SoulVeggie
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2015-02-08T20:19:14-05:00
Focused on vegan and vegetarian related issues, thoughts, articles, information, facts, activities, humor, and satire.
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Book Review: "Off the Reservation" or "Hail to the Vegan President?"
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2015-02-08T20:19:14-05:00
2015-02-08T20:19:14-05:00
Give or take a few wks., I've been vegan for 14 yrs. last month, and 20 yrs. vegetarian before that. It started out as a spiritual/physical health "experiment," and evolved to incorporate environmental and animal rights issues. For many, being...
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3 Plant-Based "Cheese-like" Topping Recipes for Pizzas, & More
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2014-08-10T19:37:33-04:00
2014-08-11T10:55:01-04:00
Three plant-based "cheese-like sauce" recipes that firm up on a pizza (or in pasta, etc.) from an article I wrote not published. It was for the Engine2 Diet Blog and there were editorial differences of opinion on using low-quality snapshots...
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Victoria Moran Interview: Happy Cow, Jill Nussinow, & Me
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2014-07-06T14:32:57-04:00
2014-07-06T14:32:57-04:00
Victoria Moran ("Main Street Vegan") interviewed Eric Brent (Happy Cow), myself (Heart Healthy Pizza), and Jill Nussinow (aka, "The Veggie Queen" and author of the cookbooks "CHAMPs" & "The New Fast Food") just over a week ago. I thoroughly enjoyed...
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Pizza Cookbook Review & FREE Giveaway
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2014-06-10T14:54:28-04:00
2014-06-10T14:54:28-04:00
"VeganRunnerEats" reviews "Heart Healthy Pizza," offers FREE book giveaway. Some great photos, I'll post the recipes later this week (in the process of moving domiciles). Check it out: http://wp.me/p3LYmB-FV Here's one of her photos:
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Interviews: The NotMilkMan & Natural Disaster Preparedness
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2014-03-09T16:46:31-04:00
2014-03-09T16:46:31-04:00
Robert Cohen is a vegan original. Brilliant, hardcare animal rights, & one of the 1st to publish and speak out loud about the dangers of drinking cow milk. His daily "notmilk" column inspired me to go vegan (pus cells), start...
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The "Healthy Librarian Interview"
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2014-02-23T20:34:30-05:00
2014-02-23T20:34:30-05:00
The Healthy Librarian has been an inspiration to me for years, and constantly impresses with analysis and interpretation of current studies on nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. A little over a year ago she interviewed me, and it was long....
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Review & Free Giveaway: "The China Study Cookbook"
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2014-02-21T14:41:29-05:00
2014-03-09T16:49:25-04:00
As one of the handful of cookbook authors who've published a cookbook of plant-based recipes with no added oil and minimal to optional salt and sugar, it is always wonderful to have the opportunity to review another author's work in...
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Review of "Whole" (Campbell) & FREE Giveaway of Same
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2014-02-07T16:19:26-05:00
2014-02-15T14:23:07-05:00
Books that significantly change your life don't come around all that too often. A handful of the ones that come to mind for me are "The Mad Cowboy," by Howard Lyman, "Diet for a Small Planet," (Francis Moore Lappe), "Diet...
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Special! 200 Recipes: "No More Bull" (H. Lyman) & HHPizza Together!
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2014-02-01T19:21:30-05:00
2014-02-01T19:21:30-05:00
While going through some boxes in my office, I found a box full of "No More Bull!" books by Howard Layman, aka, "The Mad Cowboy" (see description below). I helped edit this book, as well as select and manage the...
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The "Go Vegan Radio" Interview!
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2013-12-11T19:09:32-05:00
2013-12-11T19:09:32-05:00
My 1st National Radio Interview w/Bob Linden on "Go Vegan Radio" is now available for streaming or an MP3 download: http://www.goveganradio.com/2013/12/11/8-december-2013/ It was a great experience, although the 5 minutes on, 4 minutes of commercials (cut out in these audios,...
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"The Devolution of Thanksgiving" - my lecture to Olgethorpe University
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2013-11-28T12:14:04-05:00
2013-11-28T12:14:04-05:00
"My recent lecture. The History of Thanksgiving, fasting/prayer, corporate excess, the modern turkey, the kitchen as a biohazard laboratory, a no-fat plant-based diet, veganism, metabolic syndrome (heart disease, type II diabetes, alzheimer's disease, etc.), pesticides, gmos, advice for dealing with...
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"A Vegan Should Be Able To...."
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2013-10-16T18:21:13-04:00
2013-10-16T18:21:13-04:00
A re-post from 2007. 2007.10.11 A Vegan Should Be Able To: The following is one of my all-time favorite quotes ('cept the hog bit). In mentioning it to a friend yesterday, I had intended to just post it on this...
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Audio: Orson Welles Meets "Vegan World"
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2013-08-21T11:30:04-04:00
2013-08-21T11:30:04-04:00
Dr. Don Wagner and I did an "Orson Welles War of the Worlds" in a radio interview last week, with the concept of "what if the world went vegan last night?" It was quite the improv experience. 1st few minutes,...
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While you were sleeping...
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e20192ac859fee970d
2013-08-13T14:26:29-04:00
2013-08-13T15:00:38-04:00
BTW: you might have missed this, but the entire world adopted a "plant-based" diet last night. This has freaked-out global markets and promoted high-level fiscal concern for most countries as economies across the world are now drastically collapsing; billions of...
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Digital Radio Interview with Me: "I Like Thinking"
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2013-08-12T18:35:04-04:00
2013-08-12T18:35:04-04:00
About a year ago, I did my first interview in promoting my self-published book. It was in Fairfax, VA, and I spent days preparing. I showed up with a pizza ('natch), hobbling with a cane (from a leg injury) and...
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Cymlinging Along
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2013-07-30T14:26:34-04:00
2013-07-30T14:26:34-04:00
Growing excessive numbers of pattypan squash (or, if you will, "Cymling") and bartering boxes of it with a nearby Farm/Farmer's Store for equivalent values of peaches or apples, was one of the more enjoyable and personally satisfying experience of my...
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"Thinking Outside the Pizza Box" - Article, Photos,Videos, & Recipe(s)
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2013-07-18T06:42:18-04:00
2013-07-18T06:42:18-04:00
A few months ago I did my 1st TeeVee gig on how to make a plant-based pizza for the "busy professional" in less than 30 minutes. Here's the full 30 min. video and then the cropped 3 minute version (focused...
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Tons of Sandwich-Related Recipes: The Latest Vegan Culinary Experience
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2013-07-15T16:37:09-04:00
2013-07-15T16:37:09-04:00
I don't know how Jason does it, but here's another FREE edition of the Vegan Culinary Experience. Over 80 sandwich-related recipes and neat info packed into over 150 pages. A downloadable PDF, this is, with all due modesty as a...
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My Solution to the California Pizza Kitchen Cruelty Controversy
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2019104325183970c
2013-07-12T14:43:05-04:00
2013-07-12T14:43:05-04:00
Still sorting thru all the AR2013 experiences. PETA's campaign to expose the horrific practices on cows and resulting cheese supplies to the California Pizza Kitchen Campaign was something I was totally unaware of (PETA tabled next to my own table...
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DC Area AR2013 Conference & "Making a Pizza in 30 Minutes" Clip
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2019103da6b42970c
2013-06-26T12:46:00-04:00
2013-06-26T12:56:27-04:00
Preparing to table at a Conference (in this case, the esteemed Animal Rights 2013 Conference in DC) is a daunting task. Sure, I've helped others at Conferences, and did several "head photographer" gigs for the the yearly FARM sponsored Conferences...
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Daiya Cheese: "Expensive, Unhealthy [Vegan] Crap."
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2013-06-24T13:16:20-04:00
2013-06-25T08:23:41-04:00
It's no secret that I abhor Daiya and all the other "self-promoted as healthy" faux cheeses. Hell, I even wrote an appendix in my book devoted to detailing the FAT content of these nutritiously vapid and expensive taste addictive quasi-food...
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"Making Pizza:" Mark's Cable TV Debut Now Available Online
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2013-05-30T13:06:07-04:00
2013-05-30T13:06:07-04:00
It was my 1st time in a TV studio, let alone being filmed in front of 3 cameras, team of people in a hidden booth barking orders through headsets to those around myself and the hostess. All volunteers, we were...
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For Pizza & Pasta: A Vegan "Cheese-Like" Topping Sauce Recipe
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2013-05-28T17:34:30-04:00
2013-05-28T21:25:13-04:00
A frustrating aspect of writing a cookbook is all those tests, recipes, and ideas that for a variety of reasons, don't get done or included in time for publication. Lord knows, there's so many brunch and dessert pizza concepts, tons...
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All-Creatures Review of "Heart Healthy Pizza"
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2013-05-23T18:02:40-04:00
2013-05-23T18:02:40-04:00
The All Creatures Website has been around for OVER 15 years! One of the original vegan, animal rights websites, it is chockful of recipes, news, reviews, and information. An obvious labor of love by the Mary and Frank Hoffman Foundation...
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Sutton's Sushi: "Plant-Based Pseudo-Maki"
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2013-05-20T19:08:26-04:00
2013-05-20T19:10:45-04:00
It's been fascinating. Ya writes the 1st vegan pizza cookbook, and people think you're a one-trick pony, that all you can do is make pizza! Kids, I've been cooking and exploring veg'n food in the kitchen for over thirty years....
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"Pac Man" Pizzas!
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2013-05-13T13:22:06-04:00
2013-05-13T13:36:54-04:00
For fun over the weekend, I made two whole wheat/buckwheat pizza crusted pizzas. The recipe for the dough is detailed below (it's not gluten-free as is the buckwheat recipe in my book). The ingredients for each pizza is listed on...
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"Heart Healthy Pizza!" Special Mother's Day Discount
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2013-05-10T14:12:14-04:00
2013-05-10T14:13:32-04:00
My nephew, Mom's grandson, being taught by 2nd generation pizza master! In honor of Mother's Day, I'm offering a special $15 discount price (shipping included) on autographed copies of my book, "Heart Healthy Pizza," purchased through the webpage below. This...
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Short Bootleg Clips of My Cable Broadcast Debut
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2013-05-08T16:13:52-04:00
2013-05-08T16:13:52-04:00
They're small (parents took them with smart phones, I haven't seen the full broadcast and won't until the digital version is available late this month), but I strung them together to give some friends, family an idea of how it...
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"Heart Healthy Pizza" Demo/Interview Being Broadcast this Week
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2013-05-07T15:52:06-04:00
2013-05-07T15:52:06-04:00
Well, it's happening. The Cable TV demo/interview taping session I blogged about earlier last month, is finally being broadcast. It'll be in the Fairfax, VA area (ComCast Cable). Other nearby counties will probably be able to view it as well....
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VeggieSue's Review of "Heart Healthy Pizza!"
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2013-05-01T17:15:24-04:00
2013-05-01T17:15:24-04:00
"While I haven't made that particular pie of his (yet), I have made others, and they beat anything you'll find in the grocer's freezer by miles and are perfectly fine to eat on any plant-based food plan, whether it's Dr....
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Sorrel/Mint Hummus w/Veggies on Wheat/Millet Seed Bread
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2013-04-30T23:12:05-04:00
2013-04-30T23:13:01-04:00
So, what did I finally do with the unusual yard-harvested Sorrel & Mint Hummus I posted last entry? Well, been kicking around a new bread (or pizza dough!) recipe in my head that involves using whole wheat flour and millet...
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Heart Healthy "Sorrel & Mint Hummus"
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2013-04-21T20:40:05-04:00
2013-04-21T20:42:48-04:00
Sorrel is the rare perennial green, coming back every year in more Northern climes. It's a fav in Europe, usually served as a soup with milk/cream. Sorrel has a spinach/lemony taste. A few days ago I picked a bunch of...
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Video/Audio Clip: "Thinking Outside the Pizza Box"
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e201901b69e7e6970b
2013-04-19T19:14:12-04:00
2013-04-19T19:14:12-04:00
I've posted a short video clip with audio. The audio was the 1st (and only) practice take for the big DC pizza demonstration/presentation I did back in late January with VSDC (Vegetarian Society of DC). This is my practice Intro,...
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Doing TeeVee
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017c38a367f9970b
2013-04-15T18:04:29-04:00
2013-05-07T16:32:03-04:00
Whew.... just finished several hours at a video studio staffed with several pros who knew their way around the three HUGE cameras facing the set, and amongst them, the GENERAL, issuing orders from a remote control both through the camera...
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"Preparing & Cooking Kale" - 4 Short Video Clips
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2013-04-09T20:09:48-04:00
2013-04-09T20:09:48-04:00
Thought it might be useful to post the clips, essentially unedited as rough cuts, as they still might be useful for people and I don't know when I'll have the discretionary time again to not only video me in the...
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Heart Healthy Pizza: "I Has A Video Channel" - plus 4 "How-to" Video Clips
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017d42a40cd0970c
2013-04-08T20:38:09-04:00
2013-04-08T20:38:09-04:00
Practicing for a video taping for Cable Public Access. Have posted clips of my "practice" sessions (verbal errors, corrections, whatever) without any serious editing as they might be useful for people in: 1) learning how to shape your pizza dough...
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"Mad Cowboy Pizza" Recipe, Giveaway, & Short Interview
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017c385f4587970b
2013-04-05T14:21:34-04:00
2013-04-05T14:21:34-04:00
Somer has outdone herself w/ photos illustrating the Official Mad Cowboy Pizza from my cookbook, "Heart Healthy Pizza." Back in 2008, Howard actually worked with me in the kitchen, instructing me as to what (and in what order) he wanted...
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HHPizza Cookbook Giveaway, Recipes, & Review by Vedgedout
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017c38585055970b
2013-04-04T15:06:28-04:00
2013-04-05T14:22:50-04:00
©2013 by Vedgedout A wonderful post of recipes for my "Spanakopizza" creation, a giveaway of my cookbook, and Part 1 of her review of said book. Somer has posted some fine photos, too, showing her pizza in different stages. Here's...
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03/14/13: Mark's Interview w/ Dr. Don Wagner (stream/audio download)
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017d41eb6166970c
2013-03-15T19:56:30-04:00
2013-03-15T19:56:30-04:00
"This is our second interview with Mark Sutton, author of Heart Healthy Pizza “Over 100 Plant-based Recipes for the Most Nutritious Pizza in the World”. Dr. Don and Mark discuss many of the healthy alternatives to eliminating animal fats from...
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Plant-Based "St. Patty's Day Pizza Pie" Recipes
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2013-03-07T12:34:55-05:00
2013-03-07T12:34:55-05:00
"St. Patty's Pizza Pie" Before Adding Sauce My "St. Patty's Pizza Pie" recipes from the world's first vegan pizza cookbook. All 100+ recipes are no-fat and plant-based. The St. Patty's Pizza Pie recipe calls for a wonderful "Barley, Navy Beans,...
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Heart Healthy Pizza: Review by Lani Muelrath ("Fit Quickies") & Sauces Versatility
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2013-02-27T17:32:14-05:00
2013-02-27T17:32:14-05:00
Early in February, Lani Muelruth posted a short review of my book on Amazon (here). I was convalescing in a hospital at the time and didn't find out about this until a few days ago. I'm honored! Lani, aka, "The...
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DC Area: "Heart & Planet Healthy Diet Choices: Pizza Sampling & Lecture"
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2013-02-18T15:31:22-05:00
2013-02-18T15:31:22-05:00
You can see more photos of previous event HERE The web page announcement/where one can order tickets: http://hearthealthypizza.eventbrite.com “Heart and Planet Healthy Diet Choices: Pizza Sampling & Lecture” March 2, 2013, 4pm to 7pm, Eastern Village Co-Housing, Silver Spring, Maryland...
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"Thai" Issue of Vegan Culinary Experience is Available!
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017c36e57b36970b
2013-02-15T14:39:17-05:00
2013-02-15T14:39:17-05:00
VCE Cover (click for larger image) I'm proud to have an article in the latest issue of the Vegan Culinary Experience. The theme of this issue is "Thai Cuisine" and it was a challenge for me, taking several attempts to...
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The Vegetarian Resource Group Reviews "Heart Healthy Pizza!"
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2013-02-10T20:07:13-05:00
2013-02-10T20:07:13-05:00
VRG Cover (click to see full-size) VRG Review of HHPizza (click for full version) One of the 1st vegan cookbooks I ever purchased was "Simply Vegan," by Debra Wasserman. Debra's co-director of one of the oldest vegetarian/vegan informational organizations in...
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Photos: 1st Ever Heart-Healthy Pizza Public Demonstration/Sampling!!!
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017c3657b9c0970b
2013-01-28T10:54:53-05:00
2013-01-28T10:54:53-05:00
Well did it!!! 9 16" no-oil heart healthy plant-based pizzas served to 30 hungry guests in 3 hours (I had decided to serve one to volunteeers before we got started; they often don't get to eat, and can see how...
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Dung Perspectives and Life's Uphill Struggle
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017c3647e5dc970b
2013-01-26T08:11:07-05:00
2013-01-26T10:50:45-05:00
It's not often that something I read just floors me philosophically and metaphysically. I'm old enough to be quite jaded and skeptical of the vacuous crap that passes for knowledge or information these days on TeeVee and the Internet. Four...
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Video Clip: "McGnaw: The Gluten-Free Beaver"
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017d401d4844970c
2013-01-17T16:50:46-05:00
2013-01-17T16:56:06-05:00
Hilarious... don't know how long this funny "Food for Thought" clip from "The Colbert Report" will be available...
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"...Freaky Awesome Sauces & Pizza Amoebas..."
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017c3563059c970b
2013-01-07T00:56:56-05:00
2013-01-07T00:56:56-05:00
Love this FB post from Lori. Helps keep me working hard to get the word out about what my 5+ years of research into writing the 1st Vegan Pizza Cookbook (self-published) has accomplished in helping people to make the penultimate...
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Video Clip: My Latest Pizza Test
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017ee6def66c970d
2013-01-02T11:28:22-05:00
2013-01-02T11:29:59-05:00
I haven't had much time the past several months, due to recovering from an injury and self-marketing my book. Great fun to get to spent a little discretionary time doing one of the things that made my career (particularly at...
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"Hooked on it:" The "Healthy Librarian" Makes More Pizza
tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452b83e69e2017ee6bf46bc970d
2012-12-29T11:59:05-05:00
2012-12-29T15:36:04-05:00
It's alway gratifying to get positive feedback from people trying my recipes. Many have been skeptical that you can actually create "Heart Healthy" cheese-like sauces without expensive, nutritionally vapid, and fatty faux dairy cheeses. Imagine my delight when the Healthy...
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