Vegan Victuals: The Blog |
Dear World,
Dear Birds, I know it’s been awhile since you’ve all seen each other and all but can you please use your inside chirps in the morning. You’d think my apartment building was constructed in those seeds they make bells out of the way you guys flock to my window. Dear Columbia University academic regalia, The [...]
Museo de la Mumias
A must-see in Guanajuato is its mummies. Museo de la Mumias is sure to creep and fascinate. The very popular attraction had a huge line on our first visit and so our second attempt was timed to beat the rush on the morning of our departure. Here’s the draw: The Museo de las Momias in [...]
VeganMoFo #2: Daiya Deconstructed
It is all the rage but what is Daiya? What’s in it? Here I go, deconstructing sunshine. Purified water Ground cassava: a starchy root from the tropics you may know as yucca. It’s related to tapioca. Arrowroot: another tropical starch related to tapioca high oleic sunflower oil: sunflower oil that is at least 82% oleic [...]
I Don’t Wanna Be An Entomophagist: Candies with Bug Derivatives
A friend of mine recently asked me if I ate Good n’ Plenty, the pink and white coated licorice candy. I had to tell her no and why and, in doing so, managed to help push her finger down on the “w” key, as in “Ewwww…”, long enough to maybe instill a pink and white [...]
These Are A Few of My Favorite Things: The Radiolab Podcast
In my elementary, middle and high school education I excelled more in the language arts and humanities. I wrote my way out of atrocious grades, learning early that one writing assignment could compensate for a term’s worth of lacklusterness. As a tight-lipped introverted wallflower extraordinaire or, later, the queen of truancy, the voice I expressed [...]
Just In Time For Valentine’s Day: The Anti-Love Drug
Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss By JOHN TIERNEY New York TimesPublished: January 12, 2009 In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding — and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts — Dr. [...]
The word “orchid” comes from the Greek word for testicles, orchis, but this beauty is all woman.
I am now in care of a Phalaenopsis orchid. My co-workers gave me the beautiful plant as a birthday gift. It is one of the most beautiful gift I’ve ever received. Its sepals are bright fuchsia and striated, like the palm of a cold hand or stretch marks on the hip’s skin. They explode on [...]
Social Medicine
When I was a kid I was confused by beer. I remember not understanding Strange Brew. I remember my parents taking me and my siblings to an Oktoberfest carnival, going down a tall and smooth plastic slide with my legs in a potato sack and hearing my Dad complain everyone around us was drunk. He [...]
Feed A Cold
Every change of season I get sick. It is like clockwork. I self-diagnose this susceptibility to the Earth’s equinoxes and solstices as being amidst some ethereal harmony with my larger environment, to nature; a necessary wrath of my goddessness; and the toil of an omni-sensitive soul, open and, therefore, vulnerable. Or it could be something [...]
(r)Evolution
It seems common sense to me that an educator would want to cultivate understanding and awareness within their student body and not withhold fundamental concepts of science. If, in fact, the purpose of schooling is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to maneuver through their lives successfully, then the more they can accrue [...]
Nerd Alert!
When I was a kid, Nerds brand candy were tiny little pebbles of sugar, artiticial flavor and coloring. (I think I just described 3,000 different types of candy.) A sucker for nostalgia, I’ve extended my kid-love of Nerds and take the occasional swig these noisy flecks of color. Now, they’re obese, smooth little tumbled rocks… [...]
How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
3 How .1 I 4 need 1 a 5 drink9 alcoholic 2 of 6 course5 after 3 the 5 heavy 8 lectures 9 involving 7 quantum 9 mechanics. From my current book boyfriend, Big Bang, The Origin of the Universe (by Simon Singh)
