Two members have expressed their love for cashews and coffee with cream (2
among my favorites as well), questioning whether these foods could be
classified as "Paleo."
I haven't been following this list, and am curious why these two items would
arouse doubt.  Both are natural foods; cashews obviously.  In the case of
coffee, clearly grinding, processing and cooking are necessary.  Cream is
almost invariably over-processed and supplied with additives.  But raw, pure
cream is as natural a food as can be, and is available in good markets.
Perhaps you will inform me of the reasons why these and other foods would
not be included in a so-called Paleo diet.
The concerns I have with food, is that it be "real" food, and not processed
in such a way, that the original state of the food is compromised, and where
unnatural, artificial and unwholsome additives are used.  Mere processing,
per se, which retains the nutritional and flavor values of a food, and which
preserves the vitality we're seeking, lost in so much "modern" eating,
shouldn't concern us.
There are also the factors of weak soil, and over-cultivation, etc.
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> Date:    Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:49:50 -0600
> From:    Theola Walden Baker <[log in to unmask]>
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> >but yes, I consider cashews to be Paleo.
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> Most paleo authorities don't, but you probably know that.
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> >The picture just came from my personal preference for cashews!
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> I think probably most of us have a favorite food or two that we bend/break
> the generally accepted paleo "rules" for.  For me, it's coffee with cream.
> (And salt on food--but that's another issue since paleo h/g's probably
did,
> IMO, eat some salt but didn't have had regular access to it) .  I would be
> hard pressed, though, to advocate java w/moo as part of a paleo diet.
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> Theola
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