Vegan Recipes | Made to Nourish
You may have heard that Google Maps just pulled an experimental feature that told users how many calories they'd burn if they walked to a destination instead of driving. The feature was intended to promote exercise and greater awareness of energy balance, but pushback from eating disorder treatment professionals—as well as troubled consumers—turned the tide.The app not only showed the caloric deficits associated with walking, but it also framed these deficits in ...
These Bombay wraps with apple raisin chutney & quick pickled onions are a great example of "semi-homemade" cooking, which I appreciate as a happy compromise between my love of all things scratch-cooked, and the fact that my cooking time has been running short lately.The chutney is prepared from scratch—an easy weekend project, if you can keep an eye on a pot as it simmers away on the stovetop. The chapatis are optional: I ended up making them myself because ...
When people ask me why I'm vegan, the simplest answer I can give—and the one that I most often do give these days—is that veganism is my practice and expression of ahimsa. Ahimsa is an animating principle in several Eastern religions, including Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Sometimes it's translated as nonviolence, sometimes as "doing no harm." It's often simply translated to "compassion."Compassion is a central value in my life, something I aspire to access ...
Those of you who have been reading for a while know that I usually post some reflections on my birthday; it’s become an annual tradition that allows me to reflect a little on the terrain of the past twelve months. I guess it’s no surprise that this year’s birthday post is permeated by heartache. My…
