Eggplant Carpaccio Caprese
When asked what food was most missed in the transition to a raw diet, a large number of people volunteered eggplant as their answer. Truthfully, I could get this; you don’t look at eggplant and even imagine anything raw. Sure, it’s a fruit … but you can’t – under any circumstances – just pick it off the vine and shove it in your mouth. Even in most cooked versions of it, there’s a process: you’re supposed to slice it and salt it and put it in a colander to get some of the moisture out of it before you even get to the cooking part. And that usually involves frying.…