Funky Raw 2008

My wife and I camped at the Funky Raw Space of love festical over the weekend. We enjoyed pottering about, chatting, meeting people, dropping in on workshops. It was a small festival with, we were told, around 150 people. The atmosphere was something of a retreat-cum-festival and I felt more relaxed that I had in a while. We’ve both been quite busy and my day job keeps be coupe up in a fluo-lit office, often gawping at the computer, with a constant rumbling, quite loud background noise. A weekend of peace and raw food went was just what we both needed.

Brighton’s Raw Food Cafe ran the on-site cafe, producing a couple of different dishes each day. As we’re still fairly new to experiencing other people takes on raw cuisine we ate at the cafe for most meals. Most meals consisted of a light green salad, a tasty dressing and something dehydrated like crackers, or ‘neatballs’ or sunburgers. Aside from the crisp crackers these, you could say, we’re only lightly dehydrated and they’re weren’t too heavy like some gourmet dehydrator recipes.

My favourite dish was the ‘sea spaghetti with pesto’, made with seaweed. That was lush to the extreme and must’ve been packed with goodness.

Shell and Lara of the Raw Kitchen held a food prep session on the Sunday, impressing the audience with a superfood-packed raw chocolate cake. It was the food prep workshop’s we enjoyed the most, especially one on oriental styles.

Despite the washout forecast, the weather was as good on Friday and Saturday, even warm and sunny at times.