Beans, beans good for your heart, the more you eat...

Think you know the rest???  Perhaps... but, maybe not!  Link through for more, and to learn just what carrots, chickpeas, and fennel are good for.  :)  You'll also find my recipe for "Molasses Baked Beans" from Vive in my article.)

Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique.  But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities.  Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words.  They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection.  So why don't they get to curl up by the fire?  Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?  (p. 25, Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer)