Mark Bittman — columnist and author of How to Cook Everything Vegetarian — writes in the NY Times:

“To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, [two university geophysicists] calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from […]

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My new food obsession: Brussel sprouts! It turns out I love these elegant little vitamin-bombs. I had been having them roasted, but now my Finnish roommate has once again shown me the joys of heavy cream.
Before you shriek, “On no!,” a few words on how to enjoy cream: Skip the carbs. Pair this dish with […]

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Here’s my favorite breakfast of late. The recipe is for one, but it’s obviously easy to make for more.
Ingredients:
¼ - 1/3 cup plain, cooked quinoa
1 whole egg
1 egg white
Chopped jarred roasted red peppers
Garlic salt
Pepper
1 tbsp of your favorite cheese, grated or crumbled
Fresh chives or basil (optional)
Directions:
Lightly coat a frying pan with olive oil or cooking […]

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So right on the heels of my post dissecting her vegan mac ‘n cheese, 101 Cookbooks happened to blog about VEGANOMICON, a new vegan cookbook. I doubt most of you reading my site are vegan — most people in general aren’t vegans, which makes me happy as someone who throws semi-regular dinner parties — but […]

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This recipe is the best dish I’ve made in a long while. It’s so good I want to climb to the highest peak in the land with a giant megaphone and tell the world! But it’s Sunday morning and I’m in my bathrobe and the blog will have to do.
A few notes: I’m posting my […]

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