This is the back cover of the book Raw Eating, by A. T. Hovannessian. I believe this is out of print and only available if you can find someone that has a copy laying around from the year 2000 when it was last printed. I found this book by complete accident. One of my favorite raw food books is Nature’s First Law: The Raw Food Diet by David Wolfe/Stephen Arlin/Fouaad Dini. I was Googling around trying to figure out what happened to Arlin and Dini, because everyone in the raw food world knows all about David Wolfe, but not the others. I kept finding websites talking about how these three “lifted” a lot of their book information directly from Raw Eating. My thought was, if I liked First Law, I might as well go back to the original source and get the most accurate description of the raw food lifestyle. I found a copy of the book. I love the back cover. Though I haven’t gotten into the book yet, supposedly Hovannessian had two daughters that both died young. He did research and realized it might be because they are eating cooked food. So he raised daughter #3 exclusively on living raw food. And she had perfect health. She’s the one on the back cover.
Right off the bat, it’s totally obvious in the first paragraph of both books, Wolfe/Arlin/Dini copied the text and changed each word to something similar. Remember how we all did this in college? If you don’t copy it exactly, it’s not really copying? I chalk this up to being young and “green.” But just by writing through Raw Eating, you become an expert. It’s an excellent foundation. I don’t blame these guys. Had they not created this book, I would have never found it, or the second book. I found my copy of Nature’s First Law in a used bookstore in Tucson, AZ. I just didn’t realize at the time, the information was pulled through from another source. All good, I mean, THE BEST information out there on raw eating.
