This vegan pot pie is some serious comfort food. If you’re craving some down-home cooking that will make you feel like you’re snuggled up at home in a warm blanket and someone is taking care of you, then this is recipe for you. And it is a perfect recipe to make for the meat-eaters in your life. […]
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Book Review at Our Hen House
Good morning, Monday! Just wanted to write a quick note to nudge you all over to Our Hen House this morning. When I was in NYC, I met with the lovely ladies of Our Hen House and we chatted over some delicious Korean food about animal rights, activism, and academics. They kindly invited me to do […]
“How You Get Unstuck” from Dear Sugar
When I was in New York, my friend Emma introduced me to Dear Sugar. Dear Sugar is an advice column at The Rumpus. Sugar is a great writer who decided to use her writing skills to give advice. People write in and explain the problem/dilemma they’re having and Sugar chooses letters to respond to. She […]
Vaute Couture–A Girl Can Dream, Right?
Have a look at this gorgeous coat. No, seriously. Just drink it in for a moment. The Belden from Vaute Couture. Vaute Couture is a NYC vegan/eco-conscious designer who makes the loveliest winter coats. Usually the coats have a wool-like look, are very warm and very expensive…I’ve been lusting after them for the past few years. This […]
Celebrating Adrienne Rich
When I was 16, I took my first class at the University of Pittsburgh–a feminist writing class taught by Sharon McDermott. The class changed my life at the time and introduced me to feminism in a way that has stayed with me since then. One of the authors we read was Adrienne Rich. Rich has written extensively […]
Seattle Public Library Spring Mini Booksale
Okay, here it is! Remember in September when I told you about the Seattle Public Library Fall Book Sale? Well, here’s the spring version. Coming right up. Twice a year, the Seattle Public Library has a book sale in a hangar bay in Magnuson Park. The fall sale is much bigger, but the spring one is definitely […]
Carnism: Making the Invisible Visible
I spent several hours this weekend reading through the comments section of the NYTimes ‘Tell Us Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat” contest and getting progressively depressed by the tendency of ‘meat-eaters’ to dismiss vegans as elitist, irrational, extreme or simple wrong and to justify their meat consumption in a variety of predictable arguments–some more absurd than […]
Chili Cardamom Truffles
We’ve finally gotten some sun here in Seattle in the past day or two. I’ve heard that people all over the U.S. are having unseasonably warm weather for the time of year–80 F in Pittsburgh in March? I think not. There is something definitely unusual about that. On the reverse, Seattle has been unseasonably cold. Usually February hits […]
Contest: Tell Our Hen House Why It’s Unethical To Eat Meat
The New York Times column “The Ethicist” posted an announcement yesterday asking meat-eating readers to write in and explain why it’s ethical to eat meat. Today, the lovely ladies over at Our Hen House (Jasmin and Mariann) challenged all of you awesome herbivores out there to a slightly different contest–Why It’s Unethical to Eat Meat. In 600 words […]
Salted Kahlua Truffles
Do I have a treat for you today! Vegan salted kahlua truffles… I love kahlua, but oftentimes think it’s too sweet. I think the salt cuts the sweetness of the kahlua and compliments the chocolate nicely. If you’ve ever seen the film Chocolat with Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench, you’ll know I would not […]
