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…
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…
Fasolia Gigante Soup with Spinach
I love soup, I love Love Soup and I love its author, Anna Thomas. Her book Vegan, Vegetarian, Omnivore comes out next month. Bet you love it, too. Originally posted on 10/06/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Love by the Ladleful With “Love Soup” Author Anna Thomas I’m a believer in soup, but “Love Soup” author…
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…
Gumbo Z’herbes – Mardi Gras’ Afterparty
Originally posted on 02/27/2012 for Huffington Post It’s not only Meatless Monday, it’s Occupy Our Food Supply Day, so get involved. The ingredient in the secret sauce for making real food safe and accessible to all is you. On Ash Wednesday last week, New Orleans sanitation workers held their noses and hosed down Bourbon Street,…
(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….
Vegan of the Month – Animal Right Activist Jaya Bhumitra
Compassion Over Killing‘s Jaya Bhumitra won’t take animal abuse lying down. She’s been getting up before dawn to train for the Palos Verdes half marathon this Saturday. Bhumitra is running 13.1 miles to raise money on behalf of the 9 billion animals killed annually for food in this country. She’s also doing it in memory…
