… and speaking of food …

Elena Tucker
4 min readMar 31, 2022
Photo by Alison Marras on Unsplash

I have a friend who is a vegetarian. She readily admits that she became one in college, but kicking and screaming all the way, and purely for health reasons. After many years, for her, continuing to eat a vegetarian diet is a combination of both health and ethical reasons. The fact that she enjoys foods such as lentils and quinoa makes her diet a much easier decision. I mean, she actually likes the taste of these foods, as opposed to me, who…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.