Even for people quite versed in the veggie food scene, new (and some only new to me) San Diego sites for meat-free munching keep popping up. Influx Cafe in Golden Hill and Little Italy is a modern place serving a rather tasty and original vegan sandwich with a funny name: “Tofu 1,” composed of baked [...]

Lucky for me and some friends who also found themselves in Los Angeles and wanting lunch on the famous Dec. 25 holiday, Golden Mean Vegan Cafe, an organic restaurant, welcomed us with wholesome organic vegan cuisine and friendly staff. Owner Aaron Glassman started the place in Santa Monica about two years ago to “create a [...]

“Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare . . .” is the  chant you may remember from the rock musical and movie “Hair” or from the groups of people marching around certain cities at night. The Hare Krishna movement, also known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), is an international devotion with [...]

Reprinted from The Healthy Voyager To the Jingle Bells Tune: “Waste, waste, waste. Spend, spend, spend. Time to waste and spend!” That seems to be the theme for the holiday season. But it doesn’t have to be. The holidays can be just as vibrant, pretty and inviting as always but it all can be done [...]

Navitas Naturals, the company I raved about earlier when they sent samples of cacao and other fine natural products, has added organic hemp seed to their line of superfoods. Hemp is one of the earliest known plants cultivated internationally and one of the world’s most nutritious ingredients which can be added to a wide variety [...]