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Get Juiced! Five Delicious Recipes to Boost Your Vegetable and Fruit Intake

January 30, 2012
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Happy Monday, all! Before I get to juice, thanks for all of the enthusiasm over my cashew vanilla milk. Since a few of you emailed me to ask if store-bought almond milk is OK, I just wanted to be clear: yes! store-bought almond milk is just fine, and in fact, it carries the advantage of [...]

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Vanilla Cashew Milk

January 29, 2012
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One of my most popular posts to date is my DIY tutorial for making raw almond milk. In spite of the dinky photos and bad lighting, this post embodies what I always wanted Choosing Raw to be: an easy and practical resource for eating (and living) vegan and raw. I will never forget how astounded [...]

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Friday Giveaway: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Raw Food “Detox”

January 27, 2012
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Happy Friday! Nice responses to yesterday’s Vitamin-rich juice. I am so glad you all enjoyed the recipe. Today, I’m switching gears to offer you a Friday giveaway for two copies of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Raw Food “Detox” (quotations mine). I was offered copies of this book by Adam Graham, a wildly talented raw [...]

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A Study in Scarlet

January 26, 2012
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Allow me to geek out for a moment: this week in Biochem, we learned about scurvy, a disease that is caused by a lack of Vitamin C, or ascorbate. Famously, sailors on transoceanic voyages in centuries past were susceptible to scurvy, since they had little access to fresh fruits or vegetables. Advanced cases of scurvy [...]

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Raw Carrot Cumin Wraps

January 25, 2012
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I have a love/hate relationship with raw wraps. I love them because they’re versatile, easy to prepare, and way more fun than sandwiches. I hate them because I have yet to make a homemade raw wrap that was really excellent. They’ve all been too thin, too dry, to thick, or too dense. When I went [...]

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What the Heck Is Chlorella, Anyway?

January 24, 2012
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A few of you have noticed that I mentioned chlorella in my recent smoothie posts. It showed up in my cherry vanilla smoothie last week, and it made an appearance yesterday, too, in my Down Dog smoothie (thanks, by the way, for the nice comments on that post—I love it when yogis unite!). It’s part [...]

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The Down Dog Smoothie

January 23, 2012
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The summer of 2011 was a strange one. In spite of how many times I’d told myself it would be nothing, no big deal at all, to move from New York to D.C., I realized no less than a week into my life here in the District that it was going to be far more [...]

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