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 —…
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…
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…
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…
The World on a Plate
I’ve been at work on a book called Feeding the Hungry Ghost, which while peppered with recipes is not quite a cookbook, it’s like this blog — it talks about food but it also talks about faith. It’s not driven by nutritional information, it’s driven by narrative, by story. A literary agent initially interested in…
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…
When Irish Eyes are Crossed
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I made Irish soda bread. Sort of. When I went from vegetarian from vegan some years back, what I missed and thought of wistfully were the big overstuffed omelets I used to make on Sundays and my Irish soda bread, which I made all the time. I’d adapted my…
Obsessive Turkish Noodle Stew With Sesame
I remember a time when I was a little girl, riding in the car somewhere with my parents. The car, I believe, was a Dodge Dart, and it seemed to go on for a city block, This was before the days of confining car seats and I was in my own vast world of the…
Dolcia Somnia Quadruus (Sweet Dreams Squares)
To Sleep, Perchance “Me thought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more!” Oh, jeez, Macbeth, you, too? Even those of us who haven’t killed a king have insomnia issues. There’s not one, but two types of insomnia, both of them bite. There’s your not-being-able-to-fall-asleep-at-all, bad enough, but the other is the really diabolical one….
