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Don't discount weird-shaped states! Someone made a North Carolina one of these for my roommate and it's just the cutest!

Kosher salt, people, kosher salt! After I cook I pour in a generous amount of kosher salt and scrub with the pads of my fingers. Then I just dump the salt out and wipe it out with a paper towel.Perfectly removes everything and I haven't had to re-season my pan since! The key is to scrape out as much of the food as you can while cooking, though I don't have to scrape much at all because my pan is so nonstick.

I'm with @ecandle96. Comparing eating meat to the enslavement of human beings, some of whom were my ancestors, is appalling. It's stuff like that that makes many people of color thing vegetarianism/veganism is a "white person" thing. And I'm actually someone who's trying to transition my way into veganism, so I'd actually be on your side!

In my opinion the best thing we can do to have the most impact is encourage more people to consume less meat and animal products over all. When we non-animal-consumers sit around a navel-gaze and get too uptight about things like honey and the bone char used to process sugar it can be hard to be taken seriously, and when we go around making flip, racially insensitive remarks like "3/5 of a person" we are down right off-putting.

I think another reason that Carolyn asked for recipes that don't contain meat substitutes is that sometimes when you're looking online for vegan recipes they can lean heavily on things like "vegan burgers" etc. where it's just a meatless and dairyless version of something familiar. Maybe Carolyn is looking to expand her palate? This is one of my current favorite vegan recipes, though I usually make it with quinoa instead of bulgur. And follow the red wine vinegar suggestion in the comments section, that really helps pull it all together.

It's interesting how there are some people that are actually more interested in buying products that are brown/grey/beige because they automatically assume them to be better for the environment. According to this, Seventh Generation actually dyes some of their items brown to buy into this:

http://www.good.is/post/brownwashing-why-green-consumers-buy-brown-things/