Meatless Monday: Local, Sustainable, and Other Labels Originally Posted: 12/13/2010 for Huffington Post Last week brought a new marketing low — I came across a bag of crackers labeled local. Local they might have been once, but they’re made in Washington State and I’m in Miami, Florida. If you want food that’s truly local —…
Tuscan White Beans and Winter Greens Soup
In our evolution from apes to humans, somewhere we lost our tails and our tendency to walk on our knuckles. More recently, we lost our cooking gene. Okay, I know — cooking isn’t genetic. It’s a basic life skill, though, one that was passed down as a matter of course from one generation to the…
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…
VEGAN OF THE MONTH: Fran Costigan
More than 150 pounds of chocolate, 100 pounds of cocoa powder and 20 years of sweet experience went into “Vegan Chocolate,” the bestselling cookbook by pastry goddess Fran Costigan. With tarts and truffles, cookies and creme and shower-stoppers like Sachertorte and Costigan’s childhood favorite, Brooklyn Blackout Cake, it’s a chocolate orgy that’s absolutely plant-based. A…
Dinner at my house.
Fri. Jan 22nd 7:00PM (Limited Seating – only 5 seats left ) “Fueling a Champion” Dinner with Ellen Kanner: Join me for the next EatWith meal. You can buy your ticket HERE. This upcoming EatWith get together is a special pre-Miami Marathon dinner, Asian-inspired and plant-based to fuel you right. Read more about my previous…
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…
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…
The Bread Also Rises
I originally wrote this post in response to another December tragedy, but in the wake of the attacks in Paris, here it is again, a call to rise and come together. Meatless Monday: The Bread Also Rises In the wake of the Newtown massacre, it feels hard to summon the Christmas spirit, Tiny Tim’s sense…
Vegan of the month – Gene Baur
Last week, I got to hear Farm Sanctuary founder Gene Bauer at Miami Book Fair International. He’s an ardent and compassionate animal activist — and November’s Vegan of the Month. Small Steps, Big Changes — Gene Baur and ‘Living the Farm Sanctuary Life’ Originally posted on 04/27/2015 for Huffington Post: There was no plan, there…
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…
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