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Steffy Sue Bee

New Beginning (bye bye dreadful dreadies)

About Me

My Birthday at Cafe Gratitude this past April 3arty rd: registered dietitian (pre-med b.s. in nutrition, internship, passed a national exam) and i have an a.a.s. in culinary arts. these two worlds have found themselves neatly intertwined in RAW FOODS (my Raw Foods website is: www.RAWkinthekitchen.com) - the healthiest, most delicious, lowest environmental impact way to eat. i am not purely raw and neither am i 100% vegan (ever since culinary school!), but i can feel the difference between different types of foods and i have come to appreciate what raw foods have to offer. i was vegan for 12 years and never once tasted vegan versions of normal classics that were anywhere near as good as raw versions. non-recyclable boxes of cooked soymilk ain't got SHIT on your own, homemade, sprouted nut & seed milk, for example. check out "the *AMAZING* nut milk bag" on purejoyplanet.com to get the bag it takes to make your own nut/seed milk, juices, and sprouts! that thing is so simple but i use it every day. you can also pick up a nut milk bag at any cafe gratitude (www.withthecurrent.com)i'm also way into my cat, she's a sweet little angel without a sly bone in her body. i play the ukulele and sing. i only do covers right now, but i'm working on my own songs. i like to take pictures and alter clothes on my amazing touch-screen sewing machine. i ride my bike on a green path through berkeley every day. i hit up almost every east bay farmer's market for the most beautiful food available. i live in a coop house with 9 others. we have an organic vegetable and herb garden and a hot tub and it's run on solar panels! i am soooo lucky and blessed in this lil' ol' life o' mine. i'm grateful everyday for where i am, in so many ways.here's me playing gillian welch's paper wings:

My Interests

eating, dancing, singing along, food (science, philosophy, nutrition, culinary), decorating (my house, my things, my self), making things (meals, clothing, songs), taking pictures (and being in pictures), music (listening and making), my kitty, sunshine and foliage, walks, bike rides, farmer's markets, making out, once-a-week blue bottle coffee & phoenix olive bread (maybe), faeries, soprano ukuleles, headbands, bloomers, biting my nails (i'm trying to stop!), chocolate chocolate chocolate, absinthe, fernet-branca, chartreuse, art nouveau, copper, chipping paint, you get the idea...

I'd like to meet:

those into raw food (www.myspace.com/rawkinthekitchen) and/or vegan food and/or organic food and/or culinary arts and/or nutrition and/or ukuleles (www.myspace.com/steffysueontheuke) and/or other good music and/or cats and/or lizards and/or hot hot hot tubs (did i say HOT?)

Music:

LISTENING: led to sea, iron & wine, dante's voodoo cabaret, joanna newsom, juana molina, anni rossi, devendra banhart/vetiver, cocorosie, antony and the johnsons, tori amos, edith frost, cat power, broadcast, portishead, johnny cash, annah., will oldham/bonne prince billy/palace, david bowie, gilberto gil, holly go lightly, jenny lewis and the pinetops, jolie holland, adey belle, radiohead, the eternals/trenchmouth, cure, sun kil moon, tin hat trio, hope sandoval/mazzy star, air, aleutian, nick drake, cat stevens, leonard cohen, ocs, faun fables, john fahey, entrance, cocteau twins, echo and the bunnymen, joy division, interpol, vashti bunyan, uni and her ukulele, the paper dolls, kitten on the keys, i yearn for maiden, isobel campbell, black box recorder, mary timony, the gunga din, nick cave, the shins, hydroplane, low, therese honey, ghost, free design, evil wikkid warrior, blackbird raum, sour mash, 1manbanjo/hobo goblins, uni and her ukelele, the blank tapes, tippy canoe and the paddlemen, frisky frolics, marc bolan, system of a down, rachel's, metallica, iron maiden, him, pg six, six organs of admittance, the organ, slayer, elliot smith, miss derringer, sage francis, neko case, spaceblaster, angelo badalamenti/julee cruise, kelli rudick, kaki king, secret chiefs, japonize elephants, animal collective DANCING: drum n bass/deep & dark jungle, reggae, "electroclash"

Movies:

lolita (b&w kubrick), wizard of oz, a skin too few (nick drake documentary), waking life, the last mimsy, walk the line

Television:

i don't have one! no one i know in my easy bay bubble has one! yay! we're all youtube addicts instead...

Books:

books: rainbow green live food cuisine, sunfood diet system, the beauty diet, food and cooking, conscious eating, healing with whole foods, food and healing zines: catholic (cat-holic), peko-peko, ladyzine, burn collector magazines: the sun, harper's, bitch, venus, yogi times, living nutrition, common ground, vision

Heroes:

My Mom, Sweet Cicely (the herb is great but i'm referring to my kitty), Elaina Love, my lovely housemates, Cafe Gratitude

My Blog

my digestive system and springtime

the weather has been chillier but sunnier the hills are drying up a bit already but i found a lilac bush that will keep my bedroom springy for at least a few days now and oranges are starting to disap...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:03:00 PST

still a nail-biter

maybe it's the caffeine, i dunno. at least it's only green tea. well, and blue bottle coffee on tuesdays from the farmer's market! that joellen, she makes me do it! :)also on tuesdays, i've been doing...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:35:00 PST

my chicago restaurant guide (per request of joellen)

1. schwa http://www.schwarestaurant.com/ is pricey but byob and amazing on ashland at north (in food & wine magazine, he won best new chef in the country!) 2. lula cafe http://www.lulacafe.com in ...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:06:00 PST

pure joy...updates

well, okay, it's not pure joy, but it's pretty good. i am working on an online store called pure joy planet. it's raw food chef extraordinaire elaina love's webstore. it's been fun! i get to ride my b...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:52:00 PST

Yes, it's true. I shaved my head...

I can't believe it either! I've been a long-hair junky my whole life! Yes, I do miss my beautiful, waist-long, metal-beaded dreadlocks but they were also driving me crazy. So high maintenance! And I l...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:15:00 PST

rainy days are here again

it was such a sunny winter but now the rains are here again. last march it rained 26 days! the hills are greener above me...the grass is greener below me...and ahead of me the house is greenest of all...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:18:00 PST

eBay Mania Music Foodie

woah. yeah, it happened to me. it's really no surprise. i got hooked! ukuleles are pretty cheap you know. relative to other stringed instruments that is. until you add them up, competitively bidding a...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:57:00 PST

Chicago is not really my kinda town, but I sorta love it sometimes.

it's been a while since i've written. wow.so my parents' house burned down on 6.6.6. it's true. it exploded and burned to the ground. just outside of chicago in norridge. they kind of make it seem lik...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:43:00 PST

Okay, to be fair...

so maybe i went off on a few tangents with that last chez panisse-related blog...and maybe i like to start my blogs of with "so" a little too often... but anyway, to be fair, perhaps i am just not ...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:00:00 PST

a new year...

so i'm in bed sick with some sort of flu-like pms-ish thing which has forced me out of work the past two days. general malaise, you know. could be psycho-somatic. perhaps. by work i mean the interns...
Posted by Steffy Sue Bee on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:04:00 PST