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