#1

I was once taken to one in Baltimore that was very impressive. It had raw veggies.

Also, Andy’s in Rye is what livingthecrway person often visits

An issue is that when restaurants (or EA events, or the dining halls of elite private universities) often fry their vegetables and make them delicious. It’s unclear how bad fried vegetables are on net, and because I repress my diet in so many other ways, I unload my repression on fried vegetables and nuts, if readily available… (even if raw vegetables are also alternatives)

[that said, the dining halls of elite private universities are the easiest b/c they have so much healthy vegetables and spices]

John dela Parre swears by Kalustyan’s for spice racks (though this is a spicemart and not a restaurant)

[really, Jason Avent’s cooking is the best]

#2

Here in Hong Kong, dim sum is incredibly popular for family weekend get togethers. This is prepared mostly by steaming the food. Also, there are a lot of vegetables but they usually are cooked lightly in oil and dipped in soy sauce. Plus a lot of tea. We do have the highest longevity in the world.

I’d recommend some good dim sum restaurants, but I am not sure they’d be of use…

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#3

I don’t think there are restaurants in the States that serve a variety of steamed veggies, at least I don’t know any. For that reason, I don’t have favorite restaurants. Home made food is my favorite. It does take a lot of time to cook though.

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#4

I’ve always been happy with the food I get from Zoe’s. They provide nutritional data for all their food.

At more expensive places, I order a side salad with a lemon wedge, side of steamed broccoli, and baked potato. And yes, my companions make fun of me.

#5

I have traveled on business for over thirty years and eaten a lot of restaurant meals. Few were anything close to healthy. The best I have found is steakhouses. If I am really lucky the place has a salad bar. I can usually order grilled salmon instead of steak, get a plain baked sweet potato, and steamed broccoli. If there is no salad bar I might order two entrees since the portion size for grilled salmon is usually small. I avoid the salad dressings, and just drink tap water. This meal choice gets boring.

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#6

Years ago (decades actually because it was way before youtube) I read a book written by a woman that was a gardener and she had decided to stop cooking anything. I forget how long she spent eating only raw veggies from her garden. It was in years, not days like it would be for me.

Also she had tried to get somebody to come and till her garden and they kept putting her off so she planted without and when the weeds came she covered them up with mulch. She ended up no-till, for years as well. It really was a brilliant system, which most people would not be able to do.

Here’s the kicker, she was 83 years old. Wrote a book and survived without help. Came up with a very efficient way to live. I was inspired.

I don’t think that book is still around here or I’d plug it.

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#7

Indochina vegan in the mission

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#8

While not perfect, and I can’t speak to their oils used, Butcher’s Daughter in LA and NYC is a very veggie forward restaurant that I think most vegans or meat eaters would enjoy.

@DeStrider I’ve only been to one dim sum restaurant that was in SF and it was excellent!!!

If I’m in a place with no seemingly great places to eat, if I see the True Food chain, I’ll often eat there because I know I can get some veggies.

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#9

https://jn.nutrition.org/article/S0022-3166(22)10430-X/fulltext

Long-Term Consumption of a Raw Food Diet Is Associated with Favorable Serum LDL Cholesterol and Triglycerides but Also with Elevated Plasma Homocysteine and Low Serum HDL Cholesterol in Humans

Study design and subjects

The study had a cross-sectional design. Dieters living in Germany who followed a raw food diet were recruited by advertisements in magazines, at congresses, and lectures as well as via self-help groups within the Natural Hygiene and raw food movement. Subjects were eligible if they were between 25 and 64 y of age, consumed at least 70% of total food intake as raw food, and had adhered to the raw food diet for at least 24 mo at the time of blood sampling. Smokers and subjects suffering from gastrointestinal diseases were excluded. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Division of Human Medicine, University of Giessen, Germany. All participants gave written informed consent.

In conclusion, the present study indicates that a strict raw food diet may result in remarkably low serum total cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations. However, the elevated tHcy as well as the low HDL cholesterol concentrations in participants in this study could provide a mechanistic explanation of the higher mortality from coronary heart disease in vegans compared with ovo-lacto-vegetarians, which was reported in a recent meta-analysis of prospective studies (16). A high tHcy concentration accompanied by a low HDL level may result in endothelial dysfunction via impaired bioavailability of NO. In contrast, studies of moderate ovo-lacto-vegetarian diets suggest that well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life-cycle including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence and reduce risk for diseases (49). Changing the ratio of raw food intake toward an extreme regimen with a very low intake of vitamin B-12 may be harmful in the prevention of coronary heart disease rather than providing additional benefits as occurs with milder dietary regimens.

The source of the bold font statement is below.

https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(22)04100-4/pdf

Mortality from ischemic heart disease was 24% lower in vegetarians than in nonvegetarians (death rate ratio: 0.76; 95% CI: 0.62, 0.94; P < 0.01). The lower mortality from ischemic heart disease among vegetarians was greater at younger ages and was restricted to those who had followed their
current diet for > 5 y/

Further categorization of diets showed that, in comparison with regular meat eaters, mortality from
ischemic heart disease was 20% lower in occasional meat eaters, 34% lower in people who ate fish but not meat, 34% lower in lactoovovegetarians, and 26% lower in vegans.

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#10

Thx for sharing.

While I’m not on a raw food diet, I do believe there could be something there. I only base this on seeing how a raw food (granted, it was meat) saved my cats life (granted, it was not a human) who could not handle anything else as a kitten. I then realized food is medicine. The reason I was given as why raw can be healing for cats is heat not killing the enzymes.

At the time, I lived in Austin and would frequently buy from Whole Foods raw bar. That location is the Whole Foods mothership and had things other locations would never see. I didn’t notice any difference, but much of my diet was indeed cooked, so an unfair observation!

#11

B12 deficiency among vegans? Tempeh to the rescue.

The Vitamin B12 contents of soybeans are low or undetectable. However, a fermented soybean-based food called tempe contains a considerable amount of Vitamin B12 (0.7–8.0 μg/100 g) [40].

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#12

More like B12 supplementation to the rescue. 0.7 - 8 mcg is nothing and it’s likely not bioavailable.

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#13

What are your favorite *restaurants*? (perhaps vegan, large portion sizes, tasty, EVOO, low-heat/raw, high-spice, and finding a way to put taste into low-calorie veggies) - General Health and Longevity - CR Society Forum [or see archive.today link]

Indochine vegan Mission in SF
Grasshopper in Boston

Life alive dishes are rarely 100% healthy on their own, but they are usually good about doing double substitutions (substituting for both dairy and grain, or dairy and corn)

But you can never be fully certain the food is clean (as even sweetgreen has lots of plasticizers, and sweetgreen doesn’t even use end-user plastics [though they use plastic tubs to STORE veggies upstream]

#14

Oh my god, https://indochinevegan.com/ closed this year.

Damnit, there wasn’t ANYTHING remotely as good as it in SF.

(oh, UMass-Amherst has a renowned dining hall, but it’s Amherst…)