Vegan Good Eats

When raw cuisine meets a creative chef: exploring Live Organic Food Bar in Toronto

Raw cuisine requires an abundance of creativity as it defies the Western idea of acceptable sustenance. On a personal level, treating myself to a raw restaurant is always enlightening as it teaches me a few things about new ingredients, techniques, flavors and presentation.

Perusing menus online helped convince my family to follow me on my pilgrimage and quest for darn good eats. We chose wisely.

My cyber research took me to Live Organic Food Bar. Nestled in a busy street consisting of [...]

Where to eat? Pan-roasted organic mushrooms with toasted walnut-red pepper

A fantastic holiday (or any day) recipe from Prego’s executive chef John Watt. Vegan Good Eats puts his vegan cooking chops to the test. The result is an earthly orgy of organic mushrooms coupled with a silky sauce, dotted with salsa verde.

They ask, “where do you eat?”

I respond, “where do YOU eat?”

Nothing is perhaps more annoying than answering a question with another question, but that specific somewhat mischievous act proves a point. I eat where you eat: at restaurants. Sometimes, [...]

Shogi Hibachi Express: I pick the ingredients, you cook, clean, can you pay?

I love discovering new restaurants. More so, I love discovering new restaurants that have vegetarian and vegan options. Although Asian restaurants are typically very accommodating with their myriad of bean curd, tempura and curry dishes, it sometimes feels like they are looking at me for not ordering their specialty sea bass with whatever, the craw fish who cares, or the fillet doesn’t matter.

As a student (for a very short time) at Michigan State University, I was a regular at a Mongolian [...]

Snoballs and Foodie Valhalla

I grew up in foodie valhalla. In what I still believe to be a not-so-distant past, it was a mythological and supernatural era where farmers markets were the norm and the processed foods of the giant evil grocers were a mere futuristic wife’s tale.

PIcarones, a squash and sweet potato fried dough served soaked with thickened molases "chancaca"

Lima, Peru in the 1980s was a land of fresh seafood, exotic fruits, the traveling egg and milkman, home cooked meals, and streets [...]

Doing it Raw in Houston

Sounds sexy? Raw foods can be. There is something naughty about biting into a raw fruit or veggie, hearing its crisp splitting sound and letting its virgin juices enter our mouths. Picture it.

Raw veganism has emerged and is increasing. There is something sensible in its philosophy: eating raw fruits and vegetables allows all the nutrients and fiber to stay intact, just like nature intended. The nuts and bolts: do not cook foods above 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit).

Raw [...]

Houston’s Best Bagels

There can never be too many bagel places in Houston. There is an acceptable number of bakeries which means there aren’t enough. That is disappointing when considering my religious pseudo pious adoration for carbs. Thankfully, the somewhat limited choices are beyond satisfactory. Although I try not to make this a regular outing, driving to treat myself to this eatable orgasm is a type of foreplay.

Assortment of 26 Bagel Flavors at the Hot Bagel Shop of Shepherd near Fairview

In my [...]