Nana Kwaku and I are addicts. So are you! We all have addictions to food in some form or another. Many of the foods we eat and crave have an addictive nature. Sugar, salt and fat all activate our brains and our desire mechanisms. Food manufactures know this fact well and use that knowledge to their […]
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So it’s the New Year. I just spent the last month over indulging, as did many of you I bet. I was in my hometown of Chicago with my family for 2 ½ weeks to support a family member with post surgery recovery and I stayed through the holiday. I arrived back home to houseguests
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When I put out my call in September for black owned vegetarian restaurants many of you responded. One place that came up several times was Land of Kush in Baltimore MD. For this installment of my interviews with Black Vegans I interview Naijha Wright and Gregory Brown the husband and wife team that owns and
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Last night I realized that if indeed #BlackLivesMatter then I must continue to write about food. While this Euro dominated society we live in has it’s guns aimed at us it also has its poisonous foods aimed at us. We must stay aware of not just the overt acts of aggression against us but also the less obvious ones.
Maintaining your vegetarian or vegan lifestyle can challenging. Some folks start and stop many times. Others stay vegetarian for a good length of time and then fall off. Some may worry they aren’t eating the right things or attribute symptoms they are having to giving up animal products. Does this sound familiar to you? There
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Recently I asked you, my readers, to let me know about black owned vegetarian restaurants so that I can share them and build a resource. I received a good many responses both in reply to the blog post and on Facebook. As time allows I will be adding these to a searchable list. Here
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This is the final day of VeganMoFo 2014! Whew! Bloggers around the world have been posting (or at least trying to post ) every day during the month of September. I only missed 3 days out of the month. Now I am tired! You will probably not hear from me on this blog for a
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This is the third and final part of our three-part interview with the amazing Queen Afua. She has so much to share with us about healing and has been instrumental in helping thousands of women and men on their healing journey. In this segment she shares her recommendation for those wishing to transition to a
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