Recently I announced my new raw food culinary vision – Botanical Cuisine -which seeks to use only seasonal, organic, fresh produce, almost no nuts and seeds, and no dehydrating techniques in order to create simple and artful raw dishes. This new philosophy is based on the idea that raw food cuisine should ideally be created using only raw food, instead of making raw food “copies” of cooked food recipes such as quiche, pizza, ice cream etc. In other words, if we still mimic our past habits with what we used to consider comfort food, then we are not truly embracing…