My daughter (aged 12) came home Friday and announced she was a vegetarian.

[aajay]

If she's not vegan, can't she eat eggs, cheese and milk for protein?

 

[aajay]

Oh, and I just remembered. I think it was George Bernard Shaw (or was it Bertrand Russell) who was

a vocal vegetarian but had to get liver shots for aenemia. The dear, dead days!!

 

[angak]

maybe Traca can get you signed copies!

 

[traca]

Most definitely.

 

[traca]

Not only are the recipes good, Crescent has a marvelous way of weaving stories through

food. The headnotes are wonderful reading and I often find myself flipping through this book not for recipes but just to read it.

 

[traca]

Clearly I'm biased, but Crescent also won the James Beard Award for Passionate Vegetarian. smileys/smile.gif

 

[cheezz]

Really?!! Traca, that would be fabulous! Now THAT would be a personal gift! I'll PM you smileys/smile.gif

 

[cheezz]

Traca... is Crescent Dragonwagon her real birth name?? I KNOW there has to be a story there!

 

[cheezz]

In trying to search the archives for Crescent, I ran across the posts from StarlightDancer...

I wonder what ever happened to her?!

http://eat.at/swap/forum1/63128_Just_heard_about_this_site

 

[traca]

No, she wanted to separate herself from her mother and father who are famous writers.

 

[traca]

From CD's website: Is that your real name?

http://crescentdragonwagon.typepad.com/nothing_is_wasted_crescen/is-that-your-real-name-.html

 

[traca]

I once knew a girl whose name was "Blueberry Morning Snow McGregor". She went by "Blue".

 

[traca]

Having a weird name myself, I'm always intrigued by other people's names.

 

[orchid]

OMG! This is priceless. Many years ago I started doing this really

weird thing. I picked people, alive, deceased, famous/not famous etc. who I thought it would be fun to have at my dinner party. I usually only wanted 8, not more than that so there would be interesting conversation. And then would spend time deciding whom should sit next to whom. The big guy thought I was strange (personally, I think that's why he married) but then I noticed he was giving suggestions. All that said...I have to have Crescent Dragonwagon at my next dinner party. Hmm, who else should I invite? Ooh Bill Clinton....

Do I need to worry that one of you is sending someone to take me away? LOL

 

[cheezz]

Great story! At least she doesn't go by "Dragonwagon Shank"

 

[Glennis]

It's the combination of Essential Amino Acids...

Traca is right...you have to make sure you combine one from Column A with one from Column B... If you can always think to make sure she has either a meat animal protein (milk, egg, cheese, or the like), or a combination of a legume AND a grain product. That could be as simple as peanut butter on whole (stressing WHOLE here) grain bread. Beans and rice are a great combination...but beans and cornbread are equal to that. Corn is a grain product. Peas, beans, peanuts, and soy...all are of the legume family. You can also combine either of the two with vegetables to get the same result, but you have to seriously know your veggies. I got caught up in this when we lived rather essentially in the mountains. I never knew when we'd be stuck due to weather and not have the opportunity to shop for fresh food.

 

[curious1]

I read recently that they don't have to be combined in the same meal but in a roughly 24 hour period

However, since as mentioned above, so many just go together, such as beans and rice and beans and cornbread, it's probably easier that way.

http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/basics/protein.html