Kombucha is a culture that ‘digests’ complex sugars and produces a drink full of live enzymes, probiotics and nutrients. When I looked at recipes for making it, I quickly decided not to try because it seems complicated and far too much trouble for someone of leisurely inclination. But since the nice people at Go! Kombucha have already done the hard work for me, I had a taste and…zing! It has a refreshing tongue-tingling tanginess, reminiscent of cider with a slightly vinegary bite. But unlike cider, it has some very cool benefits.
Recently, there was a lot of negative press surrounding the product Adya Clarity. This was a product that had suddenly become very popular, the new “must have” detoxification tool, that we imported from America.
Our aim at Raw Living is to make the raw lifestyle as easy and accessible to you as we possibly can. If a product is in demand, naturally we will make efforts to source it so we can offer it to you; we source a lot of American products and make it easier for people in Europe to obtain them. But we do not hype anything up or do any kind of heavy sales approach. If we are particularly enjoying a product, we like to share that with you, and hope it will assist you in your decision making process when selecting what to purchase, but generally we steer clear of pushing anything onto you, believing it is better if you decide for yourself what resonates with you and what you feel drawn to.
Recently I was in West London for a couple of weeks, and I couldn’t take any of my raw staples with me. I decided to have faith that I would find what I needed and lo, it turned out that Planet Organic was just round the corner from where I was staying. I knew Planet Organic have begun stocking Raw Living products so I wasted no time in exploring the store. And there it was, a whole section of shiny packets with the familiar purple labels, and quite a few other branded goodies too. It was like bumping into old friends in a foreign country. Actually it was more exciting than that, I felt like Dorothy in a sort of raw food Oz – chia and cacao and maca, oh my!
Here’s a new recipe video from Kate, it’s a simple and inexpensive raw kitchen staple.
Inspiral Artisan Raw Chocolate Box
A box of chocolates has to be decadent to be proper, doesn’t it? These Artisan chocolates are definitely, decadently proper. That’s my gift shopping sorted. I shall reserve these especially for anyone who thinks I’m somehow missing out on treats because I’m high raw.
I have tasted relatively few brands of ready-made raw chocolate. I tend to notice the untempered quality of raw chocolate that means it lacks the glossiness and crisp snap of the mass-produced stuff. Some brands, while tasting great, are quite grainy in texture. As far as bars of raw chocolate go, I like Whoosh best (from Raw Living) because it’s smooth and reminds me of a slightly darker version of Dairy Moo. For boxed chocolates, Artisan are sensationally smooth and melt-in-the-mouth luxurious.
After seeing David Rainoshek’s excellent webinar, ‘B12 Exposed’ recently, I was keen to try the B12 Energy Patches, which offer a transdermal form of B12 supplementation. B12 is a big molecule and is difficult to absorb orally so absorbing it through the skin is a much more efficient way of getting it into the body. Shortly after seeing the webinar, Raw Living (all blessings to them) began to stock the patches so I have been giving them a trial run.
Adya Clarity has become an extremely popular product over the last year. People are claiming to get wonderful results and see improvements on all kinds of long-standing health issues. As a water purifier, it’s popular amongst people who don’t have a home water filter system fitted or who are travelling.
But in the last few days, Internet rumours have been spreading that the product is a scam and actually damaging to health. Here is the official response from Matt Bakos, head of Adya Inc, that refutes the points made in the campaign to discredit Adya.
On Friday 21st October, while I was visiting NYC, I had the honour of dropping in on my friend Jay Smooth as he hosted his weekly radio show on WBAI, Underground Railroad. Jay is a popular blogger, social commentator, and hip hop DJ, who always has something interesting and astute to say about the topics of the day. You can listen to the audio recording of the live show here.
It’s funny I have often heard people say in relation to being healthy “I don’t want to live like a monk” For a long time i was concerned for people using that philosophy as it seemed like a global cop out.
This is a bit of an old review now – but very nicely written by Johanna Best – of a class I did in Sweden about a year ago. I love visiting Scandinavia. I feel they are actually ahead of us in the UK in the way they are adopting raw foods into the mainstream. The countries I have visited – Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark – all have much smaller populations and yet have more webshops, raw products in the supermarkets and wholefood stores, raw cafes, and beautifully presented raw recipe books than we do here.
