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,…
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…
Sweet Potato Salad With Tahini and Ginger
Green Grass Roots and a Beacon of Hope from Signal Mountain Originally posted for Huffington Post on 4/24/2017 I’m grateful for the buzz generated by my April 10 Meatless Monday post on the power of activism. To keep the interest and activism going, here’s an encore Meatless Monday, which originally ran on March 18, 2010. It still…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes — Your Face Here
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes — Your Face Here I had big plans for this month’s My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes. Hurricane Irma changed all that. Irma changed a lot of things for a lot of people. So did Maria and Harvey and the Mexico City earthquake and flooding and monsoons in Southeast…
Moroccan Carrot Salad
Summer reminds me how simple, refreshing and amazingly good this Moroccan carrot salad is. Find this recipe and many more in my award-winning book Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith and What to Eat for Dinner. Meatless Monday: Earth Day Friday Extra — Keep it Cool Originally published on 04/22/2011 for the Huffington Post. It’s Earth…
Boiled Vegetable Salad with Umeboshi-Scallion Dressing
Meatless Monday: Ann Gentry Keeps It Real Originally posted on 07/25/2011 for Huffington Post Going vegan “changed my life and changed the course of my life,” says Ann Gentry. “I couldn’t see it then. I just thought I was changing my diet.” You may know Gentry as the founder of vegan mecca Real Food Daily,…
Farmers Market Escarole With Cranberry Beans
Meatless Monday: The Low-Goliath Diet Originally posted on 03/05/2012 for Huffington Post Organic farmers want to be able to farm organically, that is to say, naturally, without Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds — crop-ruiners organic farmers don’t want in the first place — blowing into their fields. That would be bad. Worse would be Monsanto suing them…
Roasted Beet Salad with Chili-Lime Vinaigrette
Hearts, Minds And James McWilliams Health, the environment, ethics, animal rights, because you want a hot bod, because it makes you feel good about yourself. They’re all reasons to go vegan and as far as I’m concerned, they’re all good. I just want to get the plant-based dialogue going. I’m the vegan inviting everyone to…
Dandelion Salad with Beets – Paleo Meets Vegan
Paleo Meets Vegan Originally posted on 02/02/2015 for Huffington Post. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve heard of the paleo diet, based on the premise we should eat the way our Paleolithic forebears did — meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts — no dairy, no processed food — which is most of what we eat I’m no…
Gado Gado
Originally posted on 07/05/2010 for Huffington Post Going to (GMO) Seed Alfalfa sprouts, the ubiquitous and hairy garnish on wraps and the like, are rarely eaten, rarely even given serious consideration. It’s time we change that. Alfalfa is a small example of a very big issue On June 21, the Supreme Court voted seven to…
