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Compassionate Cooks

Compassionate Cooks - Empowering People & Saving Animals One Meal at a Time

About Me

Garlic and Greens Soup by Compassionate Cooks - Vegan, of course

Compassionate Cooks empowers people to make informed food choices and debunks myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. Check out our website for resources, recipes, our cooking DVD, our podcast, articles & essays, and our new cookbook, The Joy of Vegan Baking. Click on logo to visit our website.

My Interests

Film, literature, animal rights, activism, writing, running, veganism, nonviolence

Movies:

Seven Samurai, Nights of Cabiria, Jaws, Le Cercle Rouge, L'avventura, Lord of the Rings, Umberto D., The Bicycle Thief, Rocco & His Brothers (Rocco e suoi fratelli), Public Enemy, Asphalt Jungle, Le Samurai, Balthazar, Lucky Star, All About Eve, La Terra Trema, Requiem for a Dream.

Television:

Hate TV - watch only films. OK - and DVDs of some TV shows, like Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster, The Simpsons, Fawlty Towers, and other great TV comedy.

Heroes:

People who actually live their life according to what they believe. Risk-takers, activists.

My Blog

NEW Podcast Sampler CD

Now Available from Compassionate Cooks: Vegetarian Food for Thought Podcast Sampler CD This CD was created to help spread the word about the Vegetarian Food for Thought podcast. Many people don't know...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:09:00 PST

"The Joy of Vegan Baking" is Born - 10 Ways to Help it Succeed

Well, I suppose I "gave birth" to it several months ago, but now it's out for all the world to see. Today seems to be the first day that bookstores have it in stock, so whoever has "preordered" it wil...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:23:00 PST

Like Animals

I feel very strongly about how our use of language reveals our prejudices and biases, particular when it comes to the oppressed, whether the oppressed be human or nonhuman. In fact, the language of op...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:48:00 PST

Early Humans = Vegetarian Prey Animals

A new article in Newsweek (called "Beyond Stones & Bones: The new science of the brain and DNA is rewriting the history of human origins" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17542627/site/newsweek/) dispe...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:22:00 PST

Don't Buy a Cow

Over the years, I have experienced much frustration and sadness over the growth in popularity of nonprofit organizations that send live animals to impoverished countries all around the world. This gro...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:58:00 PST

Vote for Colleen in the 2006 Veggie Awards!

VOTE FOR VEGNEWS COLUMNIST COLLEEN PATRICK-GOUDREAU IN THE 2006 VEGGIE AWARDS AND WIN PRIZES. CHOOSE COLLEEN AS YOUR FAVORITE COLUMNIST ("VEG ENTERTAINING") IN THE SURVEY. It's okay if you don't know ...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:17:00 PST

Check out this event: Vegetarian Cooking Class: Hearty Italian Cuisine

Hosted By: Colleen Patrick-GoudreauWhen: Saturday August 19, 2006 at 10:00 AMWhere: First Unitarian Church 685 14th St. Oakland, CA 94612USDescription: BUON APPETITO!  In our August class, Compas...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:38:00 PST

Join the Rhetoric Revolution!

Honestly, I don't support censorship, but there are simply some words that you will never hear me use and that I won't allow in my classes. At the slightest utterance, many a student has had gold star...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:25:00 PST

Call me Chicken Hearted

When we say that 45 billion land and sea animals are killed every year in the U.S. for human consumption, I don't know about you, but I can't wrap my head around that number. It's daunting. In terms o...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:18:00 PST

A Strange Credo: "I Choose to Be Cruel. Therefore I Am."

There seem to be as many excuses to eat meat as there are land animals killed for such a purpose (10 billion in the U.S. each year, by the way) and though I have heard many of these excuses, I have ye...
Posted by Compassionate Cooks on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:14:00 PST