Almost vegan? Flexitarian diet could boost your health
Posted: March 11, 2015 at 2:53 pm
When Debbie Devore saw the food documentary "Forks Over Knives," it changed her life. As a wife and mother, she'd long cooked typical meat-and-potatoes meals for her family, but the movie advocated a plant-based diet to control degenerative diseases, and featured doctors like T. Colin Campbell, author of the influential nutrition book "The China Study." "After I saw that movie, I was so motivated," said Devore.
She decided to conduct an experiment at the family dinner table, serving her husband and kids plant-based menus.
"We were just amazed at how much better we felt after two or three weeks," she said.
Black Bean Veggie Burritos Smothered in Green Chile Sauce. (Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)
Then she started offering vegan cooking classes in her Centennial kitchen, calling it the Almost Vegan Cooking School, and soon had waiting lists. Since then, she's taught more than 1,000 people, and will soon be offering online classes for $5 each through her website. (303-699-8661)
She's part of a growing network of home cooks and chefs working to make eating your vegetables more fun and more delicious. New cookbooks featuring vegan and vegetarian meals are hitting bookstores, and chefs are offering vegetarian and vegan tasting menus.
Rarely has this been more important.
The average daily consumption of vegetables in America has "significantly declined," according to the scientific report from the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
More than 80 percent of Americans don't meet the recommendations for eating dark green vegetables, starchy vegetables, and beans and peas, the report said, while more than 90 percent don't meet the recommendations for red and orange vegetables.
By contrast, consumption of fruit, dairy and protein remained relatively stable, while the consumption of whole-grain foods significantly increased.
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Vegetarian London: Arabica Bar And Kitchen Review
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11 March 2015 | Food | By: Sejal Sukhadwala
In this series,we review restaurants from an entirely vegetarian angle. While some restaurants will be specifically vegetarian, others will be mainstream. Well be tasting everything from veggie burgers, to posh meat-free menus. Along the way, well try to find out, as far as possible, whether chicken stock, cheese made from animal rennet, gelatine, fish sauce and so on are not lurking in the supposedly vegetarian dishes.
Arabica Bar & Kitchen interior
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Located in the modern-day London souk thats the Borough Market, this contemporary Levantine restaurant and baropened to generally enthusiastic reviews last summer. Its owned by James Walters, co-founder of the Arabica Food & Spice Company, which started as a Borough Market stall around 15 years ago selling a small selection of meze from a cool box on a trestle table. Its certainly come a long way, as it now has a presence in other food markets, various food festivals, and also Selfridges. Walters, together with his former business partner Jad al Younis, once owned the short-lived Caf Arabica in Notting Hill before selling it and moving on. The companys snazzily-packaged artisanal ingredients, sourced from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel, are used in the kitchen here; and a few are invitingly displayed to one side and available to buy.
The stylish venue is housed in a Victorian railway arch lined with exposed brick walls and industrial pipes, and furnished with vintage duck egg-blue leather banquettes, small booths and old-fashioned caf-style wooden furniture. Theres a bar area to one side, an open-view kitchen and, suspended from the ceiling, lights that look akin to glittery basketball nets. The design is a London take on 1960s Beirut. The menu, peppered with classic and contemporary street food from the East Mediterranean, is divided into categories like dips, soups and salads as well as cooking techniques such as clay oven, grill and charcoal. Theres plenty of veggie choice in most of the sections.
First, a trio of dips. Studded with pomegranate seeds, moutabel features gently-smoked aubergines with tahini; and koosa is a simple but sunny combination of char-grilled courgettes and strained yoghurt lifted by a fresh, zesty blast of lemon and mint. Were less keen on the overly smooth baby-food texture of blanched almond, sourdough and sherry vinegar tarator, though its attractively jazzed up with red grapes and mint leaves and tastes fine. The dainty dips, served in tiny saucers, are followed by a hefty kibbeh: a substantial bulgar wheat croquette stuffed with an aubergine and walnut mix, made tangy with pomegranate molasses and mellowed by sweet caramelised onions.
Our waiter had insisted that we order one of the breads from the clay oven section and were glad we plumped for the freshly baked Turkish pide the size of a mini-baguette. Its filled with roasted squash, orange flower honey, and feta and goats cheeses, with a pleasant crunch of hazelnuts and peppery sprigs of watercress. Its an imaginative Middle East-meets-France flavour combination that works well together. Honey-roasted parsnips sprinkled with dukkah the Egyptian condiment of coarsely crushed spices, herbs, seeds and nuts thats becoming increasingly popular is a simple but effective idea that well be copying at home.
Makloubeh is normally an upside-down rice dish, in which the grain is layered with vegetables (and often meat), and then flipped over to reveal a browned crust. Here, its an Egyptian-influenced rice pilaf with fried aubergines, cauliflower florets and caramelised onions, headily fragrant with bay leaves, cassia, cardamom, Persian dried lime, dried black lemon and something called asfor, which were told is a cinnamon from Madrid. The magic of Levantine vegetarian cooking is in transforming such everyday ingredients into something special, with layers of flavours and intriguing complexity. We can never resist light, creamy, soothing mouhalabieh a blancmange-like milk pudding with several regional variations around the Middle East whenever its on a menu, and the version here doesnt disappoint. Aromatic with orange blossom jam, delicately flavoured with mastic from the Chios Island and studded with roasted hazelnuts, its further prettified with pistachios and diced poached quince and has an almost perfumed flavour. We also like the beguiling taste of vanilla halva ice cream and strawberry and rosewater sorbet.
This sounds like a lot of food for two people, but the portion sizes are meagre and in the case of the dips, really miniscule (barely a couple of tablespoons). The wine list has a few bottles from Lebanon and Israel and the rest from around the world but we opted for soft drinks like refreshing Lebanese lemonade, plus punchy Middle Eastern-inspired cocktails. We paid over 40 each, which is a lot for the quantity and, in some cases, the quality. Although some of the dishes are exquisite, others such as the kibbeh are a bit rough around the edges; and the own-made lavash bread, which comes free in a paper bag, is little better than a supermarket version.
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