Originally posted on 06/16/2014 for Huffington Post Inspired By Literature — Bloomsday Turns 90 “Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.” This isn’t me talking or even PETA‘s latest ad campaign. The line comes from James Joyce’s 1922 classic, “Ulysses.” “Ulysses” takes place in…
Summer Berry Pudding
Summer Fling I love seasonal produce. Any season. It’s the most delicious way I know of being in the moment. And summer produce is the easiest to love. Sweet corn, curvy eggplant, luscious mangoes, creamy avocados, ripe berries. What I don’t love — food waste. And honey, there’s a lot of it. We waste up…
Seed Cake
Posted originally on 03/25/2013 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Spring Awakening I’d intended to make this post about Passover and Easter, the two holidays that bookend this week. 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…
VEGAN OF THE MONTH: JASMIN SINGER
So proud of Jasmin Singer of Our Hen House and her loud, proud new memoir, Always too Much and Never Enough Originally posted on 04/15/2013 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Our Hen House’s Jasmin Singer and the Art of Defiance What would make you change the way you think, the way you eat? For many,…
Spice Me Up Holiday Rum Cake
Originally posted on12/23/2013 for Huffington Post. Time to get your Christmas on with the Caribbean cake. If the idea of anything other than a white Christmas seems strange, spend Christmas in the islands — they love it there, decorating lavishly, yet tropically, playing their own Christmas carols, more than we have by a mile, all with an…
SEED CAKE
Posted originally on 06/16/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Inspired By Literature — Bloomsday Turns 90 “Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.” This isn’t me talking or even PETA‘s latest ad campaign. The line comes from James Joyce’s 1922 classic, “Ulysses.” “Ulysses” takes…
Chocolate Raspberry Tart
My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires “To his Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell For Valentine’s Day, skip the Viagra, go for vegetables. Plant-based foods aren’t just good for you, they can make you feel good, too. Real good. They’re edible aphrodisiac and they’re available without a prescription. Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which…
The World on a Plate
I’ve been at work on a book called Feeding the Hungry Ghost, which while peppered with recipes is not quite a cookbook, it’s like this blog — it talks about food but it also talks about faith. It’s not driven by nutritional information, it’s driven by narrative, by story. A literary agent initially interested in…
Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes
It is time to celebrate Lewis Kanner, attorney extraordinaire, Florida native, Democrat, Florida Gator, collector of duck decoys, husband to Marcia. . . and my father. He’s 75 today. He gave me a love for the Everglades and its wonderful waterbirds. A man of endless patience, he taught me how to drive. He shared with…
Guided by Voices
Joan of Arc heard voices instructing her to save France. My voices say, Go the shoe store. Bake a cake. Less noble commands, perhaps, but easier to accomplish and less likely to result in getting burned at the stake. I don’t usually hear let alone obey disembodied voices, but when the call came on Saturday,…
