After my various cleanses, I went through a raw food stint which lasted until recently when I went on vacation and started gorging in all sorts of meats. At any rate, I’m easing back into eating raw (I’m a huge fan) and even started dabbling a little into natural and raw beauty products. Envision Beauty was developed by Kimberly Snyder, a raw foodist and beauty expert who wanted to bottle the benefits of a raw diet into an all in one skincare solution. As raw foodists know, even a week on a ra

In order to honor the spirit of (then-ending) National Vegan Month, we decided to go all-out: Raw Food. Raw foodists believe that important, life-sustaining enzymes present in our food are destroyed by cooking, and so food must be processed in alternative ways. The Raw Food movement has gotten a lot of play in the food press over the last five years, raving about freshness and health ...

Though I usually go totally raw for my monthly day-long raw food cleanse, I called today a "high raw" day since I cheated a little bit at lunch with this delicious Live Burger from Bawala's Vegan Gourmet, a new semi-raw cafe inside the Smooth Moves smoothie shop in Midtown: I've been hearing about these raw burger patties for a few months now, and I'd been waiting until raw day to give them a try. Balwala (who's name I'm probably spelling wrong) wouldn't tell me what was in his live patty (says