Little Book of Raw Thanksgiving Recipes

Hi,

I'll keep this message short because the busy season is upon us!

If you're hosting Thanksgiving dinner or bringing food to someone else's gathering, RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com's Little Book of Raw Thanksgiving Recipes is just the ticket for some great ideas! (It also makes a sweet surprise gift. Send us the e-mail address of your special people and we'll send it right out to them!)

Our little e-book contains 32 festive and fabulous Thanksgiving recipes by more than a dozen great American raw chefs. You'll find instructions for making tasty soups, salads, "turkey," stuffing, side dishes, and many scrumptious desserts. This year we have additions from David Norman's Bonobo's Restaurant, Matthew Kenney's The Plant, and Roxanne Klein and Charlie Trotter, plus my own yummy recipe for Cinnamon Ginger Chocolate Candy, and tips for entertaining.

Delivery is fast, via e-mail. Our e-book requires no special software to read (it's delivered as a Word document), and it's convenient! If/when you splatter food on a recipe while making one--which I can't seem to avoid doing! :o) --you can just toss the recipe and print out a new page.

Our Little Book of Raw Thanksgiving Recipes is a bargain at only $5!

Here's how to order:

RawFoodsNewsMagazine's Little Book of Raw Thanksgiving Recipes

Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving,

Judy Pokras
editor/founder/publisher
www.rawfoodsnewsmagazine.com

Announcing the Cute Raw Foods Shop

Artwork Copyright: By Judy Pokras

Judy Pokras is pleased to announce the opening of her online shop "Cute Raw Foods."

Her shop carries the cutest cutting edge stuff--t-shirts and camis and totes and mugs and baby items and more. It's fashionable and stylish, and it pushes the envelope! We honor a healthy lifestyle, especially raw foods, and we do it in a hip way.

World Class Raw Foods Chef to Give Siesta Key Dinner Party On Oct. 13

Come experience what it would be like to eat in a raw foods restaurant in Sarasota!

On Friday, October 13, Raw Chef Dan, a restaurant consultant, chef and teacher in town from New York, will be hosting a dinner party in a beautiful Siesta Key townhouse where he'll prepare many recipes over the course of three hours--a sensational buffet of tasty raw vegan treats--ranging from drinks, tapas and entrees to fantastic desserts. The buffet will be open as the first guests arrive, dine and mingle as more guests arrive. Raw Chef Dan will prepare and serve new dishes throughout the party. Guests will have the opportunity to watch him prepare the various recipes, or can simply mingle and enjoy the festivities.

The party will be a fun place to socialize, meet like-minded people, get great ideas for dishes, and learn even more. Raw Chef Dan will talk about a raw foods restaurant in Sarasota, movies, the Bio-Photonic Scanner, Secrets of the Cube, resources, and books.

The innovative and talented Raw Chef Dan will give two raw vegan recipe classes plus a buffet dinner party with live preparations and demo.

Monday, Oct. 9 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m
BASIC RAW FOOD INTRO CLASS

When you attend Raw Chef Dan's Basic Raw Food Introduction Class, you’ll hear a short overview on the “whats and whys” of the raw food diet, you’ll see demos of recipes, and you'll get to eat the recipes, including:

Super Power Green Juice
Chocolate Banana Smoothie
Bell Pepper Soup
Marinated Italian Zucchini with Sun-Dried Tomato
Mock Tuna Salad Wraps with Sweet Mustard Sauce
Raw Sesame Hummus
Mock Cream Cheese
Basic Pie Crust
and Chocolate Mousse Pie with Berries.

The fee is $60 when you mention RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com or $75 at the door.

Weds., Oct. 11, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
INTERMEDIATE RAW PREP CLASS

Raw Chef Dan's Intermediate Raw Prep Class will feature a recipe demo, after which you’ll get to eat the food:

Black Nori “Caviar”
Cashew “Sour Cream”
Almond Milk
Marzipan
Basic Flax Crackers
Mock Meatballs with Creamy Gravy
Broccoli “Cheddar” Cannelloni
and Vanilla Chia Seed Pudding with Banana and Nutmeg.

The fee is $60 when you mention RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com or $75 at the door.
Take advantage of both classes for just $100 in advance or $120 at the door.

Friday, Oct. 13, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
DINNER PARTY

On Oct. 13, Raw Chef Dan will host a sensational buffet of tasty raw treats, ranging from drinks, tapas and entrees to fantastic desserts. The buffet will be open as the first guests arrive, dine and mingle, as more guests arrive. Raw Chef Dan will prepare and serve new dishes throughout the party. You'll have the opportunity to watch him prepare the various recipes, or you can simply mingle and enjoy the festivities.

This dinner party is a great opportunity for raw foods enthusiasts to introduce skeptical friends and relatives to a variety of delicious raw foods.

The fee is $70 when you mention RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com, or $95 at the door, with the discount price of $120 for two people in advance or $140 at the door.

Attend all three events and pay only $170 in advance or $200 at the door.

RESERVATIONS

Classes need to be paid for by cash, and credit card information is needed to reserve your place.

For more information and to reserve your seat, please contact Raw Chef Dan at 718-702-6275 or rawchefdan@yahoo.com, or call Mun at 917-270-0360.

Raw Chef Dan is a raw foods chef, teacher, and restaurant consultant in New York. His website is http://www.myspace.com/81872716.

See posting on SarasotaCalendar.com

Bill's Fruity Birthday Cake

Gee, President Bill's birthday cake (from this summer) looks like a raw vegan cake. Decorated with fruit. Maybe, just maybe, it is! If you know, we hope you'll let us know. Even if it's not raw, it's mighty pretty.

Send This to Your Neighborhood Wino

http://www.cafepress.com/rfnm
The resveratrol is in the grapes;
There's no need to drink wine
To get this anti-cancer nutrient.

ABC News Heralds Enzyme Study Results As Breakthrough of the Century

BREAKING NEWS!

from RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com

Your online source since March 2001 for news about the raw foods lifestyle

ABC News Heralds Colorado Professor's Enzyme Study

As "Possibly the Breakthrough of the Century"

Tonight, Thursday, June 2, ABC-TV's Prime Time Live featured a story on groundbreaking research that shows that a pill containing a few herbs (among them turmeric and green tea) creates enzymes in the body that reduce people's oxidative stress to the level of a newborn baby, thus preventing chronic disease and lengthening the human lifespan by perhaps 50 percent.

Dr. Joe McCord, the University of Colorado at Denver biochemistry professor who did the research, told reporter John Quinones that oxidative stress is what happens in the body when people eat! (As we raw foodists know, it's what happens when people eat cooked foods, but they didn't go into detail about this on the show, probably because these scientists don't even consider that some people might eat raw foods.) The professor said that "eating" causes oxidative stress, in which free radicals in the body get out of hand and cause disease and aging.

The herbal pill (Protandim) restores the enzymes that our bodies stop making as we get older. The restored enzymes then kill the free radicals, those nasty things that cause chronic diseases and aging itself!

So, although they didn't make the connection, this big news is as good as ABC News saying that eating a raw foods diet prevents disease and aging!!!!!

Here's the ABC-News story

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Style, Cosmetics and Raw Foods

RawStyle

We now have a sister blog on all things stylish that are also sound for our health and the environment. We invite you to visit it and post your comments!

Paint By Number? No, Eat By Color & Vit. C

Here's an arresting splash of a page from the USDA about the benefits of eating produce that's vibrantly colored:

And here's a chart of the world's fruits and how they rate in Vitamin C content. Camu Camu berries are listed as having an "astounding" amount of Vitamin C. We want them growing in our backyard!

Farmers Markets are Multiplying!

The blog cooking with amy notes:

Can we ever have too many farmers markets? I don't think so. One of the most exciting trends in the past few years has been the explosion in growth of farmers markets. According to the USDA, the number of farmers markets increased almost 20% between 2002 and 2004, from 3,137 to 3,706.

A Party for People From the Future & Us

Time Traveler Convention at MIT

Luckily I was watching Saturday Night Live tonight. Weekend Update mentioned that some MIT students and profs were holding a party that they hoped time travelers would attend. As the people throwing the party pointed out, they only needed to have one such party. Time travelers could attend it whenever and as many times as they liked.

Damn, I just missed it! I didn't find out about it in time to travel up there from Florida because I haven't perfected my time traveling skills. And this was so my kind of party!

In 2001, I happened upon a website called MadSci network (love that name!) that invited web surfers to submit science questions. I was excited that I might get an answer to a question that had been plaguing me for quite some time, ever since I had gotten my first computer in the late 1980s, a dedicated terminal from France called a Minitel. The MadSci network's online form asked me what grade level and school I was in! Why is the mad scientist limiting his answers to kids' questions? Our culture wouldn't be discouraging us from asking questions, now, would it? My question's subject line was "Can an ET send an earthling an e-mail message?" Here's what I wrote. (Note that the URL in my 2001 question is no longer my website, personal or otherwise.)

The MIT student who came up with the whole idea for the Time Traveler Convention is Amal K. Dorai. Here are a few excerpts from his convention announcement page, which featured a Q and A format, with the questions being ones that might be asked by the general public:

Why do you need my help?

We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it will be taken down when I graduate, and futhermore, the World Wide Web is unlikely to remain in its present form permanently. We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.

Great idea, I'd love to help! What should I do?

Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention.

You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be to the party, and then bury it afterwards.

Isn't time travel impossible?

We can't know for certain. The ancient Greeks would have thought computers were impossible, and the Phoenicians certainly wouldn't have believed that humans would one day send a spacecraft to the moon and back. We cannot predict the future of science or technology, so we can only make an effort and see if any time travelers come to our convention. If you would like to read more about time travel, check out our reading list.

I'm from the future, and I'd like to attend!

We're not sure how you're e-mailing us from the future, but we'd love to have you! Come as you are! No dress code whatsoever. We do request that you bring some sort of proof that you do indeed come from the future, and haven't just dressed like you do. We welcome any sort of proof, but things like a cure for AIDS or cancer, a solution for global poverty, or a cold fusion reactor would be particularly convincing as well as greatly appreciated. (No RSVP required.)

Amal has asked that we include the mapping coordinates of the convention, should anyone from the future be reading this at some point when M.I.T. is no longer at that address:

The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00 pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
(events start at 8:00 pm)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

Another exciting thing about a Time Travel convention is that in the future a lot more people will be eating raw-food cuisine and the recipes and exotic produce that people bring to the convention will be fab!

Top Cooked-Chefs

The Food Section: All the News That's Fit to Eat lists the 10 best US chefs in 2005 as selected by Food & Wine magazine.

We invite all 10 of these chefs to send us one raw-food recipe that they're proud of having created. We hope some of America's talented raw-food chefs will make this top 10 list next year!

Watermelon Art

Michelangelo said: "I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free. " Thanks to the fabulous Boing-Boing, we can see what one artist set free in a watermelon. In our opinion, it's much better to find art in a watermelon than to make an ersatz watermelon (not that it's not artistic) from dairy ice cream, as Martha Stewart has done in her Watermelon Bombe. Now, if her Bombe were made of non-dairy raw ice cream, that would rate an award.

Newsweek Online's Erroneous Piece

My response to Newsweek online's April 12, 2005 article on raw foods:


Dear web editors,

As a long-time raw foodist and the founder and editor of www.RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com, an online magazine celebrating raw foods since March 2001, I'm glad to see you ran an article on the raw foods lifestyle.

I wanted to point out an error in your article. The writer says that Woody Harrelson came out with the 400-page book Living Cuisine a year ago. The book is actually by the raw chef Renee Underkoffler; Woody Harrelson merely wrote its foreword.

Also, your writer says that most people eat raw foods for health reasons. I would like to know where she found statistics on this. As someone who has been in the raw foods community since 1992, I know that while a decade ago many people tried raw foods at first for health reasons, over time more people are eating the food because it tastes great and because it makes them feel and look fabulous.

Your writer cites an M.D. and a nutritrionist as saying that it's ok to eat cooked food. Please explain to me why it is, then, that people who eat 100 percent raw foods don't ever get colds or sore throats.

Judy Pokras
editor/founder/designer
Raw Foods News Magazine
http://www.rawfoodsnewsmagazine.com
vegwriter@aol.com
An online newsmagazine founded in March 2001 as rawfoodsnews.com celebrating the raw foods lifestyle with authoritative info, breaking news, and fun interactive features. * Rated Number 1 in the Webseed Directory's most interesting sites list, based on how many articles a person looks at in any one visit. * Recommended by Writer's Digest, EnergyTimes, The Vegan Guide to NYC, the Japanese magazine Engine, breathing.com, and the national radio program Carolyn Craft's Inner Wisdom.

What's your favorite treat to eat?

FL David writes:

gosh, there's too much to list....

the trick is to find the food!

i love mid term coconut meat, especially blended with the water...

i love organic heirloom tomatos with basil and a touch of garlic and bariani olive oil...

i love greens just out of the ground...

i love wet dressings made with cukes, celery, peppers, some cayenne pepper, tomatoes etc just poured on a big green salad...

maybe sprinkle with some pumpkin seeks or pine nuts etc....

just could go on and on...

i love a ripe mango just off the tree, black sapote smoothies with coconut,

i love nut meat salads (like tuna or shrimp but use pureed nuts/seeds, even some truly raw nut butter if you can't puree the nuts yourself)...

take a look at bonobo's menu- i love all that...

i'm so happy with this food there is no end...

i have no no no cravings for what i used to eat and i don't want to eat fake food--raw made to taste like cooked;
again the trick is to find super fresh greens, vine ripe fruits, veggies...

fresh nuts and seeds etc etc etc etc

thankfully in fla we have the abundant fresh cocos all around us here...

the trick, again, is how to get them off the tree and be able to open them in your kitchen...

homestead has great fresh fruits and produce...

you'd have to research where you are to find the sources for the real food that you can celebrate in it's own right, without making it taste like anything else...

this is probably more than you want to hear.......... :)))

i'm passionate about it all...

and can't wait for my next feeding!!

today we have some just-off-the-tree blood oranges,

honey tangerines,

grapefruit,

fresh no wax cukes,

a basket of just picked coconuts

and more!