Because our food sources and diets are not always optimal, supplements can play an important part in our health regimens. I see supplementation as a nice option and as a sometimes necessity for health. It’s also useful for rounding out a diet that may be lacking in certain nutrients due to soil depletion and other […]
Lifestyle
Veganism Takes All Kinds
I got on the scale this afternoon. I had an inkling as to what the reading would say; my pants have been feeling a bit snug lately, and my willingness to walk 10,000 steps a day has dwindled in correlation with the number of hot summer days we’ve had around here this summer. When I […]
Veganism is an ideology, not a diet!
Perhaps the simplest way to approach the complexity of veganism as a diet versus a discerning ethical choice can be answered in these three words: Couldn’t. Shouldn’t. Wouldn’t! Here’s how: One can empathise with people who are afflicted with serious food allergies: Who experience life-threatening reactions to otherwise potentially nourishing eats! It stands to reason that […]
International Comfort Food at Montreal’s Lola Rosa
When I visited Montreal’s Lola Rosa on a Monday for lunch, it was packed. Located close to McGill University, its clientele skewed young, though I saw older people, too. The menu, as Chef Scott Wong tells me, is based on “things that people’s mothers would make for them, all over the world.” This means salads, […]
Plastic-free Vegan; A Journey, Part I. The Impetus.
I am the author of three vegan cookbooks, mother to three children, guardian to three cats, and wife to one husband. Over the past year I have been contemplating, and even reducing and refusing, plastic in my life, and over the course of this time it has dawned on me how difficult it is to […]