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EATING CLEAN AND RAW
There are books with photos of colourful foods. They are wonderful to look at. To get further ideas from magazines, books and the internet is fine, but one does not need a book to eat clean. When going to a supermarket, just think, if you can get a certain food in the nature and immediately eat it: fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, nuts and so on.
What is not clean is definitely chemicals, which we are not always able to see – for example if hormones were injected into the animals during life, if chemicals were sprayed onto trees or what kind of fertilizers have been used to grow vegetables. Clean food also means, that the food is not having been processed and without preservatives.
In Austria hormonal injections to animals are not allowed and the control of meat is strict. Chemicals on fruit trees are allowed in a short period of the year. Fertilizers on vegetable plantations are strictly controlled.
Fruits and vegetables, which are sold, are controlled either. When the content of a chemical, which is damaging human health, is above a certain level, the fruit/vegetables are taken off from the shelves. If you have the opportunity to buy organic, it surely is better.
I love to start my day with fruit and later on I maybe have eggs. For lunch and dinner I have a large bowl with raw vegetables and meat or fish. I usually eat raw, though fish (which is imported on on ice or frozen) I steam cook.
When cooking, do not cook long and not with high temperature.
One of the best cooks in Europe, Eckart Witzigmann, said: "The moment it starts to smell in a kitchen that people say: Wow, it smells of great food here. - you can forget about the nutritional value of the food as it was cooked too long.
Eckart Witzigmann was called from the New York Times The Chef of the Kings and Gods and this for more than one good reason. 1994 he was awarded Chef of the Century by Gault Millau.
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