shedd aquarium: i made a pasta dish using a raw recipe...and my girlfriend claims that since the pasta was cooked...it is not a "raw food"...i feel that since pasta requires temperatures to boil water...it has to be cooked and should be ignored since the main ingredients to the recipe were tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette...i would like an expert opinion on this subject from an raw foodist|||It's not raw food. If it's cooked and boiled, nope, not raw. This hardly matters though. The suace was good- tomatoes and balsamic. Pasta can be eaten fresh, or use cougettes to make pasta styel ribbons. but boilied pasta is not raw food. I am sorry, because you sound keen to make raw food. So, do that tomorrow. I eat raw- and I never eat pasta anyway even when I ate crappy food. just too heavy for me. I like wholewheat pasta, but not the white stuff. Raw food relies on the whole grains and getting the food as pure as possible. White flour is one of the most processed unhealthy things to eat- even rats and bugs don't eat in on a store-room shelf- because there is literally no nutrition in it. The only nutrition from wheat comes from the wheatgerm and bran, the brown stuff on the outside of each wheat kernal. I think you could find an amazing raw food dish for tomorrow. This one wasn't raw.|||The raw food diet forbids the heating of foods beyond a very low temperature. This temperature varies among raw food adherents from 92潞F to 118掳F (33掳C to 48掳C). Your pasta was cooked at a higher temp. then that and therefore was not raw. Although the sauce might have been raw the pasta was not. Raw foodies do not eat pasta they normally spiral a vegetable like zucchini yellow squash and use that in place of a pasta.|||In the future, put the pasta on the side and let her eat it or not eat it... The tomatoes and stuff are plenty raw without the contraversy... I'm a strict vegetarian but I really don't understand this raw diet thing. I think i would starve and die.|||its not raw food if there was boiling involved. you could have just let the pasta soak for a really long time if you were determined to have pasta in your food.|||check this website. She is a raw food chef.|||You can make raw pasta from zucchini or carrots. And a sauce of tomatoes and basil.|||...doesn't the fact that it's pasta mean it's not raw? It's a processed food.|||well technically it isnt raw. u could eat it dry but that would be weird.