Here are fresh tips for each day in November to celebrate World Vegan Day (November 1) and World Vegan Month. With so many benefits and so much at stake, there has never been a better time to embrace your inner-herbivore. November 1/Day 1 There are so many amazing resources for new and transitioning…

So much vegan food to eat, so little more room in the belly… — Last year was my first visit to the National Restaurant Association Show and to say I was impressed is an understatement. I was like a kid in a candy store, a candy store full of vegan eggs with yolks that exploded into a bright yellow dribble when pierced, plant-based chick’n…

My mother passed away after a long, excruciating decline ten years ago and I still avoid sidewalk cracks as if my life depended on it, because for a time, it sure felt like it did. “Step on a crack and you break your mother’s back” was a childhood rhyme we…

Thirteen Vegan Recipes Making the Most of Seasonal Ingredients — We’re crawling out of winter in the Northern Hemisphere so we are about to have so much more produce beyond apples and winter squash and aren’t we ready for it? From apricots to spring onions, it’s time to wake up to a season of new delicious options. Apricots Apricot Bars via…

From Soda Bread to Guinness Chocolate Cake, I’ve got you covered — You don’t need to find a lucky clover or a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow to enjoy a fun and festive St. Patrick’s Day. Just check out some delicious vegan recipes to make a plan for a fabulous celebration and you are well on your way.

Think you’ve got a gotcha moment against vegans? Think again. — “Vegans kill more animals than meat-eaters.” As someone who maintains a robust vegan page on several social media platforms, I can affirm that, man, this myth is making the rounds like whoa. It seems like the trolls and haters have a shiny new toy because it is currently their preferred rebuttal against vegans. (Well, that and…

“Gaslighting is a slow, unconscious loss of reality…[it] is mind control to make victims doubt their reality.” — Tracy A. Malone Some of us grew up in an environment of gaslighting, one where observations, recollections and experiences were often not only routinely undermined and dismissed but denied. If you grew…

It’s probably that new year, short-days/long-nights rumination mode happening, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about a crossroads moment in my life. Do you ever think about those watershed experiences in your life? Defining, though perhaps outwardly humdrum, incidents that reordered your life, altered your perspective, changed your trajectory…

This year, Hanukkah officially starts Sunday, December 18 and ends Monday, December 26, totally overlapping with this other lesser-known holiday that a few people celebrate on December 25. Whatever! Hanukkah’s food traditions are often centered around the symbols of miracles, specifically with how the oil used in the menorah to…