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On Earth Day: Rock Your World with Seductive Raw Cuisine

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And there was that four-hour round trip to Phoenix, AZ, for the most ravishing raw raspberry pie on the planet. Not just a piece. The whole pie. It broke my poor l’il heart when that café closed.

Ah, and I can never forget the lingering memories of those creamy, rich, raw vegan Cheeze Nips from the Life Grocery and Café in Marietta, GA. Chef Mike Elsen developed this particularly decadent variation from cashews, bell pepper, salt and lemon juice. Sad to say, this store is walk-in only. Since there was no way I could bring enough of those succulent delights home, my daughter shipped them to me periodically while she was a student at Marietta’s Life University. Unfortunately, she graduated. (OK, I’ll admit that some of the sting was alleviated by the fact that she was valedictorian.)

Yep, I am an addict.

Humankind has been on this planet lots longer than tools for killing animals, and ovens for cooking them in. The original perfect diet for us MUST have consisted primarily of vegetables, fruits, and nuts!

Could a raw food diet be the best health care reform?


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David Kaplan, founder of Transition Nutrition, (www.transitionnutrition.com) has over 34 years of personal experience with a raw food diet that he credits with saving his life. His company offers a cornucopia of well-loved raw foods.

Their organic Wild MacMulberry Mix is a harmonious duet of creamy Hawaiian Macadamia Nuts and mulberries. NaturalNews.com’s Health Ranger, Mike Adams, says their white mulberries …  are sun dried, wild harvested and absolutely delicious. There's probably no better tasting dried fruit on the planet.

And, dahlink, don’t miss their all-organic Golden Princess Mix of pistachios and out-of-this-world Himalayan Golden Raisins. Get back, California Raisins: news o’ these luscious golden babes is making the rounds, I done heard it through the grapevine!


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Transition Nutrition also produces another award-winner, Royal Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt. Yep, that’s the salt you’ve heard the big time chefs rave about. A full-spectrum salt, it's loaded with trace minerals and nutritional elements that simply don't exist in processed table salt, according to Adams.


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My favorite is their multiple award-winning Bliss Mix. It’s a high-energy trail mix chock full of the freshest, premium raw fruits and nuts: macadamias, cashews, pistachios, Himalayan raisins, mulberries, cacao nibs, and goji berries, for a burst of organic, orgasmic, bliss. The product won “Best of Show” at the 2007 Raw Spirit Festival, the “world's leading healthy-living raw vegan-eco-peace celebration.” (http://www.rawspiritfest.com)


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Michael Mullen and his partners will be debuting their new event-catering business, dRAW — Food for the Imagination, in a booth at the Topanga Earth Day Festival's 10th annual celebration in the greater Los Angeles area April 18th and 19th (www.topangaearthday.org). The event features guest speakers, workshops, children's area with eco-entertainment, healing village, music on two stages, an ecological art gallery, and
 ecological vendors.  Mullen’s booth will offer a selection of raw foods including taquitos made from hemp-corn tortillas, sun-dried tomato, and sunflower pate, garnished with macadamia nut sour creme.  I’m planning on checking them out.


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Mullen notes, The basis of eating raw, living, sun-food is about becoming more connected to the food that we eat, knowing and understanding where this food is coming from, and then making a conscious effort to allow ourselves to eat the best food ever.  The movement is about celebrating Mother Earth and all the bountiful foods she creates. The better people eat, the more they will feel a connection to her and treat her in beautiful ways. 

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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