Vegtastic Voyage

Ghent, Belgium, home of around 230,000 people, is set to become the first city to have a veg day once a week. They’re starting with city employees, who are now being offered a Thursday veg menu (meat will still be available if they ask for it). And starting in September, schoolchildren will also have veg Thursdays. Mainly for environmental reasons, [...]

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Last year we started our indoor shelf garden, with some success. We had probably 30 or 40 cherry tomatoes, a hot pepper, and even a handful of basil and rosemary before they were totally ravaged by little black flies. We’re pretty much starting over this year, so I’d like to introduce you to the new food [...]

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Another non-vegan interruption… Hey, do you hate cancer? Yeah, me too. Wouldn’t it be cool if nobody had to die from it? Yeah, I think so too. So here’s one last chance to help me raise money for fighting The Big C. Portland’s walk is this Saturday morning…and it looks like I might not even [...]

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Lesson learned: When you’re in the middle of a recipe and a question pops up, get thee to the Internet and find the answer. Don’t guess and muddle through. Super-jonesing lemon bars (odd for not having them in maybe a decade), I whipped up a batch from Veganomicon. When it came to agar, though—which I had never [...]

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