Circle A Kitchen

2009-07-13T12:13:00.000-07:00

Donate!

2009-07-12T16:36:00.000-07:00

We at Circle A Kitchen would love any form of support we can get. If you have money you can donate but not time, that is okay! We will use any funds we get for the growing of a Real Food movement that will feed those in need. If you want your money allocated to a particular aspect of the Circle A Kitchen shoot us an email at Circleakitchen@yahoo.com. Anything to enrich our community helps! If you are interested in hosting a Circle A Kitchen event

The Goal of the Circle A Kitchen

2009-07-12T16:03:00.000-07:00

We provide our services with the intent to realize a dream. This dream is to have donation based raw food retreats and healing centers all over the world (starting with our own backyards!) This model is based upon the sustainable example set by Vipassana mediation retreats. By providing the retreat for free we enable people from all backgrounds to come and be emerged in the healing community that they need to overcome their ailments. After people have completed their time at the retreat they are free to give us a donation based upon what they feel they have earned from the experience. Donations are not required, however. Instead of offering money some people come back to the retreats year, after year, to volunteer their time. To make our dream a reality we are providing our public health services so that we can find a land base for the retreat as well as plant fruit trees, vegetable crops and purchase the food we will need for the time that our trees will be growing. Thank you for your collective support!

Raw Vegan Food Not Bombs - Tuesday June 7th + RawFNB Volunteer Meeting

2009-07-06T16:26:00.000-07:00

Hope to see you there!

Scholarship to attend Raw and Living Spirit Retreat - Mollala, OR and Benefit Raw Dinner to Create Scholarship - Portland, OR

2009-07-03T17:59:00.000-07:00

The Circle A Kitchen, a raw vegan collective in Portland, OR. will be hosting a benefit dinner in Portland, OR, on Friday July 31st, from 7-9pm outside at Mirador Community Store, to create a scholarship to send one lucky individual to the Raw and Living Spirit Retreat in Mollala, OR from August 27th - 31st. Tickets for the dinner are $10- $20 sliding scale donation.
The winner of the scholarship will be based upon three main requirements, which are a financial need, a healing need, and a willingness to commit to an 80% + raw vegan diet for 30 days after the retreat, with Circle A Kitchen serving as a support network for this 30 day period.
The menu for the dinner will be posted on the Circle A Kitchen Website this Sunday. Applications for the scholarship will also be being sent my email on Sunday and after. All applications for the scholarship must be in by August 1st. The winner will be announced August 5th. Reservations for the benefit dinner must be made by July 27th.
For more information or to secure an application for the scholarship and/or reservation for the dinner please email Circleakitchen@yahoo.com.

For information regarding Circle A Kitchen, The Raw and Living Spirit Retreat and Mirador Community Store please visit their websites.

www.Circleakitchen.blogspot.com
http://www.rawandlivingspirit.org/
http://www.miradorcommunitystore.com/

Menu For Benefit Dinner - Mirador Community Store - July 31st - 7-9pm

2009-06-05T16:23:00.000-07:00

Sweet Heirloom Tomato Bisque
with White Nectarine Chutney

Summer Vegetables in Banana Leaf with Carrot Lemongrass Sauce, Coconut Squash Rice and Thai Basil Slaw

Pacific Northwest Blackberry Cobbler
with Orange Blossom Creme

Raw Vegan Food Not Bombs

2009-01-24T11:46:00.000-08:00

Last spring and summer we had an awesome time hosting Raw Vegan Food Not Bombs. To get it back up and running for this spring we need more people to get involved. Being a part of food not bombs is on a volunteer basis. You need to be available at least one day a month for food preparation, food serving, or food foraging. We are also always looking for people who have produce or other resources to donate to food not bombs. For more details contact us at Circleakitchen@yahoo.com

2010 Vegan Calender - Call Out for Artist Submissions!

2009-01-23T23:40:00.000-08:00

We need artists to submit artwork for a 2010 vegan calender. The calender will include recipes, inspirational information, activist resources, stickers for counting how many days you've been vegan/raw vegan and art from YOU! Think raw vegan slingshot. Please submit your artwork in jpeg format to Circleakitchen@yahoo.com. Deadline for submissions is July 1st 2009. Themes can be anything from fruit and veggies, indigenous farming struggles, to animal and earth rights. Any media accepted, photo, digital art, painting etc. If you are selected to be a featured month you will receive an official copy of the calender for self printing and distribution. All funds that you spend/ make are yours. We follow an anti copyright policy, enabling our members and contributors free access to the products they have helped create.

Become a Circle A Kitchen Working Collective Member

2009-01-22T12:01:00.000-08:00

Are you an raw vegan chef, raw lifestyle coach, or other health conscious person with a mission located in the Portland, OR area? Would you like to have the freedom of being self employed with the stability of working with others in a non hierarchical group? If so please send an email to Circleakitchen@yahoo.com. Currently we are only set up to network chefs to clients for personal chef services and lifestyle coaching. We ask that chefs and coaches base their fees on the income/ need of their clients. You must also be available to attend a collective meeting in the future to discuss the future of the Circle A Kitchen. Please include as much information as you can about the type of services you offer, what kind of raw lifestyle you promote (80/10/10, Rainbow Live, Raw Gourmet etc.) We are also looking for members that have other forms of food activism to bring to the table. Ideas could be permaculture workshops, foraging workshops, alternatives to food industrialization etc. We look forward to growing our community with you!

Our Raw Lifestyle Coaches, Health Practitioners, and Chefs

2009-01-21T13:15:00.000-08:00

We here at Circle A Kitchen want you to live an abundant life. We feel that living a simple healthy lifestyle is key to living life to its fullest. We are not about raw food "green capitalism", super food drug pushing, or complicated time consuming recipes. What we are about is public health education that is accessible to all people. Let our skilled coaches, chefs, and practitioners teach you how to take control of your own health and recreate the great results others have already obtained on a low fat raw vegan diet. We are experienced in overcoming many of modern lifes ailments such as depression, chronic fatigue, disordered eating, weight problems (either gaining or losing), lack of confidence and discipline, and stuggles with the emotional and social aspects of eating. We are always expanding our knowledge and pursuing education in the field of heath and fitness. Please only contact if you are truly serious about changing your life. Please check out the other websites linked to ours to find out more about the low fat raw vegan lifestyle. We highly recommend that you also read The 80/10/10 Diet by Dr. Douglas Graham. We believe that all people have the right to perfect health regardless of their monetary status. We work with your income and needs to provide you with the best program suited to you. We specialize in all areas of vegan and raw health, fitness, and offer emotional support to our clients. Maybe you are already raw and need extra help taking that next step to low fat raw? Maybe you are vegan and are ready to move on to living food? Maybe you are totally new to this lifestyle and need a friend to help get you on the right track? Where ever you are we wish to be the support that you need to change your life! All profits made by the Circle A Kitchen Collective go toward maintaining the collective, public education, local activist funds, and future tree planting and public gardening projects!

Become a Circle A Kitchen Collective Affiliate

2009-01-20T13:57:00.000-08:00

For people who want to be involved in the Circle A Kitchen Collective but do not live in the Portland, OR area we offer our affiliate program. For a small yearly or monthly fee we will advertise your website or service on our website on our affiliate list. We also are open to trade as a form of payment for affiliate service. Items for trade could be books or zines you have written, that we would resell. We are open to suggestion, since the point is to be cooperative, accessible, a community oriented. For information about becoming an affiliate member email Circleakitchen@yahoo.com

Meet Our Members

2009-01-20T13:40:00.000-08:00

Here is a up to date look at our members. They include raw vegan chefs, health practitioners, fitness and lifestyle coaches, and food activists. Want to see your name added to the list? Please see labels "How to Become a Working Collective Member" and "advertise with Circle A Kitchen" for details.

Lizz Bommarito is a raw vegan chef and life style coach. She is a founding member of the Circle A Kitchen Collective. She takes a holistic approach to raw foodism and coaching with the understanding that diet is not the only factor in achieving health goals. Lizz promotes a high thrive low fat raw vegan diet.Lizz has worked along side some amazing raw vegan talent both in Portland and in her home town of NYC. She started as a uncook in New York's premiere raw food restaurant Pure Food and Wine. She has then worked in many vegan kitchens, always promoting a raw healthy lifestyle and food activism. Lizz has prepared meals for the presentations of David Wolfe, Paul Nison and other raw "gurus." She is also a presenter at the Raw Spirit Retreat in Mollala,Oregon. Aside from a high fruit low fat raw lifestyle, Lizz's other passions include animal,earth,and human liberation, tree planting, permaculture, documentary film watching and making, yoga, all forms of physical exercise, sunshine, and making peoples lives better!

Why Low Fat Raw? By Lizz Bommarito

2009-01-20T00:26:00.000-08:00

The low fat raw vegan diet is the diet that human beings are biologically suited for. Understanding this truth is the key to success on a raw vegan diet. Dr. Doug Graham has already done an amazing job at breaking down the scientific reasoning behind this lifestyle in his book, The 80/10/10 diet. For those not in the know a low fat raw vegan diet is comprised of
lots of sweet fruits to meet most of caloric and carbohydrate needs
non sweet fruits for vitamins, minerals, vital water
all the greens one desires (make sure you are getting enough!)
small quantities of raw plant fat from nuts, seeds, or high fat fruit (avocado, coconut, durian etc.)
In addition to the food elements of this diet, it is really a lifestyle more than a diet. Exercise, Rest, Sunshine, Clean Water, a positive mental attitude and healthy relationships are all essential elements to thriving in life. But the low fat raw vegan diet does more than just nourish our bodies it also nourishes our planet. The growing of fruit trees is a win win win win win situation. Fruit trees provide bounties of food, sometimes multiple times a years. They are the solution to food issues related to population. Vegetarians are often quoted as saying that Meat based diets required 7 times more land to produce food. Low Fat Raw Vegan raises the bar on land use for food production by feeding 5 times as many people as land being used to raise grain for cooked food vegans and vegetarians. Humans need a high carb diet to meet our physiological needs, and if we meet this requirement with grains we do our bodies and the planet a disservice. Fruit trees provide sanctuary and refugia for animals and humans alike as well as improve our air quality and soil. When I first embarked on this plan I felt bad about all the bananas I was consuming. Banana plantation farming is a terrible practice that I do not support. Then I heard something that perked my spirits right up. I heard once that domestic rice farming (in the US) is so much more ecologically destructive than importing rice from Asia. I figure that if that is true than the imprint of the fossil fuels of bananas can't be that bad. Anyhoo, bananas are cheap, accessible, available year round and dense in calories and of course delicious! In a perfect world we would all be able to eat ripe raw fresh free fruit all year round without having to exploit anyone ore anything for it. This is why the Circle A Kitchen collective exists, to be a helper in that goal. We are creating alternative to food industrialization, and fruit is one of our best weapons! If you want to lessen your impact when eating fruit that is not local (as most of us in PDX do at least a few months a year) makes friends with local farmers when you travel to warmer climates. Many of them will ship you flat rate boxes of fruit at costs comparable to stores, plus they will be fresher and you will have saved quite a bit of gas. Lets keep working toward a thriving, vibrant raw world!

Donate to Circle A Kitchen

2009-01-19T11:43:00.000-08:00

We are accepting donations for future projects. If you have a specific area that you would like your funds to go toward please email us at Circleakitchen@yahoo.com We also accept other forms of donations such as kitchen supplies and food from local gardens,farms, and stores and help with our website (we are chefs not web designers!)

There is more than one way to hold a carrot

2008-07-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

So what are some of the beliefs of the Circle A Kitchen Collective? We strive to diversify the raw food movement, as well as maybe recruit a few anarchists (and other like minded folks) toward raw foods. We will have recipes as well as important news info from around the world.

So why raw foods and anarchy, your might ask?

Over the last few years raw food has gained a sort of celebrity status. While we think it is awesome that more people are committed to making more responsible food choices, this has left some of us raw foodies longing for the old days of being social misfits. So before there is a raw food mini mall let us reclaim our movement, and bring it back to the people who need it most. Raw Veganism should be about community building, learning and teaching alternatives to industrialization and direct action. Raw Food should not be about expensive imported food, "fair trade", green capitalism, and false gurus.
It is just a dietary choice! I know some of the raw foodists out there want to kill us for saying that. We do not mean to discount the countless people who have changed their lives with raw foods. Raw food has the amazing ability to make us see the world with brand new eyes, but so do other things. For us, a big source of inspiration has been the history of anarchism, the animal and environmental rights movements, and current anti capitalist struggles around the world. Our chef meets so many raw foodists from around the world, and it is always amazing to find out how few of them are familiar with the fundamentals of anarchism. Yet, we believe that the desire that moves people toward raw food, has its roots in the desire for freedom. Yes, raw food can be one way to freedom from physical oppression and freedom of disease, but it is not the all encompassing freedom. The all encompassing freedom is found through equality of all things, and oppression of no person, no animal and no bit of nature. We say no "fair trade" and yes to "no trade." Let us feed ourselves and our communities with the best, most nutritious food. Let us feed our minds with truth, not truisms.