I’m sure your days are busy, like mine. You may be on your feet a lot, or in your car zipping here or there, or doing work you don’t particularly like. Here is a task, though, with which you can sit down, slow down and concentrate on simple, important work that goes toward preparing a [...]

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Last summer, we came across a new brand of gluten free pasta, and though wary from our previous experience with other brands of GF pasta, we gave Jovial’s Gluten Free Capellini a try and were totally surprised. Whereas other brands had disappointed us with off tastes and odd textures to the point that one sampling [...]

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At the close of World War II, American housewives became the target of a barrage of advertising for frozen, canned and packaged foods, marketed on the concept of convenience and the insinuation that no woman had the time to cook from scratch anymore. Industrial food processes invented during the war for soldiers needed to find [...]

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All You Need Is 4 Ingredients!!! I have seldom been more excited to share a recipe with you than I am right now! Just look at this photo of light and lacy gluten free pancakes, made of oat flour, 100% vegan, drizzled with maple syrup, and utterly delicious. Ever since my local natural foods store [...]

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To all our wonderful, loyal readers, we are so excited to announce that The Vegan Reader Cookbook is now for sale as a digital download here on Vegan Reader. Representing 20+ years of vegan cooking and over two years of fun, hard work putting this one-of-a-kind cooking manual together, it can be ordered today for [...]

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Every day, noteworthy numbers of Americans are walking out of doctors’ offices with diagnoses of gluten sensitivity. The cause of this growing phenomenon, which my own doctor has referred to as an ‘epidemic’ has not yet been determined, but the modern hybridization of wheat is falling under suspicion as researchers ask why the descendants of [...]

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A friend of mine who is a radio producer recently told me that she will be having Barry Estabrook, author of the new book Tomatoland, on the air for an interview. This is the first I had heard of this brand-new publication and I have yet to read it, but I can highly recommend Estabrook’s [...]

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The Internet has launched a whole new passionate art form in which participants photograph the fancy foods they are served at restaurants and share their shots with others. These near-professional quality photographs are clearly a labor of love, but I respectfully submit that family farmers can one-up the foodies, because our photographs (even if they [...]

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Here in the Reskills column of VeganReader, I have often urged increasing your self-sufficiency by learning to sew your own clothes and I thought readers might like to take a gander at my latest sewing project. This is a 1920′s style sundress that I made over the weekend. I bought the fabric on Saturday afternoon [...]

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In Indigenous America, the custom of taking time to sincerely honor food sources is an ancient one. Many cultures offered prayers and petitions to animals they hunted or held ceremonies of thanksgiving for the abundance of crops, and happily, this tradition continues amongst many Native Peoples. Vegan eaters do not have to contend with the [...]

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