No one's posted in a year! I must fix it!
I eat raw vegan foods a lot. I find that they are more colorful and appetizing, and I feel much better after eating them. However, I have always been a bit leery about going completely vegan, mostly because strict vegans have a reputation of being 1) Preachy, 2) Condescending, and 3) Judgemental, emphasis on the mental. Of course, I live in Southern California, where vegans run rampant in the streets.
I'm also not willing to completely give up a lot of the cultural dishes I love that remind me of home, animal products and all. I've grown up eating raw eggs at least a few times a week. My mom's Japanese, and raw egg over rice was a cheap, affordable and delicious dish that I've been eating since I was maybe 3, and I never got salmonella. PROOF THAT YOUR CHILDREN WILL NOT JUST DROP DEAD IF YOU GIVE THEM RAW EGGS. Japanese eggs are beautiful - they're so deep orange and rich! We made that raw dish using conventional rather than organic free range eggs after moving back to America when I was 7 - still never got sick.
After being diagnosed with diabetes at 17, I had to give up my favorite dish because I couldn't have the rice, and I had no other ways to eat the raw eggs I loved. (The Japanese have one other dish I know of where you dip thinly sliced meat in raw egg and boil it for about 5 seconds, but most people reading this probably don't do the meat thing).It's funny - I found my way back to the raw food diet because after years of struggling with high blood sugar, a week of raw carrots and beets seemed to bring it down to pre-diabetic levels without medication. Since that worked so fantastically, I'm exploring other raw food options, and I'm so happy to come across these egg recipes that I never knew about! I tried raw eggnog last night, and it was one of the best things I've ever had. Matterfact, I'm going to make more right now.