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                                                                                  balance as well as a balance of
                                                                                  taste.  After all, nothing beats
                                                                                  great food made with quality
                                                                                  ingredients that also tastes
                                                                                  amazing!


                                                                                  Here is a sample dish from sage,
                                                                                  our Asian rice bowl.  I can tell
                                                                                  you in which field each of these
                                                                                  ingredients were grown, the brown
                                                                                  rice, the carrots and beetroots
                                                                                  and spring onions, the sesame
                                                                                  seeds, the chicken, even the basil
                                                                                  in the glass of water.  This to us
                                                                                  is the very definition of luxury and
                                                                                  wellbeing.













 organic locally grown food.  But   and natural ice-creams.  We are   eating and cooking habits in a
 the awareness is seeping into the   firm believers in the adage that   short period of time.  So when
 minds of consumers that what   all food is medicine, and if you   you see our young waiters and
 you put into your body is crucial   treat it as such, there is no need   waitresses in our café, talk to
 for wellness and health.  This is in   to take any other medicine or   them about food and ask them
 fact the true luxury, and it doesn’t   pharmaceuticals.  There are many   about wellness.  Chances are that
 cost an arm and a leg.   cases of our clients who report   they are classmates or friends of
 a big positive change in their   your children.
 My wife Kavitha, who has an   family health once they switch
 MBA from Cambridge University   from mandi vegetables to buying   Preparing and eating naturally
 in England, retrained as a chef   healthy organic produce from us.    grown food is the best way to
 and opened our store and café,   Our eggs and free-range chickens   maintain good health. Factory-
 “Sage Farm Café”, in Jubilee Hills   are reared with extraordinary care,   made food comes with high
 in Hyderabad.  Our ethos in the   and we encourage farm visits   levels of sugar, salt, saturated or
 café is an extension of our farm   where our clients can bring their   trans fats, and lots of synthetic
 and focuses on fresh seasonal   families and see where and how   preservatives and ingredients.
 ingredients, and slow food made   their food is being grown.   These things are really bad for
 from scratch using primarily   you over the long run.  It is also
 the finest quality homegrown   Kavitha and I love sharing this   important to “eat the rainbow”,
 ingredients. Kavitha prepares   lifestyle that my family enjoys   meaning a rich variety of produce,
 5 types of cheeses including   with our clients who appreciate   so that your microbial diversity
 mozzarella, paneer, ricotta, feta   and understand that luxury and   in your gut in increased, and you
 and cheddar using milk from our   wellness go hand in hand.  We   get a wide variety of nutrients
 own buffaloes.  She make fresh   have also started an internship   naturally.  This is also the ethos
 kombucha kefir and sauerkraut,   program for high school or gap   of our farm and store, where we
 which are all fermented   year students where they spend   focus on variety of produce, local
 superfoods. She also has a range   a month working in our café and   seeds as opposed to foreign
 of healthy snacks, fresh juices,   end up learning a lifetime of good   hybrids, and proper nutritional
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