Sun In Bloom

I went to a dinner at a new vegan restaurant that opened in Brooklyn called Sun In Bloom. It is run by a former yoga instructor looking to make her own formulas for food available to the public. I was so blown away by the food that I volunteered to help out if I could see how they made their food. I've done the raw diet thing, and eating almonds out of a bag, or a carrot, can only go so far. But their raw food was like gourmet cuisine. Even someone unsympathetic to raw diets would want to eat this food. And everyone felt clean and light after eating it.

I spent a couple days there helping out, and got to see some of their tricks. They use alkaline water in almost everything, and almost nothing is cooked. Some of their baked goods are baked in an oven, but actually a lot of them are dehydrated rather than baked with heat. This makes their baked goods "live", and it tastes fresh, quite unlike any other baked good. Vegan/raw diets use a lot of nuts, while these dishes use less nuts and more seeds. That makes them much "lighter" than other vegan menus.

For the record, I'm not vegan. I have to eat constantly on a vegan diet, and it is still not enough calories for me. I'm all for healthy foods, but I need to run on stronger fuel. I just need to make sure the fuel I am using is clean, and I'm good to go. I basically avoid dairy permanently. I feel much better without it.