Posted on Darius' Facebook page on 07/16/2012:
Here is a preview of the second ¡Viva La Verde!
email, which will be sent out in the next few minutes. I actually
surprised and inspired myself (!) by what I was writing, and I wanted to
share it with you as well. Eat your heart out, Alicia, Cindi, Stephen, Elizabeth, Erin, Tatyana, Nick, Corby, and Orion!
The "Happy Anniversary Darius and Alicia" edition! This Wednesday,
July 18, Alicia and I will have been married for nine whole years!
Alicia, I love you baby--eating organic and raw vegan has never been so
fun! :)
And I want to thank Mom for introducing us to this wonderful world! And Dad for supporting us on our journey. And Angelina for being with us and having us to raise her! We love you all!
I just want to share with you how totally FUN raw
foods can be. We recently remodeled and reorganized the Viva store so
that our kitchen could be right here in town (which is also where the
chefs live, so it is closer to work for them!). Well, Alicia is one of
the two executive chefs (the other is Mom [Cindi]. Hi mom!) that created
all these fun recipes that you (and we) get to enjoy every week. The
great thing about this is that Alicia is now able to return to the
kitchen, and boy is she having fun! She loves it. It is a PASSION of
hers. She knows that the food that we eat is literally saving,
preserving, and extending our lives, and that is the reason we started
this business as well--to share what we know and what we can do with
other people. We love sharing! And especially Alicia--she loves loves
loves to create new things. So look out, Northeast Florida! There may
be some new raw food creations that you will get to try in the coming
weeks and months. I know I for one am seriously looking forward to
seeing what comes out of this fabulous kitchen next! I just realized
while typing this that after our nine years together, over HALF of it
(five years come October) will have been us eating on raw vegan foods
and thriving together. Like it or not, world, this is us for the rest
of our lives, and we LOVE IT. And we want to make it easier and funner
for YOU. Wether you do it 100% or 10% (did you realize we are ALL raw
vegans to a certain extent? Don't we all eat a raw apple, banana, or
peach some of the time? Salad greens, anyone?), we want to support YOU
and share with YOU and have fun with YOU. Let's do this!
