Issue 35, October 1, 2019 HWS NEWS Healthyworldsedona.com Guess Who's Com ing t o IN THIS Flagst aff! ISSUE Calendar and upcoming events - p. 2 Cooking Demos At Sedona VegFest 2020 - p. 3 My Plant-Based Stor y: Li nda Voor hi s - p. 4 Plant-Based Cooking Tips: Caramelizing Onions - Bulk Styl e - p. 6 Ti ps-Qui ps-Sni ppets - p. 8 Wher e to eat out? - pp. 9-10 Cal endar oct ober 8 Plant-Based Thanksgiving Food for Li fe Cl ass: The Power of Your Plate, noon-1 pm, Flagstaff Feast 2019 Medical Center. RSVP: 928-214-2877 It's been so much fun, and so delicious the past oct ober 11 tw o year s, w e just have Ver de Valley Vegans, 2nd Fr iday to do it again! You'r e Potluck, Cornville. 6:00 pm. Sign up. invited to enjoy a whole food plant-based meal, a community of friends, oct ober 15 and musical Food for Li fe Cl ass: Fighting entertainment (provided Cancer with your For k, 5:15-6:15 pm, Flagstaff Medical by musical attendees) . Center. RSVP: 928-214-2877 We'll ask you to br ing a dish to shar e. And if oct ober 22 you play an instrument, Food for Li fe Cl ass: Foods that Love sing, dance, juggle, or Your Hear t, 5:15-6:15 pm, Flagstaff have other talents you ar e w illing to shar e, come pr epar ed to make oct ober 25 it a joyful and festive Conscious Living Potluck , 5:30 p.m. day of thanks. Topi c TBA. Br ing a vegan dish to Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 3 p.m., home of Don Fr ies and shar e. RSVP to: Bev Bow. Please RSVP and tell us w ho and how many ar e [email protected] . coming. We'll send a r eminder and dir ections closer to the date. oct ober 27 A Pr ayer for Compassion screening, Free Cooking Demonstration Classes! 7 pm, Mar y D Fisher Theater , Sedona. Culinar y instr uctor Chr is Kalinich w ill be teaching six, fr ee Ti ckets cooking demonstr ation classes on the benefits of plant-based nutrition in oct ober 29 Flagstaff in October and November. Food for Li fe Cl ass: Reaching a The classes ar e sponsor ed by Healthy Weight noon-1 pm, Flagstaff Northern Arizona Healthcare and will Medical Center. RSVP: 928-214-2877 be held at Flagstaff Medical Center , McGee Auditor ium, 1200 N. Beaver St. november 5 Classes ar e open to the community as Food for Li fe Cl ass: Foods that Soothe w ell as to NAH employees. Chr is is a & Aid Digestion, 5:15-6:15 pm, Flagstaff cer tified Food for Life Instructor w ith Medical Center. RSVP: 928-214-2877 the Physicians Committee for november 12 Responsible Medicine. Attend one or Food for Li fe Cl ass: Foods to Fight all six! Register by calling (928) Disease, 5:15-6:15 pm, Flagstaff Medical 214-2877 (NAH employees r egister at Center. RSVP: 928-214-2877 [email protected]). november 16 October 8, noon-1 pm: The Pow er of Your Plate Food is Medicine for Diabetes October 15, 5:15-6:15 pm: Fighting Cancer w ith Your Fork Symposium, 7:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Coconino High School, Flagstaff. Fr ee. October 22, 5:15-6:15 pm: Foods that Love Your Hear t Register October 29, noon-1 pm: Reaching a Healthy Weight november 28 November 5, 5:15-6:15 pm: Foods that Soothe and Aid Digestion Thanksgiving Feast 3:00 p.m., home of Don Fr ies & Bev Bow. November 12, 5:15-6:15 pm: Foods to Fight Disease Br ing a w hole food plant-based dish to shar e. RSVP to: 2 [email protected] . Cooking Demos at Sedona VegFest 2020 You're going to love these demos and tastings! Satur day, Januar y 18: Chef Jason Wyr i ck - Indonesian Lemon Gr ass Curry: Maximizing Flavor for Maximum Health Culinary Instructor Chris Kalinich - Dishing Up the Daily Dozen Sunday, Januar y 19: Culinary Instructor Linda Voorhis - Mor occan Root Vegetable & Fava Bean Tagine: Nutr itious and Delicious Made Show Stoppingly Easy Jodi Paige, Owner & Developer of Vir gin Cheese - Ditching Dair y: Yogur t, Cheese and Cr eams Do you have your Be a VegFest VIP! tickets yet? Sedona VegFest w ould not be possible w ithout the generous contr ibutions of sponsor s, and the Sedona time commitment of our wonderful volunteers. VegFest Ticket s We ar e ever so gr ateful! In recognition of sponsors who contribute $500 & Information or mor e this year , we ar e offer ing VIP benefits which include: - An invitation for tw o guests to an intimate VIP r eception w ith our speaker s at a lovely Sedona pr ivate home on Fr iday evening, Januar y 17; - Reser ved VIP seating for tw o in the auditor ium; - VIP parking; and - Tw o guest passes to VegFest. Sedona Health & Nutrition Conference Tickets & Learn More Information 3 My Plant-Based Stor y Linda Voorhis For October and November, "My Plant-Based Story" will feature our wonderful "Plant-based Cooking Tips" contributors. Check out Linda's tip for this month following her story. We are so grateful for her creative culinary contributions - and we're excited about her upcoming new cookbook! HWS: What led you to adopt a whole food believe that all these year s I?ve been contr ibuting plant-based lifestyle? to the slaughter and painful lives of other sentient beings!? I knew at that moment I was never going LV: In 2006 w hen I moved to South Jer sey, I knew back. I had my airplane meal of a hard-boiled no one and couldn?t find my tribe. In November egg, cheese and cr acker s and a piece of fr uit, and of 2007, I sear ched and found a group called the I couldn?t even eat it. I said to them, ?I can?t Vegetar ian Society of South Jer sey. They w er e unlear n w hat I just lear ned, and my life is for ever having a Thanksgiving potluck, so I signed up. changed because of it.? I wasn?t happy, because I They r equested that, although they w er e the loved cheese. I ate cheese ever y single day, Vegetar ian Society, only vegan options could be without missing. It was personally my top brought. Fr eya Dinshah, co-founder of the favor ite food group -- I put cheese in its ver y ow n Amer ican Vegan Society was ther e tabling a small food group. I also believed the myth that you book sale. I was tr aveling to New Jer sey that need it for the protein. I w ent vegetar ian follow ing Januar y, and I asked her if she had a thinking it was for my health and for helping book that I could r ead on the plane, and that other animals and the environment. I went w ould descr ibe to me w hat it meant to be vegan. vegan because of the animals. I knew that it was mor e of a lifestyle than just a food plan. HWS: How did you make the transition? HWS: Were you already vegetarian at that LV: Not easily. For the fir st month my favor ite ti m e? cheese wasn?t at the stor e w her e I shopped, so I was good. But about four w eeks into it ther e was LV: I had been lacto-ovo vegetar ian since a big sign over the dair y section that the cheese Febr uar y of 1983. It star ted out as my Lenten was in. I thought, ?I could have just one w heel of sacr ifice, and I r ealized that I never r eally liked that,? so I put it in my car t and walked away. As meat. It wasn?t a sacr ifice - I actually enjoyed it. I soon as I looked dow n at it in my car t I thought, decided to not go back to eating any meat. I ?No, I can?t do this,? and I put it back. I did that found the Vegetar ian Times magazine and thr ee times, and on the thir d time I r ealized that subscr ibed. But somehow , I missed all the no matter how much I ador ed that cheese, I information about factory farming. I completely couldn?t do it. So I star ted to cr y, ther e in front of bought into the happy California cow the fromager , and through my tear s and sobbing I commer cial. I bought only fr ee r ange, told her w hat was the matter. She said, ?Well I vegetar ian-fed eggs, and the cheese was all give you a lot of cr edit,? and I said, ?Yeah, but I organic. I r eally thought they w er e gr azing in a wish I didn?t know anymore.? I think that cry field. It never occur r ed to me w hat was was my final letting go and accepting the things I happening until I was on the airplane and started could not change. Ther e was no way I could eat r eading the book that Fr eya r ecommended, w hich any kind of dairy ever again and in good was the NY Times bestseller Skinny Bitches.