Elissa at Poor Man's Feast's Profile

Like I once said here (http://www.poormansfeast.com/archives/my-plant-based-diet-of-delusion.html), grass fed beef is not a vegetable. Being hip and trendy, and jumping on a bandwagon does not make one a vegan, or a vegetarian. Bittman is neither (and neither am I, for the record). He's also a little late to the party (see Pollan's "Eat more plants"). We're totally hung up on labels in this country: you're not a vegan unless you are. You're not a vegetarian if you eat a little meat every once in a while. Either do it, or get off the soapbox. I much prefer Bill McKibben's approach: he's a vegetarian, but if he's in someone's home and they serve him meat, he eats it out of respect for his hosts, and appreciation. To not do so would make him a disrespectful idiot. Bittman's claim that PB&J is vegan is ridiculous; in that case, so is popcorn. So are potato chips and pretzels and Funyans and Bugles.

How timely: my partner, after trying everything, just had surgery to 1) remove her uvula, which was literally resting on the back of her throat; 2) correct her seriously deviated septum; 3) repair 2 sinus turbinates.
It was NOT a pleasant surgery, but it was performed under general anesthesia by the top doc in NY. She is still recuperating, but already is breathing better. Apnea is nothing to be taken lightly.

Totally gorgeous and I want to see the whole thing. One note: the stove is a Wolf, not a Viking.

Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is extraordinary in its elegant simplicity.

An original 1960s Knoll tulip table with mahogany top, for free: someone left it in a dumpster in an empty part of the office building I worked in, so I moved it into my office, and then got permission to take it with me when our team was laid off.

Cookbooks account for 98% of what I read in bed.

I'm DROOLING.....

Gorgeous, but you're missing Thomas O'Brien---WHAT a space!!!

Susan, how do you like the Paperstone countertops? (Gorgeous, by the way.)

Is this the one where she flipped it onto the stove top and then plonked it back into the pan? Just wondering.....