Raw Food

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#1

I was watching an episode of Amish in the City tonight, and they went to eat at a raw food restaurant. I was wondering how many Dopers have eaten food from a raw food restaurant, and what you thought of it? I am not a vegan, but it seems to be very interesting. If you guys seem to think it’s worth it maybe I’ll make the drive to the nearest one (Atlanta, which is 5 hours away) when my Fiancee gets back from overseas on his mid-tour. I think this would be a great experience for us both.

Also, if anyone happens to know of one closer to the Tallahassee area, please let me know! I did a search, but I only found a message board that listed just a few restaurants.

Jenny*

#2

Raw food restaurant?

::shakes head::

I hate everything in the world…

#3

I’ve never eaten at a raw-food restaurant, but here’s a sample review for one that’s local to me. The review is pretty similar to reviews I’ve seen of other raw-food restaurants: A couple of inspired dishes, a bunch of mediocre ones, and a few dear-god-who-thought-that-would-ever-be-a-good-idea ones. That, and the basic idea beind the raw-food movement being based on bad science.

I’m something of a foodie, but I’ve never been especially tempted to go to a raw-food restaurant.

#4

I loves me some meat. I really do, but I am open to try just about anything.

This website has pictures of some raw food examples. Looks good, right?

I think i’d do much better by having someone just put food in front of me that looks good. I’d eat it as long as I didn’t know what it was. Things such as tofu. I don’t know what it is, but I know it looks funny. If a chef could make it look good and not say it was tofu, I might find that I actually like it.

#5

I haven’t eaten there, but I have a couple friends who LOVE it. I might end up in a roommate situation with them, so I was thinking about looking into it.

#6

It’s a fad, and a silly one.

Oh, it’s cold zucchini and spicy tamarind sauce. Tastes just like pad thai!!!

#7

Hunter Hawk Thank you for that link. It provided a pretty good viewpoint.

I think sometimes certain people become very zealous about their choices. I have seen on TV many people RAVING over raw food, and then I see that some people find it very so-so.

lissener that seems like a pretty decent idea! Are your roomates vegans?

You know what though? I don’t really like Sushi that much, so I don’t know how I’ll do with other raw foods. However, I figure that raw fish is a lot different than well-organized raw vegetables.

#8

No; but they’re incense lighting Burning Man goers, so they overlap with that world a bit.

#9

Doesn’t anyone else make protein shakes with egg whites and skimmed milk around here?

#10

I’ve never heard of them before. Is it just a restaurant that specialises in salads, or what?

#11

Well they don’t specialize in just salads. They claim that they can make anything that you would normally cook, however, they substitute the ingredients. For example, I saw in an article somewhere that they used strips of coconut for noodles. They also don’t heat anything about 118 degrees F.

I don’t supposed they could make fried chicken though, huh? :confused:

#12

A student in a college class I took was a raw foodie. He was also a total nutcase. He planned to set aside two weeks to bicycle across the United States, from Washington to Washington, in his reclining bicycle. He had an enormous beard and a gigantic toothy smile. Our class had weekly potlucks (hippy school), and he’d bring dishes like hummus made from raw garbanzo beans.

A pre-college housemate of mine was also really into the idea, but not so much into the practice. I remember him showing me a cookbook that extolled the virtue of raw foods by describing an experiment: the group of pigs that was fed cooked potatoes grew fat, whereas the group of pigs fed on raw potatoes maintained their thinness. I pointed out to him that raw potatoes were indigestible to humans, and that they might also be indigestible to pigs, but he didn’t much care :).

I’m not real impressed by the whole concept.

Daniel

#13

Sounds terrible to me.

I know a girl who’s a total ditzy vegetarian/vegan/diet of the moment that will get her the most attention kinda gal. She was going on the raw food diet a while back. Heh, I wonder how that’s going. :rolleyes:

#14

My interest in the whole Raw Food thing is not necessarily for a new way to eat for life. I just would like to try it to see what some of the fuss is about. I’m from a very little city, and the most different kind of cuisine that we had was a Japanese restaurant that had the Hibachi grills. I’m still trying to get up the money to try a fondue restaurant. :cool: