Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe for the Indian dish Bharta (a smoked eggplant dish similar to baba ghanouj, included in her must-have cookbook World Vegetarian) is no-fail fun for the tummy of anyone you introduce it to. Some history, courtesy of Jaffrey:
“This is a popular village dish. The eggplant is put whole into the hot ashes of [...]

Among the top feelings in the world (for me) at the moment is effing NAILING a recipe. Last night’s Tofu Pot Pie recipe took me about two hours to make, but holy geez! Worth it. For you tofu haters out there, this is the one that will convince you otherwise. Delicious, though I messed up [...]

Clean Slate 2008, I say, and to that end, I’m going 95% pescetarian (and of that, vegetarian 75% of the time), with the remaining 5% percent being devoted to the times when I simply, well, want some goddamn meat in me—chicken (3%), pork (1.5%) and beef (.5%).
It won’t be easy (Goodbye, 212 Bistro’s Cuban [...]

Educating the common carnivore at Zephyr Vegetarian Cafe

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
When my dad talks about vegan food, he scrunches up his face and declares, “rabbit food.” It’s easy to understand why: to the common carnivore, meals without meat lack the proper flavor and protein, not to mention tradition. A similar thing happened a few [...]