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Last week a dozen or so members of area union locals gathered for the November meeting of the Northwest Arkansas Labor Council. The discussion was about a 2025 we can barely predict, one led by a Republican ticket dedicated in public remarks to a melding of dictatorship and anarchy that appeals this month to 49.83 […]
DIY Michelada Is Superior Several years ago I came across a curious cookbook. It comprised workable, simple and healthy vegan recipes but as a parody of a diet book, The Taco Cleanse: The Tortilla-Based Diet Proven to Change Your Life. Its authors — Wes Allison, Stephanie Bogdanich, Molly Frisinger and Jessica Morris — are based […]
The goal for Memorial Day extending to the Fourth of July this year was a recipe for baked beans tasting as I remember Mom opening a can or two and heating them, but also vegan and zero to low oil. The baked beans of yesterday not to mention today had bacon or shreds of regular […]
Japanese-style savory vegan pancake (okonomiyaki) with everyday ingredients Okonomiyaki (Japanese more or less for “grilled to your liking”) is a thick pancake with a lot of regional variations. Most recipes online indicate they’re usually savory, loaded with vegetables but no oil — an ideal 21st-century vegan crossover. As I’ve experimented, I’ve found this to be […]
She’s a Joan Crawford-Bette Davis balls-to-her-knees kind of woman. My Beloved and I were recently married, so mid-1990s, when Marion Lewenstein contacted me that she and Harry planned to drive from Palo Alto to see their son, teaching at Cornell. Their itinerary put them at spending the night in Little Rock then to Montrose to […]
One rule my wife and I have picked up for pot-luck suppers in our whole-food plant-based decade is “bring an entree.” We vegans seem to live on sides and salads, but in a communal room with a table of platters, we look around and ask, “where’s the main dish for us?” We quickly figured out […]