Originally posted on 01/06/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday in the City of Pleasant Living This rather fabulous black-eyed peas with fennel is just the ticket for Wednesday, Global Pulse Day, a world-wide celebration of dried beans. Enjoy it wherever you are, even if you’re not in the City of Pleasant Living. To start the new…
Gomen Wat (Ethiopian Collard Stew)
Originally posted 01/26/2015 for Huffington Post Tales From the (Vegetarian Flavor) Bible Food luminaries Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg wrote the book on flavor. Twice. First with “The Flavor Bible” in 2008 and now with “The Vegetarian Flavor Bible,” born out the award-winning duo’s decision to go meatless. Page and her husband live in a foodie…
Feeling Pressure for the Holidays? by The Veggie Queen
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Jill Nussinow Among Jill Nussinow’s day jobs, she’s a registered dietitian, culinary instructor, author of cookbooks including The New Fast Food and pressure cooker pro. First and foremost, though, she is queen — the Veggie Queen. Your inspired source for plant-based eating, Jill combines a royal love of produce…
Earth Day Tibetan Stew
April 22 marks the 45th anniversary of Earth Day. Originally posted on 06/19/2010 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Earth Day Looks at Forty Forty, as you know, is the new thirty, so Earth Day is sleek, chic and fun but more sophisticated than it was in its earliest incarnations. The advent of the internet and…
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…
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…
Ratatouille
Posted originally on 08/13/2012 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: True Stories “From Malawi to Michigan, people and organizations are building better ways to eat today so that all of us can eat well tomorrow,” says food activist and author Raj Patel. “This knowledge demands to be shared and spread.” With “Hoops Dreams” director Steve…
BEAN AND FENNEL STEW
Posted originally on 01/06/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday in the City of Pleasant Living To start the new year off right, a true story in which the seemingly impossible comes to pass — and in my ‘hood, of all places. Sprawling Miami-Dade County may be best known for Miami, where I live, but it…
Summer Surprised Us
“Summer surprised us,” writes T.S. Eliot. The phrase comes early in “The Wasteland’ and it surprises the reader, too, already so lost in the poem’s rich layers as to be startled by these five simple syllables that come in the seventh line. Summer always surprises me, especially September, which I still associate with fall, with…
