Creating vegan baked goods that are as light, fluffy, and flaky as the buttery and eggy originals has always been a bit of a challenge, but help is here in a very surprising form — chickpea water.
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Committed to Clarity: How I Became Dedicated to Reforming Our Food System
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My journey into food activism, from fish sticks and hot dish to Hmong farmers and the Bon Appétit Fellows program.
Wellness Tips from Bon Appétit: Intermittent Fasting – Not So Fast
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Eat whatever you want five days a week but starve yourself for two. Don’t eat after 5:30pm. And so on. Do these calorie yo-yo diets work?
Recipe: Turmeric-Spiced Cauliflower Couscous
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Turmeric and cauliflower bring additional color, flavor, and phytonutrients to this reinvented side dish that’s lower in calories and higher in fiber than traditional rice dishes
Pedaling Back to Peace Coffee
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Peace Coffee is a Fair Trade, sustainably grown and distributed coffee company — and a staple of Twin Cities coffee culture. I visited Peace Coffee on my own when I first began my fellowship, and I was thrilled to bring a group of students from my alma mater, Macalester College, along for another tour this past summer — via bike! Minneapolis is a great place to live in so many ways. One that’s dear to me is its “bike highway, the Midtown Greenway. This bike and pedestrian highway was conceptualized pre-2000, and was built on the Midtown Greenway Corridor — a section of land previously used as a railway. About half of our Macalester group biked with me via the Greenway, and the other half of the group took public transit, which was generously subsidized by the Sustainability Office during their appointed […]
Building a Better Burger for the James Beard Foundation’s Blended Burger Project
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Although your typical burger generally doesn’t conjure up images of wellness and sustainability, the Blended Burger Project is a movement to change that by making burgers more healthful for eaters and better for the environment.
Wellness Tips from Bon Appétit: A Recipe for Healthy Summertime Celebrations
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I seem to be going to a lot of barbecues and summer parties. How can I avoid feeling like I’m only fit for a nap afterward?
No Free Lunch: What “Gestation-Crate-Free” Pork Actually Means
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“Gestation crate free” means no use of gestation crates, right? To the large pork producers, apparently not. Here’s how I wound up in a hog barn in Pennsylvania.
Recipe: Strawberry Shortcake from Seattle’s Biscuit Box
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This twist on a summertime classic is perfect for entertaining. You can make and freeze the biscuit dough well ahead of time and let the strawberry mixture macerate overnight.
130 Chefs + 300 Miles + 3 Days = Over $1 Million to Fight Child Hunger
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We did it! Traci, Tessa, Kristi, and I biked from Carmel to Santa Barbara to raise funds for No Kid Hungry through Chefs Cycle. What an incredible experience. Not to be missed, never to be forgotten.