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The Week Without Meat: Mark Bittman believes in me!
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The Week Without Meat: Mark Bittman believes in me!
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I mentioned Mark Bittman's Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating earlier today in my first post about about The Week Without Meat challenge, pointing out that my almost-entirely-flesh diet is antithetical to the healthful, low-impact approach to eating the Times columnist introduces in his new book.
A little earlier, he sent over these words of encouragement:
From: Mark Bittman
Subject: you'll be fine
Date: January 26, 2009 4:49:40 PM EST
To: Drew LazorGood luck. See you next week, maybe - mb
Thanks, Mark! I appreciate you being so much more supportive than my old college roommate, who's also named Drew. He sent along this charming message when he heard about The Week Without Meat challenge: "I can safely say that by Wednesday, you will won't even be able to see straight and will just be sitting in your office muttering 'bacon ... bacon ... pork chop ... '"
Have a little faith, dude.
Oh, the "next week" engagement Bittman's referring to: He's reading at the Free Library next Wednesday, Feb. 4. Be sure to pick up our upcoming issue to read Kelly White's chat with the author.
OK, now it's off to Monk's to make Felicia D. give me a vegan burger.
You had that dream last night where the little anthropomorphic strips of bacon did The Hustle on top of strip steak, didn't you?
Drew, the trick to meat-free eating is NOT fake meat (veggie burgers, seitan molded into turkey shapes, etc). If you like real meat, fake meat will always be a poor imitation, and much of it is also terrifyingly processed. Just eat good food that is naturally vegetarian. Beans, cheese, eggs, and vegetables with rice, pasta, tortillas, etc. And while you're in the early stages of trying to eat more vegetarian meals, go with meat-free recipes written by the likes of Bittman rather than by the evangelical vegan types. Bittman'll ease you in gently rather than throwing you into the deep end of brown rice and lentils. Brown rice and lentils are tasty and all, but if you're a devoted carnivore with standard American eating habits, you probably won't like them at first. Better to start with something like nice pasta and pesto with good parmesan.
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