Composting 101

Whether you live in a country cottage with a strawberry patch the size of an Olympic pool or a high-rise city apartment with flowerpots for a garden, the time to start composting is now. Yes, it’ll make your garden happy, but it also has a double environmental payoff: Composting keeps waste out of landfills, and it fertilizes without chemicals. In other words, it isn’t just for you—it’s for all of us.

But what the heck is it? “Composting is simply the process of breaking down pl… Continue

Ingredient Substitution Guide


The next time you’re missing an ingredient in a recipe, don’t panic. Many recipes are flexible and will still come out delicious when you improvise. Plus, many non-vegetarian recipes can be tweaked to create a new veg version.

Use our chart below as a starting point, and start asking yourself questions such as: What do I really want this dish to taste like? What textures do I like? Why did the recipe developer put all of these ingredients in here, anyway? Here ar… Continue

JULY 1, 2008

Q is for Quinoa!
Move over brown rice...make room for quinoa. Brown rice may have been the healthy, whole grain darling of the past few decades, but quinoa is gaining ground—particularly in my kitchen. The tiny seeds from South America—quinoa was originally cultivated by the Mayans and Aztecs—cook in just 15 minutes and are incredibly versatile. Plus, as Donna and Maya mentioned in their comments on the Why Go Veg webpage, quinoa is one of the veg-friendliest whole grain because it… Continue

Dr. Arpad Pusztai on genetically modified foods
In 1999, front-page headline stories in the British press revealed Rowett Institute scientist Dr. Arpad Pusztai's explosive research findings that genetically engineered potatoes, spliced with DNA from the snowdrop plant and a commonly used viral promoter, the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMv), are poisonous to mammals. Genetically engineered-snowdrop potatoes, found to be significantly different in chemical composition from regular potatoes, damaged… Continue

Peace and respect everyone,

Here is an interesting discussion I found on Genetically Engineered Foods, or GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). This peice and more can be found at www.healingdaily.com

Tarikh.
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Genetically engineered foods
Only 40% of people in the U.S. know that some of the foods they are buying and eating are genetically modified (GM), according to a new survey conducted by the International Food Informatio… Continue