The Complete Book of Raw Food (119 page)

Robert has apprenticed for over ten years on Optimal Health and Nutrition with world renowned scientists Dr. Dan West and David Jubb, PhD. He has lectured and performed classes in cities from coast to coast.

Lisa has been Top Chef at the Grange Gourmet Catering Service and Cafe for 7 years. She has performed jobs at such highly prestigious venues as the State House in Boston, the Cranes Castle, Hammond Castle, and the Annisquam Yacht Club on the North shore.

Robert and Lisa helped to open the Organic Garden Restaurant in Beverly, Massachusetts, as well as the Cilantro restaurant on 3rd Avenue in Chula Vista,
California, and offer a training package recognized and implemented by the most progressive and advanced Healing Retreats.

Conscious Cuisine is dedicated to providing a completely healthy and totally delicious dining experience. Robert and Lisa use only organic living foods to prepare their cuisine, and serve those who know and appreciate the best. Their Life Force Cuisine continues to enhance the healing and enjoyment of those on retreats and strives to promote a healthier lifestyle for people and the environment, via that which we consume with our mouths.

Robert and Lisa are currently living in San Diego and have just started a new company, Exotica Gourmet (
www.exoticagourmet.com
). They offer a complete operation manual for living foods restaurants and are looking to open many more.

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Phone: 1-800-384-6076

Web site:
www.lifeforcefoods.com
;
www.exoticagourmet.com

Storm has been eating a raw-vegan diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds in their natural unheated state for over 30 years and has become known amongst raw-vegans for his body builder’s physique. At 58 he appears decades younger. Jinjee first started eating a raw food diet 13 years ago. Her before and after pictures show her radical weight loss transformation. Now, their whole family is 100% raw-vegan (with no supplements or dehydrated foods) and thriving! Visit their website to see family photos and stories of how we found the raw diet, photo journals of the children growing up as raw vegans over the years, articles about raw vegan nutrition from a scientific standpoint, and video clips of raw vegan cuisine being prepared. The Talifero’s also sell their 12 raw vegan ebooks, which share their simple and nutritious recipes and raw lifestyle tips, on their website. In addition, they have created a movie about our family and the raw food diet on DVD!

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Phone: 804-458-4442

Web sites:
www.TheGardenDiet.com
;
www.TakeAFruitBreak.com

Several years ago, Jonathan Weber realized that his life was out of balance. He lacked passion and felt like he was keeping the brakes on in many areas of his life. He was afraid to live as he should—with vitality and courage.

Jonathan knew what he was looking for. He wanted to discover his passions and live with authenticity and integrity. He needed to feel vital and strong and conscious that he was living as he was born to live.

Two months later, Jonathan found himself in a class on raw foods with Victoria Boutenko and her family. He was curious and intrigued, but it was not until the third class that light bulb of awareness went on within him. This was what he had been seeking. Jonathan resolved to go raw and discontinued eating all cooked foods that evening.

Living in a country studio home in southern Oregon, Jonathan has been thriving on a fully raw/living foods diet for four years. He now feels fully connected to his life, and he shares his knowledge, skills, and inspiration with others on a regular basis. Jonathan is a loving father, and an avid hiker and backpacker. He also enjoys bicycle riding, swimming, running and sleeping outdoors under the stars. He is a residential remodeling contractor and finish carpenter and enjoys creating rugs, clothing and wall art as a skilled handloom weaver. At 51, Jonathan feels himself to be getting younger rather than older, living life with more passion, vitality and clarity than he has known before.

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Considered by peers to be the world’s leading authority on raw food nutrition, David Wolfe is one of the most sought-after success and health speakers in the world today. In his books, seminars, and at his retreats, David shows you how to successfully use raw plant foods, right lifestyle, and positive thinking to become healthy and to achieve your full potential.

Whether you choose to be a vegetarian or a vegan or simply wish to succeed with another organic diet, David’s message will help you to live with more abundance and enjoyment.

David is the middle son of two medical doctors. His father has over 35 years experience as an osteopath and MD. His mother is an anesthesiologist.

At age 14, David became inspired by motivational and inspirational literature. At age 18, he read the book
Fit For Life
and adopted its plant-based diet lifestyle. In 1995, David adopted a 100-percent raw-food vegetarian diet.

Through years of experimentation, research, nutritional counseling, seminar speaking, and communicating with thousands of individuals experimenting with raw-food vegetarian lifestyles, he eventually developed “The Sunfood Diet Success System.”

In 1995, along with Stephen Arlin and R.C. Dini, David founded Nature’s First Law Inc., the world’s largest distributor of books, booklets, juicers, audio/videotapes, and bulk organic foods to assist people in adopting, maintaining, and enjoying raw plant-food-based lifestyles. Along with his partners in health, Mr. Wolfe co-authored the book:
Nature’s First Law: The Raw-Food Diet
in 1996, which attracted world-wide notoriety, as has its follow-up volume
, The Sunfood Diet Success System
.

David has degrees in Mechanical and Environmental Engineering and Political Science. He has studied at many institutions including Oxford University. He concluded his formal education with a law degree from the University of San Diego.

David also operates healing and detoxification retreats in various locations around the world, including the historic Eden Hot Springs Ranch in Arizona.

Currently, David travels and conducts success seminars and lectures worldwide. He appears regularly on radio and television shows around the world, including Howard Stern (twice) and Roseanne, and is a favorite guest on the Big Boy program on POWER 106 FM, Los Angeles’ #1 morning show. He is also the author of
Eating for Beauty
and has been interviewed or mentioned in
Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Jane, Vegetarian Times, USA Today, Men’s Health
, and
Woman’s Day
.

Abeba Wright has been a Raw Foodist since January, 2000. It hasn’t always been easy, but she is committed to this lifestyle.

Abeba became a Raw Foodist on an accidental, half-planned trip to the Optimum Health Institute. She had been told about Optimum three years prior, but didn’t want to be around sick, lethargic people. That was what she had envisioned Optimum to be about, so she was surprised when the people there looked just like her and were all on a quest for good health.

Abeba was looking for a much-needed rest and a good detox program. Her blood pressure was beginning to elevate and she did not want to take medication. After being at Optimum for two weeks, Abeba’s blood pressure stabilized
and is still around 120 over 80, sometimes 85. She lost weight, gained energy, and felt just great.

Abeba continued eating raw food. She took classes from Victoria Boutenko to learn how to prepare gourmet raw dishes, and was hooked after Victoria shared her experience with this lifestyle. Abeba felt inspired to experiment more with living food, and started conducting classes for anyone who wanted to incorporate raw foods into their diet. She does not advocate that everyone become a raw foodist, because the lifestyle has its challenges. But she does advocate having at least one raw food meal a day.

One of Abeba’s favorite foods is crackers. Raw foodists as well as cooked foodists rave about her crackers. So many people asked about her cracker recipes that she ultimately decided to write a booklet about the secret to a good cracker. The book is entitled
Absolutely Abeba’s Krazy Krackers
.

“I consider it to be a privilege to be part of this book to share some of my favorite recipes with you,” Abeba says. “May God bless you and keep you in good health.”

E-mail:
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Phone: (510) 351-3157, (510) 632-3591

Amy first got into raw foods three years ago, when she was training for a triathlon and wanted to improve her stamina. At the time, she was on a protein based diet and eating a lot of SAD food.

One day, Amy met a Natural Hygienist named Arthur Andrews and asked him what he thought was a good diet for athletes. He told her to eat only fresh, whole fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds. “I thought he was crazy!” Amy says. “How would I get my protein? How was I going to run triathlon on just that?” she thought.

Arthur gave Amy two books to read,
Superior Nutrition
and
Fasting Can Save Your Life
by Herbert Shelton and her life has never been the same since. Amy was very skeptical in the beginning, but as she began reading and educating herself, her fear and skepticism went away. She went from eating a SAD American diet to a 100-percent raw food diet overnight—something she does not recommend to people. “Be gentle with yourself,” Amy says. “Going raw should be taken in steps, because when you initially start incorporating raw foods into your diet, lots of changes start to occur. Raw food is very healing, and it will bring out the stored toxins in your body whether you like it or not.”

Once Amy understood what detox was, she was prepared to handle the weird feelings she was having. She kept eating raw foods and began to feel great. She ate only raw, fresh, whole, ripe vegetables, nuts and seeds.

Today she feels stronger and healthier than ever. She follows a raw food lifestyle, which is more than simply food.

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Phone: 1-877-RAW-CHOC

Web site:
www.rawgoddesschocolate.com

SERVICES & SUPPLIES

Below is a listing of raw food distributors, equipment and supply manufacturers, growers, magazines, restaurants, workshops, classes and retreats being offered in your area.

These listings were current at press time, but you may want to check to make sure that a company is still in business and in the same location before heading there.

Please also remember to check out the various ads from our chefs and corporate contributors in the Resources section. Many of them offer products and services to help you make the most of your experience with living foods.

A listing here does not reflect any partiality on the part of the raw food community, nor does it constitute an endorsement by Healthy Living Books or Hatherleigh Press
.

Arizona

Livingright.com
Open Chute, Inc.
5221 W. Montebello Dr.
Suite B-15
Glendale, AZ 85301
(800) 259-3015
www.livingright.com
Blenders, juicers, dehydrators, grain
mills, and sprouters.
New Harvest Organics
P.O. Box 148
Patagonia, AZ 85624
www.newharvestorganics.com
[email protected]
Organic produce.

Bariani Olive Oil
301 11th St.
Suite 3A
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.barianioliveoil.com
[email protected]
Cold-pressed olive oil.

Deer Garden/Rejuvenative Foods
P.O. Box 8464
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
www.rejuvenative.com
Raw cultured vegetables and nut and seed butters.
www.rejuvenative.com

Diamond Organics
P.O. Box 2159
Freedom, CA 95019
www.diamondorganics.com
[email protected]
Organic produce.

Gold Mine Natural Food Co.
7805 Arjons Drive
San Diego, CA 92126
www.goldminenaturalfood.com
[email protected]
Source for nama shoyu and other macrobiotic products.

Govinda’s
2651 Ariane Drive
San Diego, CA 92117
www.govinda-foods.com
[email protected]
Raw snack foods.

Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest
Products
P.O. Box 14730
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
www.guayaki.com
[email protected]
Yerba mate, energizing tea.

HealthForce Nutritionals
1835A S. Centre City
Pkwy. #411
Escondido, CA 92025
(760) 747-8822
www.healthforce.com
Juicers and dehydrators.