For all who would like to go vegan but who don’t know where to begin, there’s now a comprehensive multimedia guide that breaks it down day by day. The 30-Day Vegan Challenge, created by vegan chef and author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, is a guide that includes audio, video, and written resources…
When you hear the word “Thanksgiving,” no doubt the first image that comes to mind is a big fat glistening roast bird. But if you think about it, most of the stuff that usually surrounds that slab of turkey on your Thanksgiving plate is plant-based. Traditional mashed potato, green bean,…
The love of cheese is without a doubt the most common excuse vegetarians offer for not going whole-hog vegan. There’s nothing mysterious about this; their cheese-clinging is rooted in chemical addiction. Mother nature installed an opioid substance in cow’s milk to inspire the rightful drinkers of dairy — baby cows…
Soulmates? Here in Miami, a city not exactly known for its monogamous ways, we have our doubts. The idea that two people can be made for each other — complementing each others’ souls, completing each others’ beings and so on — sounds to most South Floridians like some sugary, naïve,…
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It’s suddenly sweatshirt weather in Miami, and even though the sun still warms my rosy vegan cheeks, I’ve been craving some traditional fall flavors to do the same for my belly. With Thanksgiving just three weeks away, it’s also a great time to start scouting out some raw, plant-based holiday…
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Soulmates? Here in Miami, a city not exactly known for its monogamous ways, we have our doubts. The idea that two people can be made for each other — complementing each others’ souls, completing each others’ beings and so on — sounds to most South Floridians like some sugary, naïve,…
One day, Rich Roll, a 41-year-old father of four, was out for what he planned would be a five or six mile run. Maybe it was the plant-based vegan diet he had recently adopted, or some primal, ancestral energy stream he had suddenly tapped into, but on that particular day,…
When my little posse and I rolled up to the fence surrounding Earth N Us Farms in Little Haiti, I wore a confident face in an attempt to reassure my obviously skeptical guests.The truth is, though, that I was nearly as apprehensive about the vegan pop-up event we were about…
If you’re a celiac, a vegan, a vegetarian, a nutritarian, lactose intolerant, oat intolerant, or do your damnedest to keep kosher, you may have had more than one opportunity to moan about how there’s nothing delicious to eat in this world. For me, a plant-based vegan, the feeling has arisen…
An absurd Uruguayan musical, a religious parody, an homage to the ’80s, and a fractured fairy tale all rolled into one, Miss Tacuarembó is a campy, colorful, disjointed romp designed for Reagan-era kids who grew up with a healthy appreciation for irony.In small-town, über-Catholic Uruguay in 1983, Natalia is an…
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I feel for people who have a genuine desire to improve their diets and get healthy – really healthy, not like Jenny Craig or Slim Fast healthy – but who have no clue where to start. There’s a lot to learn, and for the many who have graduated from the…
Imagine an ultra high-def 70 mm camera suddenly gained consciousness, sprouted wings, and decided to take a flying tour of the sprawling city of Miami for one long day, capturing life on all its bustling street corners and in its obscure pockets. The resulting film might pan from children chasing…
While some large companies like Subway, which launched a new line of vegan sandwiches in select stores this summer, are taking strides to accommodate the growing number of vegan consumers, it would seem that America’s coffee giant has been taking subtle steps backward in vegan-friendliness this year.This spring, in an…
If you’ve recently found yourself calling the hood of your car a “bonnet,” craving baked beans on toast for breakfast, or driving on the left side of the road, even while sober, you probably have a scone-size hole in your heart that only a healthy dose of British culture can…
A pop-up restaurant is, by definition, an eatery that occasionally pops up in a space permanently inhabited by another restaurant. By that description, we’re not sure that Love & Vegetables, a monthly vegan dinner party held at Earth ’N’ Us Farm (7630 NE First Ave., Miami), a one-acre permaculture sanctuary…
Anyone who’s roamed South Beach at sundown has seen Raven’s unmistakable dark-clothed, hairy-chested form moving deliberately up and down the sand. As he passes, a lot of residents who know the story of his 110,000-plus mile running streak will say things like, “I love that guy!” But there’s a lot…
See Miami Runner Raven to Run His 110,000th Mile.Anyone who’s roamed South Beach at sundown has seen Raven’s unmistakable dark-clothed, hairy-chested form moving deliberately up and down the sand. As he passes, a lot of residents who know the story of his 110,000-plus mile running streak will say things like,…
In my first real desk job, I worked as an editorial assistant at a travel company proofreading a thousand-page resort directory, making sure words like “laundry facilities” were spelled and spaced correctly. Yes, that sucked, but it wasn’t the worst of it. The worst was having to sit in my…
At one of my recent organic juice parties (if you’re not sure what that is, click here), Jordan Wolfe, my friend and compatriot in all things healthy living, arrived toting the ingredients for his famous raw vegan chocolate “ice cream,” which he proceeded to whip up in the Vitamix for…
