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On with the family experiment on raw food.  I told my wife I tasted raw beef this afternoon, that it tasted really good.  She didn’t want it.  Oh I pulled her over to demonstrate how it is done.  I told her Carol Alt the supermodel eats seared beef.  Though my wife does not know what searing is, my wife does not cook at all, let’s be clear about this point.

Anyway I showed her the big slab of beef steak I had.  Nice, tender and fresh.  I showed her the small cut I was making.  And I pulled her to where I was going to sear it.  She told me to marinate it.  No no no, I told her, that was not part of being raw.  Being raw is savoring the true flavor of the meat as it is naturally.  This was batangas beef fed with grass on the pasture under sunshine, open air.  So she sees me sear the meat 3 seconds on all sides so it looks socially cooked on the outside.

The seared beef smelled good.  I put it under my wife’s nose, and under my children’s noses.  They liked what they smelled.  Out comes my sharp steak knife and I make fine sashimi style slices for each child.  They loved it!  And this was while they were having the kinilaw na tangigue for dinner too.  They couldn’t make up their mind.  Which one tasted better?  I told them both the kinilaw and the raw steak tasted great but both had different flavors.

My 2nd boy got greedy and stood beside me and consumed the rest of the raw bloody beef.  Plainly eaten.  No condiments whatsoever.  Along with the trim yellow fat.

This experiment was great.  I got my wife’s approval for seared beef.  It seems socially cooked so it was visually acceptable.  And that is what matters to her.  Inside, it is all bloody raw.  My cut was around 1.5 inches thick.

This was a first.  A few more experiments with me consuming the raw beef and I will find out how beneficial raw beef is to my diet.  If it is then we can add it as a staple to the children’s diet.  What is important is I sear it myself, not the cook.  If I let someone else sear it, they will instead want to really cook it and that destroys it.  I want to sear it enough just so the aroma comes out and it is socially acceptable visually.  But inside it is all raw fresh goodness.

My wife and I were discussing last night how she thinks our children are small. Smaller than her old brother’s children. Hey, her brother and his wife are a lot taller than we are in the first place.

No matter. A few years of eating the regular Filipino diet of rice, vegetables and fish even if they are mostly organic hasn’t made our children bigger. Now that I’m into raw food, maybe we can make the children grow bigger with raw meat.

So this afternoon I set off with our cook to the Farmers Market to buy fresh goat for kinilaw, to be raw cooked in organic coconut vinegar. Too late. Other people have already bought the good goat parts for kinilaw. We went around the market and found fresh tangigue aka sea bass. I bought 1/2 kilo at around P 280 per kilo.

Our cook took care of it. I really don’t know what recipe she did but it was fantastic. Absolutely sensational. The whole family loved it. Nothing was left. So the kids endured the hot cayenne peppers, the vinegar, the onions… they said it was hot but they still ate a lot.

Kinilaw means to “cook” in vinegar. It’s not really cooking since there is no heat involved. But soaking fish or some other seafood in a strong vinegar solution turns the meat opaque and gives it a texture of having been cooked.

I really don’t know how raw this counts in the scale of raw foodists. Maybe it is beneficial? It does add more color to our raw menu.

What does this dish look like?

Something like this from http://www.kinilaw.com/

A recipe may look like this:

1 kilo skinned fresh sea bass

2 tbs finely minced garlic

1 cup white vinegar

6 tbs calamansi or lemon juice

5 diced tomatoes

1 cup finely minced onion

3 tbs finely minced ginger

1 red capsicum, diced

1 green capsicum, diced

1/4 cup spring onions, minced

salt and pepper to taste

Marinate fish in vinegar for an hour. Drain and mix with lemon juice and all other ingredients. Let it sit in the refrigerator for an hour before serving.

from http://www.camperspoint.com/article.php3?id_article=110

More information on kinilaw from http://www.coconutstudio.com/kinilaw_art.htm

Exciting development today. I finally got the notion of really doing it. Eating raw beef. In the Philippines we have two main sources. Batangas and Mindoro. Our beef are all grass fed. Organic. Free range. Flavorful. The fat is yellowish. The imported grain fed beef have white fat and taste dull. The cows are slaughtered around 11pm and arrive in the big Farmers Market in the morning. So says the big macho man seller. I bet he eats a lot of beef.

Last night I was reading the success stories of Aajonus Vonderplanitz’ adherents. Many commented that grass fed beef tasted really good. The super model Carol Alt eats raw beef. Carol is more socially polite, she eats SEARED beef. So I search the internet for what searing does. To heck with that, I just asked my cook to make a demonstration. And it appears each side of the beef cut you made is put on a very hot pan and “seared” for maybe 2 or 3 seconds per side, it just browns the surface so the meat looks polite on the outside. But inside it is bloody raw. This should be good for transitioning. It smelled great. It tasted great. No condiments. No seasoning. I tried two types of seasoning we had at home, so so taste, the beef had its own great flavor. Doesn’t need seasoning. I tried a 1″ thick cut. I ate a 2″ x 3″ small cut.

The price of prime batangas beef is easier than fish. It is only P 240 per kilo for that steak we bought, the raw salmon is P 440 per kilo and the raw tuna is P 320 per kilo . How will my body react to raw beef? Only time will tell.

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I would like to describe my current January 2008 theory on the optimal diet for health and longevity. First we begin with RAW animals and fruit and some truly edible vegetables and nuts in the raw, not nightshades. In whatever ratio depends on you, what works best for you. Variety is important. Available and affordable are important.

If you have problems with affordability, I think it is a toss up between cooked meat and cooked grain and cooked vegetables. I would think cooked meat is the worst. I’ve tried cooked atkins. Grains next are the worst. Slightly cooked vegetables would be passable. Give me a steak tartar with no potatoes please. Don’t depend on condiments. Follow your taste buds.

Oh the fats. Give me the fats please. Fat raw fish. Cholesterol laden raw eggs. Fatty sea urchin. Fatty coconuts. Fatty olive oil. Fatty avocados. These fill me up real good.

Basically I’m on the Wai Diet philosophy. I don’t do munch foods. But the ratio of raw meats will slide up and down depending on your needs at the moment. I think exercising will expose your true needs. Listen to your body. Self experiment.

I have never heard of a rice cure, or a corn cure, or a wheat cure, or a soya cure nope, it doesn’t happen. There is no such thing as cooked meat cures either. There are no cooked vegetable cures. But there are raw meat cures and raw eggs cures used by Aajonus Vondirplanitz or part of the Wai Diet. There are fruit cures like juice cures, grape cures, coconut cures, orange cures used by many people. There are raw vegan cures but they are usually just termed raw vegan but are in fact raw fruits and raw vegetables.

Plain water is terrible for health.  Distilled water is passable.  Reverse osmosis water so so.  Humans are not drinking animals.  Our water needs to be structured coming from the foods we eat.  Being on raw fruit and raw meat will give you all the water you need.  Being on pure fruitarian will give you all the water you need.  I think this is a big key to health.  Water.  Drinking water is not good for your health.  It does not hydrate people properly.  Rather humans should be getting their eater from coconuts, oranges, grapes and all the fruits out there; even raw fish does not make me thirsty.

Jared Diamond of Guns Germs and Steel fame once wrote an old essay entititled: (Agriculture) The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.

He argues that for majority of human evolution we have been hunter gatherers and that human biology therefore is suited to a hunter gatherer diet. When humans turned to agriculture for reasons not fully or verifiably conclusive, humans experienced protein and vitamin deficiency, new diseases, shortened lifespans, markedly shortened physiques due to malnutrition, etc.

Agricultural based staple foods means cooked. Corn, Wheat, Rice, Vegetables…. all cooked and not much variety, they taste bad raw, they are indigestible raw.

So Jared Diamond is probably correct. Because simply by shifting people to a raw paleolithic diet of raw fruits and raw animals, humans routinely recover from their “incurable” illnesses. Ha ha ha, incurable from the “cooked” point of view. Incurable from the $$$ monopoly called medical quacks point of view. The raw community has been curing the incurables for many years now and with the power of the internet, the raw community is becoming more popular.

A year ago I thought that raw eating was downright unpalatable. But hobby healing took me in the correct direction. If the people I help are cured simply by eating raw food, why shouldn’t I do raw food on a regular basis myself? I’m glad I did and it is taking my health to new heights.

Ask my kids, “Who never gets sick?” They will tell you “Daddy!” Why? “Because Daddy is experimenting with raw food!”

We had a raw lunch today. Raw mongo sprouts and raw tuna meat.

So I fed my 3, 4 and 6 year old raw food this lunch. Delicious. Nutritious. And they even requested me to buy salmon sashimi for next time.

Okay so most foods are farmed today, some are still caught in the wild. Or some relatively still grow wild and are still very much organic. Tuna is wild. Salmon is usually farmed. Real fertilized eggs can be had by raising your own chickens or by paying a high price at your organic store. Mr Gil Carandang, the father of Philippine organics says he can identify as a farmer which fruits or vegetables are usually free of pesticides and chemicals, simply because they don’t need them. Coconuts, bananas, chico, dalanghita, kayomito, santol…. make your own list. Stay away from strawberries, organic proponents joke that bugs and worms are dead kilometers away from the stench of chemicals thrown at the strawberry fields.

Bottom line is I now stay away from rice, corn, wheat and whatever junk byproducts made from them. I also stay away from the common farmed fish fed with junk like hito, tilapia and bangus. Go to the non organic pig farm and chicken farm and smell the stench and see how unhealthy those animals are. My kids saw them. They don’t want to eat sick animals.

Read Jared Diamond’s full essay here.

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