RPR 01 – Interview with Alissa Cohen Author of Living on Live Food

Name:RPR 1-Interview with Alissa Cohen Author of “Living on Live Food”
Artist: Angela Hermes I  Nutritionist for RawPeople.com
Album: Raw People Radio I  Living the Raw Food Lifestyle

Show Description: Alissa Cohen has been a raw foodist for 22 years. She is the author of “Living on Live Foods.” She discusses her discovery of raw food and experiences with it. She also talks about her restaurant and raw food classes that she teaches.

Alissa Cohen www.alissacohen.com has been living the raw food lifestyle for 22 years.  After suffering from various physical ailments when she was about 19 years old, she tried changing to a raw food diet. She found that this change helped her to heal. She went on and off of the diet for years, but found that she would relapse and experience the same physical ailments whenever she returned to eating cooked food. Alissa believes that it is best for people to stick to a 100% raw diet, because eating cooked food slows down the detoxification process, which is what is required for healing to take place. She advises people to have fun with the raw food diet and to avoid limiting themselves as far as what types of raw food they allow themselves to eat.

In January 2007, Alissa opened Grezzo Restaurant in Boston, MA. http://www.grezzorestaurant.com/ where she offers 12 hour chef training courses zzhttp://www.grezzorestaurant.com/classes.html
where students experience a day in the life of a raw food chef, while learning how to prepare the recipes that Grezzo offers.

Alissa is the author of “Living on Live Food”http://www.rawpeople.com/BOOKS/Living-on-Live-Food/flypage.tpl.html Which offers an in depth introduction to the raw food lifestyle as well as a 4 week menu and shopping guide. She also writes an “Ask Alissa” column for Get Fresh! Magazine http://fresh-network.typepad.com/fresh_network_blog/get_fresh_magazine/

Alissa, along with Grezzo Chef Leah, is working on a new cookbook which will offer recipes for the delicious menu items served at Grezzo. The book should be out by the end of 2009.