Article: Personal chef's catering business gets by on raw talent

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Personal chef's catering business gets by on raw talent

 

Wed, Sep. 13, 2006

 

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Six months ago, I heard a rumor of someone starting a raw foods

catering business and, I admit, I gave it a dismissive shrug, " Raw

foods. What interest is that to a cook? Just another flash in the 'pan'

food faddist, here for a semester and all set to convince hopeless

non-believers, " I thought, wrongly, to myself.

 

When I finally met April Myers at the Friday afternoon State College

farmers' market, I was convinced not by the healthful glow of her

appearance or her radiant smile, and not by the samples of her

delicious, ferociously garlicky cumin-scented hummus and dill-infused

sunflower seed pate. Watching her interact with her customers at the

market, I was transported back in time to the 1970s when the only

cookbooks I bought espoused natural foods, a time when food was going

to change the world.