In the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) 5-element system, spring corresponds to the Wood element. If you think of Wood as bamboo, and not an oak tree, it’s a bit easier to see how wood’s correspondences make sense: the wood element exhibits characteristics
Mushroom Walnut Spread
Even more than chametz, the leavened bread and wheat products that are avoided during passover, I lament the other category of forbidden foods, kitniyot, even more. What is categorized as kitniyot varies from community to community, but generally corn, rice, lentils, dried
Superfruit and Superaromatic Charoset
This article was originally posted on The Jew and the Carrot (3/21/13), the food blog associated with the Jewish Daily Forward. Let’s face it: even without the charoset, we honor mortar on Passover. The food of this holiday isn’t—how can I say this
Tempeh Part I: Warm Tempeh, Farro, Roasted Carrot and Caraway Salad
While I might catch flack for saying this, tempeh is the Rodney Dangerfield of vegan protein sources. Whether it is because people are more familiar with the other vegan protein that starts with a T (tofu), and so they confuse
Pickles. Old school style.
As many of you know, I am a pickle-lover. But there are pickles, and there are PICKLES. Over the past few years I have been learning about the benefits of fermented pickles which differ from hot-packed and boiling-water-processed pickles which