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Nate’s Favorite Hairy Cheese Pizza
Nate’s Favorite Hairy Cheese Pizza
Ingredients:
1 piece naan bread (I like Whole Food’s garlic flavor)
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ cup finely grated cheese, preferably using a Microplane grater (Nate likes a
Directions:
sharp white cheddar cheese the best)
½ avocado, diced
any other toppings you like, such as turkey pepperoni, olives, or sundried
tomatoes
Heat oil in a flat grill or pancake pan. Brown both sides of the naan bread until golden
and crispy-crunchy. Cover with cheese and place in microwave or under broiler just
until cheese melts. Dot with fresh avocado or any other toppings you like. Cut and
serve.
• Vegetarian (unless adding meat toppings)
Chapter 11
Going Vegan in Cattle Country
When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods
diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50
pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93,
I’m on the same plant-based diet, and I still don’t eat any meat or dairy
products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I’ve
felt since my heart problems began.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, world famous pediatrician and author who lived to be
ninety-six
RACHEL
So far, other than the few grandparent-given bites of cake and ice cream, Jackson eats
what we eat, which makes him mostly a vegan baby. I am often asked if I will continue
to raise him this way, and on one occasion I’ve been cursed at and called a terrible
mother for depriving him of bacon and eggs.
Someday he’ll be old enough to spend the night with friends and have class parties
where cheesy pepperoni pizza will be the only thing to eat. One day, someone will
poke fun at him for being vegan. I do want to shield him from feeling like the “weird
kid,” but more, I want to shield him from a future full of health problems and disease.
When Jared and I listened to the audio book about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle,
which I mentioned in Chapter 3, I was already a bit of a health junky, having read a
decent number of books on nutrition. The vegan way of eating seemed extreme. But
without any other entertainment for the sixteen-hour road trip from Florida to Texas,
we kept listening. When we crossed into Louisiana, we paused and chatted about all
of these concepts that seemed to oppose everything we’d known about health. A
particular study on the connection between casein, a protein found in milk, and cancer
was both fascinating and flooring. How could milk be bad for you? we both wondered
out loud. We’d been told for years it “does a body good.” And as athletes, lean animal
protein, and lots of it, had been an essential part of our healthy diets. But studies this
book pointed to, like one done in China, were hard to ignore. In nonindustrial parts of
Ingredients:
1 piece naan bread (I like Whole Food’s garlic flavor)
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ cup finely grated cheese, preferably using a Microplane grater (Nate likes a
Directions:
sharp white cheddar cheese the best)
½ avocado, diced
any other toppings you like, such as turkey pepperoni, olives, or sundried
tomatoes
Heat oil in a flat grill or pancake pan. Brown both sides of the naan bread until golden
and crispy-crunchy. Cover with cheese and place in microwave or under broiler just
until cheese melts. Dot with fresh avocado or any other toppings you like. Cut and
serve.
• Vegetarian (unless adding meat toppings)
Chapter 11
Going Vegan in Cattle Country
When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods
diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50
pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93,
I’m on the same plant-based diet, and I still don’t eat any meat or dairy
products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I’ve
felt since my heart problems began.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, world famous pediatrician and author who lived to be
ninety-six
RACHEL
So far, other than the few grandparent-given bites of cake and ice cream, Jackson eats
what we eat, which makes him mostly a vegan baby. I am often asked if I will continue
to raise him this way, and on one occasion I’ve been cursed at and called a terrible
mother for depriving him of bacon and eggs.
Someday he’ll be old enough to spend the night with friends and have class parties
where cheesy pepperoni pizza will be the only thing to eat. One day, someone will
poke fun at him for being vegan. I do want to shield him from feeling like the “weird
kid,” but more, I want to shield him from a future full of health problems and disease.
When Jared and I listened to the audio book about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle,
which I mentioned in Chapter 3, I was already a bit of a health junky, having read a
decent number of books on nutrition. The vegan way of eating seemed extreme. But
without any other entertainment for the sixteen-hour road trip from Florida to Texas,
we kept listening. When we crossed into Louisiana, we paused and chatted about all
of these concepts that seemed to oppose everything we’d known about health. A
particular study on the connection between casein, a protein found in milk, and cancer
was both fascinating and flooring. How could milk be bad for you? we both wondered
out loud. We’d been told for years it “does a body good.” And as athletes, lean animal
protein, and lots of it, had been an essential part of our healthy diets. But studies this
book pointed to, like one done in China, were hard to ignore. In nonindustrial parts of
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