Traveling RAW

This past weekend was spent in the company of new friends. We found ourselves in a city far away, our stomachs empty and our energy spent. Time to eat, and we entered an Arabic restaurant. Eating RAW can be a challenge when traveling, since it's hard to predict the availability of raw meals, but with a little searching around it's all possible.

Here is what I was able to find and pick off of a menu that featured mostly cooked foods.


This is a Middle Eastern dish called tabbouleh, created with finely chopped parsely, tomatoes, onions and crushed wheat that has been soaked overnight, topped off with olive oil and lemon juice. The lemon was a nice compliment to the greens, and I personally would have added even more tomatoes and crushed wheat.

Tabbouleh is normally an accompaniment to a main dish, and not an entree by itself, so my friends of Arabic origin were confused at first. I asked one what she thought of my eating tabbouleh for dinner.


This was pretty much all she had to say.

Eating is very much a social activity for humans; sharing a good meal with even better friends is one of life's pleasures. When you have a less common lifestyle in terms of food, it has echoes in your social life, but these can be positive, harmonious echoes if you let them be. I was able to satiate my friends' curiousity about raw food that night, and still enjoy a tasty dinner in their company.

Peas out,

Jessica