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Alma, Loving Brooklyn, and Eating
Cobble Hill, Brooklyn’s renowned Alma Restaurant earned a recommendation in the prestigious Michelin Guide in 2009. Why a tire company sets the standard for exceptional dining has always perplexed me but why Alma received a coveted mention does not. The view, service and cocktails would stun any hungry patron, yes. But it was the Veggie Tacos [...]
The Earth Births the Vegetables
I often sing the praises of fruits and vegetables. It isn’t because I’m a vegan… I’d be a vegan no matter what it tasted like really. Separately and as passionately, I love food. I’d love a roasted onion over a new pair of shoes, prefer a perfectly ripened tomato over a twinkling ruby. Ok, that [...]
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore
Deep Thoughts: While I was driving south down the I-35 today, in the “road zone”, I began to think about… [wait for it]…human beings. I began to think about how it was that a lower order of primates evolved to eventually have me sitting snug in a moving machine, barreling down a leg of this [...]
A Low Carbon Diet
As a young doe who read E Magazine and poured over Co-op America‘s Green Pages some 17 years ago, I can’t help but be partially frustrated by the speed in which the rest of the world has caught on to the green movement, can’t help but shudder at the greenwashing of the world’s major corporate [...]
Reuse: Fronch Toast
My family had a few extra loaves of Italian bread delivered with our Father’s Day meal a few weekends back. With VwaV‘s Fronch Toast recipe in mind, I gladly rescued a loaf from my father’s characteristic penchant for hasty disposal. This trait, through the years, has had me sifting through garbage bags for my important [...]
Food… Kind of a Big Deal
As a lover of food, I need to know it deeply. I want to. I’m reading Stuffed & Starved, The Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System. It’s moving me in many ways. Firstly, it has been awhile since I have had the opportunity to read at my leisure, to read and not have to dissect [...]
Eating My Faith
Oneness-Fountain-Heart is a vegetarian restaurant in Flushing, Queens run by devotees of the late spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy advocated for international harmony and… vegetarianism, hence the vegetarian cafes in his dedication in NYC (Annan Brahma and Cafe Panorama in Jamaica Hills, Queens) and across the country in Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego. Vegetarianism, [...]
Food Love {Never Eat Your Heart Out} {Half Kidding}
See this food? I have eaten it and it has helped me to move from here to there to have me here typing this to you. See it? I put it in my mouth and chewed. Yeah, so what but: Have you ever paid attention to this process? Followed a bite from one side of [...]
Lunch. It’s What’s For Dinner. (or I Heart Carroll Gardens, Part I)
A few years back I did my student teaching in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Reveling in the fact that I needn’t join the morning straphangers with a trip into Manhattan, I day dreamed during my quick walk to to N. Henry that I was employed by my fieldwork school, that I had gotten my certification, completed [...]
Force Fed
I’ve seen this set of graphs all over the internet (i.e. numerous times in the What’s Hot section of my Google reader). And I am happy about this. It makes me feel more normal. Not that “normal” is an aspiration of mine or anything. But feeling normal is a different story. The good people at [...]
The Two Ways of Valentine Days: Half Empty
10 Reasons Why Love Stinks. 1.) You cannot will someone to action. 2.) We are, in the end, singular vessels of emotion. 3.) Outsides often don’t match the insides. 4.) Youth is wasted on the young. Love is wasted on the loved. 5.) The perceptive, sensitive and intelligent suffer easier than… 6.) Your parents messed [...]
The Two Ways of Valentine Days: Half Full
Sweet thing CandyPenny hosted a Valentine’s get-together with the goal of heating the heart with spicy, tangy and sweet-inspired foods. The spread was magnificent and included a zest wasabi-infused ed potato salad, mole enchiladas with butternut squash, spicy glazed tempeh, sesame quinoa noodles and beer-battered sweet and sour tofu, along with plenty of sweetness. Em’s [...]
