Is it possible in today’s civilization to eat entirely naturally born products? This means you eat just what you managed to catch and to eat only plants you grow on your own without being a slave of a grocery store.
That’s why we want to introduce you Kimi Werner – a Hawaiian wonder-woman, (someone calls her goddess) who is also a chef, a model and a freediving champion with the ability to hold her breath for 4 minutes and 45 seconds.
She lives quietly the life everyone dreams of: eating fresh seafood every day accompanied with paid surfing in Hawaii.
Her profile on Instagram is filled with frames like they were taken at the Blue Lagoon.
She speaks about one of the most strange ways to get food: killing octopuses in the ocean. Kimi bites them by the heads. “Put the mouth of an octopus over the head and just bite as much as possible. After this, they have a brain contracting, and instantly die.”
“The last [octopus] I caught was gigantic and weighed almost 5 kilograms. His tentacles were much longer than the hands of any man, and he wrapped around me, no matter how much I stretched out my hand.
I remember, by the time I got to the surface, he pulled off the top of my swimsuit. Therefore, I was in the middle of the ocean naked to the waist, and he still sucked to my back as much as he could. In the end, I was able to grab him and bite him by the head. It’s much harder to deal with big ones: you do not even have time to prepare for a bite, but they already grab you, tear your mask and your clothes off.”
Kimi was absolutely confident. She just laughed heartily. “My friend Jessica was with me, and she laughed without stopping because I was completely defenseless. I did not notice this until I calmed down, “says Werner.
This muscular octopus was cooked. “Yes, and his taste was amazing. I rubbed it with a large Hawaiian sea salt, which was extracted from a nearby pool that had evaporated. So he gets rid of his mucus and softens. And then I put it in the kettle and cooked over the low fire with a beer, ” she says.
“Then, if I want some hot food, I deep-fry a small, one-bite piece of octopus with butter and garlic, along with a small amount of leafy cabbage, which I grow in my garden. Then, in the end, I add coconut milk to it. It’s delicious with rice. If you want something cold, I whip up the ceviche and eat it with tortilla chips,” the girl adds.
Kimi visits supermarket very seldom: “As a rule, for all the carbohydrates that I can not get myself, like rice, flour, bread and olive oil.”
“The lion part of the protein I consume, I take from nature: fish, lobsters, crabs, octopuses and, in fact, everything that is found in the ocean.
I go hunting once a week and always share with other people. It is remarkable that people in return share food with me. Just recently, I got some fresh venison from local hunters because I gave them fish. I also get a lot of fruits like bananas and avocados from neighbours. If I do not get the food I can eat, it means someone else nearby me has it .”
In a world where hunting trips are often taken as a vacation from daily life, and many people have only recently gone hunting for the first time, Kimi’s way of living is the perfect example to show that there’s a lot more to life than just the ‘modern’ world we live in.
Werner told the secret of her stunning look at the age of 37: “Salt water cleans, and, of course, the daily consumption of seafood. But I think the most important thing is to live a life filled with all sorts of passions. Allow yourself to do what makes you happy, and create what brings you joy. Children understand this, so they know this secret of eternal youth.”
“The ocean gives us a lot if we talk about fun, food, and happiness. Caring for the ocean is really in our hands. I believe that putting this responsibility on hunters is great. They can become stewards of the ocean and set an example for everyone else, just be the ambassadors of the ocean.”
