I licked my lips in anticipation. I knew a dinner at San Francisco's Organica was going to be strange. We had already taken our seats, which were on pillows at a six inch high Japanese-style table. About four years ago, I read a few books about live foods and decided to give the diet a serious try.
Live foods are foods that have neither been cooked nor processed.
It seemed that the advantages of a live foods diet may be difficult to prove, but that the ideas were worth checking into. Five weeks of eating meals that didn't taste nearly as good as my cooked-food vegan favorites. Five weeks in which my stomach never had a feeling of fullness for more than twenty minutes. What's more, most of the prepared live foods I purchased, as well as many of the recipes I tried, were simply terrible. But after my experience, it seemed pretty clear to me that the amount of study and effort required to adapt a live-food diet is enormous.