Ubud, A Paradise: What You Need To Know

Shanti Allen is a classically trained chef who started her career in some of Europe’s finest restaurants. She believed that culinary creation was an expression of love, but this concept seemed at odds with commercial food practices and the modern Western diet. Converted to raw veganism, she discovered a world of pure, organic produce, and […]

The town of Ubud is the cultural and spiritual center of the Indonesian island of Bali. Ubud was once called “Ubad”, meaning “Medicine” in Balinese, referring not only to the medicinal plants and herbs that grow in abundance here but also to the healing power of this sacred ground. Ubud has long been known for […]

The Raw Alchemist contains a master collection of the café’s best-selling recipes and techniques. With organic, unprocessed, and vegan offerings from culinary wizards Shanti Allen and Lesya Pyatnichko, you’ll discover everything you need for an introduction to raw food and a complete healthy lifestyle transformation. Get your copy HERE

Hi everyone, we are delighted to keep sharing our delicious recipes developed by our amazing chef Shanti from @alchemyacademybali with all of you so you can cook at home and stay healthy. This recipe is about a fermented immune booster, the Pink Sauerkraut.

Veganism’s most touchy subject, honey, is hotly debated, causes lots of confusion, and raises many concerns. Ethical vegans avoid all forms of animal cruelty and exploitation and often exclude honey from their diet out of these concerns. And rightly so, as some honey producers are exploiting bees, killing drones, clipping wings, and replacing honey with […]

Hit the reset button with this Alchemy juice cleanse, designed to hydrate, alkalize and energize your body with all those nutrients it has been missing. Fruits and vegetable juices in their raw form contain the highest level of nutrition of any foods, in the form most readily available to your body. When you consume these […]

Cooking, eating and grocery shopping can be a slippery slope sometimes. Products that look great and taste yummy can contain suspicious ingredients, even flat-out toxins to be crass. In the manufacturing process, nutrients are removed and replaced by dodgy chemicals. If you´re curious about what´s on the label, it is often written in microscopic letters […]

Few people have bypassed the cautionary don’t-skip-the-most-important-meal-of-the-day-lecture. We’ve unwittingly gobbled up this rhetoric with our cereal and bagels without questioning much about when, how, why, and by whom the enterprise of breakfast started in the first place. A little research reveals that in the 1940s, nutritionists were hired by General Foods Corporation to make radio […]