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Unidentified stacks of home-canned food [between 1941 and 1945]
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Why vegan?
In May 2007, I went mostly vegan when my new housemate, a long-term vegan, moved in. I guess you could say I'm a vegan for health, since I've become increasingly aware of chemical additives, and have been in the process of moving away from packaged foods for a number of years. Since May I have eaten nonvegan maybe 3 times, usually dairy, and never at home. Having that 'permission' to choose my foods has meant that I have never felt pressured, so there was little difficulty in the transition at all.
I've also been doing some reading and exploring, learning about food production issues and ethics. It's funny how food, one of the things most central to our existence, and most necessary, is least examined. I don't think that's an inadvertent omission - I think that marketing exerts tremendous efforts to ensure that our focus rests on the sizzle, while shielding from view concerns about the effects preservative chemicals, hormones, and other unexplored elements have on our health - and the health of our children.
Obesity, diabetes, allergies, systemic infections, dermatologic and digestive sensitivities... these are real. Which of these are caused or exacerbated by our poisoned environment, by our lack of attention to the tremendous richness of our produce, by the overuse of corn-based sweeteners and salt?
Real, whole, foods remain. Diet should be enriching and an important part of our lives. As Pollan says, shop the margins of the supermarket, and you find inexpensive, whole food: grains, beans, rice, fruits, and a tremendous variety of greens and vegetables that are not canned, have no salt or sugar or coloring added, and that await our exploration.
I've also been doing some reading and exploring, learning about food production issues and ethics. It's funny how food, one of the things most central to our existence, and most necessary, is least examined. I don't think that's an inadvertent omission - I think that marketing exerts tremendous efforts to ensure that our focus rests on the sizzle, while shielding from view concerns about the effects preservative chemicals, hormones, and other unexplored elements have on our health - and the health of our children.
Obesity, diabetes, allergies, systemic infections, dermatologic and digestive sensitivities... these are real. Which of these are caused or exacerbated by our poisoned environment, by our lack of attention to the tremendous richness of our produce, by the overuse of corn-based sweeteners and salt?
Real, whole, foods remain. Diet should be enriching and an important part of our lives. As Pollan says, shop the margins of the supermarket, and you find inexpensive, whole food: grains, beans, rice, fruits, and a tremendous variety of greens and vegetables that are not canned, have no salt or sugar or coloring added, and that await our exploration.
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- Esme’s Special Sauce (to try)
- Homemade pasta with bechamel, collards, and cannel...
- Chickpea & cabbage soup
- Vegan buttermilk, Cornmeal biscuits
- Not-mutton curry and pilaf
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- Chhhhocolate pie
- incredible-looking tofu
- Veganized Sausage Balls
- Cause, freezing water attract swimmers at Polar Pl...
- Pizza topping ideas
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Recipes to try
- Aloo Parathas
- Bulgur salad with chickpeas, roasted peppers, and spiced cumin dressing
- Carrot halwa muffin
- Cavatappi with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Cannellini Beans
- Chipotle, corn, and black bean stew
- Chocolate bomb pudding cake
- Cholay (chickpeas in tomato)
- cloverleaf rolls with spinach
- Cornmeal pizza crust
- Cracked Wheat and Flax Seed Pull-Apart Rolls
- Curry soup
- Flour tortillas
- Garbanzo and red pepper salad
- Guacamole
- Hot Fudge Cake
- Jamaican BBQ Seitan
- Kale and sundried tomato hummus
- Kanaga's 'Not Chicken' Curry
- Mee Teow (Stir-Fried Rice Vermicelli with Black Pepper and Chinese Chives)
- Mini flat bread with spicy tofu Indian style
- Moroccan sweet potato soup
- Otsu (cold soba noodles with tofu)
- Peanut sauce
- Roasted Chickpeas
- Seitan Portobella Stroganoff
- Sicilian market pasta
- Spicy indian orzo
- Spicy orange tofu
- Spicy puffs
- Spring rolls
- Swede Potato Soup with Fried Spaghetti Squash and Toasted Pepitas
- Tofu quiche with hashbrown crust
- Vegan Honey Chili Tofu
- Vegetarian dumplings
- White bean & garlic stew
- Yam and bean curry
Unidentified stacks of home-canned food [between 1941 and 1945]
night
it's dark. and leaves
that sprung at sunrise
droop now, guarded by the night,
a wooden fence
strides along my alley
listening for footsteps.
the microwave
tells no time, just a constant
colon, sentinel-marker,
smaller lights against the moon.
that sprung at sunrise
droop now, guarded by the night,
a wooden fence
strides along my alley
listening for footsteps.
the microwave
tells no time, just a constant
colon, sentinel-marker,
smaller lights against the moon.
A sky so grey -
or could be silver
as my eyes
changing through the day
reflecting winter,
green-brown striations
echo limbs
lifted by unseen winds
or birds streaming south -
take me, too.
Now warmth from
my hand caressing you
links heat to heat;
against this comfort,
winter sings some quiet pattern
beyond our hearing -
sings in the trees,
strums barren twigs
making sounds only heard
by birds. Swift-wheeling
call; beneath the breast
each holds a heart intact.
or could be silver
as my eyes
changing through the day
reflecting winter,
green-brown striations
echo limbs
lifted by unseen winds
or birds streaming south -
take me, too.
Now warmth from
my hand caressing you
links heat to heat;
against this comfort,
winter sings some quiet pattern
beyond our hearing -
sings in the trees,
strums barren twigs
making sounds only heard
by birds. Swift-wheeling
call; beneath the breast
each holds a heart intact.
Daphne, in the bay window
snugged up against the glass
so warm that touching her (where sun does)
I'm touching melting satin
but she makes a small sound
no satin would, and blinks
behind the plants, then stretches
out, returns to sleep.
snugged up against the glass
so warm that touching her (where sun does)
I'm touching melting satin
but she makes a small sound
no satin would, and blinks
behind the plants, then stretches
out, returns to sleep.
1 comment:
I don't think you can knock it til you've tried it, dude. that's damp cold, you know
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