How Food Shapes our Cities -- Carolyn Steel on TED.com

Very interesting presentation linking how food distribution shapes our world. Premise is that we do not value food today, which means we have lost our most important relationship to nature.

Raw Mac 'n' Cheese

Recipe From Matthew Kenney's Everyday Raw

Sweet potato crisps

This is a simple raw recipe! Peel a sweet potato, then use a mandoline to shave thin rounds. Dehydrate for 3-5 hours at 40°C. They look lovely and taste delicious! You will be amazed at how much flavor natural crisps have!

My only issue was they were not as crispy as I would have liked. I need some dehydrating tips! How can I ensure a satisfactory crispiness?

Eggplant bacon

I came across this beautiful post on Raw+Simple with Matthew Kenney's raw eggplant bacon recipe plus pictures. Yum! Grease! were the two words that sprung into my mind. After completing the 30-Day Raw Feast I celebrated by buying myself a dehydrator. The first vegetable I dehydrated was tomatoes, the second was eggplant. The result was not bad! Very tasty (delicious with sunflower seed paté), but not crispy enough.

I recently made sweet potato chips in the dehydrator and they were also not as crispy as I like. A question for expert dehydraters: what is the trick to crispiness? Lower temperature for longer time or a higher temperature for a shorter time period?

Below a visual step-by-step of making eggplant bacon! Check out the link above for the full recipe.

Step #1
Peel the eggplant, sprinkle with salt, and let sit.

Step #2

Marinate the eggplant

Step #3

Lay out eggplant in the dehydrator

Step #4

Eat! It even resembles bacon.

NYT Op-Ed: Chemicals in our Food, Our Bodies

By Nicholas D. Kristof

Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies — to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That’s a lot of estrogen.

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Yet another reason to eat a high raw diet! Why trust your food preparation to a corporation when you could buy the food and make it yourself -- at a reduced cost?

Final sprint!

I am rounding the corner and starting the last week of the 30-Day Raw Feast! (Yes, I am back to calling it a feast!)

Lunch today is pumpkin soup with fennel, red onion and zucchini croutons. Does this look as delicious to everyone else as it does to me?