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Copyright 2014 by Stacy Stowers

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Photographs on pages by Eli Dagostino

First Gallery Books trade paperback edition April 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stowers, Stacy.

Eat raw, not cooked / Stacy Stowers.

pagescm

1. Raw foods. 2. Cooking (Vegetables) 3. Raw food dietRecipes. I. Title.

TX742.S765 2014

613.2'65dc23 2013040351

ISBN 978-1-4767-5207-5

ISBN 978-1-4767-5211-2 (ebook)

This book is dedicated to all the families who feed my soul. This is for you!

Photograph by Eli Dagostino

I was disabled for 17 years. My suffering ended in ten days when I did two things: I stopped cooking my food and I eliminated processed foods.

Stacy Stowers

A s a society, we have become disconnected from our food, opting for the convenience of so many boxed, bagged, packaged, and bottled processed foods to accommodate our ever-demanding responsibilities and schedules. Nutrition is a complex field with conflicting theories about food continually up for debate. Yet despite all these theories in question, there are two things about nutrition that I believe absolutely to be true:

1. We must let go of processed foods.

2. Raw food heals.

Eat Raw, Not Cooked is a guide to introduce families to the pleasures of eating clean, rich, real food in its raw state. Since January 1, 2010, I have been traveling the country, living with a new family each week, with the goal of feeding and teaching people of all ages and backgrounds how to add more whole, raw, unprocessed foods to their diets and to do it in the simplest and most satisfying way possible. Through photographs, stories, and recipes, Eat Raw, Not Cooked follows my path across America from home to home, sharing the joy of these delicious healing foods with families of all kinds. Good nutrition has never been so easy or tasted this good!

These raw re-creations are not only flavorsome and satisfying, but also fast and easythe recipes are simple, made from ingredients available in local markets... or at least a mouse click away. Welcome to a whole new way of enjoying your old favorite comfort foods.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.

Buckminster Fuller

Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

I came to raw food reluctantly. I was comfortable with the convenience of my boxed, bottled, canned, bagged, frozen dinners. Fat Free, Sugar Free, and Low Calorie were the only labels I read on packages. I was the Microwave Bandit!

I looked good on the outside, but I was dying on the inside, literally. In the spring of 2007 at 39 years old, I found myself in bed, in pain,and on an array of medications, pain pills, sleeping pills, antidepressants, coffee, and alcohol. My personal life was an unmanaged wreck. My teeth eventually began to crack and fall out. It was then that I discovered raw foodalbeit reluctantly. My life was about to change drasticallymore dramatically than I could ever have imagined.

Before discovering raw foods, I had struggled with chronic pain and fatigue, ever since I was stricken at the age of 22 with valley fever, a fungal infection that attacks the bodys immune system. In 2013, the New York Times described valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) as a disease without a cure. After just ten days of eating my food raw and unprocessed, I started feeling better! My head was no longer foggy and the pain in my body: gone. I immediately went to work learning everything I could about raw food.

My heart burned to share my story throughout our country. If eating raw foods helped me so dramatically, perhaps it could help others. By January 1, 2010, I had sold everything I owned and took to the road on a one-year mission of sharing my story. My tour was so successful that families began emailing me from all parts of the country to please come teach them how to prepare raw food that tastes goodfood the whole family would enjoy.

Now, from my home base in New York City, I continue to travel, providing families with a one-week full-immersion course into the flavors of our earths most healing foods. Together, we re-create their favorite dishes. Yes, some family members are often reluctant, but once they taste the food, theres no denying the deliciousnessthe proof is in the chocolate mousse.