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The Cure to Seasonal Affective Disorder and Comedy in Pittsburgh
I seriously love being vegan, it makes me so happy. Sometimes after I cook and enjoy a meal, I feel sorry for all the people who don't realize that they could be eating a wider variety of food that...
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A Healthy Thanksgiving in Review, Warts and All
Thanksgiving was stressful for me. I think that goes for a lot of people, but it particularly goes for vegans who live almost 300 miles from their family and who have a family who are guaranteed to...
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A Post-Thanksgiving Potluck Feast
There’s a vegan Meetup group here in Pittsburgh, and this past Sunday they had a little post-Thanksgiving potluck feast, held at the First Methodist church on the Bloomfield edge of Shadyside. I...
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Cookbook Giveaway (and Big News)
I've been putting off blogging for longer than usual even though I have a lot of food stuff I'm excited to share, but it just is hard for me to make it official--both to the people I know personally...
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Trick Your Omni Friends (and Your Vegan Ones, You Meanie) with Beyond Meat
I got a tip-off that Beyond Meat's chicken-style strips are now available at the Whole Foods in Pittsburgh, as well as at Whole Foods stores across the country.Have you heard about Beyond Meat? I...
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Birthday Party, Cheesecake, Jellybean, BOOM!
There are still a couple days left to enter to win a copy of The Global Vegan Waffle Cookbook! C'mon, you can't tell me you don't want to make Caramelized Onion and Garlic Waffles. Of course you do!...
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Goodbye Pittsburgh, Goodbye Pennsylvania
During this time that I've not posted, I more-or-less relocated to my sister's apartment in The Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. It was a crazy process. I sold almost everything I owned for...
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Cross-Country Road Trip - Part 1, Des Moine and Omaha
Here's a story you may have heard before: vegan blogger moves across the country, has adventures and eats a lot of good food, takes pictures to post on the blog, and then has technical difficulties to...
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Cross-Country Road Trip - Part 2, Denver
I headed on to Denver, Colorado, where I'd be staying with a friend of many of my Pittsburgh friends. Driving through Colorado was really very beautiful. The fog finally cleared up and I got to see...
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Fish Populations: My Response to an Article in Science Daily
I've decided that, in addition to my regular posts, I want to consistently post about different articles I find that are related to environmental issues, and, in particular, about declining marine...
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Cross-Country Road Trip - Part 3, Las Vegas
In Las Vegas, I was staying with a man named Daryl who I found by searching for the word "vegan" on Couchsurfing. Daryl is a Couchsurfing host extraordinaire. He has a large house but lives alone,...
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Cross-Country Road Trip - Part 4, Los Angeles
My final stop in the US before arriving at the final destination of San Francisco was Los Angeles, California. I have a cousin there and I heard there were a lot of good places to eat. So I headed to...
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Yummy Food from Supermarket Vegan
When I first got to San Francisco, I brought only one cookbook because I flew here first and couldn't carry too much stuff, but I knew I had to have a book so I could get right down to cooking and...
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Wildwood Zesty Garlic Aioli Goodness
When I first visited San Francisco, I saw Wildwood brand garlic aioli in the stores and I thought to myself, "Self, that sure does sound good." And then I kept hearing about it! So when I moved here...
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Weekend in Nevada City, California
I have a car here in San Francisco and I'm not working currently and my dear friend Marah from back in Phoenixville (she's actually pictured in an old entry of my blog here) now lives under three hours...
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My New Digs Where I Can Get Digging
Before moving on to the real post, I'd first like to invite you folks who read this blog to check out a guest post I had on the popular Vegansaurus! blog recently called Vegan Pierogie Night in...
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The Conscious Eating Conference
It's terrible to fall behind on blogging when there are so many exciting things to write about, but I suppose that exciting things will often cause one to not blog and instead concentrate upon what's...
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Anarchist Dinner
I met an anarchist vegan here in Oakland who let me know about a pop-up "restaurant" that he was in the process of dumpster-diving and otherwise gathering food for which to cook. Of course, I had to...
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The Berkeley Vegan Earth Day -- A Review
Last Saturday, April 20, I volunteered with the third annual Berkeley Vegan Earth Day, where there were speakers, vendors, and a showing of the film Peaceable Kingdom. Even though most of what I did...
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Better Than Grilled Cheese: An Easy Vegan Whole-Food Solution
Before I was vegan, I loved grilled cheese. But even then, I didn't eat it with just bread and cheese and butter spread on the outside. As soon as I learned how easy it was to make pesto, I always...
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Carrot-Ginger Soup Recipe, or, How Shangri-La Vegan Revolutionized My Kitchen
My friend Stephen, who used to live out here in the SF Bay but now lives in Pittsburgh, where I met him, came here recently to attend some sex-positive meditation talks and workshops and so forth, and...
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Vegan Advocacy: The 10 Billion Lives Tour
When I lived in Pittsburgh, my friend Kate told me once about how she'd heard that there was a truck fitted with TVs that travels around, paying people a dollar to watch a short video about standard...
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Oakland Veg Week
The last week of April was Oakland Veg Week. This event, or, more accurately, series of events, was aimed at getting people to pledge a week, at least, of being veg. I don't know if many meat-eaters...
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Eating Out in the East Bay
I'm so excited to have changed the colors and themes of my blog and also replaced the commenting system with Disqus, which allows more people to comment! Also, if anyone is interested in my newer...
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Me, a Fruitarian? Maybe...
My backyard is filled with blackberries, and they're just beginning to ripen. I have a feeling that most of them will ripen all at once, and then you better believe I'll be making blackberry smoothies....
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