Rawsome!

Brigitte Mars

Description

Eating food closest to its natural state engenders a tremendous exchange of energy between food and body. The result, over time, is a feeling of buoyant, radiant health. Brigitte Mars presents evidence that confirms the efficacy of the raw foods diet. In addition, she points out the environmental benefits of the raw food diet, making the most of agricultural practice, and reducing the human footprint on the earth.

Sujets

• Cuisine
• Cuisine végétarienne
• Cuisine végétarienne
• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition
• Fitness
• Health
• Diet
• Diets

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 février 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781591205692
• Langue: English

Extrait

RAW SOME!
Maximizing Health, Energy, and Culinary Delight with the Raw Foods Diet
BRIGITTE MARS
This book in not intended to cure or give medical advice. Its intention is to educate, inform, and empower readers to make their own decisions on health and well-being. Each person will have unique reactions to changes in diet. If you have concerns about your health or diet, consult with your healthcare practitioner.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
Basic Health Publications, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mars, Brigitte.
Rawsome!: maximizing health, energy, and culinary delight with the raw foods diet / Brigitte Mars.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59120-569-2
ISBN-10: 1-59120-060-1
1. Nutrition. 2. Raw foods. 3. Cookery (Natural foods) I. Title.
RA784.M355   2004
613.2'6—dc22
2003022901
Copyright © 2004 by Brigitte Mars
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner.
Editor: Nancy Ringer
Typesetter/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
18 17 16 15 14 13 12
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
INTRODUCTION : The Raw Advantage
1. What Is Raw—And What Is Not?
2. Why Go Raw?
3. Raw Foods Encyclopedia
4. The Raw Kitchen
5. Raw Recipes
6. Eating Raw with Family and Friends
7. Using Food for Healing
APPENDIX : Nutrients and Source Foods
Glossary
Bibliography
Resources
About the Author
Dedicated to The Children of the Future and to making the world a better place right now.
Acknowledgments
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all those who have inspired us on the raw path. Thanks to my publisher, Norman Goldfind, who thought Rawsome! would be a great project, for all his support of my work. Thanks as well to editor Nancy Ringer and copyeditor Kate Herman. Gratitude to Carol and Gary Rosenberg for all their help.
Juliano, I’m so glad we met. Thank you for feeding your wonderful food to Rainbeau, and for enhancing her health. You are truly a beautiful, generous spirit and your message will resonate worldwide. David Wolfe, you rock, you inspire, you are a man on fire. Jeremy Safron, as soon as I met you, I wanted to know, “What’s this man about?” Thank you, Victoria and Igor Boutenko, for the great workshops, clear message, and loving light. Anyone who thinks raw people are frail should try a massage from Igor.
Tom Pfeiffer, thank you so much for taking this journey with me. Had I gone raw all by myself, it would have been a lonely path. Having you to make beautiful food for, your generous help in the kitchen and my classes, and your endearments and praise about all of it make my life truly blessed. I love you more than ever and find you amazingly beautiful, after twenty-five years.
Sunflower Sparkle Mars, beloved firstborn, thanks for being open to trying this new way of eating. Thanks for keeping an open mind and for staying on a healthy path yourself.
Rainbeau Harmony Mars, amazing daughter, I only went raw to support you and make sure that you were going to be okay. Did I learn a lot!
Tamara Kerner, thanks for all your girlfriend support and spirit of adventure. Laura Lamun, I am so grateful to you for always being with me at the right time. Debra St. Clair, Richard Rose, and Alana—you all inspire. Double Dose, beautiful twins, thank you for your music that brings us together.
Woody Harrelson, did you know the day you spent here would change my life? Michael Shulgin, Peter Kizer, Alex Ferrara, Chad Sarno, Elaina Love, Roz Greuben, Doug Graham, Robert Snaidach, Art Baker, Matthew Becker, Steve Meyerowitz, and Elsa Markowitz, thank you all for answering my questions. Carol Giambri, thank you for bringing the raw community in Boulder together, and for all your helpfulness to all who know you. Merci to Tehya and Steve MacIntosh, Martina Hoffmann, and Roberto Venosa. John Hay, you have always been a mentor.
Thanks so much to all the friends who come to our “salons” and are willing to be part of this great human experience. Bill Brennan, you are a video wizard!
Ariana Saraha and Kari diPalma, I am so grateful for your friendship and creativity. Love to the great people of Boulder’s raw group.
Thank you, God. Thank you, Universe. Thank you, Universal Mother Spirit. Blessed be. Om shanti.
Preface
W hile living in Miami, I first tried going on a raw diet in the mid-1970s, having been inspired by Viktoris Kulvinskas’s Survival into the Twenty-First Century, one of the earliest books to advocate raw foods. But back then, the only organic produce widely available was carrots and apples, and most natural foods stores didn’t carry produce at all. After moving to Colorado, when I would talk about being raw, people would look at me with blank expressions. Most had never heard of it, and they didn’t think it was a good idea. “It’s too cold in Colorado,” they protested. “You can’t live on uncooked food during the winter. You need hot, cooked food to warm you up.” So, after a few months, I let go of the idea.
Over the following years, I studied macrobiotics, herbal medicine, Oriental medicine, vitamin therapy, flower essences, and homeopathy. Eventually, I began to teach classes on natural medicine at institutions such as Naropa University, Boulder College of Massage, and Esalen. I became the herbalist for one of the nation’s largest natural foods stores, and for thirteen years I promoted multitudes of remedies, potions, pills, and tinctures. I began a private practice and wrote scores of magazine articles and several books.
During all this time, my family—my husband, Tom, and my two daughters, Rainbeau and Sunflower—followed what I thought was a healthy vegetarian lifestyle. We ate organic food whenever possible, though almost all of it, with the exception of the occasional salad, was cooked. As the years went by, my lovely children became complicated teenagers. I surrendered to serving whole-wheat bagels, pasta dishes, veggie burgers, home-cooked vegetarian chili, and other things I was glad they would eat. “At least it’s organic!” I would say to myself.
When Sunflower and Rainbeau admitted to me that they were sometimes eating meat at their friends’ houses, I wasn’t pleased, but I appreciated their honesty and decided that it would be better if I prepared an organically raised, free-range chicken once a week than for my daughters to eat lord-knows-what lord-knows-where. Although I had then been vegetarian for twenty-three years, I actually felt energized consuming some animal protein.
My children grew up and moved out. Middle-aged and pudgy, I found myself making organic cakes and chocolate-chip cookies (with organic sugar), meat, and quick-cooking rice once a week. We had some wild greens with many meals and felt healthy about that. The truth was, however, that I still struggled with skin breakouts and was getting heavier despite skipping dinners and drinking “natural” diet shakes. Meanwhile, Tom frequently had digestive problems that caused him sleepless nights.
In 1996, Rainbeau, an aspiring actress, was cast in her first movie. She flew to Memphis for the filming and found herself having a great time with Woody Harrelson and his brother Brett, both of whom were into raw foods, yoga, and environmental issues. Rainbeau dropped out of college and soon moved to Hollywood, like many young hopefuls, to pursue dreams of fame and fortune.
On one occasion when I was visiting Rainbeau, we ran into Juliano, an energetic young chef, in a natural foods store in Santa Monica. He gave her a flyer for a raw potluck. Soon after, she called us in Colorado to say, “I’ve gone raw! Juliano is my new housemate. He has written a book called Raw and says, ‘Get your mom down here. She’ll get raw.’”
“Not very likely,” I thought. “I know too much.” I had studied way too long and knew all about “cold, damp spleen,” “excess yin, ” and how eating tropical fruits can make you “ungrounded and spaced out.” My biggest concern was that Rainbeau was going to become anorexic, like some of the models and actresses one reads about.
Tom and I had planned a trip to Los Angeles to attend the Natural Products Expo, the major convention for the natural foods industry. We hoped to talk some sense into Rainbeau. On our first night in L.A., Juliano was hosting one of his huge raw dinners, and we were invited. Tom was apprehensive about how his stomach would handle such fare, and I was worried that the meal would be insubstantial; I told Tom we could always go out for Mexican food afterward if we were still hungry. We were served a raw, vegetarian “meatloaf” with cauliflower mashed potatoes. We drank coconut water. It was all amazingly delicious and satisfying. Tom’s stomach was blissfully peaceful, and we had to admit that Rainbeau looked healthier and more beautiful than ever. When we left the dinner, my worries were eased, and I felt grateful for Juliano.
The next day, Rainbeau and I left for Anaheim to attend the convention, while Tom had business to attend to in L.A. Rather than walking through the convention and tasting every free sample of tofu hot do