When I first heard the words "raw food", I pictured a sad plate of lettuce. I was a trained chef. I loved sauces and texture and flavour. Raw food sounded like punishment. Then, in Bali, I learned raw cuisine with my hands, and it turned everything I thought upside down. Ribbons of zucchini layered like lasagne. A sun-dried tomato sauce, deep and sweet. Cashew cream that tastes like ricotta. Basil picked that morning. Oh, I thought. This is a whole world. What raw really means In our kitchen, ra