“The New Vegan Cookbook” has been sitting on my shelf for much too long without having the spine cracked. Sometimes things are too hectic to try out new things, and I feel like my life recently has been a good example of that.
Regardless, The New Vegan Cookbook has the prettiest pictures of any of the [...]

It’s been a while since I actually read the Food Revolution, so this review will be a bit abbreviated because of the fog of time, but I wanted to say a few things about the book in any case.
Written by John Robbins, son of the Robbins of ice cream fame, The Food Revolution is [...] [...]

…It can be a little annoying. Why am I such a disapproving, restrictive, hippy, liberal, evil person? Well, I’ll tell you a bit about something that recently reminded me of how it annoys me.
Meat-eating at HybridFest in Madison, WI
Recently I was at a car show all about saving fuel and reducing our eco-impact to [...] [...]

Soap is great. It makes you feel clean and smell better, which I find to be one of the simplest pleasures in life. However, the difference between a mundane experience and a refreshing one comes down to something as simple as soap.
And Tracy over at strawberryhedgehog makes great soap, which is, not coincidentally, vegan-friendly. [...] [...]

Not exactly sure what Bunzo means, but it is a great place in downtown Kumamoto that calls itself Italian, though how authentic it is is, frankly, a little debatable. Some Italian, some French, and some uniquely Japanese things like potatoes on pizza.
The first time I went it was on the recommendation of a professor [...] [...]

You don’t always have everything you need to make a recipe perfectly. Sometimes you don’t even have access to a recipe. So what do you do? Make some curry!
Staying in Japan like I am now, it is often hard to find the ingredients that you would hope to find for curry (like coconut milk, [...] [...]