Chocolate Bark with Pistachios and Pomegranate Seeds
I had plans for the family Christmas dinner. It was going to be a fabulous vegan feast, featuring some of the season’s truly remarkable fruits: pomegranates, satsuma tangerines,… Read More »
Eat What You Love and Health Will Follow
That’s ridiculous, right? What if I love charred fatty meat, fried potatoes and cheesecake—how will that make me healthy? Ah, but I’m talking about true love, lasting love,… Read More »
Choosing a New Resolution
A new year arrives on the heels of every old one, and like every new dawn, it brings the possibility of starting over with refreshed vision and renewed… Read More »
Saving Gertie
Back when I was eating animals, I viewed vegans as a bit extreme, unreasonable, perhaps even irrational. I had been vegetarian in the seventies, because I thought it… Read More »
Mad Cow: The Untold Story
Yesterday there was a news item regarding a dairy cow that began exhibiting the symptoms of “Mad Cow” (shaking, staggering, stumbling, falling). Two things happened very quickly: 1)… Read More »
Kitchen, Desk and Garden
My wife is the gardener; I’m the cook. But sometimes our roles overlap, as they did yesterday. Last year, I built some beds on the slope next to… Read More »
