Originally posted on 05/25/2015 for Huffington Post Through a Lens Joyfully — Vegan of the month, Paulette Phlipot Takes a Closer Look at Real Food Fresh fruits and vegetables are good for us, anyone knows that. Award-winning culinary photographer Paulette Phlipot reminds us they’re also the source of “simplicity, joy and fun. How can you…
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 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…
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…
VEGAN OF THE MONTH: JASMIN SINGER
So proud of Jasmin Singer of Our Hen House and her loud, proud new memoir, Always too Much and Never Enough Originally posted on 04/15/2013 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Our Hen House’s Jasmin Singer and the Art of Defiance What would make you change the way you think, the way you eat? For many,…
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…
Luck of the Irish
Some people have a gift for tapping in to the positive energy of the universe. They sip serendipity, they go with the flow, they are the flow. I am not one of them. Usually. However, even I lucked out. Yesterday, St. Patrick’s Day, I find myself on Vegan Street . This has everything to do…
Whole Grain Pancakes
On March 30 The Whole Grains Council proclaims to be Whole Grains Sampling Day. Celebrate with this recipe for whole grain pancakes from my book, Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith and What to Eat for Dinner. We all benefit by rest, include pancake batter. You get lighter cakes if you let the batter rest…
