Author: Tuxedo Cat

  • My Top 6 Vegan-Friendly Cookbooks

    In my quest for coming up with my “top 5” lists, I had a very difficult time paring it down to only 5 for cookbooks. I love cookbooks and find myself reading them like novels. Therefore, this list departs a little and there are 6 gems. This could have been much longer, but I wanted […]

  • My Top 5 Vegan/Animal Rights Documentaries

    Since it is the end of the year and so many are making “top 5” lists, I felt compelled to make a few myself, starting with my top five vegan and/or animal rights themed documentaries. Watching documentaries such as A Cow at My Table and Meet Your Meat made me go vegetarian 10 years ago […]

  • Respect Existence or Expect Resistance, Marineland

    On an overcast October 7th, 2012, hundreds of protesters descended upon Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ontario again for the closing day of the season. By now, dozens of news stories have been written around the world about Marineland and the atrocious conditions that the animals imprisoned there have to endure. They are barely surviving, and […]

  • Chili Con Quinoa

    One of my favorite meals to make in the winter months is chili. In reviewing blogs, I came across a chili recipe that included quinoa. As much as I use quinoa on a weekly basis, it never occurred to me to incorporate it into a chili dish. I modified my go-to chili recipe slightly to […]

  • Land & Sea Vegetable Dinner

    Our December weekend of classes at the Natural Kitchen Cooking School focused on “Vegetables from the Land & Sea.” Admittedly, the thought of cooking with sea vegetables did not initially sound appetizing to me. I tend to avoid dishes made with sea vegetables, including sushi and the like. The “fishy” (or really, seaweed-tasting) dishes have […]