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Exposing The Vegetarian Myth

January 28th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Essential reading.

What do you get when you mix a huge dose of recovering vegan with liberalism and some over the top feminism?  No, not Roseanne Barr on Atkins.  You get The Vegetarian Myth, by Lierre Keith.  Flashpoint Press was nice enough to send me a copy of this eye-opening book and although it took me a few months to get through, it has been an enlightening read.  In it, Keith combines her own personal experiences with some good hard data to help debunk the vegetarian myth as we know it. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

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