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About a year ago Your Humble Narrator made the conscious decision to cross over to that dark side of dietary lifestyles, veganism. For the most part, it's been a success; sustainable, easier than it's made out to be, and kind of fun ( Read more... )

Garlic-spinach mashed potatoes with "punk rock" chickpea gravy: (from Vegan With A Vengeance)


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If there's a particularly sticky sticking point that sticks in the craw of veganism more so than others, it's the issue of honey.

We've touched on the subject of bee spit before, and there appear to be at least three camps of belief:

1. Honey is an animal product, created by bees and exploited by Man. Don't eat it.
   
2. Honey is a product manufactured by ( Read more... )

There's no easy way to say this, so here it is:

Your Humble Narrator is going vegan.

Perhaps for life, perhaps not. Maybe everyday, maybe not. But definitely for the duration as an open-ended experiment journey of discovery(project managers call this "doing a job on spec"). And while it certainly sounds like a big step, one would think that, ( Read more... )

2008 marks the beginning of Your Humble Narrator's fifteenth year as a vegetarian. Not proud, or bragging, just saying ( Read more... )

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I'm currently reading Kitchen Confidential by Tony Bourdain, both as part of 50bookchallenge(which I am hopelessly destined to lose this year) and as a result of a serendipitous event involving Boom-Boom's roommate, who is a chef, and her deconstructed bookshelf of Sunset cookbooks, James Beard biographies, and back issues of Bon Appetit and Everyday Foodme: Can ( Read more... )

McDonald's chicken salad has more fat and calories than a Big Mac.

What is the point of getting a salad with meat and cheese in it? You may as well order the sammich, or eat dessert first. Come to think of it, what is the point of going to McDonald's for a salad? That's like going into a volume hardware store looking for spinners ( Read more... )

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

It's "people" like PETA that give people who love animals a bad name.

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