Voting Has Begun for the Best of Raw 2011 Awards!

It's that time once again! You can now hop over to the Best of Raw website and vote for your favorites for 2011!

The Annual Best of Raw Awards shines the spotlight on People, Places, Products & Media who are helping the world add more raw, organic plant foods to our diets. Educators, Chefs, Authors, Celebrities, Athletes, Musicians, Websites, Products, and more are all being honored and celebrated for the magnanimous work they are doing! (See Categories for complete list.)

Again this year my raw babies and I have the great honor of being nominated in several categories. Woo hoo!

Best Raw Simple Chef: Carmella Soleil

Best Gourmet Raw Chef: Carmella Soleil

Best Raw Vegan Blog: Sunny Raw Kitchen

Best Raw Vegan Community Site: Raw Freedom Community

Best Raw Vegan Book or Ebook: Delightfully Raw (Yippee!!!)

New Voting Process
This year, they're doing things a little differently: voting takes place in TWO ROUNDS. The first round of voting will be an 'elimination round', leaving the top four candidates in each category to 'go for the gold'. This first phase of voting goes live NOW, and will end at midnight on February 1st. The FINAL ROUND of voting with the top four finalists in each category starts on February 3 and ends on February 15.

So have at it! Have fun with this!

Head to Best of Raw to VOTE Now!

NOTE: Internet Explorer users, we suggest using a different browser. Internet Explorer has issues that make it incompatible with a lot of web functions including this voting platform.

About Best of Raw
Founded in 2008 by Laura Fox with inspiration from Giselle Tarres, Best of Raw is here to catalyze the Raw Foods Movement forward through promotions, events, including online awards events, offline chef competitions, video events and prize give aways. Laura has carried on the event for the last three years solo and is excited that the team is expanding this year to keep Best of Raw sustainable and growing.

Giveaway of Russell James' New Homestudy Course and Extended Launch Period

I just took a batch of fresh Garlic Bread out of the dehydrator (mmmm!) and can hardly wait to bite into it! (If you've missed Russell James' recipe and video, make sure to check it out here!)

I got some exciting news for you!

For one thing, Russell has decided to extend the launch period of his new "How to be Your Own Raw Chef" Homestudy Course until next Wednesday 18th January at 1pm eastern time, 6pm UK time.

And now for the really fun part, he will be giving away 2 full sets of his Homestudy Course, which includes both DVD and online access! Wowsers, what a special treat!!!

How it Works
In order to enter the contest all you have to do is hop over to his Garlic Bread video (look for it on the right) and in the comment section fill in the following blanks...

"The Raw Chef 10 week homestudy course is the perfect course to help me ________________ and _________________."

If you've bought the course, or are going to buy the course before he announces on Wednesday who the winners are, don't worry, you'll still be eligible - Russell will just refund the purchase.

Remember that you now have until Wednesday January 18th to take advantage of his special launch offer!

Now off to have a piece of that bread... ;-)

Russell James' New Homestudy DVD Course

In case you missed out, The Raw Chef Russell James has been recently treating us to some awesome free videos about how to be creative with raw foods. To my utter delight, in one of them he even shared how to make amazing spongy dehydrated Garlic Bread like the one served at the famous Au Lac restaurant! *doing the happy dance*

This week Russell is also launching a brand new and improved version of his popular "How to be Your Own Raw Chef" Homestudy Course.

You can learn soooo much (and a lot faster too!) when you can observe a pro at work, but not everyone is able to travel and attend live food prep courses. This is where Russell's genius comes in; he has designed a super thorough (and convenient) 10 week course that can be taken online, on DVD, or both as part of a special launch offer.

Russell feels that this is the best package he has ever put together, both in terms of an offer, and also in terms of the quality of the product itself. In this Homestudy Course, among other things, he covers Salads & Dressings, Pasta & Noodles, Main Dishes, Fermented Foods, Raw Cheeses, Breads & Sandwiches, Elixirs, Wraps & Rolls and Truly Raw Sushi. (He sure got me drooling! ;-) )

You can find out more about Russell's new "How to be Your Own Raw Chef" Homestudy Course here or by clicking on the banner below.

PLEASE NOTE that the special launch offer has been extended until Wednesday 18th January at 1pm eastern time, 6pm UK time.