Posted originally on 08/01/2011 for Huffington Post Ramadan And Compassion — We Are Like Family Ramadan began last night at sundown, so I wished my next door neighbors a heartfelt, but no doubt, badly pronounced Ramadan Mubarak — blessed Ramadan. They are Muslim, from, well, it doesn’t matter what country they’re from. Muslims make up…
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…
Black Bean Fudgesicles
Posted originally on 07/28/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Using the Old Bean Bad news globally, in Ukraine and Gaza and bad news closer to home, too — a wonderful friend has been ill. But she’s on the mend and she’s a smart girl. She’s building herself back up and trying to get a little…
Briam – a Greek casserole of summer veggies
By Ellen Kanner Posted originally on 05/23/2010 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Carrying The Earth Get cozy, it’s story time, and the tale is Jason and the Argonauts, your classic Greek myth. Jason, a nice enough guy, was promised the kingdom of Iolcus if he produced the Golden Fleece, a magical ram’s skin bestowing all…
Boston Brown Bread
By Ellen Kanner Posted originally on 06/09/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Boston Uncommon I’m right proud to have made The Boston Calendar’s coveted list of Events That Don’t Suck. Back at ya, Boston, it didn’t suck for me, either. It was wonderful. I got to speak at Wellesley Books, a great indie book store,…
Civility Pulaw/Perlou/Pilaf
By Ellen Kanner Posted originally on 01/27/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Table Manners I believe being meatless has a positive impact on your health, your karma, your planet, but you can argue otherwise and I will listen and not reject you. Call me a wimp. Or call me civil. Civility, the very thing President…
TOFU SCRAMBLE & FIG WALNUT BREAD
By Ellen Kanner Posted originally on 05/16/2011 for Huffington Post Life, Death and What to Eat for Breakfast I recently gave a public talk on Living Green, Eating Green, which I fashioned to be a sort of meatlessness’ greatest hits — how being meatless is cool — Bill Clinton and Oprah are doing it, and it’s…
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…
Filling Michael Pollan’s Prescription
A version of this post originally ran on November 10, 2014. For Huffington Post’s Meatless Monday In his 2008 book, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan gave us the prescription in seven words — “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” It’s that simple. And that hard to do. I saw just how hard when…
Mushroom Risotto
Those of my ilk were once considered Pythagoreans, as in Pythagoras. Best known as ancient Greece’s math geek extraordinaire, Pythagoras was also into music and philosophy. It’s believed his own personal ethos abjured killing and eating animals, a practice followed by vegetarians for generations to come. The word vegetarian itself had to wait until the…
