Raw & Vegan

I am jumping out of my skin with excitement!  After months of hard work and overcoming challenges, I am thrilled and proud to announce that the Issue 4 of Living Raw Magazine is now available from our new webstore!  Our theme is Vibrantly Raw Men, where we here from an amazing group of men who glow with vibrance thanks to the changes they’ve made in their lifestyle.

In March, Chris and I interviewed the inspiring Matt & Janabai Amsden, from Euphoria Loves Rawvolution in Santa Monica, California.  You may know Matt from his book, Rawvolution - which is our favourite raw uncook book, and has literally fallen to pieces from so much use!  We chatted with Matt & Janabai about a range of topics, one being the use of Honey.  We find their thoughts on this very carefully considered and an interesting approach to this grey area (for some).  You’ll need to grab the mag to read more, though!

This issue also features articles from Casey Lorraine Thomas - The Secrets of Wild Energy, Darren Hey - Nature’s Classroom (Natural Law / Hygiene), Katie Barber interviews Harley Johnstone from 30bananasaday.com, Jennifer Thompson and Avril Cooke recount their travels throughout Thailand and Puerto Rico’s Ann Wigmore Institute (respectively), Omid Jaffari - photographer of our delicious cover - offers more eye candy with his Botanic Cuisine, and Jess Loyer serves up some Manly Salads.  The Marketplace, now called “The Market” now offers more practical advice on choosing organics, and lists all the places we could find to buy raw food in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and China. Phew!

The inside back pages are now a convenient RAW EVENTS listing where we select raw events, such as the upcoming Matt Samuelson raw chef training at Samudra (- seriously, book in for this NOW), from around the region and feature a few.  This is completely free!  Details on how to get your events in will be posted soon.

Plus there’s lots more - in fact we had to increase the size of the magazine to fit it all in.

AND to celebrate our new website, we’re giving away a gift pack containing a CeramiQ Knife Set, Food Matters DVD and Bruce Horowitz’ Sunfood Kitchen uncook book!  All you need to do is tell us what you want to read in Living Raw Magazine and join our newsletter.

ENTER THE LIVING RAW “RAWTASTIC” GIVEAWAY HERE.

And if you subscribe, you not only get a bonus entry but you can win our subscribers-only CeramiQ Knife giveaway.

We really believe in connecting in a community as a whole, to share the spirit and showcase local talent from the Australiasian region.  So if you’re a raw food business, raw-friendly health practitioner, cafe, restaurant, offer education and classes, or something I haven’t thought of yet, please let me know about you so I can include you in our free guide.  You may like to advertise, too.

I’ll finish up with some sneak preview pages for you to check out!

~ Kate xx

After an absolutely INCREDIBLE few months, Living Raw Magazine issue 2 is finally out! This has been a labour of love for me and my absolute passion, and today picking up the magazines from printer I finally see the work of myself and the wonderful writers come together :-)

For anyone who doesn’t know, Living Raw is a magazine dedicated to Australian raw food lifestyle and culture. It started out as a mini magazine about shopping for raw, organic food and services in Perth but this issue expands nation wide! It’s now 40 pages, on beautiful heavy 100% recycled paper in a texture I absolutely love (I just love stationary so this is absolute bliss to me … next to mangoes of course!) and the photographs are just stunning. This is a magazine that you’ll want to keep.

I’m just so happy to get this out there - so please do pick up a copy!   http://www.livingraw.com.au/

There’s a few copies of Issue 1 left too: handmade with love, so very rare!

~Kate

Hello! Well I’ve been busily working away in the background for the last few weeks making something VERY special! And now it’s here!

LIVING RAW MAGAZINE

Australia’s FIRST magazine dedicated to raw and living foods!

Yes, it’s here!  Lovingly handmade by my husband Chris and I, its the product of many sleepless nights but oh so worth it!

Grab your copy here for just $6.95

Visit our new website http://www.livingraw.com.au

Living Raw grew out of my desire to share the information I had gathered on buying raw, vegan and organic produce in Perth and thoughout Australia. Raw foodists often use ’specialist’ ingredients such as Agave Nectar, raw carob and cacao, raw nuts and superfoods. When I first started exploring and living a raw foods lifestyle, such foods could only be purchased online or through specialist retailers. As more people begin bringing raw foods into their diets, these ingredients are becoming more commonplace - even Coles Supermarkets have started stocking Agave Nectar!

The purpose of Living Raw is to help people who already eat raw foods  find local places to source really raw produce, enable people interested in raw foods to tap into the active community and resources available to them, and to present the uptake of raw foods into any kind of diet as a positive step towards health and a greater connection to our local food sources.

Living Raw provides in-depth reviews of retailers visited by the authors, giving them a “Raw Star Rating” based on their range of raw, vegan and organic produce.  Feature articles cover topics such as Eco-Clothing, Green Lifestyle, Environment, Travel, Fitness, Health and Raw/Vegan Issues while regular features include a directory of organic groceries stores around Australia, the Virtually Raw column connecting you to the online raw community, and delicious raw food recipes using seasonal produce.

BUY YOUR COPY NOW!!!

I’m currently writing from Melbourne, and off to the Gold Coast in 20 minutes - eeeek!   We’re researching raw food culture, organic shopping, and other amazing happenings in these two cities and it’s been a fabulous trip so far!  Other exciting things are at hand too but I’ll tell you about them another day - I must be off to the airport!