Since my conversion to vegetarianism, I’ve been trying to order my diet around these values: Eat food, rather than processed food products, as much as possible Eat food that nourishes me without killing the earth, as much as possible Eat food produced locally, when feasible Obviously, I’ll never have a perfect diet. Even this short [...]
Archive for June, 2010
24 Jun
Fire-Escape Herb Garden
Having an herb garden on a fire escape sounds a little magical. Maybe it’s because the carefully tended pots of herbs and flowers somehow humanize the fire escape, a quintessential symbol of harsh urban living. We’re somehow eeking life out steel, and living off the land we don’t have. In fact, I’ve always thought you [...]
23 Jun
Clover Food Lab: Vegetarian Fare in Downtown Boston
Thanks to this post at A Boston Food Diary, I found out a Clover Food Lab truck is serving up their local, vegetarian fare at a new location in Boston. Until this week, the Clover Food Lab truck was an enigma to me. A search on Yelp for Boston vegetarian restaurants always yields rave reviews [...]
21 Jun
Flying the Friendly Skies: Finding Vegetarian Airport Food
I often write about how easy following a vegetarian diet can be at home, safe in your own kitchen, and in control of your daily menu. But when we leave home, our resolve, creativity, and skills of nutritional analysis are tested. There is no greater challenge for the newbie vegetarian or aspiring meat-reducer than the [...]
17 Jun
Meat-Free in the Midwest
The year I left Indiana, college diploma and a plane ticket to New York City in hand, the state produced 1.4 million pounds of red meat. That’s more than three times as much as Kentucky that same year–2005. I tried to compare this to Massachusetts, where I live now, but beef production for all of [...]
8 Jun
Reality: 35 Square Feet
The reality check of my fantastic Boston apartment comes in the form of my 35 square foot kitchen. For all the charms of living in the city, I am very aware of what I give up to live here when I’m trying to roll out bread dough on my coffee table or when I turn [...]
