About Nicolas
Nicolas grew up in a partially vegetarian and health conscious family. At the start of every meal, his family always held hands and gave thanks for the food in front of them. Nicolas found that this moment of gratefulness for whatever reason made the food taste better in his mind, he enjoyed the food more in comparison to when he didn’t “give thanks”.
Taste is a big deal for Nicolas. He began learning about the taste of herbs and ingredients through his mothers “Taste Tests”, where he would either approve of a meal she made or suggested adding more of an ingredient in a meal: “This needs more Rosemary!” he would say. Because of this early training, Nicolas became a “Food Perfectionist”, never settling for an un-tasty dish.
Later he was introduced to Raw Food where he began to understand the difference in how much energy the food he ate would give him. The “Perfectionist” now incorporates energy as a factor in his meals.
Whether Raw or Cooked, food is a daily necessity and Nicolas continues to practice and apply his skills on plant-based meals and recipes for himself and his wife Jasmine every day. He continues the search for “The perfect 10/10” both taste wise and energy wise.
About Jasmine
Jasmine’s Mom tells a story that when she was a toddler she always pushed meat from her plate and refused to drink cows milk. Jasmine started as eating vegetarian food and later transitioned to vegan diet. She started touring and giving lectures on sprouting and plant-based meals since high school.
During several productive weeks of work, Jasmine ended up eating intuitively just fresh fruits and salads without any cooked food. One day a friend invited her for lunch where she had a sandwich and she suddenly had double vision and felt as if she drank alcohol or something. She remembered a newsletter she received from a raw food enthusiast and that they will be doing a raw vegan food seminar in couple of days in the city. What she learned there confirmed her suspicions about her diet and why she felt so drained after eating a sandwich. She connected the dots that her recent productivity spike was the result of feeling more energized from the raw food she was eating. Since then she has made a conscious choice of eating high energy food to fuel her body. Aside from Raw Food Jasmine was one of the first modern-day practitioners of screaming therapy and loves expressing herself through voice, dance and movement.
