The Key to Sexual Vitality? Try Watermelon Originally posted on 02/04/2013 for Huffington Post Wanna put some sizzle in your summer and some sizzle in your sex life? Drs. Brian and Anna Clement have your prescription: Watermelon. The Clements run Hippocrates Health Institute, a pioneer in natural wellness for over half a century. “What draws…
Friendly Broccoli and Black Beans With Sherry
Originally Posted on 12/03/2012 for Huffington Post Friends With Benefits “Broccoli, eh?” said a guy, checking out my basket of farmers market haul. “I’ll stick with my friend here.” He bit into a hoagie piled high with processed meat. You call that a friend? Study after study has linked processed meat to cancer. The World…
VEGAN OF THE MONTH – BRYANT TERRY
Originally posted on 04/21/2014 for the Huffington Post Earth Day just tastes better with self-described eco-chef Bryant Terry in the kitchen. “I started calling myself an eco-chef in 2002,” says the author of the cookbook Afro-Vegan. “I knew I wanted to commit to healthy food and sustainability issues, helping people to understand the choices we…
Earth Day Extra — Introducing Vegan Stories . . . and You
I’ve had it with social media (she said, via social media). Likes, follows, market share are all great, but they’re no measure of the real mucky business of living. And loving. And changing. Google analytics can’t assess how something unexpected can open you up, can spark your heart, or make you nod your head and…
Seed Cake
Posted originally on 03/25/2013 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Spring Awakening I’d intended to make this post about Passover and Easter, the two holidays that bookend this week. Nature has had other ideas, signaling to me in my favorite kind of way. The bees have been buzzing around my firebush, the bluejays and mockingbirds are…
Chili-Spiked Tempeh With Green Beans and Brown Rice
Here’s to Gunter Pfaff, tempeh true believer and visionary. Meatless Monday: The Joy, the Soy, the (Sub-)Culture of Tempeh Originally posted on 08/09/2010 for Huffington Post. Betsy Shipley has seen the future, and it is an eco-loving foodie’s wet dream — honest, local, sustainable, organic, free of genetic modification, green, delicious, affordable and accessible to…
Kamut with Lemon and Mint
March 30 is Whole Grains Sampling Day, so get your taste game going with this Kamut recipe Originally posted on 03/19/2012 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Small, Sustainable World It’s a small world, as Walt Disney told us. And we’re all hungry. I was thinking of this last week in Anaheim, where 60,000 of us…
(Collard) Greens Rolling in Dough
Originally posted on 02/17/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: What They Still Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School Last week, I appeared at a Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce panel on behalf of LEAP. We were there as Miami’s culinary entrepreneurs, speaking to other women who have or are looking to start their own business….
Exotic Mushroom Toast
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 —…
Steel Cut Oats for high cholesterol
In addition to being Whole Grains Month it is September is Better Breakfast Month. Who makes up these things, anyway? But why fight it? Make yourself some steel cut oats and enjoy Meatless Monday: Rolling the High (Cholesterol) Numbers Originally posted on 04/29/2013 for Huffington Post I went meatless at 13 because I love animals and…
