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Posts from the ‘Food and Drink’ Category

All-Purpose Salad-ish Dressing

In my efforts to veganize my friends and family, I’ve found several things almost everyone wants and that kick start their process. One is vegan dessert. But when I look at my Facebook “Scrumptious Vegan Fare” album, it looks like…

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A Win-Lose Proposition for Farmers and Consumers

From the website of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture: Washington, DC – The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) this week released a proposal to address the critical economic situation of American dairy, pork, and…

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Preparing for the Onslaught

My husband has two friends (a male/female couple) who are transitioning from vegetarian to vegan and I also have two friends (both women) who are transitioning from omnivore and all are dreading Thanksgiving. The conversations with family and friends have…

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On Changing Tastes

Our guest this weekend, Jackie, is transitioning to veganism. Her hurdle, you might not be surprised to learn, is cheese made from the milk of cows. She eats cow cheese daily. Wrongheadedly, I was excited to make her nachos-her favorite…

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New Factual Table for Vegans

Check out this new table by Factual that helps you instantly locate vegan restaurants in the US, and includes mapquest links as well as links to reviews. Would you use it? What do you think about the idea and how…

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On PF Changs and Vegan Authors

The PF Chang update, in case you haven’t seen the response from the restaurant, is thus, once you incorporate the actual experiences of vegans who have gone through something similar with the restaurant: If you don’t eat non-vegan sugar, there…

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On Vegan Devastation at PF Chang’s

From VegCooking, courtesy of PeTA: The vegan-friendly attitude of P.F. Chang’s is largely due to the number of requests that management receives for meatless cuisine. Vegan dishes are among the bestsellers. One manager told PETA Eats that most people prefer…

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Gluten-Free Coconut Almond Cookies

By popular request, here’s the recipe I tweaked from one on the back of a flour package. Veganized it, almonded it up a bit, and then made half the batter with dark chocolate chips and half with raw almond slivers….

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Stephanie’s post about “The Compassionate Hypocrite” on Saturday reminded me of what Catherine Friend and other “compassionate carnivores” are doing in addition to twisting the definition of compassionate beyond recognition. Their claim is that what has become the customary way…

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On the Eating of Seafood

“We are fighting a war against fish, and we are . . . winning.” The End of the Line opens (limited release) next week. That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we…

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Will You Check Out Food, Inc.?

Food, Inc. was at the Delray Beach Film Festival last weekend, about 30 miles south of me. But I wasn’t. Nothing about its “Alliances” (or it’s “Issues”) screams vegan, or even whispers it, but I shall reserve judgment. If more…

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On Flourless Cakes and Injuries

This, dear readers, is my new obsession. Though I have never had an issue with gluten, I have decided to lower my intake of it as an experiment, just to see if I feel any kind of difference. I began…

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Huffington Post Posts Vegan “Projects”

Because there are only 5 comments, it might be nice to go on over to Huffington Post’s “Vegan Holiday Baking Projects” article and have a say. Why the heck they’re called “projects,” I’ll never figure out. If they were nonvegan,…

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On Vegans in Minnesota and Pigs in Florida

It’s currently 19 degrees Fahrenheit but “feels like 10” in Minneapolis, MN according to weather.com. My brother- and sister-in-law and my adorable niece Gracie Pants live nearby, as does Colleen and the rest of the wonderful people at the Animal…

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On “Food” Prices and Veganism

Reuters’ “Steep Food Price Increases on Way: Experts” (yes, that really is the title) does something I haven’t seen before, and I wonder if the reporter, Charles Abbott, even realized he was doing it. He equates animals with food, but…

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