One of my absolute favorite holiday memories is making holiday cookies with my mom and my great aunt! We’d make simple sugar cookies with icing, and it was always so much fun to cut out the cookies and ice them with pretty colors. I remember one of my first few years as a vegan, when…
Whole Foods Market is pretty close to paradise for vegans, veg-curious folks, and wellness warriors like me. But the store is massive and the number of products can be daunting. What are the best items that are vegan at Whole Foods? I could (and sometimes do) spend hours and hours browsing every product (and it’s…
If you’re a vegan advocate, I need to tell you something. It’s not going to be pretty but it’s going to save you a lot of frustration and drastically help you create a more kind and compassionate vegan world. You see, I’m a new vegan. After a year of a pescatarian transition in 2017, I…
Autumn is a cozy season and what better way to embrace that than through a warming, deliciously creamy Sweet Winter Squash Bisque! I’m always looking for new recipes and, with fall veggies in full bloom, the possibilities are endless. Everything is aligned as nature provides us with delightful, warming vegetables whose filling, grounding effect our…
Banana bread is so awesome because it’s easy and quick to make with basic pantry ingredients. These vegan chocolate chip banana muffins are perfect for dessert, a snack, and even as a part of breakfast. If you’re somebody who likes to take meals on the go, baking a batch of muffins along with your other…
It’s finally here! Artist Sooyeon Jang and I have teamed up yet again to produce another illustrated “Draw My Life” video showcasing the heartbreaking life of a turkey in today’s world. We’ve already tackled dairy cows, pigs, chickens, dogs in the South Korean dog meat trade, and now we’re pulling the curtains back on turkeys bound for…
The air conditioning of the small office was a welcome respite from the suffocating humidity the July day I visited the Turtle Hospital in the Florida Keys. Arriving a few minutes after the hourly tour started, I took a seat at the back of the room as Meghan, our tour guide, explained that 80 percent…
In her new cookbook, Sweet, Savory, and Free: Insanely Delicious Plant-Based Recipes without Any of the Top 8 Food Allergens, Debbie Adler shares more than 100 plant-based recipes free of the top eight food allergens—dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish, and shellfish—plus free of refined sugar and oils. Here she shares one of her…
Move over, tuna! The surprise ingredient in these “tuna” salad sandwiches? Chickpeas. This versatile legume takes on the taste of the sea while delivering a protein punch. It’s perfect as a sandwich filling or on a bed of lettuce. This vegan tuna salad sandwich recipe appears in my book, MeatLess: Transform the Way You Eat…
This vegan pad thai recipe is one of my favorite recipes of all time. I make it almost every week (sometimes two or three times) because it’s that good. It checks all the boxes: it’s budget-friendly, it’s far healthier than the Pad Thai you find in restaurants, and most importantly, it’s super delicious. Better yet,…