I like food, plant food, that is — I like to plant, grow and eat it. I like to serve it to others and recycle it to contribute to next year’s harvest. I like working and being outdoors, walking and hiking. I like to study Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, especially the first five books, the Torah. Most of all, I like to think about all these things and what they have to say about the meaning of life. I started my blog when I decided to explore veganism, and it has led not just to recipes and farming but to a reexamination of the biblical text from a different perspective and to thoughts about ethics, ecology, evolution, animal rights, the human place in creation and more. I explore and refresh my own spirituality through these projects.
In The Woodstock Independent, 2013 As the only vegetarian cafe in the area, I have many health-conscious customers. Increasingly they ask for gluten-free products. Most of my food is, in fact, gluten-free naturally. For those who want some kind of bread with
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Originally this post started with my reaction to the Trump phenomenon. I’m revising it because that phenomenon is just the latest expression of a deep-seated trend in American history and culture, in fact in all of human culture. I’m not adding an
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A brain is an interesting thing. I was just thinking about brains the other day. My thought process began this way: I took a walk with my husband. Along the way, we saw a dead rabbit in an area where we had
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Did Prophet Muhammad Warn Us of ISIS 1,400 Years Ago? I read and shared this post today about the Quran predicting the Islamic State. I don’t usually support using the biblical text to say that this or that particular event in modern
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OK, I’m in love. I made a Shabbat dinner for our scholar-in-residence weekend, and the visiting scholar was the first (and only) female rabbi in Italy. Of course I decided to make an Italian inspired dinner. Of course it had to include
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“Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless. Christmas dinner’s dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey’s point of view.” – Shel Silverstein If you are vegetarian and the rest of your family and friends are not, you
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This delicious sweet potato preparation is both sweet and spicy from the natural sweetness of the potatoes and the crushed red pepper. The salad marks a special “anniversary” for me — it was six years ago to the day on Halloween that
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Printed in The Woodstock Independent, January 2013 “Avoid food that makes health claims. Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.” – Rule # 2 from Food Rules by Michael Pollan.
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Yesterday I made my first pot of Mushroom Barley Soup for the season. Oh, so good! I had three big bowls for dinner. This one is easy, folks, even if you’re not into cooking. How hard can it be to throw things
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As many of you know, I have been interested in health and particularly in good eating for most of my adult life, ever since my grandmother died of colon cancer in 1969. During those years, I’ve watched a lot of fads come
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