You are Delicious

Less protein! More fresh air! The concept of saving the world by eating less meat is going mainstream. This isn’t even an op-ed!

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A few bites:

I have another guest post–this time about sustainable packaging–on The Jew and the Carrot.

It turns out fermentation (at least for sauerkraut) is not so tough! In college, I made a 5-gallon bucket of it for my co-op and boy did that take a lot of shredding on the Hobart mixer. It also involved [...]

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It’s been a while since my passionate vegan days (around ages 15-20). But as a Google search of my name reminds me, I was once a teenaged vegan idealist who snatched at the first glimmers of the e-networking world as a member of the Vegetarian Youth Network (scroll down to “New Paltz”). On this proto-listserv, we exchanged [...]

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This is something I did once and haven’t done since. I’m reviving the practice for this week, though. Ready? This week’s prizes are…
1) Closest Brush With Fame: this prize goes to me. For getting my first piece posted in The Jew and the Carrot.
2) Most Disappointing Experiment: Injera-dillas. The theory was they’d be like quesadillas [...]

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Strictly for work, I was cruising Oprah’s site (I was preparing this story) and found something interesting. Food voyeurs, take note: you can read everything that Oprah eats for seven days. I wonder if her personal chef is really measuring out 2 teaspoons low-fat mayo for this and 1 teaspoon olive oil for that? I [...]

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At the Green Festival a couple of years ago, I wandered through a fair trade coffee display and picked up a free copy of Julia Alvarez’s A Cafecito Story. It is a literary “eco-parable” about the ravages of free trade and the benefits of fair trade. Better for the campesinos, better for the environment, better [...]

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Glory be! The future is here! The FDA has said selling products from cloned animals is okay. You only have a few months before “consumer anxiety” abates and the USDA figures it’s okay, too. Pretty soon the public will be ready to munch away, oblivious of whether their burger is from a cloned animal or [...]

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Yes, it’s another post about China. I promise I’ll stop soon!
In China, many of the teas include bright orange-red berries. They float on the surface like cheerful buoys and, unlike most tea ingredients, are tasty enough to munch on when you’ve drained the cup. During the Shanghai trip, I kind of pointed and grunted [...]

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A version of this post is also at The Jew and the Carrot. I am officially a Jewish foodie writer!
As yet another chunk of lamb careened toward a dinner guest, the scene at that Shanghainese table started to feel very familiar. At that point in my two-week trip to the city, I had seen the [...]

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Here are some pictures of my food adventures in China.
And if you want to see all the photos from the trip, check ‘em out here.
More to come… of course.

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