cooking ... well, sort of
Sep. 20th, 2007 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizabearI've been seeing things about the "raw food" diet, including announcements for a local potluck, so out of curiosity I poked around to see how people deal with such a limiting set for preparation. That leads me to the question:
Can it really be called raw if it was in a dehydrator at 105 degrees for 8 hours?
Also, after poking around a bit more, it seems you can also saute something for a minute and still consider it "raw". I also conclude that you're in very real trouble if you're allergic to nuts (especially almonds).
Some of the recipes actually look pretty good - after all, I love gazpacho - but many of them are incredibly time consuming. Eating a healthy diet already takes a lot of time preparing and cooking, and while raw diet followers don't spend time cooking per se, some of the recipes do require hours of preparation/dehydrating to copy something that's simple if cooked, like pancakes.
Can it really be called raw if it was in a dehydrator at 105 degrees for 8 hours?
Also, after poking around a bit more, it seems you can also saute something for a minute and still consider it "raw". I also conclude that you're in very real trouble if you're allergic to nuts (especially almonds).
Some of the recipes actually look pretty good - after all, I love gazpacho - but many of them are incredibly time consuming. Eating a healthy diet already takes a lot of time preparing and cooking, and while raw diet followers don't spend time cooking per se, some of the recipes do require hours of preparation/dehydrating to copy something that's simple if cooked, like pancakes.
