Raw Goes Mainstream - Day 82

I know that many of you have had an opportunity to see a copy of the June issue of Food & Wine Magazine. But - in case you might have missed it, below is the article that features Ani Phyo as she takes raw food into the mainstream! I especially love it that Ani is positioned right in the middle of the Grilling Issue!

Simply Delicious Raw-Food Recipes -

Ani Phyo isn’t evangelical about raw food; she just wants to create healthy, inspiring meals with ultrafresh ingredients, like zucchini “pasta” with tangy no-cook marinara.

Like leather jackets and bangs, the raw-food diet has reinvented itself every decade since the 1960s. Ani Phyo, who was raised on a mostly “living” diet by her health-conscious parents, is one of the leaders of raw food’s latest cycle, thanks to the clever, uncomplicated recipes she develops for restaurants, athletes and corporations like Adidas. The 39-year-old’s dishes appeal both to raw foodists (who believe heating ingredients above 104°F kills essential enzymes) and omnivores who want to eat more healthfully. “It’s easy to become obsessive about eating raw,” says the author of the recently published Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen. “I don’t want that. I just try to make raw food more accessible to everyone.” Her spaghetti-like zucchini ribbons, dressed with tangy heirloom-tomato marinara, is a vibrant, summery spin on the traditional pasta and red sauce, and her garlicky corn soup thickened with pureed cashews is as flavorful as its cooked counterpart—and much faster to prepare. Phyo’s desserts, like soft cardamom-date bars topped with a crunchy almond crumble, are also universally appealing. “A person doesn’t have to be 100 percent raw to benefit,” she says."

Ani wrote to me today and here is a blurp from her note.... "thanks so much for your support, penni. perhaps you'd consider writing a letter to the editor at food & wine asking them to include more raw articles. would your friends be willing to be the same? that would really be awesome. thanks for sharing the message!
: )
ani"

Won't you please consider logging into Food & Wine to register, then you can give some feedback or write to the editor and encourage more of this type of article in forthcoming issues. I thank you in advance for taking a minute to do so. We should support this incredible raw sister who is shining her light, right in the smack dab middle of the June Grilling Issue!! Big props to Ani Phyo!!

Wednesday's Daily Juice:
All fresh orange juice, all day, w/ spirulina & VitaMineral Green
(I would have rather had a nice shot of vodka, to tell the truth)