Cooking and sharing vegan meals is a spiritual practice of mindfulness and compassion. It is sometimes hard to remember that food is made of air, water, sun and soil; it is hard to remember the labor of the bees, the birds and the farmers; it is hard to remember the very miracle of food when it comes from a box, a can or a take-out window. It is hard to remember that a cow or a pig or a chicken or a salmon was a living, breathing sentient creature when we purchase a shrink-wrapped, sanitized styrofoam tray in a grocery store. The discipline of preparing fresh food reconnects us with the earth. The discipline of preparing a meal free of animals products is a reminder of our special connection with all other thinking and feeling beings. This book contains 116 recipes that will inspire you to create peace, salad, compassion, potatoes, community, soup and community.
Susan Ives is on the Staff of the San Antonio peaceCENTER, where, since 2007, she has been the driving force behind peaceCENTER books. She also facilitates classes about nonviolence, especially the history of peace and justice movements.
Susan is a native of Bucks County, PA; she has a degree in Political Science from Drew University in Madison, NJ. In prior incarnations she has been a unionized sandwich and salad maker, a canoeing instructor, an advertising copywriter, an army officer and a newspaper columnist.
