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Cookbook Report: Q & A with Mary McCartney, author of FOOD: Vegetarian Home Cooking

While many vegetarians have to eschew family food traditions in pursuit of a plant-based diet, there is an ever-growing number of us lucky enough to be raised in a vegetarian household and to learn, from childhood, how to cook and eat healthfully in a vegetarian kitchen. So it was for Mary McCartney—daughter of Paul McCartney of the Beatles and the late Linda McCartney, a rock photographer, musician, and animal rights activist who penned several vegetarian cookbooks and created the vegetarian product line Linda McCartney Foods.

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Life

Good News! Stories We Dig from Around the Web

A round-up of VT editors' favorite links this week: Eat colorful vegetables to help prevent the development of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease (a neurodegenerative disease that affects muscle movement). Think sweet potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, and broccoli—veggies with an abundance of good-for-you carotenoids.

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Life

WEEKEND PROJECT: Super-Easy, Upcycled Coffee Can Planter

This year around holiday-time, a kind co-worker gifted me a delightful miniature Christmas tree in a tiny cardboard planter adorned with a big red bow. With high hopes, my little tree rode in my passenger seat home from the office with me and has been sitting pretty on my entry way console ever since. Each day on my way out the door and each evening on my way back in, he greets me with the comforting, woodsy scent of cypress and a silent plea: “Replant me, replant me!”

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Entertainment

Cookbook Report: Crazy Sexy Kitchen

During autumn, Sundays are for cooking and Ravens games in the Bowen household. Last weekend, a gathering at our small Baltimore row house grew from the usual suspects—my husband and toddler—to ten very hungry guests. And whether you like football or not, fall is always the perfect season for a big bowl of vegetarian chili.

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Guides

DAY 5: How to Make Creamy Vegan Pistachio Pesto over Brown Rice

Attention savvy shoppers: Can you believe we're already more than half way through our 7-Day Bulking Buying 101 Crash Course? Now that you're comfortable navigating the bulk food aisles and storing bulk ingredients at home, it’s time to get creative in the kitchen. In today's video, Spork Foods sisters Heather Goldberg and Jenny Engel show you how to make their bulk-friendly recipe Creamy Vegan Pistachio Pesto over Brown Rice. The dish is vegan comfort food at its best, plus it's quick and easy to make.

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Gardening

5 Gorgeous Vegetable Varieties

I love late summer for the food. It is prime harvest time in the garden and this weekend I squealed with delight when I realized it was time (finally!) to harvest my ‘Rattlesnake’ bush beans. These gorgeous heirloom snap beans produce wide cream and purple streaked pods that are crunchy, juicy and amazing grilled. Plus they are pretty enough to put on a post card.

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Life

Vegging Out: Austin, Texas

Texas may be known for its livestock, oil, and cowboys, but the capital of the Lone Star state offers a bevy of vegetarian hot spots, innovative restaurateurs, and veg-inspired dishes that’ll leave you speechless. Vegan Faux Butterfinger shakes? Yeehaw!

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Gardening

Edible Gardening 101: Deciding When to Plant

When it comes to growing vegetables, timing is everything. Peppers planted early, when the soil is still cool, tend to languish, while lettuce seedlings set into the ground too late quickly turn bitter and go to seed prematurely. Learning when to plant the vegetables you like to eat takes a bit of trial and error.

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