April 2010
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Chipotle Love!
Yayyyyyy. Guys- exciting things are happening. Up until this week, I was incredibly jealous of New York, Washington DC, and Denver, because they were the original test sites for the new Chipotle vegan chicken burrito (labeled by them as the garden blend, fyi). However, yesterday I was thrilled to learn that two locations in Los Angeles (Beverly Hills and Beverly Center) were making the...
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The Visitor
I’ve been trying to write about this film since I started this blog. Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor is the single most significant movie in my life, because it represents every reason I got into film. It tells an emotional, entertaining story while addressing an important and relevant social issue: immigration. While I adore and appreciate documentaries, I am of the opinion that films...
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How To Be A Meat-Eating Vegan
Well, technically you can’t eat meat and be vegan. Obviously. However, there are ways to cut out unnecessary animal products from your life without sacrificing the taste you love or the meat you cook. In a perfect world, of course I would prefer you all to go 100% vegan and join me on my journey of delicious, cruelty-free, environmentally-friendly, sustainable eating. In the meantime,...
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If you love Glee...
…and would love the addition of an amazing new cast member, I strongly encourage you to check out my beautiful, vivacious, incredibly poised 16-year-old friend, Bailey Peyton. I won’t go on and on about how shockingly talented she is and what an amazing performance she gives in this video- because you can see that for yourself. What I will tell you is that she has one of the kindest...
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The Olive Grove
My reasons for recommending this book are biased, to say the least. However, I feel quite confident that even if my Mother were not the author, I would feel just as passionate about its brilliance, insight, and relevance to our times.
The Olive Grove (originally published under the title Moghrabi’s Olives, if you want to look up the great reviews) tells the story of a Palestinian family...
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This is Love Love Love by Tristan Prettyman....
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“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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Apparently I Paint Now...
When I first moved to Los Angeles, about a year and a half ago, I ventured down to Venice for some exploration and people watching. I had New Yorker friends in town and wanted to show them some touristy sights. On the boardwalk, we came across a painter with an array of his own artwork. I fell in love with one of his paintings and considered buying it, as it spoke to me on a personal level. My...
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A Week In The Life of a Hungry Vegan
After this, I plan to pull back a little on the overwhelming flood of vegan posts so as to let you know that while veganism and activism are important to me, so are many many other things. That said- this post is about the beautiful, eye-opening, life-changing, dance-inducing, inspirational vegan meals I’ve been privileged to have this past week. While I often focus on wallet-friendly...
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The Manicotti Experiment
This entry is dedicated to my Aunt (and Godmother) Laurie, for a number of reasons.
First and foremost, it’s partly her fault that I am vegan. Ever since I was teeny tiny, her nickname for me was Piglet. Because of this, on every birthday and Christmas, I could expect some kind of pig-related stuffed animal, toy, book, etc. I thus developed, and maintain to this day, an above-and-beyond...
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When Jessica Met When Harry Met Sally
Last week as I was lying in bed around midnight, debating going to sleep, I decided to turn on When Harry Met Sally for 10 or 15 minutes. It was conveniently on Netflix watch instantly and I hadn’t seen it in years, so I thought it would be fun to watch the first few scenes. Of course I couldn’t bear to turn it off, and I happily sat through the next hour and a half glued to the...
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Wandering Writer: Part 2
If you read the original Wandering Writer, you know I’ve long been on the hunt for the perfect writing locale. Admittedly, this process can serve as a poorly disguised tool of procrastination, allowing me to dwell on finding the perfect combination of people watching, inspirational yet not distracting ambient noise, and availability of delicious, nutritious food. Since finishing the first...
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Vegan on a Budget: Jessica's Bowl of Health
The other night when I was on my cooking high after making the previously mentioned phenomenal chili, I decided to experiment with a quasi made up, quasi inspired by other recipes Quinoa Salad. If you don’t know about quinoa, you should. The Incas referred to it as the “Mother Grain,” as it was such a nutritious, delicious part of their diet. Quinoa is the only grain that is a...
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Britain is better than us.
I awoke this morning to an email from my adorable French-Italian (but currently based in London) friend Gaia, telling me she just finished reading “Eating Animals” and is now going vegetarian and trying vegan. She wanted to know if I had any advice/recipes/blogs to suggest (which of course I am sending in massive quantities because I want to make sure her experience is a good one)....
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Vegan on a Budget: Chili
When trying to gently coerce my friends and family into veganism, I find the best method is to veganize traditional recipes that are easily veganized. For example, I’m not going to try to tell someone I can make them the equivalent of a steak. Sure, there are imitation steak strips that I think are great, and I’ve always said the portobello mushroom is the steak of vegans, but...
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As summer peeks around the corner and the memories...