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Meatless Monday Ingredients to Help You Survive Culinary Distancing, Part 3 (Umami)

17 April 2020 Richard McCarthy

Umami may be the single reason, aside from an inexplicable devotion to bacon, that terrorizes most avid meat eaters when talk of Meatless Monday enters into the conversation. Throwing their hands up in the air, they contend, “Vegetarian food just doesn’t have that certain earth intensity.” I have heard descriptions like that as well as …

Slow Down for Meatless Monday with Quiche with Ingredients from your Fridge

20 March 2020

Cook with What You Have Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel’s beautiful and oddly uplifting post-apocalyptic novel, Station Eleven (2014) haunts me. Set two decades after most of humanity perishes in a pandemic, the story follows the exploits of a nomadic group of actors and musicians whose motto pays homage to Star Trek. It is …

Slow Down for Meatless Monday with Banana com Queijo

20 February 2020

Brazil’s grilled cheese and banana sandwich is the ideal Meatless Monday dish to be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch or dinner. It is simple to prepare and ingredients are about as mainstream as they come. Considering the tragic role that GMO soybeans for cattle inputs play in deforesting this meat-loving nation, it is important to highlight meat-free dishes, like this one.

Slow Down for Meatless Monday with Five Winter Dishes

14 February 2020

As a global movement, we celebrate the gleeful collision of cultures, with these five winter dishes, just as much as we defend the integrity of traditions. Katrine Klinken is a cook, author, teacher, lecturer and an International Councilor for Slow Food, representing Denmark. An author of several books about Japanese food and travel, in each …

Slow Down for Meatless Monday with Banana Hearts

31 January 2020

Why do so many of us consume so much meat daily? The answer is in the power of hamburgers to capture our imagination: One planet united between two buns. Its business model is built upon inexpensive industrial ground beef. This is why we Slow Down for Meatless Monday. Remember, we did not saddle-up with Meatless …

Meat the Change with Ark of Taste Pumpkin Risotto

17 January 2020 Richard McCarthy

The Slow Food defense of traditional animal agriculture begins with the premise that one should consume better meat, but less of it in our weekly diet. This healthy tension between “better and less” meat stands precisely upon the land we — as a movement — inhabit. Yes, we believe that when more animals are on …