By Emily Hopkins

When asked why and how she came to embrace the idea that raw food is better than cooked food, Samantha Abrams answers quickly, “It is better for you!” Healthful enzymes, she points out, get killed at high temperatures. “It feels so good to feed your body...

Kaitlyn McQuaid ’10, who created our imaginative cover image and contributed some of the other photography for this story, is a photography major at Ithaca College.

“Photography has become my field of choice because it allows me to explore so many...