I live next door to Jordanians on side, Spaniards on the other. Our neighbors are Jamaicans, Swiss, Argentinians, Cuban refugees, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and Jews. We have gay neighbors, straight neighbors. Sometimes we all mystify each other. But we always tolerate each other. We’re very different. But together, we are the face of America. You…
Tandoori Vegetables
Veganuary — Your (Free) Ticket to Success Originally posted for Huffington Post on 01/01/2018 Happy 2019! According to statistics, January 1 is our favorite time to resolve to change our lives. The Law of Attraction tells us committing to one positive attracts more positivity, setting in motion a whole wave of happy changes. Take the Veganuary pledge,…
Minnie’s Cookies, Vegan Edition
Old Cookie Recipe for a New Year I’m not an eater of cookies. I seldom even bake them. I’m funny that way (and other ways). But as the holidays drew closer, cookies began pushing their way into an important part of my brain. Specifically, the cookies most beloved in my family, from Minnie, my great-great-great-great…
Hopping John
Call me a bit of a rebel, I’m not a big on holiday traditions. For obvious reasons, I’m fine with a turkeyless Thanksgiving. I’m likewise fine with a treeless Christmas, a menorahless Chanukah. I do like New Year’s though, with champagne on New Year’s Eve and hopping john New Year’s Day. There is nothing glamorous…
Christmas Pasta
Christmas Pasta for a Good (and Cheap) Night We interrupt this season of political upheaval and cataclysmic climate change to bring you. . . Christmas Eve. Here in Miami, it’s also called Nochebuena, which means the Good Night. Well, honey, we could all use a little good. In Italy, Christmas Eve is called Vigilia di…
Panforte
Doing Dessert for a Sweet Solstice Originally posted for Huffington Post on 12/21/2015 Howdy and happy winter solstice. Winter officially begins tonight and we continue speeding towards Christmas, Kwanzaa and the finish line of 2015. As usual, I am not ready. In fact, I’m still mulling over something from October. My husband I were visiting Cayman…
Seven Sacred Foods Salad
Three Holidays, One Umoja Recipe I had Chanukah in mind with this recipe, which I demoed yesterday at Temple Solel’s first-ever Jewish Vegetarian Food Festival, but it would be happy to be on anyone’s holiday table. With Chanukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa all clustered together in the same week, it’s an opportunity to celebrate our cultural…
Feeding the Hungry Ghost – Holiday Special!
Holiday shopping deal-a-mundo from my publisher New World Library — now through 12/19, get my award-winning book Feeding the Hungry Ghost book or any New World Library title for HALF OFF. Just enter the code “FRIENDS” at on http://www.newworldlibrary.com to save on books by Eckhart Tolle, Shakti Gawain, Dan Millman, Joseph Campbell, and um, me.
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Adeena Sussman
Adeena Sussman knows what you want to eat. Tapping into others’ gastronomic yearnings is her superpower. She’s done it with numerous co-authors including Chrissy Teigen, with whom Sussman partnered for Teigen’s bestselling cookbooks Cravings and Cravings: Hungry For More. In Sababa, Sussman’s first solo effort, the food passions are her own. Sababa is Israeli slang…
Modern Msickquatash — Limas, Squash and Caramelized Leeks
History Lesson Originally posted for Huffington Post on 03/18/2010 With frantic schedules, fast food and frozen entrees, Thanksgiving may be the one day of the year we return to the kitchen. And in so doing, we return to ourselves. We connect with the people who matter in our lives by inviting them to our table for a…
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