Melissa Mango goes with the flow!

We have a wonderful interview – Part 1 of a series – with Melissa Mango!

Untitled from Ariel Policano on Vimeo.

What I really enjoyed about Melissa was how down to earth she is, and how she has allowed life to take her in toward her bliss with a very natural, seemingly effortless flow. I don’t want to take away from her hard work! I took a live food class with Melissa in Tucson. I will never forget the AMAZING “raw barbecue” recipes and delicious desserts that we prepared. She definitely has a sense of how to make raw comfort food that remains enjoyable without being too rich. I learned during the interview that her food plan has become amazingly simple – lots of green juices, smoothies and soups. She also tells us cravings that she had while she was pregnant and what her diet was like. Thank you so much, Melissa for everything that you have given and continue to give to the raw food community. What a gift that you are!

Melissa Mango was one of the Chefs for six diabetics during the filming of RawFor30Days: Healing Diabetes Naturally, during which she was a guest Chef and a volunteer instructor atThe Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center led by Dr. Gabriel Cousins. Some of her earlier Southwestern recipes can be found in The Raw 50 by Carol Alt published in 2007.

Additionally, she was featured as a volunteer and Executive Chef at The Raw Spirit Fest 2006, 2007 and 2008. Melissa has been a reappearing guest Chef on G Living Tv  Melissa opened California’s first South Bay Raw-Vegan, Eco-friendly cafe in the summer of 2006, Terra Bella Café featured in Get Fresh Magazine.Currently Melissa is a Chef for David Wolfe retreats world wide, Epic Eden Adventures in Arizona and serves Santa Cruz quality Live Food.

Check out Melissa’s e-book at melissamangosgreencuisine.blogspot.com! It is a very reasonably priced e-book with these  INCREDIBLE recipes! They include herbed cashew hummus, wild rice pilaf, watermelon gazpacho, and 7-layer lasagna! OK, now I am hungry! Fire up the Vitamix!