Wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day brings good luck, they say, but to get the whole Irish experience, eat green, too. Wild greens like dandelion and nettles have been Irish mainstays for centuries. What, did you think the ancient Celts celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with green beer and Lucky Charms? Wild greens are just that,…
Broccoli and Lentils Apicius
Originally posted on 04/09/2012 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Broccoli and Affordable Health Care In an old comedy routine, Mel Brooks plays a therapist who advises his patient, “Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli will tell you how to eat it.” I wish Justice Antonin Scalia’s broccoli would have a word with him. During…
Gumbo Z’herbes – Mardi Gras’ Afterparty
Originally posted on 02/27/2012 for Huffington Post It’s not only Meatless Monday, it’s Occupy Our Food Supply Day, so get involved. The ingredient in the secret sauce for making real food safe and accessible to all is you. On Ash Wednesday last week, New Orleans sanitation workers held their noses and hosed down Bourbon Street,…
Vegan of the Month – Animal Right Activist Jaya Bhumitra
Compassion Over Killing‘s Jaya Bhumitra won’t take animal abuse lying down. She’s been getting up before dawn to train for the Palos Verdes half marathon this Saturday. Bhumitra is running 13.1 miles to raise money on behalf of the 9 billion animals killed annually for food in this country. She’s also doing it in memory…
Wine-Braised Cabbage With Apples and Caraway
Originally posted on 01/14/2013 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: EcoFarm at 36 — Still Feeding the World You Want to Live In Once upon a time, in 1980, before the internet came of age, the Ecological Farm Association, a farming nonprofit supporting healthy, sustainable food and food systems, sensed farmers needed to meet each other. “There…
Manhattan Millet Cakes and the Veganuary pledge
Originally posted on 01/05/2015 for Huffington Post. Kickstarting Veganuary We’re a few days into the new year, the time we’re most likely to resolve to make positive changes. So how’s it going so far? Is that resolution to eat better is starting to crumble? No worries, we’re here to help. By we, I mean all…
First Fruits of the Harvest
Originally Posted on 12/30/2013 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest As they say in Swahili, “Habari gani?” This translates into a combination of “How are you?” and “What’s shakin’?” It’s about the limits of my Swahili, but it’s useful now, being the traditional greeting at Kwanzaa. Any holiday that takes its…
Zero Waste Chard With Beets and Beet Greens
originally posted on 12/02/2013 for Huffington Post Give Back, Don’t Throw Out Monday after Thanksgiving you may be at the point where you can’t look a holiday leftover in the eye. But before you pitch those potatoes, stop and consider they’ll be joining an estimated 36 billion tons of annual American food waste. Meanwhile, according…
Lentil Puree with Wilted Greens
I am on my way to Boston to attend Oldways conference Finding Common Ground. I love Oldways for combining old school traditional cuisines with new science. Plus, they rebuilt the pyramid. Originally posted on 11/18/2013 for Huffington Post Oldways, New Vegetarian and Vegan Diet Pyramid The old ways are new again — and even more…
Masala Lentils (Sabut Masoor)
Diwali, India’s Festival of Lights, starts Wednesday, but get a jump on the spice-scented celebration with Vegan Richa. Originally posted on 07/13/2015 for Huffington Post Indian Spice Meets American Speed in ‘Vegan Richa’s Indian Kitchen’ “I always wonder why people are not comfortable with Indian food,” frets Richa Hingle. “It’s so delicious.” It’s richly spiced,…
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