The Annual Best of Raw Awards honor and celebrate People, Places, Products & Media who are helping the world add more raw, organic plant foods to our diets. Educators, Chefs, Authors, Celebrities, Athletes, Musicians, Manufacturers, Websites, Products, and more are all being honored and celebrated for the magnanimous work they are doing! (See Categories for complete list.)

NEW THIS YEAR

Laura is delighted to be partnering with Jillian Love, producer of the Best of Raw Awards Gala. Natan Mallinger has also come on board to assist with web development.

VOTING

Voting takes place in TWO ROUNDS this year! The first round is an elimination round, and culminates on February 1st at  midnight. The FINALS ROUND goes live on February 3rd. The TOP 4 CONTESTANTS in each category will have a chance at this year’s top award, “2011 Favorite”. All four of the top contestants will receive a distinguished Awards Badge for their website and product packaging.

IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE VOTING, please SUBMIT A TICKET by clicking here or email support@visionaryculture.zendesk.com.

THE SUSTAINABLE FEAST

At Best of Raw, we helping our planet shift to a more raw plant based diet is an extremely important endeavor, one of the most important endeavors of our time. While many are going all raw vegan, which is totally rawsome, many people are taking a more gradual approach and simply adding more raw plant foods to their diet. This is a great step forward for our planet!Add more raw plant foods! This is our motto for the mainstream of people who are seeking greater health and coming to an awareness of our ecological crises. Little by little as people begin to feel better and see the difference in their own lives.

The health of individuals and the  health of our planetary ecosystems depends on us adopting a plant based diet for many, many reasons. The vast resources it takes to raise and consume animal products are exacting an unrelenting toll on the ecosystems of our planet and the health of our people. (Look forward to more documentation of research on these facts coming soon to Best of Raw and the Raw Plant Nutrition Alliance.)

HISTORY OF BEST OF RAW

Founded in 2008 by Laura Fox with inspiration from Giselle Tarres, Best of Raw is here to catalyze the Raw Foods Movement forward through promotions, events, including online awards events, offline chef competitions, video events and prize give aways. Laura has carried on the event for the last three years solo and is excited that the team is expanding this year to keep Best of Raw sustainable and growing.