With it being the dead of winter and all, I’ve been doing my best to stay warm during the cloudy rainy days.  This can be especially difficult if your diet consists of mostly raw foods, so its good to supplement with foods and spices that having a warming tendency for the body.  The three C’s [...]

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Our first launch of the Roshi’s Online Store was pretty sub-par, since we only had one item.  After lots of work, however, we’ve been able to get some good contacts and sources to relaunch our online store with lots of goodies.  You’ll now see in our side bar a list of items being sold in [...]

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Ask your average South Asian what their favorite frozen dessert is, and the answer invariably comes back as kulfi.  Kulfi is a dessert thats been made in India for hundreds of years, and comes in a variety of flavors from cardamom to pistachio to mango.  I have wonderful memories of my grandma bringing fresh batches [...]

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Sheetali pranayama is a breathing technique to reduce heat in the body.  It is often referred to as the “Cooling Breath”.  Using the cooling tendencies of the tongue, sheetali pranayama only allows cool, relaxed breaths to enter the body.  These breaths have the effect of lowering the temperature of the body, as well as cooling [...]

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Last week, Dhrumil (of We Like It Raw and Give It To Me Raw fame) asked me to do a post for his My Way series.  I was really excited to get to do one of these posts, and it just went up today.  Check it our here.
–Rishi

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Happy New Year everyone!
Ro and I would like to thank all of you for your love and support.  We’re both excited for the new year and look forward to bringing you all some great new recipes, videos, and info posts and also learning from all of you.
Wishing everyone well,
Rishi

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