What We Ate Wednesday & Cookbook Review: Choosing Raw By Gena Hamshaw (Plus A Recipe!)

July 16th, 2014 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

I remember, very clearly, sitting in a cafe in New York City. February 2013. I was in town for Main Street Vegan Academy, fresh off a redeye with nearly zero sleep, hollow-eyed exhausted and so happy to be right there exactly where I was. Amped on adrenaline, espresso, and green juice, I fell into an [...]

What I Ate Wednesday: Last Day Of School & The Lusty Vegan Pop-Up

June 17th, 2014 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

Oh, what a face to wake up to . . . School’s out! It’s done. The finals I had to take, are taken. The finals I had to grade, are graded. Assignments turned in. Wrap-up meetings wrapped. And just like that, my first year of graduate school is finished. Whoa. And what better way to [...]

What We Ate Wednesday: Happy Birthday To My Love!

April 22nd, 2014 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

My honey had a birthday! The first of his that we celebrated together, which made it a very special birthday indeed. And it just so happened that his very favorite band, from way back in college, who had been broken up for like, over 15 years, had just announced out of the blue a few [...]

What We Ate Wednesday: I Heart Santa Barbara (Plus A Giveaway! – CLOSED)

March 4th, 2014 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

This time of year, the pink Jasmine is blooming all over my yard and all over the city, and so I bring sprigs inside every few days, sprinkled around the house so we can live jasmine-scented lives . . . The other night I went reading back through the archives here on this blog, which [...]

What We Ate Wednesday: Back To School

January 14th, 2014 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

This is what I get to look at on my walk from my classes to lab meeting. Not too shabby, eh? So school. That’s different. I have now been back in school – doing a masters program in biology focusing on macroevolution by the way, because I think I never actually mentioned that – for [...]