My lovely wife Sarraz just wrote an anti-blog.
You should go read it and encourage her to write more, coz she's awesome and would have more to say if she felt people might be listening.
Aside from that I've been in work hell. Stuff getting dropped on me with the shortest of deadlines and everyone expecting their job to be priority. ARGH! Thank fuck I work with and for my friends most of the time and I can tell them to 'go jump' when it's applicable.
In other news, I fucking love cheese on toast:
You should go read it and encourage her to write more, coz she's awesome and would have more to say if she felt people might be listening.
Aside from that I've been in work hell. Stuff getting dropped on me with the shortest of deadlines and everyone expecting their job to be priority. ARGH! Thank fuck I work with and for my friends most of the time and I can tell them to 'go jump' when it's applicable.
In other news, I fucking love cheese on toast:
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Yes, being a vegetarian in the US is increasingly easy. When I first became in the early '90s, one had to go to specialty and health food stores to acquire TVP and so forth; now, of course, every supermarket in every small town has some sort of selection of Boca, Morningstar, Lightlife, Gardein, and other products.
That said, they can be expensive and occasionally not all that wonderful for you (as with all prepackaged, processed foods), so the basic staples often still work best.
You've been to some fine places. Giana's is famous, and the Cantina -- hipstery and pricey though it can be -- is also very reasonable for vegetarians. And we do have a few handfuls of purely or mostly vegetarian restaurants -- Chinese, Thai, Argentinian, even Tex Mex. However, what's most surprising is the number of bars / pubs / restrau-bars that make a point of having vegan items on the menu. Oh, I wouldn't say Philly is a veggie-happy town like hippie Asheville, North Carolina, or Portland, Oregon, but a general awareness has somehow mysteriously bloomed here.