vegetarian

Men Prefer Meat, Women Love Lettuce

January 16, 2008 at 8:01AM By Deirdre Dolan | comment

Every so often my husband and I play this game where we choose which of two foods we’d rather live without – ice cream or potatoes, bread or butter, onions or carrots, etc. The most recent debate was melted cheese or lettuce, and at a friend’s kind of boring dinner party over the holidays he put it to the group. Not exactly the Algonquin round table, but it filled a silence and even prompted one guy who hadn’t said a word all night to tell us: "Every meal I eat has melted cheese in it."

But I noticed something interesting about everyone else’s response and that was that they were divided almost entirely according to gender – the men would give up lettuce, the women cheese. ...

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tags: vegetarian, food, nutrition, vegetable, meat, ethics

Feeding Baby Organic (Even Vegan) on the Road

December 26, 2007 at 6:06AM By Alexandra Zissu | comment

We’ve been getting some thought-provoking e-mails lately. Sometimes we pick the questions to turn them into posts, and sometimes we just write back and forth with our readers. I recently got the following e-mail about traveling with kids while still trying to maintain an organic diet. I immediately responded. When I got an e-mail back, I felt this was definitely a topic to open up to a broader audience. ...

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