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Cafe and Culinary Academy Taking Raw Food to Mainstream Audiences As an avid eater, I've always been a little skeptical about the raw food movement. After all, can a life without bubbly blackened pizza crusts, caramelized onions, or the joys of a good

If hungry for lunch in LA, you have to find out where to go by checking Twitter for location updates. Yesterday, for example, had this: Wed, 6/17 Green

Star-studded Lunch Heralds Launch of Campaign for Part-time Vegetarianism Former Beatle Paul McCartney's vegetarianism is no secret, in fact he recently proclaimed that going vegan as one of the most important things you can do for the planet. But just

Calling Jillian Michaels a fitness guru is kinda like saying Oprah Winfrey is sorta influential or Kim Jong-il has a little problem expressing himself. She is a fitness god…or goddess, whichever! She is the go-to for millions of people that want a

Religious laws based on moral principles and establishing the first health guidelines inspired the first food movements. The history of modern food movements could be said to date to the formation of the Vegetarian

Photo from Modesto Junior College MooShoes, Inc. is a vegan-owned business that sells an assortment of cruelty-free footwear, bags, t-shirts, wallets, books (mainly cookbooks) and other accessories. It is the first cruelty-free store of its kind in New

There are myriad reasons why concentrated animal feeding operations (the technical cleaned up newspeak term for factory farms) are bad for the animals, the environment and human health. But without some sort of visual reference to

To this day, vegetarians are still regarded by some as less physically able than their carnivorous counterparts. Not so. Even though that misconception is beginning to fade, we thought we'd shine the spotlight on 10 of the

Diet is really one of the most commonly overlooked things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint. That's a message I never tire of getting out there; and while I'd recommend a completely vegetarian diet (for the planet, your health and for the

Tofu is a more obvious meatless go-to but its feathery texture doesn’t always suffice for most meat-lovers. Better ways to serve the weary include deep frying it so it gets the golden, crispy skin akin to these delicious Thai-inspired chicken-less satay s

When I got to Kenya, everybody told me that I had to try ugali, which is pretty much considered the national dish. So I did. It's corn meal and water, cooked until it resembles bread dough before it rises. I can't honestly say it was the most delicious

With the U.S. ranking as the fattest country in the world and therefore home to most of the world’s weight conscious, I’ve often marveled over the fact that the emerging green food movement is never touted as a diet—even

While perusing the aisle of my local grocery store the other day, looking for some sort of "sauce" to go on quesadillas and burritos, I ran across this Chipotle-Ranch Dressing. Perfect I thought. Then I got it home and

Obsessed with Samantha Ettus We love Mark Bittman for his sensible approach to cooking and eating. The name of his column in in the New York Times, The Minimalist, says it all. In a recent web interview, Bittman expounds on ecological eating and his

The Financial Times has discovered the Small House Movement, does a thorough job of covering the more interesting projects, and concludes with a bang:

Whether you want to live a healthier lifestyle or you love and respect all of the planet's furry, scaly and slimy inhabitants, being vegan is a choice more people are making every day. It's not for the faint of heart—you

When I wrote my post a few weeks ago on Poverty and Vegetarianism I wanted to include something about the cost of groceries and the relation to where you live, but I only had anecdotal evidence. In my experience in Toronto, the tonier neighbourhoods

As I sip on an 'immunity-boosting' smoothie and nibble at flaxseed tacos, the conversations going on around me are all in Turkish, but the food seems decidedly Californian. In some ways, that's been a hard combination for Istanbul to swallow.