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I live in Dumbo and decided to try lunch at the Plant a few weekends ago. I was underwhelmed. I had the "pizza" which was like a hockey puck with three tiny dots of "ricotta", a bit of tomato sauce and a few pieces of zucchini. It had more flavor than I would've expected, but for $9, it was smaller than most appetizer portions. My husband had the "pasta" which was really just a salad. Also, way small. Plus a $7 smoothie that in no way justified its price. We both left as hungry as when we arrived. Maybe the classes are better...

I'm all for healthy eating--i even like raw foods and went to a raw food spa for 30 days once--but if you're going to throw your internal ecosystem out of whack with a spike to your blood sugar, it's worth going all the way! if you're going to bother to eat desserts, enter: butter, white sugar, white flour. huzzah.

Thank goodness there are comments here expressing dismay over the touted "holiest-of-holiest" cuisines. I love raw food, and I enjoy eating it fairly often, but I treat it how I treat other forms of "cuisine"; for example, I love Moroccan food, and I love Thai food. Raw food isn't a lifestyle, more like a particular cuisine. I realize many raw foodists (david wolfe aside...) understand that there is a culture behind other diets and don't view raw food as the end-all-be-all of food, and that other foods aren't necessarily "toxic" (foul, stupid word); however, I hope many raw foodists will learn to open their eyes to the realities of their eating style... such as the arbitrary heating limit of 115 degrees for so-called preservation of PLANT enzymes we don't really need, the fact that coconut butter/coconut meat consumption in Polynesia and parts of India is not a good general representation for the entire human race as the Polynesians has lived for centures off coconut and have been selectively evolutionized toward this eating habit due to their inbred population, and the rest of us, therefore (especially we whites), may be ill-suited for a diet fairly reliant on coconut fats. I think incorporating a lot of raw foods in the diet is an excellent idea, and ridding yourself of all processed/packaged foods is excellent. I do not believe that cooking destroys nutrients though... it's all in the medical journals, in our evolution, etc. It's overcooking that kills nutrients, proper cooking releases them into a viable state. Also, some people may want to consider their long term health when embarking on a raw food diet. There have been no long-term longitudional studies on raw foodists... what will you believe when you're riddled with disease this diet touts to eliminate in 20 years? Experiment if you must... but don't be blind-sighted.