People talk a big game about the holiday meats like turkey and ham–pounds, cooking time and methods, brands and breeds. As a vegan, you might get a few sad looks from friends and family during holiday food discussions because of, well, the lack of participationread more
In case you didn’t get the memo, Saturday night we started Daylight Savings Time. And according to the adage, “spring ahead, fall back,” we’ve all lost an hour of precious sleep. I bet that this morning, Monday, felt even more like Monday than usual. This bright andread more
Unless you’ve been living on a remote Scandinavian island the last few years (and props to you if you have!), you’ve probably heard or read something about the latest health craze, probiotics. It turns out that we’ve been doing more harm than good by fastidiously killingread more
I was in a suburban grocery store recently and found myself overwhelmed by the number of orange-tinted and pumpkin-flavored fall treats: from trick-or-treating candy to cookies to tea, everything seemed to be taking on this now-ubiquitous sign of fall. It’s discouraging to me, though, that so muchread more
As I write this post, I’m staring out my window at what is perhaps a quintessentially gorgeous October afternoon day. The sun is bright, the air tingling with a bit of crispness, bringing to mind the word I associate most with this month: golden. Whether it’sread more
While I’ve always had a strong bias toward fall (chai + blankets + books…), I can’t ignore the fact that summer has some of the best, most colorful produce. Tomatoes! Eggplant! Basil! It’s a vegan’s paradise walking through the farmer’s market awash in the huesread more
In a few days it will be Thanksgiving. Have you been getting ready for the feast, Dumplings? This year, it feels especially urgent to remind ourselves of what we’re grateful for, which (all circumstances aside) is a whole lot. If you start with number one–yourself–andread more
You know how at Christmastime wrapping paper and anything red or green automatically becomes 300% more expensive? The same thing is happening in the food industry in how we label and define foods: from “natural” or “organic” to “vegan,” a food item that might be intrinsically soread more
Karma is one of those words that’s thrown around a lot in many contexts and usually outside of its original intent. It’s at once a promoter of good vibes, but is also serves as a kind of Panopticonic guilt-inducing gaze: Someone is watching you, and if you’reread more
I don’t usually watch TV, but the show Chopped has always intrigued me. Maybe because it feels a little more like reality TV than the rest of the genre. The ingredients in my kitchen are never as extreme as those given to the contestants, but frequently atread more
