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About Me

Official Boring Bio: Sarma Melngailis, co-founder, proprietor and executive chef of NYC restaurant Pure Food and Wine, is harvesting her many talents, limitless energy, and varied life-experience towards realizing her vision: presenting raw food and the raw lifestyle as accessible, uplifting, and sexy, thereby increasing the appeal of living healthier to the largest possible audience for a maximum overall positive impact on people's quality of life. Sarma is also the Founder and President of One Lucky Duck, Inc., which operates www.oneluckyduck.com, an online boutique offering products for the ultimate raw and organic lifestyle. One Lucky Duck, Inc. also labels and distributes a line of snack products all made and packaged by hand at Pure Food and Wine, and sold through various Whole Foods and other retail locations throughout the country, as well as on oneluckyduck.com, and through the restaurant's own takeaway and retail shop. She is co-author of Raw Food Real World (2005, Harper Collins), a beautifully illustrated book of recipes and practical advice related to raw foods.Sarma is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute. She also holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked in investment banking at Bear Stearns and private equity at Bain Capital before beginning her career in the food world.Pure Food and Wine 54 Irving Place New York, NY 10003 Ph - 212.477.1010 Fx - 212.477.6916 purefoodandwine.comOne Lucky Duck, Inc. 126 E 19th Street, First Floor New York, NY 10003 Ph - 212.982.1231 Fx - 212.982.1233 oneluckyduck.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

the perfect investor, NOW please

I'd like to have dinner at my restaurant with: Jeffrey Steingarten Marco Pierre White Tony Bourdain

I'd like to go on a date with: Artie Lange

I'd like to drink beers with: Bill Clinton

I'd like to fold laundry with: Martha Stewart (I still don't know how to fold a bottom sheet!!)

I'd like to mud wrestle with: Rachel Ray

My Blog

Q & A

(From welikeitraw.com, 9/10/08)About 1 month ago we asked WLIR readers if they had any questions for restaurant owner + chef + entrepreneur and guest blogger, Sarma Melngailis. Today, on her 36th birt...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:16:00 GMT

Sex, Pain, Madness and One Lucky Duck

.. sidebar1 --> Sex, Pain, Madness and One Lucky Duck Warning: This post is really long, and gets really personal, with lots of curse words, and is all very self-serving. But kind of ente...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:36:00 GMT

Dinner and a Movie with Farmer John

Or I guess it was movie and then dinner& but with Farmer John as in, John Peterson, the subject of the important documentary film "The Real Dirt on Farmer John". It's not just impor...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:44:00 GMT

Valentines Day Love and Food

I've not posted in months. For anyone who gives a crap, SORRY! If I could do what I want to do, I'd have more time to do exactly this, because it's fun, among other reasons. I have p...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:33:00 GMT

Sexyback: Sarmas Raw Confessions

It seems forever that every Friday I have been telling myself, "OK, this is the weekend that I'm going to catch up on sleep, finally clean up the colossal disaster that is my desk at the One Lucky Duc...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:32:00 GMT

The Raw Honeymoon

And all the crazy things it makes us do...The Raw Honeymoon: the period right after we've "discovered" being raw, and all the exciting things that come with it, while we are so enamored with the raw g...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:31:00 GMT

Cocktail Hour Cleansing with the Master Cleanse Tini

I am always surprised by how many people have heard of, or even themselves done, the Master Cleanse (herein after referred to as the "MC") & What is it? Developed by a Mr. Stanley Burroughs, a r...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:31:00 GMT

Keeping it Real: Not a religion and not about rules

I am sitting in the restaurant Pure Food and Wine, (my home), at my favorite corner table, very late, yet still early enough that it's full of people, energy, and loud music (for which we are often gi...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:30:00 GMT

MOOD - there's a reason why it rhymes with FOOD

It's a new year& a time meant for reflections and resolutions. I had a full hangover day to think about these things, when I wasn't drifting back into sleep. As reported by our tasty young...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:29:00 GMT

Airport musing from Sarma

I am all wired up in an airport lounge, with computer, ipod, phone& feeling very connected. I'm on my way to Istanbul& armed with a full bottle of enzymes in my carry-on. People always ask& what...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:28:00 GMT