Ellen Kanner

"Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life -- my relationships, how I relate to the world," says Victoria Moran. Holistic health counselor, longtime vegan and all-around glowing kind of person, Moran is author of books including Creating a Charmed Life and the new Main...

The writer, director, editor of the documentary Vegucated did not descend "from the planet Vega to convert the mere earthling." Marisa Miller Wolfson started out as a midwest girl with a fondness for bacon. Along the way, she became "a professional eco-nudger" and dedicated vegan. How? "It...

Compassion Over Killing's Jaya Bhumitra won't take animal abuse lying down. She's been getting up before dawn to train for the Palos Verdes half marathon this Saturday. Bhumitra is running 13.1 miles to raise money on behalf of the 9 billion animals killed annually for...

For Jonathan Lovekin, ripe is "the jewel-like color and light reflecting off a golden caramelized quince. For Paulette Phlipot, it's "the teensy little hairs on a raspberry."

Lovekin and Phlipot, both food photographers, celebrate the physical beauty of produce in their new books -- different books...

Welcome to Veg Week, Earth Day's afterparty, seven magnificent meatless days to show kindness to animals, the environment and yourself. If this sounds crunchy granola -- you know, being green, vegan, loving the planet and crap that like, I am guilty. So is Arran...

Daniel Bryan is vegan, but don't call him Soy Boy. Well, you can, but you might regret it. Bryan is a WWE Superstar, a heavyweight champ who proves you can be meatless and still kick ass.

"I knew I wanted to wrestle when I was little kid....

In an old comedy routine, Mel Brooks plays a therapist who advises his patient, "Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli will tell you how to eat it."

I wish Justice Antonin Scalia's broccoli would have a word with him. During the Supreme Court oral hearings about the Patient Protection...

Eat your vegetables, they're good for you. Really? That's the best slogan we could come up with? Vegetables are good for you, but "I don't want people to think of it as medicine. It takes the fun out of it," says Cheryl Sternman Rule....

The Sexy Vegan is not Food Network fab, he's not buff, he's a dude. He makes dude food. Jalapeno poppers. Barbecued ribz. Spaghetti and balls. Pizza. It's manly. And it's plant-based.

Not too long ago, the Sexy Vegan (real name Brian Patton) was an overweight, junk food-addicted Trekkie....

Lusty pasta marinara, crunchy, salty kale chips, chili-spiked black bean enchiladas -- eat 'em up. You can create positive change and rack up karmic points with every bite, with every meatless choice you make, and have a good time, too.

How does what you eat affect the world? The...

It's a small world, as Walt Disney told us. And we're all hungry. I was thinking of this last week in Anaheim, where 60,000 of us converged. We weren't all going to the Magic Kingdom but to Natural Products Expo West, all of us eager to influence what...

What goes into making the top organic brand of pure maple syrup? "Sustainable forestry. We're good farmers. That makes good syrup," says Arnold Coombs of Coombs Family Farms.

Coombs is more than a little familiar with the Iroquois concept of seventh generation -- that what we do...

Last Monday, February 27, we observed Occupy Our Food Supply, day of action against corporate food. Some of us observed it more than others. That same day, the class action suit of Organic Seed Grows and Trade Association vs. Monsanto was dismissed. Industrial Food -...

It's not only Meatless Monday, it's Occupy Our Food Supply Day, so get involved. The ingredient in the secret sauce for making real food safe and accessible to all is you.

On Ash Wednesday last week, New Orleans sanitation workers held their noses and hosed...

Seeds are where it all begins. They promise the start of things. They're "the very basis of our food and agriculture," says Theresa Podoll of Prairie Road Organic Farm. That's why the seeds Podoll and her family grow are organic.

That means seed grown with care and...

You're both young, hot, meatless and madly in love. You decide to live happily, meatlessly ever after. Congratulations. But first, the wedding.

"What we were celebrating is us and our life, and our life was going to be a vegan life," says Miami schoolteacher Jenny Silveira. "I wanted to have...

"Anybody who says they don't have a sweet tooth is a total liar," says Doron Petersan, defending champ of Cupcake Wars and the head of Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats. A DC institution since 1999, Sticky Fingers is the bakery of your childhood fantasies,...

Bryant Terry, food justice activist, eco-chef and host of the web show Urban Organic, wants you to come to the table. With his new book The Inspired Vegan, he lures you there with tortillas with Swiss chard, currants and spicy guacamole, savory grits with sauteed broad...

Before seasonality became a term embraced by foodies, it was how we lived, how we ate. Transportation was limited, refrigeration, other than what the climate and creativity offered, didn't exist. Winter offered no Chilean grapes, no pale, tasteless tomatoes. We ate what was grown nearby and in season. Period. As

Thanks to reader interest in Meatless Monday's farmer profiles, today launches Who Grows Our Food. This occasional Meatless Monday series takes a close look at some of the people, so often unsung, who give us the food on our plates.

Winner of 2010's Organic Leadership Award, Bob...