Looking for a sweet treat to make for your sweetie this Valentine’s Day? Or maybe you just want to treat yourself to something special. This torte is rich, decadent, moist…AND it’s vegan AND raw! And the best part about it, it can be done in about 20 minutes and there are only a handful of ingredients that are easy to find in the store! Nobody will ever guess what’s in it!

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Chocolates and other sweets are time honored Valentine’s Day traditions.  However, processed sugars like white sugar and high fructose corn syrup have no fiber and something close to no nutrients.  Let’s face it, they’re just not that good for you.

“Do you know where your food comes from?” Over the past several years, media outlets ranging from CBS to Oprah.com have used this headline to encourage the general public to explore the U.S. food system. And you know what? It seems to have worked. People have read Fast Food Nation and seen Food, Inc. They’ve worked visits to the farmer’s market into their weekend plans. And they’ve giggled at satire like Portlandia’s “Is It Local?”

Just when your fam­ily had started to recover from the hol­i­day sugar binge: Along comes Valentine’s Day to pro­vide yet another excuse for a class party laden with candy, cup­cakes and other sweets. I don’t know about you, but I am not too excited about the idea of my kids down­ing 10 pounds of sugar and who knows what kind of arti­fi­cial ingre­di­ents. I’m all for an occa­sional treat, but the last thing they need is another junk fest.

Every New Year many of us resolve to eat better – which often means healthier options when we eat out. But since many of us don’t know what happens behind the kitchen door, we also don’t know how the lives of the people touching our food impacts our health and well-being as well.

We at Food Day talk a lot about the human health impacts of a meat-intensive diet: animal protein is more likely to serve up a hefty dose of fat, much of it saturated, than do vegetable-based sources. Red meat is the worst culprit. The Harvard School of Public Health cites research suggesting that even modest consumption of red meat leads to a higher risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and colon cancer, as well as a higher risk of dying from heart disease, cancer, or any cause really.