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Posts Tagged veganism

Dreena Burton joins True/Slant

Dreena Burton, the author of amazing cookbooks Vive Le Vegan, Eat Drink & Be Vegan, and The Everyday Vegan (featuring simple, delish and healthy veg recipes) has joined True/Slant to write more about her family’s food choices.  I really liked her first post, quote:
Yes, unfortunately our family’s plant-based diet is far from the norm. While [...]


The Goode Family

Maybe you have heard about the new animated comedy featured on ABC in the US about a family of ‘do-gooders’ - vegans and environmentalists who live in a solar-powered, rain-water collecting home with their (evidently starved) vegan dog and adopted son. Here’s one of the promos:

Joshua Catcher of the Discerning Brute had some strong [...]


Ever confused about the links between feminism, sexism, and meat-eating? Let me help.

I am learning lots about feminism this term in school (verging into topics that include: queer studies, sexuality, gender, feminist media studies), and the experience reminds me again why I love learning. My perspective on the world is changing as I begin to look more critically at media from a scholarly feminist angle, and [...]


Christmas 2008 Foodie Highlights

I really overdid it this year on cooking and baking - next year, I vow to simplify.  At any rate, most things were very successful.  Christmas was a blast.
First, I hosted a pre-Christmas lunch for the family.  I chose to make a three course meal, and made everything gluten-free (by using brown rice flour) since [...]


Art… or un-called for cruelty?

Sorry, won’t be posting too often in the next little while.  SO much reading to do.  Reading that I should have done yesterday.  Before I was even born!  Fantastic books exist that tantalize me with their awesomeness.  Just finished Too Loud a Solitude by Hrabal, which was one of the best books I have read [...]


Settling in

Posts have been scarce lately what with my camera lens being broken, settling into my new apartment, and beginning graduate school after having taken a year off.  I can feel my brain getting into gear again (all of that dust being blown off from the areas that weren’t being used for travelling and working) and [...]


Prague, Czech Republic

Maybe it was because of the cloudy sky that makes colours pop and photographing a dream, but Prague immediately struck me as a really beautiful city.  Being in Prague hardly gives me the ability to make many observations about the Czech Republic (or rather, I am at a loss as to what to gage from [...]


Austria: Salzburg, Vienna, and finding a soul mate city… post NSFW

I had a total blast in Austria, and as I expected came to find the ultimate in vegan friendliness - its name is Vienna. Immediately upon entering Austria I noticed the increase of health consciousness: fruit, smoothies and juices available for purchase, falafel places at the train station itself.  In other news, [...]


Budapest, pronounced “Budapesht”

Budapest was a striking contrast to everything that was Sarajevo. Brilliantly clean, wide boulevards, spotless metro, pristine neighbourhoods, availability of vegetarian food. I have to admit it was a bit of a relief. I really enjoyed Sarajevo, but I realized in Budapest that I had felt unease there… uncomfortable seeing all of [...]


Bosnia is marked

While mystery surrounded Bosnia from the beginning of planning my journey (which may have something to do with the fact that my guidebook covers Western, not Central Europe), as I rode the bus from Croatia into my first stop, Mostar, I could see immediately that Bosnia would be a fascinating part of my trip. [...]


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