Recipe: Cold Carrot Soup with Chilies and Avocados
The first time I tried vegetarian cooking, it was a trial by fire. My mother-in-law was coming to visit from India, and at that time was a full-fledged vegetarian. This was in 1996, in East Central Illinois; a place where a grocery clerk once asked K.M. why he was buying fresh spinach, when you could “get that in a can.”
I had no idea what I was doing. We muddled through, eating a lot of pasta. Eating out, in that time and place was nearly impossible. People actually would say things like, “Well, it’s nearly vegetarian. You can pick the bacon out.”
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