'Being from California, smoothies were “in” back in the 60s and early 70s, but only among health nuts, as we were called then. Most of us “nuts” were very young, radical in our dress and political beliefs, extreme vegetarians, meditators and surfers, and hippies.
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But not all health-minded Californians were in their twenties. Many of the original health food pioneers—like Paul Bragg and his daughter Patricia Bragg, Dr. Bernard Jensen, Gerald Benesh, Jack Lalanne, and Edmund Szekely of Essene Gospel fame and founder of Rancho La Puerta health spa and retreat—were still around. Their followers owned or worked in the first health food stores and juice shops. Vegetarian restaurants popped up, and in our kitchens we made and sold fresh almond milk, granola and health bars.'
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