Axel & Andrea...We are all looking forward to what you may have previewed in previous postings as a Vegi-Fruitarian Buffet for the Healthy Prospering New Year:

Although the "affordable fat-free...heart-healthy protein", tofu, strikes many diners as rather bland & dull, until it sponges up other flavours, could these recipes highlighted in the Gleaner be the direction that you might be leaning at Marblue Gourmet?

Gleaner Link:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130103/cook/cook4.html

sample nearly all our soups are fat-free or a half spoon of Olive Oil
the breadfruit casserole with ackee,coconut creamed callaloo,layers of broad bean puree,spiced with thyme,another layer of garlic mashed jam,tomato reductions in between-oh,and i misssed the roasted breadfruit mash,spiced with a secret-getting hungry-give me a week from today-
it is so easy,thinking to do a Organic,fat free day ,innovative developt taste-best axel

How about an Organic/VEGAN day?

not a problem at all!if we find rnough guests -why not!
axel

I have found that chefs trained in cooking for the meat diet do not get it when it comes to vegan and vegetarian. Nutritional content goes with taste. Many will not eat from cooking utensils used for flesh.

Ah, Yes.. ITAL!!


The origional.. Vegan/Non-GMO/Pesticide-Free/pure food.

I was very surprised that there are so few Ital restaurants in Jamaica!

Case in point, I was enjoying my steamed veggies at a popular dining spot {in TB} when I discovered a large fish bone in the shredded cabbage! Yikes!!.
Most restaurants and cook shacks will prepare a veggie dish, even Ackee without saltfish,still, I would welcome and patronize any place Ital.

Yum yum.. soon come!

Watch Mutabaruka cooking up Ital cuisine...Early adherents (of Ital) adopted their dietary laws based on their interpretation of several books of the Bible,[Then God said, "I give you every Seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." -Genesis 1:29]

Ital food is derived from the word "vital food" (Self-determination of the black race resulted in the Rastafarians usage of the word 'I" to replace the first letter of many words). Ital food means it is natural, pure and clean food. For a Rastafarian it means no salt, no chemicals, no flesh, no blood, no whites (called whiteblood), no alcohol, no cigarettes and no drugs herbs are not considered drugs).

Rastafarians avoid salt, oil and meat. Their dietary laws are similar to the laws followed by Jews in Leviticus 11. Fish must be less than a foot long. No shell fish or fish without scales. Pork is especially condemned amongst Rastafarians. It is so important to not put the wrong thing in your body that some Rastafarians never cook in aluminum pots as it is said to leave traces of metal in the food that can get in your body. Cooking in a clay pot is popular among Rastafarians.

Rastafarians see their food as a way to be one with nature and also as medicine for the body, as it builds your "strucha" (Patois or the word structure). There are also strict hygienic laws that Rastafarians follow.
(jamaicans.com)


Mutabaruka Video Link:
http://alumniwellness.com/2011/12/the-vital-ital-2012-resolution

Ital Cooking:
http://eatjamaican.com/ital-recipes/rastafarian-cooking.html