Vegan Victuals: The Blog |
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 [...]
Back To School
I’ve spent all week so far setting up my fifth grade classroom and haven’t cooked a darn thing. I entered my classroom mid-year this past January and didn’t have the opportunity to imprint the room with any of my own pizazz. But this year! Vintage fabric is strewn about and my tidy sense of deep-down [...]
Photoshoot with a Fig
Figs are a lovely and fascinating fruit. They are internally-flowering. In fact, they’re not really a fruit at all but flowers. Their innards, so chock full of life and movement, are rows and rows of inner-flowers, like eating a sweet, sweet bouquet. Besides playing a role in many faiths and worships, figs are high in my [...]
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 [...]
