Sunfired Food is an astounding cuisine prepared by the greatest chef of all, the SUN. “The growing period is the cooking process. We do not cook the SUN out of the food,” shares the originator of the Sunfired Cuisine and guiding light of Sunfired Food, Dr. Aris LaTham.
Sunfired Foods are living natural plant foods that have been prepared without destroying their essential life elements: vitamins, minerals and enzymes, as is normally done through modern cooking processes. All the foods are prepared with the utmost care to preserve their health giving integrity. Fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, sea vegetation, herbs and spices from around the world are fussed in mouthwatering recipes to create an infinite array of exotic dishes to nurture your ‘original’ taste buds and nourish your living temple.
Sunfired Foods Retain All Digestive Enzymes
For as long as most of us can remember, the modern diet has been filled with large quantities of cooked meats and starchy vegetables. Instead of energizing, nourishing and healing the body, this eating system overtaxes it. Naturally occurring enzymes are completely destroyed by cooking causing our bodies to expend vast amounts of energy to manufacture replacement enzymes in an attempt to digest these foodstuff
Modern eating habits force the body to produce digestive enzymes almost around the clock.
Sunfired Cuisine, however, ensures that the enzmes naturally present in fresh plant foods are preserved, enabling them to assist our digestive process. Perhaps, they even enhance it.
“Living” foods literally digest themselves and support all of our organs to process their nutrients efficiently.
Eating cooked foods also diminishes the body’s capacity to generate enzymes for other vital functions, including the maintenance of our immune system.
In these times the more we can do to protect our immune system, the better.
Sunfired Food – Ethics
Sunfired Cuisine emphasizes the use of organic ingredients. This allows us to avoid the pesticides and herbicides that are used in the cultivation of most fruits and vegetables today. It assures us of obtaining a greater nutritional value to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Sunfired Food, is completely vegetarian (meat-less, dairy-less, fish-less), low in fat and sodium, sugar-free, hygienic, energy efficient, ecological and continually fresh.
Our commitment to humanity is to present “living” foods as wholesome as nature intended in order for us to honor our life dependent relationship with food.
Sunfired Food is dedicated to the possibility of a peaceful and disease-free world b ycarefully adhering to the teachings of the great masters of living food science. Dr. Aris LaTham, originator, owner, and proponent of the Sunfired Feasting, Fasting and Healing System does more than provide food for human consumption. He is a culinary Griot who performs his magic with artistic ingenuity, creating a symphony of extraordinary nutrition that completely satisfies the senses and enhances your overall well being.
While we do not claim to hold any comprehensive formulas or cures for specific health problems, our extensive research and experience demonstrates that Sunfired Food is an essential foundation for achieving optimal health.
Beyond this, we offer you life empowering knowledge through seminars, workshops and consultations on how to prepare and consume Sunfired Food to live a healthier life. We are committed to understanding and improving your health through food because “it is not the food in your life…but the life in your food that nourishes.”
The Journey to Sunfired Food
The founder of Sunfired Cuisine, Dr. Aris LaTham is known as the ‘father of gourmet ethical vegetarian raw food cuisine.’ In 1979, he conceived Sunfired following in the footsteps of his grandmother and mother, successful master chefs, to venture into the food service industry and purchase Savannah Herbs in Harlem, New York.
The business thrived and Aris expanded his servicece. In response to continuous requests from guests of Savannah Herbs for live food culinary knowledge, Aris set out to make it happen as only he could.
Sunfired on Wheels
The highlight of the cuisine is Aris’ Paradise Pies which was also the namesake of his West 
Hollywood hangout on La Cienega Boulevard’s Restaurant Row. Recording artists, stage and screen stars, sports heroes and political figures frequented the restaurant. Actress Demi Moore, jazz sensation Patrice Rushen, movie star Ben Vereen, health activist Dick Gregory, authors Harvey and Marilyn Diamond and cookie giant Famous Amos are a few of the many personalities drawn to this new world of exotic healthy delicacies. Even The Artist, Prince, stopped in at the Beverly Hills Juice Club. Sunfired established the start of a new era of raw food cuisine in America that is purposefully designed for eaters rather than for sick care. It also became the first living foods dining experience to appeal to non-vegetarians, thus creating a mass appeal where there had not been one before.
The Golden Age
In 1988, Aris LaTham was appointed consulting master chef for the Hippocrates Health Institute when it moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. From 1990 to 1994 he led “The Golden Age of Raw Foods Revolution” when he teamed up with the then president of the Discovery Channel in Bethesda, Maryland where they co-owned Green City Market and Café.
Global Interest
Globally, interest in living foods has been surging dramatically since Dr. LaTham’s pioneering days andtyhat interest continues to rise at an astonishing rate. Aris has contributed tremendously to this remarkable phenomenon by having trained thousands of chefs through the Sunfired Culinary Institute over the past 30 years.
Raw Retreats – Living Food for Living People
During these years Aris evolved the Sunfired Experience to the concept of a healthy retreat vacation and
began offering it at the Cottonwood Hot Springs in Alabama. In 1995 he turned the concept into a permanent reality and pioneered it with Dick Gregory in Jamaica at the Tree House Hotel in Negril – turning it into the first living food resort haven in the Caribbean. In May 2000, after 36 years of a rich and full life in the USA, Aris surrendered his permanent residency there and moved on using his billing as the featured chef of The Raw Food Culinary Masters Showcase at Swept Away Resort as his springboard to a glorious life in “Paradise Jamaica”.
Sunfired House of Life – Raw Retreat
The Institutein Jamaicas is located in a beautiful nature reserve overlooking Jamaica’s picturesque North Coast, at Coyaba Gardens and Mahoe Falls. which are unsurpassed model environments of the concept of green living. Unique natural elements like the hundred-year old cedar tree, several ponds, the resident peacock, the two million gallons of spring water flowing from underground aquifers feeding into the taps that run through the in-suite baths and central kitchens; coupled with local inspiration create a laid-back natural setting infused with an authentic Caribbean spirit.
Now in 2009, 33 years after the inception of his ascent to an exclusive Sunfired Food eating system, Aris, the living legend of healthy living and the concept of ‘living foods for living people’, has a flourishing natural life retreat headquarters in the Panama Canal's Lake Gatun region with a global reach. All thanks to his dedicated efforts and that of his staff, students and guests, the Sunfired concept is alive and growing and remains on the revolutionary cutting edge of culinary creativity.
Today, Sunfired Culinary Organic Eco Resort proudly bears the torch of Aris’ legacy and offers an idyllice life transformation center at the beautiful Baraka Beach on Panama's Caribbean Sea.
Aris has a ten thousand-volume self-growth research library at his Panama City welcome center in the Bella Vista community in this modern business metropolis, where guests would spend the night after landing at the Tocumen International Airport before embarking on the 2 hour road journey to the Caribbean coast to cross the canal into Costa Abajo.
For over 30 years, Sunfired has delighted students and guests with outstanding service, exceptional dining and unparalleled value-added knowledge. We differ from other retreat facilities in that we consider ourselves Artisans, not Mass Marketers – Sunfired House of Life is a unique boutique-style retreat within the health tourism industry. We are driven to provide a high quality product at a competitive price.
Our loyal guests are those who value the experience over hype, who appreciate being pampered in an environment conducive to the enhancement of their total well being and who respect and are eager to learn more about the culture we represent. The foundation of our continued success is our people. Our staff strives to Engage Your Hearts and Enrich Your Spirits. We aspire to create life enhancing connections so satisfying to our students, guests and staff that trust is assured.
Discover yourself at Sunfired House of Life.
We look forward to welcoming you home!
