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90′s Vegan-style on Long Island’s East End
Like its name implies, Long Island is looong. Heading east from my starting point in Freeport, it’s almost 100 miles to Montauk Point (a.k.a. The End). With a year-round Hamptons local as my guide, I spent the day on this long stretch of road, searching for vegan eats but finding a stroll down memory lane… [...]
Vegan on the Jersey Shore, Part 1: Karma Cafe
Living in the shiny apple of the Tri-state area, I don’t get to New Jersey very often. But in the search of sun and sustenance not-so far from home, I was surprised at how plenty the Jersey Shore was with vegan options. It was time to return to the Jersey Shore. Before the words “Jersey [...]
I’ve gone to Rockaway Beach for years…
but, this time, I was a little scared to. The NY Time’s article on how it’s the new “anti-Hamptons”–the boardwalk being the “new Bedford Avenue”–seemed to promise a mob of hipsters… and local backlash of the influx threatened an old fashioned culture clash, ripe with all the associated generalizations. Diehipster.com‘s rant on how the Rockaway locals hate [...]
Hello, East River Ferry
I don’t find myself above 14th street on the east side very often. Besides the senior I visit, there is no reason to be. I also dislike the 4/5/6 train. I dislike the screech of it entering stations; I dislike its path… how it’s always at an arctic temperature of -12 degrees. I try to [...]
*Reprint* I ♡ Radiolab
I wrote this ode in August of 2009. I’m “reprinting” it today as I am struck by the realization that I’ve grown to need Radiolab… for support, for inspiration, for a connection–in a world where the homogenized, trite and shrill voice of mainstream culture succeeds in alienating me. In my elementary, middle and high school [...]
Veganize This!
And now… an ode to VegNews, in light of the photo scandal. Recipe for succulent VEGAN TURKEY Ingredients: 1 photo of a real turkey dinner 1 very poor editorial decision A pinch of deception A sprinkle of censorship 1) For a vegetarian magazine to use stock photos of food in a community so brimming with amateur [...]
1998 Called…
I did most of my growing up in the 90′s. I did a zine. Worked in record stores. Went vegetarian. Fell in love with misfits.. often who listened to The Misfits. Had an amazing record collection. Listened to Riot Grrrl. [Balanced that with Lou Barlow. Balanced that with Unwound.] Music was my everything, the score to a [...]
V & T Supermarket
Summary: I kind of love V & T Supermarket in Hempstead, Long Island. Scoring the car for the day for some errands, I knew I had to hit V & T Supermarket on Franklin street in Hempstead. I had been seeing it for years, the huge white cryptic building off the side of the busy [...]
Vegan Restaurant Consulting, L.L.C.
I hate to bad-mouth an all-vegan establishment. Believe me when I say that I struggled with how to word this delicately, searched for the silver lining to the many clouds… but Ithaca’s Food For the Planet downright stunk. It pains me not to be supportive to a veg-friendly establishment, but I have standards to uphold. And as [...]
Jack Nimble, Rest In Peace
I named you Jack Nimble because you were narrow and slender and small and I imagined if there were a lit candle you could arc it swiftly. I felt your spine, each bone under a soft slip of skin, that knocked gently at my knee. Your movement, a plea mostly misunderstood. Your nails, with the [...]
Vegetarianism lowers your risk of heart disease, cancer and stroke {or the leading causes of death in the U.S.} as well as lowering the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, osteoporosis and obesity
A new study that followed 120,000+ people for 20-26 years concluded that animal-based protein diets make you die sooner; this is not a groundbreaking study as research has been concluding this for years. Yay, more evidence but also more of the same ridiculous reporting: “Plant-based diets – fruits, vegetables, whole grains, a little fish, soy [...]
Annual Repost: Perhaps Labor Day Doesn’t Come From a Store. Perhaps Labor Day means a bit more.
As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. With the long hours and [...]
