Seeking Food - By Ketojinic

So some of you may know and others not, but I have a major life event happening in the next 8 months and I want to get nice and trim for it. Instead of abandoning my food blog as I undertake this dietary change, I decided to use this blog to chronicle my journey. Hopefully it will inspire people to try a raw restaurant or even try going raw for a few days. Your body will thank you. Today was my first fully raw day and I decided to do it today since it would be easy! I was going to be at the Raw Food Bazaar all day anyway, interviewing people for my potential documentary. The hardest thing about dieting for me, is making it too difficult or tempting. I didn't decide to go raw until I was actually at the Bazaar and thought, wow, if I started NOW, I wouldn't have to really think about it. So I did. I told my raw friend that I was going to give it a week. So this is what I ate all day: 1 young coconut A raw dish including sprouted chickpeas, kale salad, kelp noodles Grape Ko...

Wow. Doing research for my new documentary film on Raw Food has been tremendously eye-opening. Who would have thought that raw food could be so tasty? I've been gravitating towards the sweet and delicious types, usually with fruit or coconut based concoctions that were easy to make and "safe." This all changed when I went to Au Lac Fountain Valley. Now, I see just how much imagination and creativity it takes to make raw food and that savory dishes as well as sweet dishes are completely possible, delicious, and best of all, good for you. One of the things that really scared me about committing fully to a raw food diet was having to give up my beloved rice. As an Asian American (can I call myself American?) rice has been a staple in my diet and thus far, I have not seen rice in the raw form in the restaurants I've been to (perhaps I wasn't looking hard enough?) until I had Chef Ito's soaked rice dishes. Here is what I was so blessed to try: Bread with chimichurr...

Today I went to visit a friend who is a raw foodist, or a rawist. I never have a hard time picking a place I want to eat at considering that I'm an omnivore but I can only imagine how hard it is for a raw foodist to find a decent place to eat. When I used to work with her, she influenced me to eat more raw food and I felt great doing it. It's just hard to maintain that kind of a restrictive diet when you're always on the go. I give her major props and after having lunch with her at Better Life Cuisine, I'm actually going back there tomorrow night for another meal and some festivities! They're having a raw celebration and I'm curious to see what it's all about. We even got to meet Chef Belive, who was just eating there (he looked like he was being interviewed for an article). My friend freaked out when she saw him. Literally, he might as well have been Brad Pitt. She went and introduced herself and spoke to him about raw food. This community is so tight! A...