Archive for Month: November 2011

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Food is Activism: Aunt Candy Dazzles Thanksgiving 2011 with Vegan Dessert

I am thankful for my aunt. She was fifteen when I was born and has pretty much been my pal from day one of my life.  She still has letters I sent her when I was in high school and college.  She would send me fun care packages. When my mother and I drove to Chicago to move me into my first apartment after graduate school Aunt Candy met us and the two of them decorated my place (I had no clue where to begin). In my thirties, we started a new tradition. Each year we would meet “half-way” for […]