Your guide to plant-based dining in Madison
Boost your meals with more vegetables through a plant-based diet.
January 21, 2021 8:55 AM Maija Inveiss
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A spread of plant-based dishes from Maharani Indian Restaurant
Alongside vegetarian and vegan diets is a concept called “plant-based” eating. Lexie Palmer, aka @thehealthyavo on Instagram, says eating plant-based means incorporating lots of veggies and grains into her diet while avoiding packaged foods. Palmer has been eating plant-based for two years and started her Instagram account in September 2019 after starting on a healthier path.
“Plant-based is a lot less strict than being straight vegan,” Palmer says. “You can still be a vegan and still eat unhealthy, so to me plant-based is just eating what comes from the earth.”
Poke bowls from Miko Poke
Healthy eating is subjective.
Ask what it means to be healthy and you’ll likely get a different answer from every person. As part of an ever-evolving health and fitness industry valued at $4.5 trillion our appetite for healthy eating has only grown.
As we embrace the start of 2021, New Year’s resolutions linger in the air, pressuring us to consider new habits. The Mayo Clinic reports clean eating is a mindset that is focused on improving health and well-being. This means eating more balanced meals and real foods with less processed or refined sugar.
For Crystal Ketterhagen of Crystal K Cultivate, a local business empowering people to feel their best from the inside out, eating healthy means eating to thrive as opposed to dieting. Through her business, Ketterhagen aims to demystify food culture to help individuals create healthy relationships it’s not about eating perfectly.
Dominique Lenaye opens Stoughton’s first Black-owned brick-and-mortar bookstore
Itty Bitty makes a big entrance.
January 20, 2021 12:54 PM Andrea Behling
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Dominique Lenaye stands in Itty Bitty Bookstore.
The library was always Dominique Lenaye’s favorite spot to hang out growing up, and owning her own bookstore was a childhood dream. “Into adulthood, I started to realize there was a lack of representation in almost everything I read,” she says. “I didn’t see myself in much around me, and as I started teaching my daughter to read it became more and more important to me that we bring representation into our household.”