The Mediterranean Diet Gets A Bigger Splash Originally posted for Huffington Post on 5/16/2016 Happy Mediterranean Diet Month! Pantelleria has been discovered. This sleepy Sicilian island is suddenly hot thanks to A Bigger Splash. But Pantelleria was here long before Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes. It’s an ancient island closer to Tunisia than Sicily. Volcanic, windswept Pantelleria seems barren,…
Guacamole and Vegan Chocolate Mousse
Who Grows Our Food — Margie Pikarsky, Bee Heaven Farm Originally posted for Huffington Post on 3/21/2016 An earlier version of this post originally ran on July 16, 2012. It’s part of the occasional Meatless Monday series Who Grows Our Food, which takes a close look at some of the people, so often unsung, who give us the food…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Carolina Molea
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Carolina Molea Mon Dieu, the winner of Miami’s best croissant contest is L’Artisane Bakery, the brand-new Surfside shop helmed by my brilliant vegan friend Carolina Molea. That’s right, vegan croissants, flaky on the outside, light as air on the inside, buttery beyond belief (yet butterless) and voted Miami’s best…
Heretical Angel Orange Crush Couscous
It is Sunday afternoon, I am in my frock, ready to go out. I am waiting for my husband, who’s been out running errands, to pick me up. He is a smidge late. I am used to this. The phone rings. “I’m okay,” my husband says, “but I’ve been in an accident.” My heart and…
Earth Day Tibetan Stew
Earth Day Looks at Forty Originally posted for Huffington Post on 6/19/2010 Earth Day’s Pushing 50 –Your Food Choices Can Help Keep Her — and You — Vibrant and Healthy This Thursday, April 22, marks the fortieth annual Earth Day. Forty, as you know, is the new thirty, so Earth Day is sleek, chic and fun but…
Pikliz
Preserving What’s on America’s Plate Originally posted for Huffington Post on 7/25/2016 Mark Twain, adored the abundance of America’s plate. He even dreamed of it. He found the food in Europe “as tasteless as paper.” He longed for the food of home, like “Saratoga potatoes. Hot wheat-bread, Southern Style. Radishes. Baked apples, with cream. American butter. Hominy….
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Chloe Coscarelli
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Chloe Coscarelli “She’s bright, stunningly beautiful, sweet, brilliant and forgiving,” says Alyssa Fasciano. She is Chloe Coscarelli, vegan winner of Food Networks’ Cupcake Wars, bestselling cookbook author, rockstar chef, animal rights activist and all-around adorable person. I confess I didn’t believe the Coscarelli hype. I mean, who could be that…
Red Velvet Cake (Vegan Chocolate Beet Cake)
Marla Rose Takes it to the (Vegan) Street Originally posted for Huffington Post on 3/7/2016 Here’s your easy answer for sweet Easter treat. In 1998, the internet was in its infancy and vegan was not yet cool. Yet Marla Rose and husband John Beske saw tremendous potential for both. So Rose, a writer and Beske, a graphics…
Seed Cake
Spring Awakening Originally posted for Huffington Post on 3/30/2015 I’d intended to make this post about Passover and Easter, the two holidays that bookend this weekend. Nature has had other ideas, signaling to me in my favorite kind of way. The bees have been buzzing around my firebush, the bluejays and mockingbirds are warbling and trilling ……
St. Patrick’s Day Bubble and Squeak (The Eating of the Green)
St. Patrick’s Day Dublin-Style — Dedicated, Passionate Vegan Community: 1, Corned Beef and Cabbage: 0 Originally posted for Huffington Post on 3/13/2017 Who cares about green beer? Last month, I was blissed to find soy milk and almond milk in every coffee shop in Dublin. Every eatery had a vegan option or could craft one without fuss…
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