Hump Day Sampler Platter

by: Jill Richardson

Wed Apr 08, 2009 at 16:18:58 PM PDT

• Is Iron Paws sending me subliminal messages? He just sent me this article about a vegan woman denied her "ILVTOFU" license plate choice because it could be misinterpreted as I Love To F-U.

• Alternet challenges us to be extreme locavores by foraging for our food.

• Natasha Chart says they can't feed us oil forever. Yeah, but it sure looks like they are willing to try...

• Paula Crossfield agrees with me that Bryant Terry's new book Vegan Soul Kitchen totally rocks!

• I loooove Civil Eats posts on local food in various regions of the country. Check out this one on Southern sustainability about a blogger's trip to Georgia for their organics conference.

• I got reeaaallly excited about this post entitled "future fruits" about heirloom apples in Madison, WI. My favorite apple grower in Madison is Ellen at Future Fruit Farm. Could it be that she was now famous on the Internets? Alas, it was not the case (although it's still an article worth reading). Looks like it's up to me to go back to Madison to give Ellen her 15 minutes of fame.

• Ezra Klein writes about making tsimmes (and later gives an update). Ezra, can I recommend my family's recipe?

• OK, that's it. Look at this mouthwatering picture. I AM going to make matzoh ball soup just as soon as I can find a vegetarian recipe for the stuff.

• Philpott takes on Bittman over red snapper - one of the most endangered fishies out there, and one that Bittman is still, apparently, eating.

• Why is this president different from all other presidents? It's not what you might think... Obama is holding a passover seder!

• The lovely ladies of the Ethicurean are making compost.

• Check out this really cool piece from Fooducate about Passover and Easter shopping trends.

Recipe: Beet Salad by Bryant Terry (Vegan Soul Kitchen)

by: Jill Richardson

Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 15:24:12 PM PDT

Book Review: Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry

by: Jill Richardson

Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 07:43:53 AM PDT

Sampler Platter

by: Jill Richardson

Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 16:00:00 PM PDT

• Planning your garden? Check out the Cool Foods Garden Guide for all kinds of useful help! This is the garden guide I think I've needed my whole life. They break it down so easily, I really think I might be able to grow something!! If only I had a yard...

• Bill Marler shares the story of Stephanie Smith. She was a dance instructor when she ate an E. coli-tainted burger at age 20. Now, ate age 21, afer nine months in the hospital (including two in a coma), she hopes to be able to walk again. Wow.

• Set your Tivo for HBO's Death on a Factory Farm, premiering March 16 at 10pm. It's a documentary that follows an animal rights undercover investigator for six weeks on a factory hog farm in Ohio. Just a word of caution - it's pretty graphic.

• Bryant Terry, co-author of Grub with Anna Lappe, has a new book out: Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine. Hmm, I might be interested in this one.

• Alternet says our greatest concern isn't diet or exercise - it's neighborhood. Very interesting comment on Americans' health problems.

• An interesting trend in wine-making: Making the bottles lighter to use less glass and have a lighter footprint on the planet.

• A tax on chocolate? Ohhh, hell no! Fortunately, this wasn't proposed in the U.S. And even if somebody DID tax chocolate, I'd still eat it.

• Will Obama appoint a salmon czar? Some groups are asking him to do so, to coordinate fishing and protect wild salmon so that we can continue to have a sustainable salmon supply.

• Is the banana in trouble? This article takes a look at bananas' lack of genetic diversity. This opens it up to great risk if a disease were to start wiping it out, and it looks like that might happen...

• On the subject of bananas, Chiquita wants a suit against them dismissed. The suit alleges that Chiquita paid off Columbian paramilitary groups that killed a lot of people in Columbia.