so this is going to be the starting date of the detox process... granted i DO anticipate a few hiccups when i get home... (i.e. mom's home cooking, a few runs to our favorite cooked food restaurants, etc.) BUT... let me tell you all about my project for this summer.
i may have mentioned this before, but my mom is coming to this strange crossroads in her life. next year, my brother glenn, myself, AND our littlest brother tommy (who's only 15) will be out of the house next year! (away at colleges and tommy will be doing a semester in switzerland) my mom has been taking classes in nyc on integrative medicine, nutrition, diet etc. and she has LOVED it. she has also had a nasty scare with a hyper-active thyroid, and is ready to start making some pretty heavy duty changes in her diet. it's all of these factors that make this transition quite appropriate at the present time.
however, my mom is also commander in chief of the champion household... which means that she basically has 4 million different things going on at any given time. (hence the hyper-active thyroid perhaps?) so when i get home, not only is my mom swamped, but she's relying on me to help her start the transition into a diet with more raw foods.
with this abdication of her kitchen power, she still has one major challenge that remains: cooking for the rest of the family. so while she would love to prepare all of this stuff for herself, she frankly doesn't have the kind of time and energy that i will, so i'm excited to take the opportunity to be able to baby my mom. she works SO hard for all of us and truly is one of the most extraordinary women i will ever encounter in this lifetime. so it feels good to be able to help her take time to detox, and rebuild her nutrition and health!
with this kitchen "overhaul" of sorts came two things: a mission, and an AMAZON.COM SHOPPIN' SPREEE!!! my mom actually was able to go to a lecture with David Wolfe, and the biggest thing she took away from him was the notion of making your kitchen a "center of regeneration and healing." this is an interesting concept as the american cultural construct of a kitchen has always been one of the utmost importance to family life and well-being, but the idea of coupling that with the intention of healing and wellness is a fantastic way to view things. i hope i'll make the kitchen as close to this ideal as possible...
ok so about the fun stuff. my mom went TO TOWN on amazon.com and let me basically get her anything i wanted. (don't tell dad hahaha) here's a list of some of the AWESOME stuff we got that i will be reviewing in the near future via a couple of video posts.
Vitamix Platinum (w/ variable speed knob... yahoo!)
Kyocera Revolution 7" ceramic chef's knife (these things ARE SO GOOD!)
World Cuisine Tri-Blade Plastic Spiral Slicer
Cuisinart 9 cup Food Processor (raw patés here i come!)
Omega 8003 Juicer
we will be borrowing our neighbor's excalibur dehydrator (i need to get my mom used to the idea of a dehydrator first...) until we find one. i really want one right away! but after having blown a rather ridiculous amount of $$$ on all of this stuff, it's best to just take it slow.
so again, the two things we don't have yet, that i REALLY do want in the kitchen by the end of the summer are an ice-cream maker, and a dehydrator. i think those will make raw food a LOT more livable.
in addition, we will be constructing our first backyard organic garden! my mom is really letting me dive into all of this, and i figured it would be a great thing to let other people learn and observe our successes and (inevitable) failures.
i will keep you all posted!!!
ps... i got 9 hours of sleep! yahoo!
best,
cliff
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