The chapter on fruits & veg even has a good word to say for bananas! Bananas are always with us and often maligned because they are "tropical" or "fattening" or too green to eat when they arrive at our local grocery. (Bananas do ripen after they are picked. I leave mine in a bag until the skin develops the good yellow color with brown flecks.)
Cohen states unequivocally, regarding bananas: "A raw food enthusiast's best friend. Available year-round at reasonable prices, a couple of bananas stave off hunger when there's nothing else at hand."
If you've ever tried eating just raw food, you will appreciate that great good sense. Some days, especially the ones on which you're dying for a cheeseburger or french fries, and you're far away from your own kitchen and its supplies, you can almost always find a banana somewhere close by: at food carts or local bodegas & 7elevens. Better than a candy bar!
Moving down into the recipes, I fell in love with the recipe for a smoothie called "Popeye," and I haven't even tried it. Cohen says, "You won't believe how delicious these two ingredients are together." I believe!
3 cups packed spinach leavesI'm seeing all kinds of ways to get in my 5-7 fruits and vegetables each day, and with this new book to inspire me, a lot of them will be raw.
3 bananas
1 cup ice
The book's beautiful design and clear, impeccable printing also make me very happy. Think of the hours of human labor the purchase price supported.
I can't say that bananas and spinach make an appealing combination in my mind's eye; but, I do enjoy either one by itself. It sounds like an interesting book.
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Cop Car: Ya never know. I don't have any spinach, but I'll get some at the farmers mkt tmw. This a.m. I had a smoothie w fresh oj, a banana, a handful of blueberries, a handful of red seedless grapes, and about 2 cups of kale. It was delicious! once i got over the IDEA (bpfsplkk!!-- same as yours), the taste has been up to what i want to consume. my blender is the best teeth i've had in some time. *:0)
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long coloured photos will last? I expect the chemicals to destroy the paper within a few decades :-(
ReplyDeleteLast year I got to see a book a thousand years old on the cathedral crypt and - having had Latin in school - could even read it. I wonder what English (or its american subset) will look like in a 1000 years?
Oh, Stu....My 45-50-yr old colored photos have acquired a lovely patina, but they probably looked antique when I first took them. If you want to see gorgeous color photos, pls visit http://www.emiliejohnson.blogspot.com. I am totally enthralled by her photos (or the subjects thereof). Will you and I be around in 40 years to judge what's happened to the COLORS in our favorite photos? I dunno. And I don't care. Today is good enough for me. SO NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN! Are you well? Tell me all. xo, M.E.
ReplyDeleteRecovering from cancer OP; so I may make it into my seventies (3 years to go) :-)
ReplyDeleteThe photos will last longer than I. The cookie crumbles.
Still blogging at www.savory.de/blog.htm though.
Stu
hang in there, stu!! an active guy like you doesn't really want to miss all the freakin FUN in the 70s!! LOL. (hmmm...fun...what ees thees fun??)
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