Last week marked the reelection of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama. If you’ve been reading my blog, you know that means that since then, I couldn’t have woken up any happier. I’m pleased with this result for our country and it really restores a lot of faith I had in [...]
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Being vegan, I often get a lot of “Oh, that’s weird” or “Oh, why don’t you drink milk?!” or even “Oh, I could never give up cheese.” (I know, people say “oh” a lot in my life…or maybe it’s just in my head.) I recently realized the questions I get asked the most aren’t about [...]
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My husband is the owner of a vegan restaurant here in NYC and I recently overheard him on the phone with a friend of his. He was giving some advice about how to go about opening a new place and said this: “As far as competition, I’m not worried about the vegan restaurant down the [...]
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The other night, I was home alone, watching Pride and Prejudice (the 2005, Keira Knightly version) on iTunes. It’s one of my favorite books (okay, so I know where it is on the list, I was just trying not to sound like a dweeb. It’s third. It’s my THIRD favorite book. First Jane Eyre, then Wuthering Heights, then [...]
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On a recent Thursday night home alone perusing Netflix, I found the opportunity to watch a powerful and moving documentary entitled, For The Bible Tells Me So. A 2007 film by Director Daniel G. Karslake, the documentary is described on IMDB as “an exploration of the intersection between religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how [...]
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A recent study published in Nutritional Journal finds that a vegetarian diet could make you happier and more relaxed. The results seemed surprising: researchers anticipated that vegetarians would have lower levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which are responsible for mood regulation. It would appear that vegetarians would therefore be more susceptible to depressing than their [...]
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I recently discovered a new Twitter friend who goes by the handle @ReadyForPlanB. Interested, I took a look at his profile and website and found something fantastic: a treasure trove of vegan testimonials from people of all different backgrounds, walks of life, and places on their journey. I decided to interview the man behind this [...]
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I’ve tried every diet in the world. Literally, probably. You wouldn’t know it to look at me now, but in my teens, I was a pretty chubby kid – and I was desperate to get slim. The funny thing was, I never ate that much junk food. I grew up in an Indian household with [...]
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I have a close friend who has long been in the animal rights movement and I always assumed she was vegan. When I finally did ask her one day, she said she had been vegetarian for ages and makes the inch toward vegan every single year, but has never been perfect. I also overheard her [...]
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Ever notice that you can be having a great conversation with someone and all of a sudden find out they are a Republican (or Democrat, whichever you’re not) and pull back? After all, when someone doesn’t share the political ideology you do, it can be difficult to maintain a civil conversation about controversial issues. That’s [...]
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