Nineteen. That’s the total number of mosquito bites I received last week in Hawaii. Nineteen, despite trying to apply IPM with physical controls (long sleeves and long pants every single day — as a result of which I was bitten on the face, neck, fingers, and feet), cultural controls (dumping out any standing water and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vegetarian’
18 Mar
Rawlicious Review & Basically Green Smoothie Recipe
Raw food is based on the idea that eating plants, lots of them, minimally heated, is good for you. No argument from me there. However, a lot of raw food books also assume that you have 1) a dehydrator, food processor, power blender, and juicer; 2) unlimited time; and 3) unlimited money for ingredients so obscure [...]
27 Nov
Cheating, Vegetarianism, and Other Things on My Mind
I’m a vegetarian. Yet once or twice a year, my friend and I go down to Monterey and I indulge in one of the few things I miss from my omnivore days: decadently creamy, perfectly seasoned clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl. This is the only exception I am willing to make to my vegetarianism, but [...]
13 Oct
The Veg Holiday Survival Guide
Once I hit my teens, I spent most holiday dinners in my room, giving my turkey to the cat. I hated the relatives who came over, hated the joviality, and wasn’t going to be pleasant or social if it killed me. (Oh, teenagers.) But I have to say, the loneliest and hardest Christmas dinner I’ve ever experienced was the one [...]
24 Aug
Does Going Veg Make Your Tastebuds Mutate?
Forkful of brussels sprouts halfway to mouth, I am stricken with the sudden, not entirely welcome epiphany that I am now an adult who voluntarily eats brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts. The one vegetable I despised as a child who had to be reminded to share the green beans and broccoli. I’ve become one of them, those scary brussels-sprouts-loving-vegetarians that the rest of [...]
23 Aug
Quick Summer Recipe: Cold Noodles
There must be a more elegant name for this, but ‘cold noodles’ is an exact translation of a simple summer supper I grew up with. On really hot days, when even our usually sepulchral house got unbearable by about 5pm, you’d find us slurping down deliciously cold, savory noodles for dinner. I think every Chinese [...]
5 Aug
Vegan Week + Almond Milk Pudding Recipe
Some of you know that I’m about halfway through my weeklong experiment of eating nothing but plant foods (and fungi). As an ethical vegetarian, I’ve sadly come to the conclusion that eating dairy isn’t morally consistent for me, and while I’m not ready to forswear it for life, I’m interested in seeing what life is like without [...]
9 Nov
Vegan Sunday
OK, so it doesn’t have the alliteration of Meatless Monday, the environmental movement that operates on the principle that industrialized animal agriculture is one of the biggest sources of carbon and pollution. Cutting meat out even once a week (Monday, for example) makes a major difference. It’s been estimated that going meatless even once a week lightens your [...]
