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Vegan food ain't Badu

Posted by Sarah van Schagen at 4:13 PM on 19 Jun 2008

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"Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure."

-- Erykah Badu, in the recentest issue of VegNews

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The raw and the cooked

Yes, but ritually slaughtering an animal to consume it collectively is quite poetic too. It means life and sociality.

Sharing some lettuce doesn't convey the same sense of lust for life.

by Jonas at 5:10 PM on 19 Jun 2008

Refried kidney beans

In olive oil. There, that's food for your soul. Better than any meat.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

by amazingdrx at 8:11 PM on 19 Jun 2008

sociality is not purity of intent

In Tenochtitlan, ca. 1500, no doubt the chili-tomato sauce in which the residents of an urban precinct dined upon haunches and limbs of Tlaxcalan captives was often quite poetic. What a joyous experience for all of them!

Well, not for the captives; they had been dispatched shortly before, at the top of a pyramid.

What Erykah Badu seems to have in mind, by contrast, is an almost Jewish sense that eating the traditional foods of one's neighbors is dishonest, inauthentic and polluting. "Purity of intent" means discovering a better way, and resolving to follow it.

Nice bean dish, Amazing. It would go well with wholewheat couscous.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 9:40 PM on 19 Jun 2008

She's a freak

Who can't even spell her own name properly.

Man, couscous with rice and lamb.......... God I'd give anything to eat that right now!!!!

Victory in Pattani

by MAD MAC at 10:12 PM on 19 Jun 2008
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Couscous

And how Canis! I am experimenting with different beans refried together. It's majic, I think almost every flavor available from meat is in there somewhere.

The adventure, ah the adventure of culinary discovery! Just not something those satisfied with meaty mass dining will ever know.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

by amazingdrx at 10:14 PM on 19 Jun 2008

Amazing, don't get weird on me......

At the end of the day we're talking cooking and dining here, not sex.

Victory in Pattani

by MAD MAC at 10:44 AM on 20 Jun 2008
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Pride

Ahh the pride you must take in each new enemy you make. Good job!

It's reverse zen. Hehey.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

by amazingdrx at 8:46 AM on 21 Jun 2008

Extreme eco ideologues have no enemies...

... that would connote an indication towards a violent profile.

You have to admit you wax about cooking more than Julia Childs did.

Victory in Pattani

by MAD MAC at 9:54 PM on 21 Jun 2008
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