Strawberry rhubarb pie. This is the best pie I’ve made in a long time, mostly thanks to finally figuring out how to keep my wonky oven at the right temperature.
soup-is-good-food replied to your photo: Black pepper tofu with sautéed cabbage sprouts on…
that looks good, did you marinate the tofu in anything? how did you cook it? i’m always looking for good tofu recipes!
Here’s the recipe! It’s pretty time consuming, but totally worth it. I obviously used Earth Balance margarine instead of butter.
Black pepper tofu with sautéed cabbage sprouts on brown rice.
Sorry for taking so long to answer this! As a matter of fact, Gary Francione just recently gave a lecture here at the University of Victoria. I’ve also read a few of his articles. For the most part, I find his arguments very persuasive, and I’m a wholehearted supporter of the abolitionist approach.
Unlike Francione, though, I don’t believe that the abolitionist approach and the welfarist approach are mutually exclusive. I believe that we should be simultaneously encouraging consumers to embrace veganism AND requiring animal farmers to treat their stock better. I agree that animal welfare campaigns can have the undesirable effect of making people feel better about eating animal products, and that public campaigns need a much stronger pro-veganism element, but I also believe that it’s unrealistic to expect everyone to go vegan immediately. There are people who just disagree with us, and the animals they eat still deserve our protection.
Philosophically speaking, I also find Francione’s deontological approach slightly less attractive than the feminist ethic of care advanced by authors such as Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan, but that’s a topic for another post.
Hey thanks! I aim to please. Also I aim to make you all hungry and envious of my delicious food.
I made pho! Recipe here.
I had some leftover pizza from The Joint Pizzeria - spinach, artichoke heart, tomato, mozzarella Daiya, and basil pesto drizzle. I decided to spice it up with some Tofurkey italian sausage, capers, and cheddar Daiya. Double the deliciousness!
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The Science of Quieter Cities
Could we design better places where we could all live together without hearing quite so much of each other? And just what would that sound like?
These aren’t questions only for apartment-dwellers. Obnoxious city noise comes from all around us, moving between buildings and through windows and across congested roads. If we don’t tame it„ people may never willingly rearrange themselves into the denser living patterns environmentalists say we need.
“People think, ‘Oh we need electricity from solar panels, we need x-y-z system, we need to use less water,” Thomas Jones, the dean of Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, says. “But we absolutely have to make living in denser urban environments pleasant to the senses, or we’ll lose the environmental battle.”
Maybe it’s time to start looking at townhouses and bus shelters with the same acoustic care engineers have long given to concert halls and schools. In doing so, it’s possible we could make the city sound not just quieter – but, in a very real way, more pleasant.
Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Shutterstock]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ia4wX2PD1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Could we design better places where we could all live together without hearing quite so much of each other? And just what would that sound like?
These aren’t questions only for apartment-dwellers. Obnoxious city noise comes from all around us, moving between buildings and through windows and across congested roads. If we don’t tame it„ people may never willingly rearrange themselves into the denser living patterns environmentalists say we need.
“People think, ‘Oh we need electricity from solar panels, we need x-y-z system, we need to use less water,” Thomas Jones, the dean of Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, says. “But we absolutely have to make living in denser urban environments pleasant to the senses, or we’ll lose the environmental battle.”
Maybe it’s time to start looking at townhouses and bus shelters with the same acoustic care engineers have long given to concert halls and schools. In doing so, it’s possible we could make the city sound not just quieter – but, in a very real way, more pleasant.
Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Shutterstock]
Bhindi masala, a.k.a. curried okra.
Tonight I made corn dogs from my new cookbook, Vegan Junk Food! (Thanks Kelly!) They were DELICIOUS. I had lots of extra batter (the proportions seem to be a bit off), so I made zucchini sticks too. They were also delicious! Hooray!
