IN THIS ISSUE

1. Current News and Insights (Junk Food Giggles, Random Joke, Did you know?, Name that fruit, Book of the Month, Fruit of the Month, Free Raw Food Journal!)

2. 4ruits of July Sale! Free Shipping on all Your Favorite Raw Food Products! Cacao nibs, Goji berries, Nut Butters, Raw Olives, Maca and More!

3. Interview with Cynthia Beavers

4. Gourmet and Simple Recipes (Easy Crunchy Veggie Salad, Sweet & Sour Salad, Pickled Ginger, Mustard Green Wasabi, Chocolate Chips, Banana Whip, Key-Lime-Mousse Tart)

5. Informative Articles (Raw food craze, Stuck on Cactus, Fomenting for revolution from the comfort of trees, The latest diet fad- but is raw meat healthy?)

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1. Current News and Insights

- Junk Food Giggles



-Random Joke of the Month
When the waitress in a New York City restaurant brought him the soup du jour, the Englishman was a bit dismayed.
"Good heavens," he said, "what is this?"
"Why, it's bean soup," she replied.
"I don't care what it has been," he sputtered. "What is it now?"

-Did you know?
Enamel is the hardest substance in the body. It covers and protects the teeth.

-Name this fruit and receive $15.00 to spend in our online store! One person will win! Send the answer to alex@rawguru.com.



-Last month's fruit was the passion fruit. The passion fruit of commerce is round to oval, yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a smooth skin and mushy interior filled with numerous seeds. The fruit is grown for its juice, which is usually added to other fruit juices to add aroma.

-Raw Food Book of the Month: The Complete Book of Raw Food

The Complete Book of Raw Food by Lori Baird, Julie Rodwell, and recipes from the world's top raw food chefs (pp 432) Raw food is the new classic vegetarian cuisine. With more than 350 mouth-watering recipes, this is a must for every vegetarian kitchen and anyone who wants to prepare delicious, healthful recipes in their own home. The Complete Book of Raw Food is a landmark collection of raw food recipes and preparation techniques from the world's top raw food chefs. Click here to order now!

-Fruit of the month: Chili Pepper
Few could have imagined the impact of Columbus' discovery of a spice so pungent that it rivaled the better known black pepper from the East Indies. Nonetheless, some 500 years later, on the quincentennial anniversary of the discovery of the New World, chili peppers (Capsicum) have come to dominate the world hot spice trade and are grown everywhere in the tropics as well as in many temperate regions of the globe.

Read more about the chili here!

-Start your Free raw food journal here !

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2. 4ruits of July Sale! - Only at the RawGuru Store - FREE SHIPPING - No Minimum Order - Sale ends the 5th.

Here at rawguru.com, we specialize in Customer Satisfaction everyday. We spend our time providing YOU with the finest raw food equipment at the lowest prices. It's our job to offer our customers the best.

That's why on this Independence Day, we are finally, heavenly proud to bring you amazingly delicious organic raw food! Never settle for those useless, heated, preserved, and chemical treated stuff. Your body is good to you so be good to your body. This holiday don't dare to hesitate on our incredible savings on raw food products.

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Even If you only purchase 1 jar of almond butter, you will still get free shipping. What are you waiting for!?

Check out some of our newest products! (Over 100 new products)

For more new products visit our online store!

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3. New Interview

-Click here to read an interview with Cynthia Beavers!

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4. Gourmet & Simple Recipes

Easy Crunchy Veggie Salad
By Alex Malinsky

1/2 cups of the following: diced carrots, fresh peas, diced red onion, diced radishes, diced celery, diced ripe avocado, chopped tomato, diced cucumbers
1 cup mixed greens

How to:Toss everything together in a large bowl. Drizzle 1 tbs. of olive oil and the juice of one lemon on top. Season with sea salt. Enjoy!

Sweet & Sour Salad
By Alex Malinsky

1 small garlic clove, minced
Zest and juice of 1 lime
2 tbs. Lemon juice
2 tsp. soy sauce
1-2 tsp. honey or agave nectar
¼ cup sesame or olive oil
Sea salt to season
3 cups red and green cabbages (1/2 small head), thinly sliced
1 bok choy, thinly sliced
½ bunch cilantro (chopped)
1 carrot shredded

In a large bowl whisk together the garlic, lime juice, zest, lemon juice, soy, agave, and oil until well combined. Season with salt and set aside.

In another bowl toss together the cabbages, bok choy, shredded carrot, and cilantro. Pour dressing over the salad, toss, and let sit for a few hours in the fridge, serve at room temperature. Garnish with sesame seeds.

Pickled Ginger
By Alex Malinsky

2 cups lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 cup agave nectar or honey
1 small beet, peeled and halved
2 bay leaves
1 jalapeño pepper
2 cups ginger, sliced very thin

Blend the lemon juice or apple cider vinegar with the salt, and honey. Pour everything in a glass jar, add the bay leaves, small beat, and the sliced ginger. Close the jar with a lid and place in the refrigerator for one week to pickle.

Mustard Green Wasabi
By Alex Malinsky

2 handful's chopped mustard green leaves
1 cup chopped horseradish
2-4 tbs. Water or more if needed

In a food processor process everything till smooth. If not green enough, add more mustard leaves. Set aside until ready to serve. (Be careful transferring wasabi as the fumes are potent)

Chocolate Chips
By Alex Malinsky

1 cup tahini or cashew butter
1 cup agave nectar or ½ cup and 1 tbs. raisins
½ cup mesquite pod meal or carob
½ cup raw cacao nibs (ground fine)
1 tsp. sun dried vanilla bean (seeds only)
1-2 pinches Celtic sea salt

Combine everything together till smooth. Let this mixture refrigerate for 1 hour. After refrigeration, spoon the mixture into a hefty zip lock bag and cut one of the bottom sides. You will use this as a pastry bag. Using the excalibur dehydrator, take out the dehydrator trays, line them with a teflex sheets and begin piping "chips". Now place the trays with the teflex in the dehydrator and dehydrate at 105°F for 20 hours or until dry. Keep these chips in a cool dry place.

Banana Whip
From Pure Raw Cafe

1 banana frozen
Meat of 1 young coconut
Water of 1 young coconut
1 T. agave, or date syrup (optional)

Blend until smooth and creamy. You may pour back into coconut shell like we do at the restaurant and serve with a straw or pour into a tall glass and enjoy. This is so GOOD! Add an edible flower for decoration.

Key-Lime-Mousse Tart
By Matthew Kenney, Pure Food & Wine

Serves 4

Ingredients
Tart Crust
1/2 pound raw macadamia nuts
1 cup shredded, unsweetened dry coconut
1 tablespoon grated lime zest
2 tablespoons lime juice
1/2 vanilla bean, seeds only
1 teaspoon salt
4 packets Stevia (an all-natural artificial sweetener, available at health-food stores)
2 tablespoons agave nectar (available at health-food stores)
Cold-pressed coconut butter (also known as coconut oil; available at Garden of Life), or macadamia-nut oil

Key-Lime Mousse
5 ripe avocados, peeled and pitted
1/2 cup lime juice
1/4 cup packed grated lime zest
1/4 cup agave nectar
2 tablespoons cold-pressed coconut butter
1/2 vanilla bean, scraped, seeds reserved
1/2 teaspoon salt
10 packets Stevia

UNcooking Instructions
Tart Crust
Put the nuts in the bowl of a food processor, and place in the freezer to chill.

Once nuts are chilled, add all ingredients except coconut butter to the bowl, and pulse until well combined but still chunky. Do not overprocess, or the nuts will become oily.

Lightly oil four 41/2-inch removable-bottom tart shells with coconut butter. Divide mixture into 4 parts, and press into tart shells, smoothing it with the bottom of a measuring cup. When shells are filled, wrap in plastic, and place in the freezer to chill until firm.

Key-Lime Mousse
Place avocados, lime juice, lime zest, agave nectar, coconut butter, vanilla-bean seeds, and salt in the bowl of a food processor, and pulse until smooth. Add Stevia to taste, and process.

Carefully remove chilled tart crusts from the shells. Fill with mousse, cover, and chill in the refrigerator or freezer until the mousse is firm.

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5. Articles of the Month!

Raw food craze is set to sweep the world after debut in the US
By Steve Boomfield

London - Cavemen may have thought nothing of sinking their teeth into the raw flesh of a freshly slaughtered animal, but things have progressed somewhat since then. Boiled, baked, griddled and grilled, almost everything we eat has been cooked in some way before it reaches our lips.

But all that is set to change. The raw food revolution has swept the United States - and now it is spreading around the world.

Forget the low blood sugar GI diet and the fry-up friendly Atkins. The only rule for the raw food diet is that nothing is cooked - whether it be beef or beetroot, lamb or leeks.

A-list Hollywood actresses such as Uma Thurman, Demi Moore and Natalie Portman are devotees.

A plethora of "cookbooks" is also being launched to promote the advantages of a raw food lifestyle, and several nutritionists and food experts have launched courses in how to make the switch to raw.

Click here to finish reading this article.

Stuck on cactus : 'Nopales' could be the next health-food craze
By CANDICE DYER

Reesa Crisson tentatively touched a thorn and then yanked her hand back.

"I wouldn't know how to cook this," she said, referring to the paddle-shaped arm of a prickly pear cactus, or nopal, one of Mexico's signature vegetables known in Spanish as "nopales."

"I've had the kind that's canned in brine, but I think I'd like it better fresh if I knew how to get rid of these little stickers."

Crisson, 31, from Dahlonega, and her friend Amanda Daniel, who speaks fluent Spanish, were browsing in the produce department of J&J Foods in Gainesville. They looked to another shopper for advice.

"First, you have to scrape the spines with a knife like this," explained Belen Reyes, making rapid downward motions.

Speaking in Spanish translated by Daniel, Reyes, who is from Mexico, rattled off the ways she enjoys preparing nopales (called "nopalitos" in their sliced form): sauteed and mixed with scrambled eggs; garnished with pico de gallo; deep-fried; basted with oil and grilled alone or stuffed like a pita with cheese; served as a side salad with steak at family cookouts.

Click here to finish reading this article.

Fomenting for revolution from the comfort of trees
by Judi McLeod,

Toronto--

If Robin Hood were alive in this day, he’d likely be a tree sitter/hugger.

Thoughts soon turn to fomenting revolution when you’re holing it out in, or hugging a leafy tree.

Bucking the system seems a passion for eco-terrorist Tre Arrow, who turned up with friends for an extradition hearing in Vancouver court this week. While an august judge tried to train her ears on the arguments of lawyers, funky fleece-wrapped backpackers worked on their yoga relaxation exercises. "Ohmmm" was the drone in a courtroom, where not even court reporters need the temptation to nod off.

Click here to finish reading this article.

The latest diet fad- but is raw meat healthy?
STEPHEN MCGINTY

EVER since neolithic man sparked a flame, cooked meat has been on the menu. Yet the latest celebrity diet to arrive in the country has turned back time, advocating raw meat as the secret to health and weight loss.

The "raw food revolution" believes ingredients such as beef, venison and fish should not be baked or boiled.

Celebrity advocates of the new diet are said to include Hollywood actresses Uma Thurman, Demi Moore and Natalie Portman. In the United States, a new style of raw food restaurants - dubbed "eateries without ovens" - are cropping up, and while many of them focus on vegetarian meals, meat dishes such as carpaccio of beef are also found on the menu.

Click here to finish reading this article.

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Alex

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