Change is not always easy, especially when it comes to food. My early attempts at adopting a vegetarian lifestyle were frustrated in various ways. One of them was figuring out how to share food with friends. Dining out with friends was now a problem. No one, it seemed, knew what to do with me in … Continue reading Adopting Change
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My family heritage is Italian: my grandmother really loved to cook, and my father really loved to eat. Meat and potatoes were standard, and that was what my dad called dinner. I grew up eating a lot of chicken, pork, and beef – all accompanied by potatoes or spaghetti. The vegetables were negligible, and what … Continue reading A Return to Roots
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Poetry has mostly been lost on me. Maybe I never spent enough time reflecting on the words; maybe I was just too young. But there was one poem by Robert Frost that really touched me, and didn’t require that I sit for long periods of time searching for an enigmatic message. I first read Frost … Continue reading Whole-Heartedness
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