Last week, my coworker’s suggestion that we try a cleanse this weekend inspired me to try something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now: try a raw food diet!
I originally became interested in raw food last year, when almost in the same week, I went to a restaurant that serves raw food, and I reunited with an old friend who had a girlfriend who ate a raw diet. I reacted to it like “huh…. why would anyone want to do that?” I still think it would be hard to exist in a world with hot bowls of soup on a cold day, or mashed potatoes. period. All of my comfort foods are hot or warm, and all of my comfort foods are definitely cooked. Not to mention I LOVE to cook. Is there anything better than seasoning a pasta sauce to perfection, leaning over the pot, and inhaling the salty, moist steam?
That being said, I definitely did some re-identifying of comfort foods when I became a vegan a couple years ago, and I’m sure given the right motivation, I could do it again. For the purposes of this particular challenge, I will only be going raw for one weekend, that is one long weekend. I started my challenge yesterday, and I will be completing the raw food challenge on monday evening. My intention is to explore what makes a food comforting, how we interact with food in social situations, and how eating a raw diet makes my body and my brain feel.
Wish me luck!
rarely yours,
C
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