>No food that's worth eating needs to be cooked, including plantains. There's surely some good logic to that opinion (except that ripe plantains...dark black on outside skins and soft to touch...are tasty), but, when you went on to say: >I do have a personal problem with pumpkins --- don't like them raw, so >I just don't eat them period. I suspect you haven't had raw pumkin pie! We make it down here for the holiday season, and our cooking addicted friends just love it, too. Kim and Jamey have a great recipe book with some wonderful gourmet delights, including the pumpkin pie. The food combining rules are often out the window on these delectables, but for special rare occasions of celebration with the cooking crowd, especially, they come in mighty handy...and have been known to actually tempt the cookers to re-examine their unhealthy eating habits. Kim and Jamey can be reached at: [log in to unmask] Raw is Law! :)Ric