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Raw, whole foods are tasty in summer

Raw and whole foods are alternatives to cooking on high heat

 

Adam Wilcox

August 20, 2008

 

Cooking soup in August never made much sense to me. Most of us want to

avoid hot cooking in the summer heat — but we still want great food.

 

Meanwhile, some people have turned away from cooked food for deeper

reasons. Some have moved toward raw and whole foods to fight cancer,

high blood pressure or obesity. For others, it's a philosophical

extension of an attitude about diet and environment. Can the summer

gourmet learn from the approach? Of course.

 

Kelly Serbonich, co-author of Healthful Cuisine and a cook at the

famed Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, believes (as many in the raw

foods movement do) that consuming raw foods is better for the body.

" When you don't cook foods past 115 degrees, the natural enzymes that

help your body to digest those foods remain intact, " she says.

 

 

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