Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Great Piece and Flexitarianism

I Love this article I just found at The Baltimore Sun, entitled Invitation to a kosher, non-lactose, gluten-free, vegetarian dinner party. You've got to read it! But I think I'd add those who don't sugar, caffeine, or fat. The author, Jim Sollisch, touches on all the right things, everyone's got a food agenda these days, myself included.

I try to modify at dinner parties, which  I guess makes me more of a food hypocrite, but I spent years and years as a pseudo-vegetarian, no mammals was my motto. Now I think I'm the so named flexitarian, which according to Wikipedia is... Flexitarianism is a semi-vegetarian diet focusing on vegetarian food with occasional meat consumption. A self-described flexitarian seeks to decrease meat consumption without eliminating it entirely from his or her diet. There are no guidelines for how much or how little meat one must eat before being classified a flexitarian. Flexitarian is distinguished from polpescetarian (oh! that's what I used to be!), i.e., one who eats only chicken and fish, but does so exclusively. Even though I live it, I'm not so sure I buy it!

I wish I was the one to come up with all these fun names like flexitarian and locavore!

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