Regular visitors of the site might have noted that there have not been a lot of new posts lately. The reason for that is that a few months ago, we moved over to Southern California. Even though I am now in vegan wonderland, a piece of my heart is still with Paris. Each vegan find [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Everyday life’
Where’s Emily?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Everyday life on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Veggie Pride in Lyon, May 16
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Everyday life on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The annual VeggiePride march will take place in Lyon on May 16. Based on their site and the materials available there, it will be a fairly militant affair with a message of animal solidarity and animal rights. Their manifesto is a quite useful summary in French of good reasons to be vegetarian/dairy-free vegetarian [although they [...]
Vegan Kids at Paris Schools
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Everyday life on March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sending vegan children to French school, whether private or public, does present some difficulties. To give you an idea of how complicated it can be, here is a summary of my experiences in the three different schools my children have attended. Firstly, they were at the Steiner/Waldorf school just outside Paris. Part of the Steiner/Waldorf [...]
Vegan Baking in Paris
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baking, Everyday life, Groceries, Organic on March 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
France is famous for its baked goods, as am I! But they do things a bit differently here than back in the USA, particularly their very precise flour classification system. Here are some key things I have learned about shopping for your baking supplies. Wheat flour is numbered based on how much of the original [...]
En Vacances
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Everyday life on February 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ll be spending the next week discovering Vegan Morocco: will report back when I return. E.H.
Vegan Galette des Rois
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Everyday life, Holiday, Recipe on January 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Galette des Rois fever has hit Paris, as it does this time each year. But of course these egg and butter based traditional pastries are not the kind of thing my family eats. Thankfully, the wonderful cooks over at VG-Zone have a great vegan recipe which I made with my kids tonight for them to [...]
