I'm sure you're all dying to read more about my obsession with raw food. But there's just something fascinating about it.

For those of you who may be related to me or concerned for my sanity, I have no intention of going all raw. Winter is fast approaching and who wants to eat salad when it's snowing outside? (Although raw dogma allows for food to be heated up to 118 degrees, but I've never been good with dogma.)

I think part of the appeal lies in observing the evolution of this subculture. Kind of like watching the knitting thing explode a few years back. Here are all these people seeking transformation, mostly for reasons of health, some to improve their looks or live more lightly on the planet, but all driven to make some kind of change.

It reminds me of the New Age movement of the '80s and early '90s, when folks were experimenting with crystals, channeling and alternative religious and spiritual practices. Recently, I ran in to a professor I had at the time and we both bemoaned the dearth of New Age activity in the ether. We both sighed, “Nobody's weird anymore.“

I use the term “weird“ not in a pejorative sense, but to describe experimental and out-of-the-mainstream ways of living. Being fairly moderate in my own habits, I'm fascinated by people who are more extreme, who choose not the path of least resistence, but opt instead for the hard, untraveled road. So American, isn't it? Let's go west into the wilderness and eat raw food?

Anyway, I'm just looking around in this little world and finding it interesting. Wanna check out some raw food blogs?

(I've got my brother-in-law in a twist with my threats to serve them green smoothies every morning during their visit.)