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I like to cook.

I like to cook mainly because I like to eat. I also like to cook for others. I got tired of trying to explain how I make my food to those who ask me for recipes. So I thought I would put it on a food blog for easier reference.

I've spent my life in Montréal, Québec, and currently live in Kingston, Ontario in Canada. I'm a husband and a father as well as a clinical perfusionist. Also, I can usually recover your lost data.

Cheers!


Andrew

P.S.

I started avoiding animal products in the summer of 2010. I currently enjoy a plant-based (vegan) diet although I am not certain how you are supposed to pronounce the word "vegan". Is it "vee ghen"? Lots of people use that, but I don't say "Veegtables"?

"Vay-gun"? Not very popular. "Vedge-en"? I like - sounds very English, like the way someone from the U.K. may use the word "aubergine" instead of eggplant... I'll just call it a plant-based diet and keep it simple.

Why?

-All animals feel good and bad feelings exactly like we do. We abuse the shit out of them. Especially chickens, pigs and cows.

-The ecological impact of feeding the animals our society eats is too large. We cannot sustain that. If one person stops eating meat, the CO2 emissions saved are equivalent to driving my car for a year. In other words, if a family of four avoids animal products for just one or two days per week, they save more greenhouse gasses than if they stopped driving a car for the whole year.

Not to mention that animal waste (poo) is the number one danger to our water supply.

-As parents and children, we are spoon-fed the idea that if we don't eat animals we will wither away and die.

Not true. Most people in our society die from a very predictable pattern of disease that usually is obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart attack and/or stroke. The diet we are on is killing us. Not to mention, it's boring.

What is there to eat, then?

Lots. Much more than you are currently eating. Start with this: Eat food, mostly plants, not too much.