A vegetarian since age 13, Ellen Kanner has written for Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Eating Well, Vegetarian Times and regional magazines nationwide including Pebble Beach and Palm Beach Illustrated. She shares meals in Miami with her meat-eating but otherwise adorable husband, and is at work on a book, Love in the Time of Broccoli: A Joyful Vegetarian's Path to a Beautiful Life.
Her website is www.ellen-ink.com. She blogs at edgyveggie1.blogspot.com
Write to her at ekanner@miamiherald.com.
Sweet potatoes are many things -- nutritious, delicious, gorgeous -- but they're not yams. The name confusion began because there are two types of sweet potato -- hard and pale, and soft and orange. The hard, pale guys came along first, and when their more appealing brethen became available, they were sold as yams. We've been mixing them up ever since.
Are you ready for the new year? I am. I can already tell 2010 is going to be worth ringing in. Green signs are all around us: Vegetarian meals are in Miami-Dade and Broward public school cafeterias. A hummus and veggie plate is a great way to combat child obesity and global climate change at the same time.
With the holidays upon us, some of you may have sugar plums dancing in your heads. The rest of us dream of chocolate. This is nothing to feel guilty about. The dark stuff is rich in health, via flavonols and magnesium, and well, it's just rich. Chocolate is earthy, sweet and makes us happy, even during December, a time that can make the best of us slightly nuts.
Agave -- it's not just for tequila anymore. The nectar from the agave lily may be the ''it'' sweetener of 2010. Sweeter than sugar, this golden liquid is less viscous than honey with the same number calories -- 60 per tablespoon. However, agave is low-glycemic (32 on the glycemic index compared to honey's 58), which means the body converts it more slowly to sugar without blood-sugar spikes and crashes.
There will be no Thanksgiving turkey at Jonathan Safran Foer's house. The author of the acclaimed novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close gave up eating animals in favor of writing Eating Animals (Little Brown, $25.99), a personal and philosophical exploration of food choices he discussed Tuesday in Miami Beach.
October is a banner month, and the banner is pink. Besides being Vegetarian Awareness Month, it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and breast cancer support's signature pink ribbons are everywhere.
Happy World Vegetarian Day, the start of Vegetarian Awareness Month. We'll mark it here with a consideration of soy, a food formerly known as healthful that's been getting a lot of grief. Much of it is undeserved and comes via Web misinformation, including claims it causes breast cancer, developmental delays, Alzheimer's and man boobs. Yuck. And not true.
In this corner, three classic Nabisco crackers -- Premium saltines ($2.39, 8 ounces), Wheat Thins ($3.57, 10 ounces) and Triscuits ($3.57, 8.5 ounces). Entering the ring, three contenders vying to make healthier versions.
When Becca Medvin went vegan at the age of 14, she had no trouble giving up meat. Or milk or cheese or eggs. What she missed was dessert.
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