Your whole food, plant-based life.

Meet Susan

Rawmazing.com

There is a beauty and grace in simplicity.

Whether it’s how you live, how you eat, or how you move through this world, simplicity creates peace, joy, and health.

After years of complicating my life with the endless search to be “filled”, I have come to a place of grace and have a true joy for life. I move with an open heart and a desire to share what I have learned — and am still learning — along the way.

It is my truest desire to help you to be inspired. To bring health, joy, peace, and beauty into your life.

Seven years ago, when I started Rawmazing, I had found a way of eating that helped heal my past digressions with food. At that time, all I knew was that I loved raw food and the way it made me feel. I read everything I could, bought every book I could find (they were few and far between at that time) and started on a journey that not only brought me better health, but also started a love affair with the creation of recipes made from whole, plant-based, raw food.

Driven to Learn

As my life evolved, I was driven to learn more about the food I was preparing and how it affects our bodies and our health. I enrolled in T. Collin Campbell’s Plant Based Nutrition Course through Cornell’s E-school. What I learned not only supported the daily experience I was having from eating plant based food, but also gave me knowledge to support a whole food, plant-based way of life.

It also helped relieve some of the “raw food guilt” that I had when eating cooked food as I learned that, properly prepared, some cooked food can have great health benefits.  It helped me to strengthen my desire to have a diet including both the raw food I love and healthy cooked food. Learn more about why I’ve chosen to embrace cooked food as well as raw.

It wasn’t a big departure as I have never promoted a 100% raw diet long term. And I have found a wonderful balance by eating raw and whole food, plant-based cooked food.

The Beginning of My Journey

Changing my diet wasn’t the end of the journey, it was the beginning of a journey into a whole food, plant-based life! I completed my Rouxbe Plant Based Professional Cooking Certification and developed a deep desire to start incorporating more cooked recipes into the site.

But it didn’t stop there. I have learned so much in my many trips around the sun. So much about living with grace, about simplifying but not depriving. About the beauty and grace you can create in your life not by constantly adding, but by finding out what brings you joy. I want to share what I have learned and also introduce you to people who have great gifts and wonderful ideas to offer to you.

It is with deep gratitude that I invite you to my site. I am so glad you are on this journey with me. I can’t wait to see where it takes us.

A Few Fun Facts

  • I recently married the love of my life, Peter, on September 24, 2015. Never think that love has passed you by! Meeting an amazing life partner can happen at any age and I am so grateful for my husband, who, by the way, became vegan while I was studying the T. Collin Campbell course.
  • I was born and raised in Minnesota but now live in the San Francisco East Bay Area. I love it here but miss fall and winter and the snow! And especially my mother, Cora. Frequent trips are necessary.
  • I have two grown daughters, Mia and Kaia, who now live in California and Utah. If you were to ask me what my greatest life achievement has been, I would say giving birth to these two beautiful human beings and being lucky enough to be on their journey with them. They are beyond amazing and I love seeing the incredible women they have become.
  • I have also recently been blessed with two outstanding stepsons, Alex and Chris. They bring such a fun and interesting dimension to all of our lives. They are intelligent, caring human beings and I love that we are all a family.
  • We have two wonderful dogs, Atlas, our Kuvasz, and Sadie, our little Pug. Animals are a huge part of my life and I adore all four-legged friends. They bring such peace and unconditional love into our lives, daily.
  • I am an award winning professional food photographer. You can see my work here: www.ShootingtheKitchen.com and www.Susanpowersphotography.com. I plan on expanding this part of my life into the blog!
  • I am vegan and strive to have a vegan lifestyle but I am not perfect. I will not judge people for where they are in their journey. I would prefer to extend my hand and help you learn about this lifestyle rather than condemn you. I believe in love and acceptance for wherever you are in your journey.

>As far as the rest of it? I recharge in nature, love to learn, love sewing, knitting, painting, playing the harp and piano, and just about any type of creating that I can do.

I have successfully grown my first limes and lemons and have an amazing herb garden growing in pots. For a Minnesota girl, this is a big deal.

I love that you are here.

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This website is intended to give you information about healthy eating based on research and personal experience. I am not a doctor and information on this website should not be considered medical advice. Please consult your physician for health treatment and diagnosis.

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133 Comments

  1. Loreen wrote on February 11, 2010

    Just to clarify did you use almonds with the skin left on for this recipe?

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  2. Marcia wrote on February 8, 2010

    i am really enchanted with your web site!!!!
    you are a very special person and i really appreciate your work and write – the pictures are invitation for us to keep on the train and try to do something that can be desire before the taste!
    (many of my food did not look good even tastes good!!!) So i only have to say thank you !
    Wish you are in Florida – i am in Miami!!! I would be on all your classes!
    Also here we have very few raw places to go out! So if you would like to spend winter time on this paradise, you also could have something to work – as a restaurant !!!
    Lots of love and Blessings!

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  3. Natasha Powers wrote on February 5, 2010

    I found your website online, as I have just started eating raw on an almost full time basis. I am an Inronman Triathlete and have suffered injuries that have kept me from racing the past two years. Eating raw has increased recovery time and given me a sense of overall well being.

    Thank you for your great recipes!

    Natasha Powers

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    • Susan wrote on February 5, 2010

      Wonderful to hear! Love your name, too!!!

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  4. Julie wrote on January 20, 2010

    Hi Susan,

    I’m a fellow MN and yes, the winters make eating raw more difficult, I agree. I’m glad that I found your site and am going to have to check my calendar so that I can take a uncooking class from you!

    I am an endurance ultra runner and have found that since going raw I have much less recovery between races. It’s been an amazing learning experience.

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    • Susan wrote on February 5, 2010

      Very cool! Drop me an email and I will get you on the class list.

      Reply
  5. evw wrote on January 11, 2010

    I love this site, so inspirational and delectable!

    Does anyone have a recipe for a mashed & rolled soft fig paste mixed with a bit of fresh grated coconut, maybe some mashed date as well, then rolled in semisweet cocoa powder?

    This holiday I was given 4 of these luscious tiny raw fruit balls and am not sure how to arrive at the very soft, almost tender texture of the fig/date paste.

    Much appreciate any help anyone can give! Thank you kindly, -evw

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  6. Sherri wrote on December 22, 2009

    We met you daughter at Copper Mountain. She was our daughters snowboard instructor. When the kids told her we eat raw in class she gave us your website. Small world 😉

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  7. Ronni wrote on December 12, 2009

    Thank you for sharing your creative dishes.

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  8. Emilie wrote on November 23, 2009

    WOW…Amazing pictures, amazing receipes!
    Thank you very much!

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  9. Paula Kelley wrote on November 17, 2009

    Hi Susan,
    WHY AREN’T YOU IN LA? Your recipes look fantastic and I want to take a class!!! If you opened a restaurant out here you would OWN! Just…you know, throwin’ it out there…
    xoPaula

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