all praise is due for this opportunity to engage with food on this frequency, to build health, to tap into the laboratory that is this body, to have the tools - $$ - to do so - and the access to medicine to experiment - grocery stores.
the last couple days, i've been going through 8oz bags of raw cashews. there is a sweetness to the soft nuts. after swallowing, they are buttery and thick in the body. the after-taste is fatty.
there's a great deal of work my digestive system is engaged in with cashews in a way it is with almonds and carrots. the factory sets off and smoke out the chimney. excess gas indicates work, indicates a lot of labor involved. cashews seem to be a lot of labor.
perhaps cashews are one of those foods that become more bio-available for the body when lightly cooked, that become alive under fire. is this possible? can fire bring about life?
according to a.t. hovanessian, (one of the champions of the raw diet whose 1970's book on raw eating seems to be a cult classic in the raw world), anything cooked is being placed on a funeral pyre.
i've been eating raw cashews as a way to get a more fatty source into my body, other than my goto avocadoes and walnuts.
cashews, the soft sweet buttery nuts, are the staple ingredient in many raw recipes and restaurants. most raw desserts contain them and according to wikipedia, they have a high sodium content, which makes them an ideal thickener, which makes sense, since everything from raw ice creams to raw pies seem to contain either cashews or coconut or both.
in kerala, during the ayurveda course, when we'd spend half a day commuting to the clinic we'd go to a couple times a week, we'd come across cashew trees on the road. here, our driver said, handing us what looked like odd shaped apples. the cashew grew on the bottom of the fruit, the driver explained. the fruit itself was sweet, i think..
cashews are under investigation for me...
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