Raw In Scotland: Eating out at SAF in London and eating at home

My camera went walkabout so I missed taking photos of the lovely food I ate at SAF in London a couple of weeks ago. The camera turned up at the bottom of my daypack so I can take photos when I go for a meal in Glasgow this weekend prepared by Andrew Gerson who was chef at New York's raw restaurant 'Pure Food and Wine'.

How's that for name dropping ;-) !

And meanwhile, like the rest of us who eat plenty of raw food, I'm in the kitchen with sprout jars to rinse and veggies to chop.

SAF was wonderful. For lunch they had good choices, all vegan I think, with several raw options. My companion and I ordered different mains and then different desserts, with extra plates and cutlery. That doubled the decadent tasting experience and it was delicious, complex tastes and interesting textures. Because it's raw and hence can be rich without being heavy to digest, we felt great. I'm hoping for something similar this weekend from Andrew Gerson with a menu of six courses ahead of us!

I'm looking forward to the day when raw cafes and restaurants are everywhere and when many ordinary omnivore restaurants serve completely raw dishes so that we have plenty of places to eat out. I'm sure it will happen for two reasons. Firstly it will be market driven as so many more people are discovering the benefits of eating raw and living food. People will see the business potential for feeding us! Secondly there's the environmental reality of reducing our carbon footprints - and raw vegan food is a very good way to do that.

Back to the kitchen. At home I don't produce complex restaurant food because the day is not long enough, because careful food combining suits my system much better, because simple food is delicious too and because I do other things as well as prepare food and eat it!!

And long live eating out.