Postscript to Monday's Postcard from Paradise

I left off the dinner menu from Monday and it was wonderful -- as were the dinner companions.

We're still at sea on the luxurious Costa Fortuna -- until Wednesday morning.



Lentil walnut pate



Cream of fennel soup



Orange arame watercress salad



Sweet corn risotto with red pepper pesto and fried sage

Carrot cake with 'cream cheese Icing' and lemon sauce




How was your first Spring dinner?

Yours in Wellness, Gratitude and Ahimsa (Jain philosophy of Reverence for All Life),

Suzen Sharda Segall

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Ship Ahoy and Bon Voyage to me!

Welcome Luncheon Buffet


Tempeh Noodle Salad
with rice penne, tempeh, olive oil, dill, soy mayo, giner, romaine, celery, carrots and red onion.

Baked beans
kidney beans, kombu, barley malt(gluten) red miso, mustart and onion

Garden Salad with balsamic Vinegar (Lucchino company donated 50 gallons of olive oil and each table has a bottle of their Olive oil and Balsamic)
Radiccio, romaine, cucumber, carrot, red cabbage, tahini, lemon and sea salt

Tomato avacado salad (YUM) with olive oil, sea salt pepper lemon, avacado tomatoe and red onion.

Rice and gomashio
short grain brown rice with sea salt and sesame seeds and water

Steamed Broccoli
Baked cauliflower with tahini sauce ( and wheat free white miso and mustard.

Before dinner I prepared myself to be included in the Introduction of Presenters on stage of the Rex Theatre.
for the Opening Ceremony: Cruising into Health – Your Voyage to Well Being: with my hero, Dr. Neal Barnard -- inspired and inspiring as always. All the presenters were lined up on stage and introduced with the wild and crazy Jessica Porter MC ing.

Here's our Sunday Dinner Menu:

Most delicious part -- I joined Ohashi and his lovely wife at a four top -- and finally settled myself - quieted and calmed -- for the first time in about a week ( or at least since I was on Dr. Linns treatment table)

Hijiki tart and sweet potato sauce

Onion soup with mochi and rosemary

colorful kale salad with giner dressing

Seitan paella with roasted artichoke and kumbu chips

apple crips with caramel cream

I just had time to blog before the Welcome Cocktail Party -- and it will be lights out by 10ish so we can begin the wise practice of 8 hours of sleep. Can I really keep up sending posts?? We'll see.... I'm even looking forward to the Monday fire drill -- we met great folks waiting in lines last year - with plenty of time to visit.


Yours in Wellness, Gratitude and Joy,
Suzen Sharda Segall


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Food is Medicine Food is LOVE continues

Calling all happy healthy 'burgers (and wannabe's)

If you missed the Vegan Meet-up event featuring recipes from The Kind Diet, you only have days to wait for the next opportunity to be included in a vegan feast with a Free community Vegan potluck luncheon.

Mark your calender for the March 21st to literally get A Taste of Health - The First Great American Meat-Out celebration is sponsored by The Three Rivers Vegan Society, newly founded by the talented compassionate Anne Lynch.

Details:
Sunday, March 21
1:30-4 PM
The Nuin Center (5655 Bryant St., Highland Park) Note from Anne:

Please bring a vegan dish to share. Donations will be accepted, but this is a FREE event!
There is a kitchen available to heat up dishes. To reduce our impact on the environment,

please bring your own plates/cups/silverware.

Recent months have witnessed startling developments in American dietary lifestyle:
The popular Atkins diet craze has been discredited by consumer watchdogs.
Mad Cow disease has surfaced in America, reducing once again beef consumption.
The vegetarian food market has been growing at 100 - 125% per year.
A survey found that 20% of teens think that vegetarianism is "cool."

The 24th annual observance of the Great American Meatout on March 20th is proud of these welcome developments.

Launched in the "dietary dark ages" of the 1980s, Meatout has become the world's largest grassroots diet education campaign.

It has served as a model for the multimillion-dollar 5 A Day and other mainstream campaigns advocating increased consumption of vegetables and fruits.

Please don't feel left out if you don't live in Pittsburgh --

Go to the website to search for events over the week-end in your neighborhood --

Over a thousand communities in all 50 states and 20 other countries are welcoming spring
by asking their friends and neighbors to "kick the meat habit and explore a wholesome,
nonviolent diet of vegetables, legumes, fruits, and grains." They are holding colorful
educational events ranging from information tables ('steakouts') and exhibits to lectures,
public dinners, cooking demonstrations, homeless feedings & elaborate 'lifestivals.


Just think: while I'm savoring the welcoming buffet of Greens and Grains on the Deep Blue Sea divinely prepared by award winning Chef Mark Hanna and staff, you can be included in the historic First Great American Meat-Out celebration savoring food is medicine, food is love right here -- what a great way to welcome Spring!


How will you celebrate life today? I'd love to hear about your experience and what you learn, wonder about and intend as next steps as a result of participating in The Great American Meat-out even if it's just virtually - surfing their website which is chock-filled with resources and recipes!

Yours in Wellness, Gratitude and Ahimsa (Jain philosophy of Reverence for All Life),
Suzen Sharda Segall

This blog post can be reproduced in its entirety with the following information:

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Or on its unique radio channel at:

Suzen Sharda Segall, Wellness Personal Trainer/Consultant, designer and facilitator of BodyArts Therapeutics, has provided an integrated approach to health and wellness for a wide variety of populations, internationally,for over thirty-five years