"Anne Mitchell Young" <shedevil @ aloss.net> wrote in message
...
> As part of my foray into 'raw food' (or, in my case, less cooked, less
> processed food), I have made these a couple of times, and they are really
> truly delicious - and keep well in the fridge to have on hand to toss into
> a dish:
>
> This recipe comes from my favourite raw food cookbook, "Raw Food/Real
> World", and after trying it, you'll understand why it's my favourite!
>
<snip recipe>

As I was reading the recipe, I was thinking it would be a marinated mushroom
thing, but when I got to the part about the dehydrator, I was a bit puzzled.
Not that there's anything wrong with the recipe (well, I don't have a
dehydrator, so I'm no expert on that part of it).

But what puzzles me is the notion that this isn't cooked. Once again,
nothing wrong with cooking mushrooms...but the whole point of the book it's
from is that the food is raw.

Maybe I don't understand the definitions that the raw food movement uses,
but why is heating in a dehydrator "not cooking." If it was simply
air-dried, that I could understand, but you mention that the mushrooms are
heated in the process.

Please note that I'm not criticizing your food choices. Eat whatever you
want. I'm just curious.