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| - It's good to have vegetarian/vegan/raw options in this neck of the woods; they're not that common.
Raw food can be pricey; some of the key ingredients are expensive and if the kitchen is making items like "raw cheese", it's labor intensive.
The food was good to great. i had the raw tacos and got my daughter the kids scrambled eggs, which seems like a good value for the nice sized portion of eggs, about a half an apple, two pieces of wheat toast and an ice cream cup.
Here's the part that was off-putting:
Standing at the bountiful raw/vegan/gf pastry bar, waiting a bit for the ice cream to-go, I wondered aloud to the manager/owner/hostess (not sure) about how the raw chocolate-looking items were processed. She explained a bit how it was from "raw cacao powder" mixed with etc, and asked at some point in the exchange if I was familiar with raw food diet. Not quite sure how that was relevant to my question, but it set a bit of an us/them polarity to the conversation. And yes, I've done 2 longish stints of raw vegan diet.
I pressed on the processing of "raw cacao nibs", as I've visited a couple of chocolate farms and the processing I learned of included roasting the beans; they're inedible otherwise. She replied that they weren't roasted, and they're certified raw, and "oh, you haven't heard of raw cacao powder?". Again, fairly irrelevant to my question, and yes, I know it's a common ingredient in raw desserts. Maybe it seemed like I was questioning the integrity of the restaurant, which caused her to be so defensive, but I was asking in the spirit of learning a bit more from a (hopefully) educated raw food professional. I shutdown when she mentioned the beans weren't roasted, bc I know enough about the process to know that they HAVE to be. It was good to dig a little bit more into the subject online today, to find out that the questions I asked are actually active debates within the community, ie:
http://nourishmylife.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/raw-cacao-vs-cocoa/
Raw food eating, i think, necessarily causes its participants to be more mindful, and therefore, more educated about their eating and food sources and the processes involved and sourcing. I would love to see Pomegranate, and its staff, as true educators of this type of eating in the very suburban suburbs that the restaurant is located in. Unfortunately, this wasn't my experience today.
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