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RIP Adelina – opened and closed before I had a chance to visit.
Welcome Rockin’ Raw in Brooklyn – I had the Raw Boy sandwich which was truly delicious – and only a short subway trip from Union Square. Please everybody support this amazing raw cafe so that I can go again on my next trip here!
Other highlights:
Top of the Rock at the Rockefeller Center – fantastic 360 degree views.
The High Line Park in the Meatpacking District. A beautiful concept, shame there is already evidence of chewing gum on it.
More and more takeaway raw food in the health food shops
The tasting menu at Pure Food and Wine – an opportunity to try almost everything on the menu!
And finally – the Union Square Farmers Market – for when you’ve had just too much gourmet raw food and need some plain salad leaves and heirloom tomatoes.

How many people will start copying this do you think?
Wedding dance.
I can’t decide whether I would have liked something like this at my wedding or not!

Brighton:
1. Kyle’s Manna at 24 Coombe Road, delish live sandwiches and dessert
2. The walk back into town via the Coombe Road allotments and Kemp Town, and local honey from the allotments for sale in the Churchill Square farmers market
3. Browsing the shops in the North Laines
4. Kate’s Lucky Me for sale in The Guarana shop and juice bar
5. The smell of the sea

London:
1. That indescribable feeling of joy when the train pulls into the station and I know I am home again…

I went to see this at the weekend – and while it is an important film that everyone would benefit from watching, I was very disappointed that there was no mention whatsoever of the connection between climate change and livestock farming. And while I haven’t seen ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ I understand that movie also glosses over this aspect. Mind you I shouldn’t be surprised, we all know how attached people are to eating meat and dairy and we wouldn’t want to upset anyone would we?

I was also handed a flyer from Sustainable Haringey who are planning Haringey Carbon Reduction Fortnight in December. Which is a great idea, don’t get me wrong, but some of the ideas they are putting forward?! ‘Make public transport free for a fortnight’ WHAT?! The tubes and buses are crowded enough as it is, do they really think that it is the cost that is making people use their cars?!

Well actually, that is the only ridiculous suggestion. The rest all make sense to me. Apart from the glaring omission – how about stopping eating meat for those two weeks? Or at least for two days in the fortnight?

OK that’s my rant over with.

An excerpt from Dr Miller’s talk
And this is fantastic – wish they would do this at Waterloo station. Anyone want to organise?!
And these are DELISH!

Gabriel Cousens has published some data including the following:

Monsanto’s GMO 810 corn causes sterility according to the Austrian Government. The same GMO corn also contains the cauliflower mosaic virus which, when ingested, lowers the bodies CD4 cells to a point which, on immune tests, indicate that a person has HIV/Aids. GMO corn is a staple part of the diet of many parts of Africa. Be aware that in the US most of the corn products sold are GMO – so keep off the tacos and tortillas when you are visiting!

The Gardasil vaccine (which has been manufactured as a so called vaccine against cervical cancer and has been administered to young girls in the US, and possibly here in the UK?) can cause death, collapse and chronic illness in young women and girls, including a new ‘disease’ called Juvenile ALS, a fatal condition in which the nervous system is slowly destroyed while consciousness remains unimpaired. Cervical cancer is easily detected and cured in early stages and is not a major killer of women. Gardasil also contains substances which may cause sterility in women and any protection only lasts a few years anyway.

In order to work towards my official certification I am offering private and small group yoga classes at very low rates! Contact me if you are interested.

I hear a rumour that Dragonfly is up for sale, which is a real shame – especially following on from the closure of Raw in Selfridges and Liverpool Street. Soon we will be back just to Vita Organic, the cafe in Daylesford Organic and SAF, all of which are great obviously but I love the atmosphere and garden in Dragonfly. I suggest we all make sure we go there as much as possible to make the most of it before it goes. Of course maybe someone will buy it and turn it into another raw place!

I’ve done it again - this was supposed to be a page but it has ended up as a post.. when will I learn!

The London Vegan Festival , August 19th.

I shall be giving a talk and demo, and also will have some raw goodies for sale on my stall.  The festival should be a fantastic day, with lots of different things going on, and it is a bargain at only £1 entrance!

Isn’t it wonderful.  I really feel like I am walking around with a spring in my step. Maybe it is just the reducing levels of mercury in my body after having had my fillings removed last month, maybe it is the aloe vera gel I have started taking (see my page on this amazing superfood), maybe it is the NSA treatment I am having from the marvellous Fiona Marsden, maybe a combination of all of these, but I definitely feel that the sun has a lot to do with it. I noticed when I lived in New York (where it is much sunnier than here) that everyone seemed so much happier and alive.  And make sure you all let the sun get to your bare skin, no covering up with suntan lotion, have you ever looked at the ingredients on the bottles?  Everything we put on our skin is absorbed into our blood as if we had eaten it, would you eat all those toxic chemicals…?

Visited the wonderful Vita Organic last night and the raw food menu is back on!! You have to ask for it though, so make sure you do, you’ll be glad!

Our raw chocolate pot luck at the weekend was fantastic, very busy, lots of lovely raw people all getting cacao’d up.. all the chocolate that people made was amazing, and the salads too – so thank you to everyone who came.  Will post the pictures soon.

Apart from that I have been busy preparing for my workshop in March which is now full – am really looking forward to meeting all the lovely people who are coming to learn about raw foods.