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Our newly adopted Hannah has been successfully reintroduced to indoor living, that is, artificial lighting, climate-controlled temperatures, stain-resistent carpeting, and occasional encounters with the indoor wildebeest known as Keeper. After an initial battle for dominance, both parties decided they were too damn old to fight, retired to their assigned corners, and promptly fell asleep.
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Meet my new colleagues. They’re fun! Outgoing! Friendly! Also loud, distracted, scattered, slightly wacky, and occasionally off-kilter. Why? Because we work in cubicles. And they will make a bitch cray-cray. I’d heard about these modern work spaces, where brilliant ideas are meant to shoot out of one employee’s head and straight into another’s. Where the absence of walls and doors facilitates impromptu meetings of the [...]
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No, really, that’s what it’s called. Yet another of Happy Healthy Human’s raw creations. A stack of veggies with nut cheese served on crispy onion bread with a salad, out-of-this-world dressing, and kale chips. Vegan, local, fresh, delicious. I’m going to miss this place almost as much as Dance Trance if I get a job in Miami…
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I’m sure I won’t be able to re-create this after I’m long gone from Florida, but it’s always nice to gather ideas here and there. This is Happy Healthy Human’s taco salad platter: a “meaty” walnut pate, avocados, and their own version of dairy-free “sour cream,” stuffed in collard-green wraps, set upon a bed of fresh greens, [...]
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I’m still slumming it on the beach in Melbourne, Florida, hanging out with family. My plan to was to be out of here within weeks, living and working in Miami. But neither the jobs nor the city itself are calling to me all that much. In the meantime, I keep making discoveries that are surprisingly sweet. This morning, a two-for-one: [...]
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Another stop on the whirlwind tour of South Florida was Green Wave Cafe, right outside of Ft. Lauderdale. The location—small, unassuming, set in a strip mall—gives no indication of how special the menu is, or how friendly and passionate about this endeavor its people are. Behold, their signature Stuffed Burrito, “bursting with a raw refried bean pate, homemade guacamole [...]
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No wonder there’s so much anti-vegetable sentiment going around. When all you’ve ever tasted are boiled, tasteless vegetables, it makes sense to live on fast food. At least it’s got flavor. But man, oh, man what can be done with raw veggies. If everyone had the opportunity to try the kind of local, organic, creative dishes [...]
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Special thanks to a certain non-vegetarian someone who gave me this recipe and helped me discover that I’m just as capable as Mr. Chang. All I needed was the right kind of eggplant. And now I pass the goods onto you. 4 CHINESE eggplants, cut into bite-sized pieces 4 garlic cloves, minced 4 green onions, [...]
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Being in house-selling mode, I’m all about simple, inexpensive eating. This recipe does the trick with flavorful protein, easy clean-up, and even a dash of nutrient-dense thyme, which contains iron, manganese, and calcium. It’s been used since ancient times for its culinary, aromatic, and medicinal properties. Here you have it: Olive oil ¾ C onion, [...]
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