World Fusion Weekly

The Blossoming Lotus, Kaua'i is nominated for the 2007 Veggie Award for Best Restaurant! We give thanks for everyone's support, locals and travelers alike. If you are on Island, come by and experience this month's dinner specials. And for all of you, thanks for your continued support, it means the world to us.

The Veggie Awards are sponsored by VegNews Magazine and is the world's largest survey of veg products, people and places. Last year, more than 10,000 readers cast their vote, and this year we expect that number to reach 15,000.

Ballots will be entered into a grand prize drawing to win fabulous prize packages, including a California Dream Veggie Getaway, an Urban Girl Goodie Bag, a Chocolate Lovers Gift Box, spa baskets and more.

The polls close at midnight on September 1, and winners will be announced in the November+December "Best of Vegetarian" holiday edition of VegNews.

Please follow the link below and take the survey. Vote for the Lotus (we are the first restaurant listed) and enter for your chance to win the Grand Prize.

The Blossoming Lotus is honored to be participating in the 2007 Raw and Living Spirit Retreat happening September 6 - 9 in Molalla, OR. Register here while there's still room! The retreat price includes lodging, meals, workshops and talks during the event. This is an all inclusive, not to be missed, raw foods experience.

This incredible gathering of pioneers in the raw food community will be featuring many of your favorite speakers such as Gabriel Cousens, The Raw Family featuring Victoria and Valya Boutenko and Abeba Wright.

Also featured are energizing presentations of food and wisdom from the Blossoming Lotus, Eddie and Lillian of Raw Soul Restaurant in Harlem NY, and local master chef and raw choclatier Bruce Horowitz.

"You know how may raw events I've been to over the years. This was the
best I've ever attended. My whole being, physical and spiritual, felt
welcomed home." Dr. Gabriel Cousens

We would love your help. We are including personal stories of people who have adopted a raw lifestyle and have experienced weight loss, healing or any transformation whatsoever.

Tell us your stories with the raw foods diet and lifestyle! We may include your testimonial in the book. Also, please send us information about your websites, services and products and we may include them in the resource guide.

The deadline for submitting recipes in our world wide recipe contest has been extended until February 1st. Winners will be announced on March 20th, 2008.

The top recipes will be included in our 7 MINUTE CHEF e-book series. From these, we will be selecting 50 RUNNER UP PRIZES and ONE Grand Prize winner. The Grand Prize includes an awesome, all expense paid trip for two to Kaua'i, Hawaii.

Grand Prize includes:

Round trip airfare from any major airport in the U.S.
7 days and 6 nights hotel accommodation at an Oceanside resort
Car rental
Napali boat ride tour
Healing massages
Free meals at the Blossoming Lotus Restaurant and Lotus Root Juice Bar and more!

The recipes are from people just like you. Recipes can cover any topic in plant based natural food preparation including your favorite college recipe or family treasure, soups, salads, sandwiches, spreads, entrees, desserts, casseroles, live food creations, juices, smoothies and elixirs, nut and seed milks and cheeses, breakfast items, your grandmother’s recipes, complete with tips and tricks and special techniques.

Please remember that there is no limit to the amount of recipes you can enter as each one we select is a separate entry to our contest. The more entries you submit, the greater the chances one will be selected for inclusion in our 7 MINUTE CHEF e-book series and the greater your chance of winning one of our prizes.

Click here to enter your recipe. Good Luck!

Gabriel Cousens, M.D. is one of our favorite teachers and the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. He is one of the featured speakers at the upcoming Raw and Living Spirit Festival in Oregon and truly one of the deepest thinkers on the subject of how to live an enlightened life.

Dr. Cousens serves as a holistic medical doctor, a psychiatrist and family therapist, and a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of Arizona. Dr. Cousens uses the modalities of nutrition, naturopathy, Ayurveda, and homeopathy, blended with spiritual awareness, in the healing of body, mind and spirit. He is a best selling author of many books, including Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, Conscious Eating and Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine,

He is a frequent guest on popular radio talk shows, and is a health and nutrition columnist. Dr. Cousens has published many articles in health journals and popular magazines in the areas of biochemistry, school health, clinical pharmacology, diabetes, hypoglycemia, depression, and Alzheimer's disease.

From his books, media, and body-mind-spirit transformative programs at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, Gabriel Cousens is recognized as a leading medical authority in the world on live-food nutrition and as an internationally known spiritual teacher.

Currently, the focus of Dr. Cousens' humanitarian work is creating world peace on all levels. He has been leading peace meditations around the world since 1985. To learn more about Gabriel and the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, please visit here.

Kauai resident and creator of the classic LightSOURCE, Mika Feinberg has worked together with Blossoming Lotus to create an incredible CD-ROM and DVD. Please come by the restaurant to enjoy these fascinating and beautiful images of mandalas and sacred symbols that uplift and inspire.

As a very special treat, these mandalas and symbols on display at the restaurant have been animated and brought to life on both a “Blossoming Lotus CD-ROM” screensaver and a “Blossoming Lotus DVD”, a chance to bring home a little sacred art and beauty from our magical island.

The “Blossoming Lotus CD-ROM and DVD” brings mystical sacred symbols of the Far East to life. The hypnotic animation and vibrantly brilliant colors - merged with a heart-opening, ‘INDIGO for Quantum Focus’ Hemi-Sync® soundtrack from Monroe Products - will inspire you to unparalleled peaks of creative inspiration. This is an experience you won’t want to miss.

We are happy to announce that produce a soft cover version of our our award-winning cookbook, Vegan World Fusion Cuisine

. will be available in mid-September. Beaufort's books are distributed by Midpoint Trade Books, one of the largest distributors in the industry, with over 250 independent presses in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and Ireland.

The book is now available for preordering. To order your advance copy, please click on the link below, it will be another beautiful collectable edition.

The Secrets to a long and healthy life are revealed in our latest cookbook,
7 MINUTE CHEF Volume 1. We have already sold thousands thanks to all of you who continue to support our works.The book is a comprehensive manual for everyone who loves to eat healthfully, wants to save money and learn more great tips from your friends at the Blossoming Lotus

... all this plus cooking charts, the perfect pantry, ingredient log, comprehensive natural food glossary, our secret popcorn recipe and an ancient Himalayan recipe for longevity and more!

For only $12.95 you will have the tools to create
healthy and delicious food for a lifetime.

All are invited to our next vegan potluck sponsored by the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii. The speaker will be Kathy Matara, who will conduct an Italian Live Food demo. Kathy Matara is an herbalist and live foods instructor. She has a natural health care practitioner certification from the Village of Natural Teaching in Marshal, MI., and Certification from the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico in teaching the live foods lifestyle.

The Vegetarian Society of Hawaii is a not-for-profit volunteer organization founded in 1990 to promote human health, animal rights and protection of the environment by means of vegetarian education. With more than 2000 members, it's among the largest vegetarian societies in the nation. For more information, please visit their website or call 808.337.9977.

Admission free with your vegan dish
$5 donation if you choose to come without a dish

The blog highlights our favorite recipes and foods, archived articles, book and product reviews, chef's tips and tricks, the latest news and links to many of our friends. Feel free to reprint our articles in your favorite groups and blogs for a continual update on all things related to our 7 MINUTE CHEF e-book series.

Congratulations to Jordann Banford of Victoria, British Columbia for his Cilantro Pate recipe. Robert's recipe will be included in 7 MINUTE CHEF Volume 2. He will receive a free copy of the e-book and his recipe qualifies him to win one of the 50 runner-up prizes or the Grand Prize trip to Kaua'i.

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