My Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes: Installment #1
For the next week, Nov. 14 through 21, I’ll be posting one delicious, easy, and trustworthy vegan Thanksgiving recipes my family and I enjoy year after year. Green Bean Casserole from Ten Talents, (c) Rosalie Hurd and Dr. Frank Hurd www.tentalents.net Ten Talents has been the staple recipe book in my vegan kitchen from my pre-vegan vegetarian […]
50 Best Pinterest Boards for Student Vegetarians
A guest blog from www.onlinedegrees.org Although more and more schools offer dining options for students adhering to vegetarian and vegan diets (as in, dining options beyond “salad bar”), navigating a new environment with food restrictions still proves occasionally headache-inducing. But making snacks and meals at home means sticking with the lifestyle and resisting temptations to […]
An Island in the Storm
Just a quick post as New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut dig out of SuperStorm Sandy. Our family and homes are fine. William and I, as well as Adair and Nick, live in Harlem, Uptown Manhattan. The island gets higher as you go Uptown, plus we’re reasonably inland. As a result, we saw virtually no […]
Food and Soul
We’ve all heard that eating “keeps body and soul together.” Evidence now suggests that our spiritual lives impact our relationship with food, and that the foods we eat can affect our spiritual sensibilities. The ancient seers who developed yoga may have been the world’s first nutritionists. They looked for a diet that could contribute to […]
Guest Blog from Robin Asbell
Robin Asbell is a masterful recipe creator and the author of books including Big Vegan and the brand new Sweet and Easy Vegan: Treats Made with Whole Grains and Natural Sweeteners. Her website is www.robinasbell.com. It’s an honor to be writing this guest blog for Victoria. You see, I feel a certain kinship with Victoria, beyond the fact […]
Web Log: Veg and the City
It’s a Wednesday night in New York City. I’m in a circa 1920s hotel on the East Side, near the UN. Our apartment flooded — the A/C in the unit upstairs “ruptured” — and we have to have our floors and ceilings replaced. The insurance company has put us in this hotel, and I’m trying […]
The Somewhat Good Old Days
My daughter, Adair, was doing some background work earlier this week and sent me this photo entitled, “Me in the 1950s.” I was shocked at how much the picture looked like one of my mother when she was young, taken in the actual decade. I wrote that back to Adair, along with: “I’m glad we’re […]
Dine Like a Yogi
When I started yoga as a teenager, it was not offered at every health club and YWCA like it is now. In fact, it seemed very foreign. Suspect. People confused it with yogurt and both were just weird.Things have changed and you’d be hard-pressed to find a health-conscious person who hasn’t at least tried a […]
Chef Mark Reinfeld’s Currant Scones
This is the special recipe that acquainted me with Chef Mark Reinfeld, guest on today’s Main Street Vegan show on Unity Online Radio. Currant Scones © 2012 Mark Reinfeld from 30-Minute Vegan’s Taste of Europe Da Capo Press, all rights reserved The sun never sets on Britain’s culinary empire. Originating in Scotland in the […]