The woman who inspired my love for cooking.
I started this blog when I became vegan in hope to inspire others by showing how easy and delicious vegan food can be. My goal is to maintain a compassionate diet, absent of large environmental cost, that is not dependent on a long-distance food system.
It's all about eating creatively and consciously. Challenge yourself- take a second to actually look at what you are eating, think about what it consists of, where it came from, how it got to you, how it effects your body, and how it effects our environment.
"What we chose to reject was our species' capacity to disregard life. The cruelties are by now familiar enough: cutting off pig's tails so that they don't chew them in their depression and madness at confinement; breeding chickens with so much meatiness their legs can't support their bodies; fattening cows with industrial feed that can contain chicken and pork by-products, and even beef fat. We never will accept the idea that animals can be treated like machines that produce meat, milk, and eggs. We are equally troubled by the fact that meat production monopolizes the world's scarce agricultural land. It takes fourteen pounds of corn for a cow to gain one pound of edible meat... Meanwhile, cows and other livestock hog half the corn grown in America, while 800 million people go hungry worldwide. The plastic wrapped slabs of meat in the supermarket offer no clue to the animal's living conditions..." (From Plenty- Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, pages 70 & 71)
P.S. This food is powered by my college budget. The rumors that a vegan or vegetarian diet is more expensive than a omnivore's diet are false. I buy most of my food from Trader Joes and my local farmers market. A trip to Whole Foods is always a treat.
P.P.S. I still eat honey and believe that we should support bees because they support us.
Enjoy :)
XO- T
