In 1999, President Clinton announced the government was taking "new action on food safety to cut in half, over the next five years, the number of Salmonella cases attributed to eggs. And our goal is to eliminate these cases...

If you're like me, you become frustrated from time to time with your attempts to get others, particularly family and friends, to listen to you about the incredible healing power of a plant-based diet. Many people can't or just refuse...

Our favorite gu est chef, Dr. Joel Furhman, helps us make fresh almond milk....

Peanut Butter Lava Cake (with chocolate ganache filling)We went to a great vegan dinner party with 2 other couples last night-- good food, wine, talk and company!  My contribution was the dessert. Scrumptious vegan Greek salad made by my friend FWDelicious...

The International Vegetarian Union celebrated its centenary in 2008, and if anyone had said to me then that in a couple years I would be speaking at international veg congresses in East Africa and the Middle East, I would probably...

I had a craving for pho the other day and thought it also might be the perfect antidote for the over-eating at Thanksgiving-- not that I had that problem (we had our Thanksgiving in October), but we were overeating...

    There is growing outrage about the TSA's new airport policy that requires all passengers to submit to body scans that reveal them naked on devices that can store images.  Travelers wishing to avoid this, and the known carcinogenic effects...

Happy Vegan Thanksgiving to my American friends!   I mentioned my old cooking notebooks in this post. This was before I started my Italian vegan cookbook, "Nonna's Italian Kitchen", published in 1998.  I was just starting to conceive the idea and...

The holiday season is once again upon us as we go about hustling and bustling to get everything done on our endless to do list.  But there's one thing that many of us forget to put on that list in...

Call it what you want: tofurkey, tofurky, tofu turkey... with or without the extra 'e', this tofurkey is delicious, simple to make and much more interesting than a store bought tofurky. Now, I do love those, don't get me wrong,...

Two delicious and easy cranberry sauce recipes incorporating the fantastic pomegranate along with everybody's Thanksgiving favorite, the cranberry. For recipe and more information, visit the La Pure Mama blog. Happy 'Save the Turkeys' day! :)...

My husband's bread cooling on the kitchen counter this afternoon.I know it's a little late for zucchini in our neck of the woods, but I had one in the refrigerator that a good friend had picked from her garden some...

Let's face it, health care in the US is about selling drugs and making big profits for the health care industry. It's not about getting people information to save their lives or protect their health. It's about getting doctors to...

With only 4 simple ingredients, you can have soup in seconds! ...

 Winter is upon us already-- not what we like here on the West Coast (unless it's on a mountain)!On the weekend I pulled out my old cooking notebooks.  I have nine that I kept from 1996 through 2007, handwritten, and...

This Colorful Fruit Has Unique Health Benefits Cranberries are a holiday season tradition. Their tart taste, dark red hue, and versatility underlie their popularity. Americans are consuming more cranberries, with 40,000 acres devoted to this crop. Farmers grow cranberries in...

  This recipe has been a long time coming.  In 2005 I started having a conversation with an old friend of my daughter's, who asked  about making vegan cannoli without frying. One of the things I thought of was using...

  In this post about my new Cuisinart electric pressure cooker, I promised to post the very first recipe I tried in it, so I am doing so in today's post.  It's actually a vegan adaptation of a recipe that was in...

1. Dairy destroys your bones.  Countries around the world that drink the most dairy have the MOST osteoporosis and hip fractures. As dairy and calcium consumption increases, so do your risk factors for osteoporosis and bone fractures. The high levels of...

Crohn's disease is an autoimmune disease that is characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract that can occur anywhere from the mouth to the anus.  It affects nearly 500,000 people in the United States and is typically first...