Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Lenten Season Part 5 Latin American Foodways and Traditions
Frederick Douglass Opie
Lenten Season Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Lenten+Season
Guatemala Foodways and Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Guatemala
Mexican Foodways and Recipes:
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Lenten Season Part 4 Fasting and Dr. Alvenia Fulton
Frederick Douglass Opie
The Best of Dr. Alvenia Fulton with
Related Recipes:
Lenten Season Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Lenten+Season
Monday, February 27, 2012
Fasting For Lent: "Good Health Begins in the Colon"

Comedian and activist Dick Gregory first met Dr. Alvenia M. Fulton during his 1967 campaign for mayor of Chicago against the incumbent, Richard Daley. Fulton came by campaign headquarters and dropped off some salad for Gregory and his staff. Someone at the headquarters informed him that a really nice black woman “‘brought all these salads here for you’; I had been a vegetarian,” says Gregory. When he went by to thank her, his encounter with Fulton turned “my whole life around,” said Gregory. They sat and talked and Fulton heard that Gregory was going to go on a forty-day fast in protest of the war in Vietnam. “And she thought I knew something about fasting, which I didn’t! And she taught me from day one to day forty what was going to go on in my body.”During the fast Gregory went from 350 to 98 pounds and ran twenty-five miles a day before and after sun up. After the fast, his weight returned to 148 pounds, he was totally healthy, and he began to fast on a regular basis. Over the next several years, Gregory and Fulton became close friends as she shared her knowledge about fasting, herbs, and nutrition with him. Here is a smoothie recipe I use when I fast like many maybe doing during the Lenten season. Dr. Fulton mantra was good health begins in the colon, that’s why she championed the merits of regular fasting using natural colon cleansers like psyllium husk and raw foods.
Ingredients
1/2 cup of frozen strawberries or your favorite fruit
1/2 cup of frozen bananas
Cup or more of vanilla soy milk or use fruit juice if you prefer
1 scoop of a good protein powder supplement
2 table spoons of psyllium husk
1/3 cup of soy yogurt
¼ cup or more of honey or maple syrup
Method
Combine fruit, milk, and yogurt in a blender and turn on high until the ingredients is mixed, add more soy milk if necessary. Next had the dry ingredients and sweeten to taste. Be sure to not overload your blender because you could burn out the engine on that bad boy!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Lenten Season: Dr. Alvenia Fulton A Food Pioneer We Should Know
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| Vegetarian chili and corn bread, recipes below |
Vegetarian chili recipes: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/1275/
Lenten Season Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Lenten+Season
Lenten Season Series: Food is “among the major recreations of Bahía”
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| A Bahian shrimp gumbo called carurú, recipe below |
Caruru-de-camarao recipe: http://www.mangerati.com/caruru-de-camarao
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Lent and Fish, and Street Venders in Nineteenth Century Rio
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| Coarse sea salted marinated and pan fried sardines, recipes below |
It's the Lenten season which means fish for lots observant Catholics and many protestants. Here is a related story about 19th century Brazil and street venders selling fish. The Parisian Adèle Toussaint-Samson (1826-1886) traveled to Brazil in the early 1850s where she would live with her husband and children for twelve years. Toussaint-Samson had a wealthy uncle who lived in Rio. Adèle Toussaint-Samson serves as keen observer of Brazilian foodways including seafood and African slavery; Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery in 1888. She provides a wonderful description of a fish market in Rio “where abound sardines, shrimps, oysters, and delicious fishes, which are bought alive.” She goes on to describe a female Afro-Brazilian street vender near the market selling “smoking batatas doces [sweet potato dish], fried sardines, and some angú” (manioc flour gravy) under a large linen umbrella. Here are two Brazilian sardine recipes appropriate for this memory of fish in nineteenth Rio.
Brazilian fried sardine recipe: http://www.all-fish-seafood-recipes.com/index.cfm/recipe/Sardinas_Fritas
Marinated pan fried sardine recipe: http://www.audreycooks.com/audreycooks/?p=394
Friday, February 24, 2012
Lenten Season Part 3 Fish Fridays and Lent
Frederick Douglass Opie, Babson College
Elizabeth Henry The Queen of
Fish Fry: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/03/culinary-look-at-women-in-history-cast.html
Fish Series with Related
Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=fish+series
Lenten Season Series with
Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Lenten+Season
Fasting During the Lenten
Season: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2011/04/25/135577006/status-update-unknown-or-fasting-from-social-media
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Lenten Season: Part 2 Polenta, Lentils, and Food Equity
Frederick Douglass Opie, Babson College
Polenta Related Stories and
Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Polenta
Vegan Stuffed
Pork Chops: http://jennshaggy.blogspot.com/2008/12/vegan-goat-cheese-spinach-and-sun-dried.html
Vegan Roasted
Chicken Soup: http://www.bookofyum.com/blog/gluten-free-progressive-dinner-vegan-un-chicken-roasted-vegetable-soup-recipe-4437.html
Vegan
Smothered Cabbage Recipe: http://www.all-creatures.org/mhvs/recipes-
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Lenten Season Series: Part 1 Ash Wednesday
Frederick Douglass Opie, Babson College
Fat Tuesday and Food: http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/02/new-orleans-and-gumbo-history-on-fat.html
Vegan Gumbo
Recipe: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=27730.0
Veggie Patty
Recipe: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/jamaican-veggie-patties-recipe.html
Vegan Rice and
Peas: http://www.ivu.org/recipes/latinam/jamaican-rice.html
Vegetarian chili recipes: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/1275/
Vegan Ropa Vieja Recipe:http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=27125
Vegan Mofongo
Video Recipe
http://veganricans.blogspot.com/2008/11/vegan-mofongo-w-fried-tempeh.html
http://veganricans.blogspot.com/2008/11/vegan-mofongo-w-fried-tempeh.html
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Fat Tuesday and Food in Mardi Gras and Carnival Cities
| New Orleans Gumbo, this and other recipes below |
Traditional gumbo recipe: http://www.bigoven.com/170608-New-Orleans-Creole-Gumbo-recipe.html
Vegan gumbo recipe: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=27730.0
Brazilian Feijoada History and Recipe : http://www.foodasalens.com/2010/07/july-soul-food-in-nineteenth-century.html
Rice and Beans/Peas and Rice Series With Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Rice+and+Beans%2FPeas+and+Rice+Series
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