Posted by Beck Tench
After 90 posts and 220 comments, a Month in the Raw received over nearly 4,500 visits in one month. The traffic spiked on January 6th with 335 views in one day. That was right before experimenters started waning on their 100% commitment: first Leiana (7 days), then Beck (9 days), then Larry [...]
February 6, 2009
A Month in the Raw Traffic Report
January 19, 2009
My So Called Raw Life
Posted by Beck Tench
We are 19 days into the raw experiment. To catch you up with my own journey:
Days 1-9: 100% Raw
Day 10: 100% Cooked
Days 11-19: 50% Raw (with some days at more like 80%)
My goal last week was to eat a raw lunch everyday. I was successful at acheiving that, even while at a [...]
January 18, 2009
Making your own nut butter.
Posted by Beck Tench
Raw almond butter is expensive: about a buck an ounce. I decided to give making my own a try. If you have all the kitchen tools I have (non-trivial but also multi-use), then the price is just raw almonds, coconut butter (which would probably make about a dozen pints) and time. I [...]
January 15, 2009
In the Middle of the Night
Posted by Beck Tench
While this was not the meal I consumed last night — potato leek soup and a chicken/shrimp boxty — I want to report that I had a very similar response to eating cooked foods overnight that I did upon consuming my first cooked meal after being 100% raw (which is the meal [...]
January 14, 2009
How to go on any diet, ever.
Posted by Beck Tench
In 2003, I made what I thought was a very insignificant and safe decision: Drink more water for one week. I weighed over 300 pounds at the time, and thought I was incapable of changing my eating behaviors in any lasting way.
At the end of that week, I stepped on the scale [...]
January 11, 2009
The Absence of Things
Posted by Beck Tench
Change is hard to notice and even harder to measure when it’s caused by the absence of something. What changes have occurred in my brain and body as a result of not consuming cooked foods, caffeine or dairy for a week? What factors do I weigh when trying to decide if I [...]
January 7, 2009
Damn You, Raw Baba Ghanouj!
And damn you, too, garbanzo beans that won’t sprout!
So, yeah. It’s frustrating to make a recipe that tastes like ass (toooooooo much Bragg’s apple vinegar, that’s what!) but it’s even more frustrating if you’ve spent two days making the damn thing! The same goes for my garbanzo beans that look plump and delicious but smell [...]
January 6, 2009
Raw Recipe: Zucchetti
Posted by Beck Tench
Tonight I made the most delicious raw dish I’ve had yet! And it was really easy, though tools are required.
Zucchetti
You will need:
1 Spiral Vegetable Slicer (I used my brand new Benriner Cook Help)
1 Food Processor (I used my trusty Cuisinart Mini Prep)
1 Zucchini (large)
5 Roma Tomatoes
10 Mushrooms (your favorite variety)
1 Clove of [...]
February 1, 2009
31 days down, 334 to go.
Experimonth #1, A Month in the Raw, is now over. In the past 31 days, I’ve eaten nearly half of them 100% raw. I’ve eaten raw when it was inconvenient, when it was totally convenient. I’ve eaten raw when I didn’t have to, when I wanted nothing more. I’ve changed because of the experiment. I’ve [...]
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