aloha!
	i have eaten wild rice at "_raw_ living foods restaurant" in san francisco.
you'll find it on the menu listed as *manitok*, with the ingredients including avocado,
fresh chives (mine had purple flowers on the end!), lemon juice, and, of course:
sprouted wild rice.  the menu claimed 30 days of rinsing at sundown and sunup.  sunset
& sunrise.  i love the sun!  but i'll leave that for another post.

	speaking of posting, i declare this my first to veg-raw.  i'll present a
personal introduction soon, yet school starts tomorrow and i have much to attend to.
i joined this list just before traveling to vancouver, bc, and the surrounding forests
for the whole summer.  i've enjoyed reading through the 300+ email items awaiting me,
most of them from veg-raw.

	more on wild rice, a?  juliano (sp?), owner of _raw_, told me that he can speed
up the sprouting time by leaving the germinating seeds in sunlight.  warmth increases
the speed of life, as i understand it.  up to a point... 108?  116?  118?  98.6?  how
high do you go?  (all numbers in fahrenheit, with apologies to everyone not living
under american silliness.)  canada sells food by both english/standard & metric!  how
goes it in the united kingdom?  elsewhere?

	i haven't made it up to see how well _raw_ has done over the summer, what with
all these raw web pages get lost in.  i remember when the only site i could find on the
living foods lifestyle consisted of a short piece of writing followed by a 900 number
to call for more information.  something like $2.99/minute!  i didn't call.

	i just came from the weekly santa cruz farmer's market.  the loot:

		+  2 baskets of red hot peppers, plus a dozen serranos....... 3.00
		+  3 heads of garlic.........................................  .75
		+  5 crenshaw melons ........................................ 5.25

		all certifiied organic.  i don't plan on notifying veg-raw of my every
purchase, but i thought this complete inventory of my most recent food investment would
spark some lively discussion.  some that came to my mind:

	red hot chili peppers?
	can capsicums create conspicuous cravings?
	garlic as immune stimulant or rajasic meditation disruptor (or both)?
	does garlic truly ignite sexual passions when cooked, while inflaming anger
     	when eaten raw?
	does eating melons exclusively for a week or more treat you as well as it did
		mr. paul bragg? (r.i.p.)
	melons sprinkled with lime juice?

	more rice rap.  i tried sprouting it once, but my life didn't follow the right
rinsing rhythm.  result?  sticky smelly stuff.  i'll surely share my success when i
feel like venturing forth into that kind of commitment.  i admit that reading of wild
rice's status as a *seed* encourages me more than when i thought it a mere grain.

	a final query:  anyone know anything about the raw food experiments in truth
conducted by mohandas karamchand "mahatma" gandhi?  all i know comes from a blue
paperback he authored entitled _the health guide_, published by the crossing press
(with a statement about the original run in india).  i'll break some copyrights in a
future post, but for now let me leave you this gem from page 106:

		"my own experience, as well as my study of the subject, has confirmed
me in the conviction that a fruit diet is the best for us."

blessings,
bodhi