Those upside-down teardrops

We have two new cooks joining our email circle this week, Natascha Bruckner of Santa Cruz, California. Natascha is the editor of the Mindfulness Bell, the magazine that published an article about our project in 2009. That article is still in the archives, where it was recently discovered by Ellen Oshiro in North Richland Hills, Texas---and it brought her to us today. How appropriate to have the editor and the reader she inspired coming in together-----welcome, Natascha and Ellen!

I have two recipes for you this week, first a recipe for Curry-Ketchup Bean Burgers from Christel in Germany. I'm so glad our group is scattered all around the world---I learn so much----I had no idea there was such a thing as curry-ketchup until now! Apparently it's a popular condiment in Germany and the Low Countries. Here is the recipe: Curry-Ketchup Bean Burgers

The second recipe is the last one from our Portland potluck, Pam's cute and colorful little toothpick skewers. Do you think this could be done with vegan mozzarella? I hope whoever tries that first will let us know:
Tomato Mozzarella Basil Mini-Skewers

In my last email I sent a link to our Home page with our new map. It turns out that link was defective (sorry!) so I'll try again. It's a nifty map. First click on it to activate it. Then put your cursor on it and you move it around in any direction and zoom in or out. Wherever you see a red upside-down teardrop you will know one of our email group lives there. If you click on the teardrop, you'll get a box with more information. Over on the left side is a larger box with a list of our home towns. If you slide your mouse up and down the list, you will see each place light up on the map with a white circle around it-----what a way to take a quick trip all over the world! There are asterisks by some of the towns on the list; that means if you click on it you will see the name of someone who lives there, and in some cases a link to that person's website. I would love to add everyone's name to the map, and your website too if you have one, but feel I should ask your permission. When I asked last time, three more of us responded:

Eve, Of course you may add my name to my tear drop! No web site, alas, but I do feel jubilant to be part of such a positive group! --- Sarah F.

Of course you can add me to the map! I live in a small village called Leersum, roughly between the cities of Utrecht and Wageningen. You can add a link to my food column, but it is in Dutch... Jana Verboom [luckily some browsers offer a translation---Eve]

Hello Eve, thanks for this newsy newsletter and thanks for posting my recipe. What beautiful website communications! Congratulations to you for making it so exciting. And yes, you may add my name to the website (and I don't have a webpage! :).-----Sigrid K

Here is the map: have fun with it! http://mindfulcooking.org/

Then you can go on to have some more fun---- with a link sent to us by George Huguet in Pennsylvania. It's a website made by Bon Appetit, aimed at helping people see the carbon consequences of food choices. It's cleverly done ("Now that you've changed your lightbulbs, it's time to change your lunch") and has a fun quiz to measure your food-carbon awareness. I took it and learned a few things. http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/

I have a couple of news items from Christel, first a free event coming up on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 at 4:00pm PST when Chad Sarno "discusses why it is important to infuse culinary education into the global health conversation and help shed light on the key role we all can play when it comes to health and food"
http://rouxbe.com/live-events/chad-sarno/details?utm_source=rouxbe&utm_m...

Also, an event in Kentucky on July 12th with T. Colin Campbell "to kick off a new grassroots movement to transform our health care system, our system of food production, and the way we relate to our environment." Maybe one of us is near enough to get to this new effort. If not, at least we can enjoy knowing that it is happening:

Followers of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies may know of the healing power of a whole food plant-based diet, but why hasn't all of America learned this information? And is it possible to launch a national grassroots movement around this transformative idea? I am joining my son, Nelson, in Louisville, KY for a rally to address the growing public interest and continued government and industry resistance to the plant-based diet. The event will include a sneak peak to a powerful new documentary film in production called PlantPure Nation. Nelson is directing this film, and has been joined in this effort by the former producer and the writer of Forks Over Knives. On Saturday, July 12th, at the Iroquois Amphitheater in Iroquois Park, the film crew and Representative Tom Riner (a key political figure in the documentary) will join Nelson and me on stage, with music by the band Driftwood. Plant-based food and beverages will be available during the rally, which runs from 6:30pm to 9:30. The event is free. Tickets are available at: http://plantpurenationrally.brownpapertickets.com. This rally is the first of its kind in the US, and will help to kick off a new grassroots movement to transform our health care system, our system of food production, and the way we relate to our environment. Please consider coming to this historic event, and do what you can to spread the word. Forward this email to friends and family or share our facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/294095484092604/

So much happening-----we are certainly not alone with our hopes for this Earth!

Happy cooking,
Eve