Word: vegetarian
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...VEGETARIAN Hens' feed has no animal by-products. Their eggs' nutrient content stays the same...
ARMED TO THE TEETH It could have been a scene from a Bollywood version of The Godfather. I entered the highly recommended vegetarian Sindhi Restaurant near Varanasi's Lalita Cinema to find half a dozen men sitting at the center table, rifles and sawed-off shotguns casually slung across the backs of their chairs. I thought it best not to ask why. None of the other diners, well ensconced in their peeling vinyl booths, appeared perturbed. Nor was I, once my thali, or set meal, arrived. Usually served on a flat metal plate divided into sections, thalis are a traditional...
...ability to go dark and distracted on us without losing our sympathy for his eager, morally educable side. This talent helps to ground a comedy that includes, among other things, a carelessly murdered duck, a funnily murdered rendition of Killing Me Softly With His Song and a distinctly unmerry vegetarian Christmas party. But the film is always true to the lonesome realities of modern urban--in this case, London--life, which means its humor never seems forced or merely frivolous...
...bare except for a cross and an icon. There is a reading desk, chair, neatly made twin bed and plain wooden dresser in each room. Almquist explains that the guests live here in complete silence. They take their meals with the monks in the refectory, eating their mostly vegetarian meals three times a day (silently). “During the midday and evening meals, there is usually a brother who reads from the prayer book,” Almquist says, “while we continue our silence...
...center grew from a shoestring institution with a handful of members and an annual budget of around $2,000 to something of a mini empire. At the height of its popularity and influence in the '70s, Zen Center's assets included a best-selling cookbook, a hugely popular vegetarian restaurant, and Tassajara, the first American Buddhist monastery, located amid rugged, gorgeous forestland 240 km south of San Francisco...