels family gathers round the dinner table it resembles a scene played out in many households. An evening meal shared with loved ones, a time to eat and talk together.

But there is one significant difference. All the food laid before mum Jatinder, husband Derek and their three children, Raman, 17, Priyanka, 13, and seven-year-old Mohan is raw.

And this unusual diet has been credited with saving Jatinder's life and turning her family's fortunes around. "I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 16 and doctors said my future was bleak," says Jatinder, a healthy 45.

"They said I could be in a wheelchair by the end of my teens, that I would be in varying degrees of constant pain for the rest of my life and, due to aggressive drugs, may not be able to have children. It was like a death sentence.

"But look at me now! I'm a mum of three, perfectly mobile and free from the agony I endured for years. And it's all down to my raw food, low-toxin lifestyle."

`Eating to Live': Friends compile vegan cookbook for good health

by Melanie Tucker, of The Daily Times Staff
2006-03-29

Call it going back to basics or eating from the garden, but Rita Myers, a stage 4 breast cancer survivor would call her new lifestyle simply eating to live.

Myers was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 1999 and was given six months to live after the cancer metastasized to the bone. She and husband Leon began researching diets and proper nutrition and discovered the Hallelujah Diet, a biblically-based, vegan way of life that Rita says saved her life. It was the Rev. George Malkmus who developed this program after he was healed of colon cancer following his change to this natural-based diet and lifestyle, in 1976.

Cooking school in the raw

Olivia Wu, Chronicle Staff Writer
March 29, 2006

Like all canny cooks, Cherie Soria knows how to hook her audience: with desserts.

But Soria doesn't pull out the stops with butter, sugar, eggs and flour, baking them into fluffy confections.

She makes her magic with avocado and agave syrup -- and no baking at all. By the time her students taste her creations, they don't mind that those unexpected ingredients are the major components of their chocolate mousse.

As Soria would say, "If you can make a raw vegan cheesecake better than regular cheesecake, why would you eat regular cheesecake?"

He preaches vegetarianism
Minister says regimen helped cure his cancer

To Your Health | Chanda Blitch
Sun, Feb. 19, 2006

He preaches vegetarianism - Minister says regimen helped cure his cancer Stressing the wisdom of a diet of raw vegetables and fruits, the Rev. George Malkmus delivers a message of health through natural foods.

The Raw and Sexy Food Movement

By Laura Regensdorf, Spectator Staff Writer
February 16, 2006

For decades the American culinary scene only recognized two types of raw food consumers. The first was a thick-skinned meat lover who would roll up his checkered sleeves and order a bloody steak fit for vampires, and the second was a sweet-toothed baker who would whip up a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough, only to lick the bowl clean before the oven had finished pre-heating.

Only in the past ten years has a structured raw food diet (vegetables and nuts, not beef and baked goods) cropped up in public consciousness and mainstream press, with celebrities like Woody Harrelson and Alicia Silverstone touting their lean-and-green regimes.

the raw, not the cooked

by Myra Chanin

The purest of Manhattan food purists are currently down on elaborately-prepared cooked foods. So what are they up on? Elaborately-prepared raw foods like the resplendent meals prepared by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis, co-owners and co-chefs of Pure Food and Wine near Gramercy Park and Union Square. According to Melngailis, eating raw foods makes people feel light, clean, lively, and sexy. And is as cute and trim as a teenager, though he admits to being in his early 40s. Could it be that raw broccoli is better than Botox?

Raw Appeal

Delicious and dogma-free Jade Café needs only a more seasoned staff
~ By REBECCA EPSTEIN ~
1-12-06

The first great thing about Jade Café – a raw, organic, vegan fusion restaurant near Sunset Junction in Silver Lake – is its relaxed, nonconfrontational atmosphere. The small dining room beckons with dark wood furniture and warm red lighting; the staff is calm; and the menu offers no self-righteous mission statement.

Woman turns diet into successful career

By Harry Porterfield

December 1, 2005 - Karyn Calabrese has turned a personal health issue into a successful career as a unique restaurateur. She is a raw foodist and her Chicago restaurants were among the first of their kind in the country.

She's a restaurateur who operates with a kitchen that doesn't have a grill, oven, microwave unit or fire. For Karyn Calabrese none of the above is necessary because her restaurant -- Karyn's Fresh Corner -- serves only raw food.

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In the Raw: Cook Without Your Oven

Lunch crush is coming and the deli crew is busy making burgers, lime tarts and pizza dough. Things are really cooking -- at least figuratively.

In fact, none of the food being prepared at In The Raw will touch a flame or a griddle. None of it will encounter a temperature higher than a sweltering summer day. All of it, from the vegan cakes to vegan burgers, is served raw.

"No ovens," said owner Barbara Banfield. "Just dehydration. No flames."

The recently opened organic vegetarian deli and juice bar in this artsy tourist town is another outpost marking the mainstreaming of raw food diets.

Naked ambition

Canada's 'princess of punk' says her self-deprecating lyrics are autobiographical in nature ... and she's cool with that

11/04/05
By Sherri Wood, Toronto Sun

Up at 5:30 a.m., feed the dogs a homemade organic breakfast, pack the briefcase for the office, hit the dog park, then the gym, off to work, then home for a 9 p.m. bedtime.

Welcome to a day in the life of Bif Naked, Canada's "princess of punk," in town Saturday for a show at The Phoenix.

The 34-year-old tattooed Can-rock vet (born an orphan in India and later adopted by U.S. missionary parents who eventually settled in Western Canada), leads a surprisingly non-rockstar lifestyle. The singer, who says her biggest vice is bubblegum, stays focused on her raw food vegan diet, her two dogs and her work -- namely, her new album, Superbeautifulmonster.

Eat It Raw

By Steve Billings
10/12/05

Yes, rah, rah, raw! Santa Cruz embraces the raw food aesthetic at the overnight sensational Café La Vie.

Exploratory Data on Acrylamide in Food

Interesting information on acrylamide, found in cooked foods, which may cause a health risk when consumed. This is further evidence supporting the consumption of foods in their raw state

In the raw: S.C.'s newest restaurant is hot, without any cooking

By Peggy Townsend, Sentinel staff writer
September 28, 2005

Matt Samuelson moves through the kitchen of Cafe La Vie like a ricocheting bullet.

He zigs into a back room to show off the cold-pressed coffee that takes all night to make, then zags to the prep area to test a marinara sauce made of raw and sun-dried tomatoes and sample a bit of his homemade hummus.

All that energy may be a testament to the health benefits of the mostly raw, vegan food he prepares at one of Santa Cruz's newest restaurants.

Raw vegetables fuel his `engine'

K. Srinivas Reddy
Saturday, Sep 17, 2005

HYDERABAD: Who wouldn't agree that eating vegetables is good for health. But Jaggavarapu Rama Reddy would further qualify this statement. He would like you to eat raw vegetables and shun eating cooked ones. And you cannot disagree with him.

He has been on a raw vegetable diet for over a decade and is now a perfect picture of good health.

Grove Market Excels At Raw Foods

By Coralie Carlson. Associated Press
Mon, Sep. 12, 2005

MIAMI - Served under a blue-and-white tent, the strawberry ice cream at the Coconut Grove Farmer's Market is unbelievably creamy, the tropical fruit pies are rich and succulent and the pate-stuffed portobello mushrooms are savory.

Quite a feat, considering that all the food served here is raw and vegan -- no animal products or heat involved.

Rah-rah raw food

By Leah Mclaren And Tralee Pearce
Saturday, August 20, 2005

Live Organic Food Bar

264 Dupont St., Toronto, 416-515-2002. Lunch for two with vegetable juice, tax and tip, $55.

Nothing is quite as it seems at Live Organic Food Bar. The turf floor is actually linoleum printed with photographs of green grass. The giant apples on the shelf above the cash are decorative faux. And the food, well, give us a second and we'll explain.

The reason we're here is Leah's digestive tract. Apparently there was too much bad stuff living in it, so she has gone on a two-week herbal cleanse. For the past week, to Tralee's amusement and occasional disgust, she has raved about the detoxified state of her liver, kidneys and colon.

Tired of cooking? Raw food tosses out the oven

Marilynn Marter
Aug. 6, 2005, Knight Ridder Newspapers

PHILADELPHIA - Just a few years ago, chef Matthew Kenney was ascending to the height of success and celebrity, with a string of thriving New York City eateries, two well-received cookbooks, and, early on, a ranking by Food & Wine as one of the "Ten Best New Chefs in America."

But after Sept. 11, 2001, his empire collapsed in the economic fallout. And the French-trained chef took a surprising turn.

He gave up cooking. For raw food.

Chefs can't stand the heat -- take on raw food preparation

By Marilynn Marter, Knight Ridder Newspapers
July 19, 2005

Just a few years ago, chef Matthew Kenney was ascending to the height of success and celebrity, with a string of thriving New York City eateries, two well-received cookbooks, and, early on, a ranking by Food & Wine as one of the "Ten Best New Chefs in America."

But after Sept. 11, 2001, his empire collapsed in the economic fallout. And the French-trained chef took a surprising turn.

He gave up cooking. For raw food.

After a three-year culinary journey, he and his partner (in life and in the kitchen), Sarma Melngailis, have coauthored a diary cookbook, "Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow" (Regan Books, $34.95), and opened a raw food restaurant, Pure Food and Wine in New York City.

Hurrah For Raw: Hallelujah Diet Helps Drop Pounds, Lift Feeling of Wellbeing

By Theresa Churchill - H&R Senior Writer

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Cindy Sawyer felt sick after almost every meal and had so much arthritis in her legs, stairs were almost insurmountable.

"I decided 47 was too young to feel this bad," she said.

That decision led the Lovington woman and her husband, Aaron, to make a life-transforming one to go on a vegan diet consisting primarily of raw vegetables and fruits. Known as the Hallelujah Diet, it's based on the diet God intended for Adam and Eve.

Film features vegan athletes

By Erin Madison, Gazette-Times reporter
Friday, July 1, 2005

Professional body builder and vegan Robert Cheeke, right, works in a few sets while Tonya Kay, left, and Brendan Brazier stretch before filming for a movie about vegan athletes at Gold's Gym on Tuesday afternoon.

Three Corvallis residents are making a movie that will track a week in the lives of three vegan athletes.

[Celebrities for Health Note: Tonya Kay is a raw foodist]

Racecar driver nearly sidelined

By Jean Enersen / King 5 News
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Four-year-old Gabe is learning how to become a racecar driver, just like his dad, Jerrod Sessler.

Jerrod races on the regional NASCAR circuit. It's his passion. But he was told he was about to lose everything because of an annoying mole.

Raw-Food Fervor Starting to Sprout

June 15, 2005 — By Sarah Skidmore, The San Diego Union Tribune

It's raw, but it's hot.

Interest in eating food in its pure form, uncooked and unprocessed, is growing. Celebrities swear by the raw diet and local stores scramble to keep raw products in stock.

And at the uncooked heart of it all, are San Diego natives David Wolfe and Thor Bazler, the founders of Nature's First Law.

Raw food advocate brings expertise

Friday, Jun 03, 2005

Raw food chef and author Victoria Boutenko will introduce the benefits of a raw food diet in an introductory lecture June 12 in Vernon.

Boutenko and her family gave up cooked and processed food in favour of a vegan, raw food diet 10 years ago and she saw a phenomenal health turnaround that convinced her to spread the word about the benefits of a raw food diet. She is the author of more than six books and cook books that explain her family's journey from disease and obesity to health and vigor.

Raw foods for healthy awakenings

By Ann Johnson-Stromberg The Times-Standard
Sunday, May 15, 2005

Blue Lake -- Hoping to take advantage of the progressive spirit emerging in Blue Lake businesses, one fledgling food company is working to change the rap of raw foods.

In April, five friends opened Green Life Evolution Center to bring more options for vegans and vegetarians in the area. The 2,000-square-foot cafe, juice and smoothie bar is geared toward prepared foods that are made without direct heat.

The Latest: Going raw

Eating raw and organic food isn't just for hippies

 by Kristi Eaton, Thursday, April 14, 2005

The Rawsome! Cafe at Gentle Strength Co-op in Tempe sells raw and organic foods. People from all different walks of life are beginning to consume this healthier food. Not just hippies anymore.

The raw and the hooked

The movement toward uncooked food appears to be here to stay. Local workshops and menus that mimic mainstream meals can feed the curious.

By Jill Ann Perrino, April 6, 2005

CLEARWATER - A mere taste of a well-prepared uncooked pizza may have you reconsidering the notion that the raw food diet is a wacky trend on its way out.

Okay, it is a bit extreme and does require more equipment than a can opener, but that doesn't mean the food isn't fabulous. Especially when raw food mimics favorite foods such as pad Thai, pancakes and pies.

Raw food eaters thin but healthy

March 29, 2005

Fresh vegetables are a good source of vitamins

People who follow a raw food vegetarian diet are light in weight but healthy, according to US researchers.

It has been suggested that eating only plant-derived foods that have not been cooked or processed might make bones thinner and prone to fractures.

But a study in Archives of Internal Medicine found although bones were lighter on this diet, turnover rates were normal with no osteoporosis.

Seattle Cookbook Author Grabs National Award For Perfecting The Recipe For Compassion

Writer Wins `Proggy' for Dishing Up `Vice Cream' That Isn't as Sinful as it Tastes

For Immediate Release:

Seattle — In recognition of his trailblazing efforts to provide conscientious cooks with healthy, humane alternatives to cholesterol- and saturated-fat-laden dairy frozen desserts, Seattle resident Jeff Rogers, author of the Vice Cream cookbook, has won People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA) Proggy Award for Best New Dessert Cookbook. Proggys (short for "progress") are presented to animal-friendly people, companies, and organizations. Rogers will receive a commemorative plaque and will be featured on PETA's Web site PETA.org, which is visited by thousands of people every day.

Eat It Raw!
Blenders, Sprouters, and Mashers Process Food in the East Village

by Debra DeSalvo
June 28 - July 4, 2000

"Yo! Any vegetarians in the house?" hollers Stic.man of hip-hop's radical duo Dead Prez. A roar and dozens of fists rise up in CBGB, which is packed. It's 3 a.m. and the young, mostly Latino crowd has been hanging all night for a showcase of politically conscious Latin bands booked by Ricanstruction. Despite the late hour, the air is strangely smoke-free.

"Any vegans?!" More shouts from the crowd. "All right!" Stic nods enthusiastically, dreads bouncing as he hops back and forth.

"What about the raw foodists? Any raw foodists in the house?" A few whoops and hands shoot up, waving wildly. "Yeah!" Stic shouts. "That's the shit!" as Dead Prez slam into "Be Healthy," from their Loud debut album, Let's Get Free.

 

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