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Club Recipe: Eat the Rainbow!

Hi lovely members, As I say in Color Me Vegan, eat by color! With the new recipe – created just for you – you can do just that in one sitting! Rainbow Noodles is waiting for you. ENJOY!

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Discount for Paz Apparel – awesome, vegan, righteous, eco-friendly, recycled!

Paz Apparel Bags and Hats is an amazing vegan company that I’ve raved about before when talking about their awesome outback hats! Now they’ve expanded their line to include these beautiful, unique, eco-friendly, vegan bags made from handwoven and handcrafted Abaca fiber from the Philippines. This recycled canvas is...

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Easter: Honoring the Meaning – not the Symbol

One misconception about veganism I’ve encountered more than once is the assumption that as we honor our values, we must forgo tradition – as if these two things are mutually exclusive. Food-related rituals, particularly those involving animals, are likely to be so revered that they supersede consideration for anything...

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Six-Year Anniversary: An Uber Lovefest

In celebration of the six-year anniversary of our podcast, I feature the letters of listeners who have been transformed by “Food for Thought.” The stories are as diverse as the listeners and reflect varied ages and backgrounds, but they all share common threads of hope and compassion. I hope...

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Veg Week in My Beloved City!

(Read the East Bay Express article about Oakland Veg Week for which I was interviewed and which features a photo of me and Dawn the Cow.) Most people who live in Oakland have an enormous amount of Oakland Pride. San Francisco? Too cold. Berkeley? Too – um – Berkeley....

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