Greening Your Life
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2008
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Calorie for calorie, dark green leafy vegetables are perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. There are over one thousand species of plants with edible leaves, including Arugula, Beet Greens, Bok Choy, Brussels Sprouts, Collard greens, Cabbage, Chard, Chicory, Dandelion Greens, Endive, Escarole, Iceberg Lettuce, Kale, Kohlrabi, Mustard Greens, Purslane, Romaine, Sorrel, Spinach, Tatsoi, Turnip Greens, Watercress – and so many others. Join me as I talk about seven of these green leafies - their history, their etymology, how to store and wash them, how to cook them, and how to make them delicious so that you'll get them in your body - any which way.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:22.0 | I founded Compassionate Cooks. I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people, to make informed food |
| 0:26.2 | choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more about |
| 0:31.7 | who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:34.4 | Compassionate cooks.com. I also encourage you to check out our message board which |
| 0:39.7 | you can access through the website through the compassionate cooksate Cook's website. Also, if you would like to |
| 0:45.0 | spread the word about this podcast, we now have a podcast sampler, CD available in packs of 10 |
| 0:51.0 | or 100. So many of you requested this and I'm thrilled to say |
| 0:55.0 | that we now have it. Thank you again to Marty and Wendy Beckers and Chris |
| 0:59.5 | Marco for making it possible. And thank you to today's sponsor, Anne Gayor, I hope I'm saying |
| 1:06.4 | that correctly, Anne actually dedicated her sponsorship to her friend Eileen Testa. This is the email I received from Anne. I just |
| 1:16.6 | supported a podcast and I'm not sure how to say thank you at the start. I |
| 1:20.6 | haven't written to you before but have been listening for the last two months. |
| 1:25.5 | You inspire and educate, which makes you the type of teacher that all teachers should aspire |
| 1:30.4 | to be. I would like to dedicate a podcast to my friend Eileen Testa. We grew up together in |
| 1:36.4 | Buffalo, New York, not the most veg-friendly place, and she inspires me. During my 20s, I worked at the Candle Cafe in New York City. |
| 1:45.0 | I was eating a vegan diet, but had dairy outside of work. |
| 1:49.0 | I then moved to Boston, got married, and when I was pregnant with my son in 2000, I started eating fish, |
| 1:56.2 | turkey and chicken again, thought I needed it for the baby. |
| 2:00.8 | Last year I gave up meat again completely and just went vegan January 1st. |
| 2:05.0 | I have never felt better and although I am a happy person I am even happier. |
| 2:10.0 | I now love to cook. I never enjoyed cooking before. Could it have been that touching raw animal flesh disgusted me? Absolutely. |
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