Article: Chef shows how to make a decadent, uncooked torte

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Chef shows how to make a decadent, uncooked torte

Cooking 101

 

By Jill Rosen

January 21, 2009

 

Some like it hot. Not rawists.

 

Raw-diet proponents believe food is best eaten as nature made it.

That's not boiled, not sauteed, not baked or broiled or braised or

steamed or grilled. Sadly, it's not even fried.

 

Anything that takes the temperature of food beyond 118 degrees, or

just a few degrees warmer than the warmth of your tongue, is verboten

for the raw, or living, foodist.

 

Though science tends to suppose otherwise, raw-ists, typically more

extreme vegetarians, believe fire saps food of its vital nutrients,

the vitamins and minerals that make it worth eating in the first place.

 

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