<p>My friend Irene Groot decided to try the <a href="http://livelydust.blogspot.com/2010/02/lenten-experiment-blog.html">Lenten Experiment</a> this year. "I recently sent off ...

<p>It's Fat Tuesday. The height of the Mardi Gras celebration. The pinnacle of Carnaval. The time of year when religious and non-religious types alike trek to places like New Orleans and Rio de Jane ...

My mother loved food.</p> My mother loved food. She loved it from the garden to the table. She enjoyed feeding people and all of creation. In the winter she and my fat ...

I'm a cradle vegetarian. Didn't have even a bite of meat -- red or white, fish or fowl -- until I was maybe eleven years old, and then I lost my dietary virginity to a hot dog. ...

I had a phase in college when I thought that perhaps I would become a vegetarian. I had a phase in college when I thought that perhaps I would become a vegetarian. I had no real r ...