Comments on: Celebration of Living Foods: A green event for raw foodies

By: Svea

Svea — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:34:37 +0000

Your comment about the trouble gone to to make raw food taste like traditional cooked food is so true. We recently visited a raw food restaurant & had “pasta”. My husband says he would have been more satisfied had they just called it a salad, since the zucchini noodles were raw. It tasted good, just doesn’t need to mimic the traditional to be accepted.

By: Siel

Siel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:34:19 +0000

The “strange” raw foods are also just sort of entertaining — I do enjoy trying them just to see what they taste like :) Most don’t actually tempt me to try going raw though :P

By: M

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:37:38 +0000

Although I know some raw things don’t really taste much like the cooked versions, I think having these things can be a little more alluring to some people that think of raw food as something super boring or really weird. It gives people a reference point. As someone that likes experimenting when cooking, I think it’s also just fun — a challenge of sorts. I’ve always enjoyed raw fruits and veggies, but years ago I received a gift of a food dehydrator and I knew there had to be more that I could make in it besides dried fruits. It was my research on dehydrator-oriented recipes that got me interested in raw foods! I also find only eating raw food whole to be a little painful to eat some of the time (I’ve had some pain problems w/ my jaw before). Like in the winter, if you try to eat local, in season things. So many apples and cirtus are available, but not so many soft berries and nectarines. Plus there’s the whole value added idea that gives someone something else to sell.