|
|
|
Info
What is One Lucky Duck?
Oneluckyduck.com is an online boutique where you’ll find the best raw vegan snacks, handmade in small batches in our kitchen at NYC’s best raw vegan restaurant, Pure Food and Wine. We also offer you wholeheartedly endorsed ingredients, supplements and lifestyle products—everything you need for organic, eco-happy, daily living.
One Lucky Duck Juice and Takeaway, our café and juice bar in Manhattan—offering breakfast, lunch and dinner—is another great resource for our favorite products and yummy snacks.
How We Hatched
One Lucky Duck was founded in July 2005 by Sarma Melngailis, the co-creator of the raw, vegan and organic Manhattan restaurant Pure Food and Wine, and co-author of Raw Food Real World (Harper Collins, July 2005) and forthcoming Living Raw Food (Harper Collins, May 2009). Sarma started One Lucky Duck to help bring the raw, vegan and organic lifestyle out of the underground and into the mainstream.
Why raw, vegan and organic?
Doesn’t everyone want a clean system, clear skin and lots of energy? A high vibration diet is the natural, easy route to energetic, healthy living. Plant-based foods that haven't been cooked at high temperatures are easier to digest and allow the body to absorb and use nutrients more quickly and effectively. They’re also abundant in enzymes—the vital and nourishing life force that is key to wellness and longevity. By preparing all of our foods at temperatures of under 118 degrees, we're able to preserve the vitamins, minerals and enzymes that are often destroyed or depleted when cooked. We're hyped about sharing the beauty of whole, delicious, living food.
Why a duck?
Before opening Pure Food and Wine, Sarma was reading an issue of Gourmet magazine and saw a story about a duck farm. As she read through the mag, she kept turning back to the picture of a duck, who seemed to have a smile on his beak. After much searching, she found the photographer and ordered large prints of his duck portraits, which hang in the restaurant to this day. Ducks are a resilient but vulnerable bird found just about everywhere on earth. They’ve also been deemed the funniest animal in the world by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in his 2002 LaughLab experiment. A raw, vegan and organic lifestyle not only supports our own wellness, but allows for more lucky ducks who won’t end up confit, a l’orange or crispy Peking!
More about Sarma
In addition to being a Chef, author and proprietor of Pure Food and Wine and President One Lucky Duck, Sarma has a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked in investment banking at Bear Stearns and in private equity at Bain Capital before graduating from the French Culinary Institute in 1999 and making her entrance in the culinary world. She lives in Manhattan with her cats and is into fresh air, green juice, farmers’ markets, good music, comfy sneakers and the big wide world of food. You can read about her culinary ambitions and weekend adventures on her blog.