Tag: Meatless Monday

Vegetarian recipes to get you through the holidays

My favorite part of any holiday celebration is the food. Grandmas, uncles and cousins come together to make amazing comfort food, well comfort for some people. A lot of the holiday meals revolve around holiday roasts and seven fishes, and for vegetarians and vegans this can be a logistical nightmare.

No need to yell at your family for “forgetting” you don’t eat meat, go to your local Trader Joe’s or Ralph’s and pick up ingredients for one of these easy and sustainable holiday recipes.

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Sweet Potato Latkes

Whether you’re celebrating a religious holiday or just hanging out with friends and family, potato latkes are a feel-good meal for all. The simple way to do it is cutting potatoes and fry ‘em up, but I found a great vegan recipe you can try here but you can always replace the ingredients with whatever you prefer. Top your beautiful creation with applesauce!

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Free NYU veggie events I’m excited for

Khichdi is a popular South Asian dish made from rice, lentils and vegetables. Credit: Wikimedia

Whether you’re vegetarian or a proud meat eater I think everyone can get behind free food. That’s why I was curious about attending a Krishna Bhakti Club meeting, the new vegetarian cooking club, after seeing them at Clubfest.

They promised “food you’ll love” but I am admittedly a little bit of a picky eater but the temptation of free food was overwhelming.

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Don’t Trash that Pumpkin!

Happy Halloween! After all the weekend fun is over and done, what will you do with your  jack-o’-lantern and all those cute, decorative pumpkins? Well, before turning to drop your pumpkins in the trash, consider this spooky fact: Food scraps are the largest component of solid waste in our landfills, and when they rot, they emit methane gas, which is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide! Pretty scary, right?

Here are some tips to save your pumpkins from haunting a landfill. Read more

Free Food with a Side of Knowledge: NYU’s Fair Food Fest

By Alex Buchholz

IMG_4202Last Monday, April 18, 2016, students, faculty and staff gathered in Eisner & Lubin Auditorium for NYU’s annual Fair Food Fest. The event, hosted by Real Food Challenge at NYU, commenced at 7pm with a keynote panel, moderated by leader of Real Food Challenge at NYU, Natalie Petrulla, which included speakers Marion Nestle, of NYU Steinhardt’s Food Studies department; Nadia Johnson, Policy and Advocacy Director/Farmers’ Market Network Manager at Just Food; George Reis, Supervisor of Landscaping at NYU; and Mike Hollis, Urban Farms Manager at Services for the UnderServed — all experts in their fields. The discussion revolved around the subject of urban agriculture and its future. I was particularly intrigued by the interactivity that held the diverse panel together — it seemed as if the four panelists worked together to construct a vivid image of our current and future states of agriculture. Attendee sat quietly, their attentions captured. During the open Q&A session, hands shot up like May flowers with questions ranging in topics from nutrition to federal government funding for fair food and hunger relief programs. Read more

Go Green Week at NYU Shanghai

By Omer Cohen

BadgeThe second annual Go Green Week at NYU Shanghai begins the week of April 11th. A collaboration between the student clubs “Animal Rights & Herbivores Society” and “Green Shanghai,” the Go Green Week seeks to help the NYU Shanghai community to transition to a more sustainable lifestyle by raising awareness of the environmental, health, and ethical dilemmas of  consuming of animal products. The Go Green Week also  brings awareness to the environmental crises that our world is facing, and promote behaviour that will help to solve them. This year, student leaders at NYU Shanghai have collaborated with their colleagues at the New York and Abu Dhabi campuses in order to make this a global initiative. Read more