Sunday, April 13, 2008  Friends and Food  Didn't do much cooking
this weekend, but I did plenty of eating. On Friday, my friend
Misti joined me at "Brooks Uncorked," a wine tasting at the
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. The annual event features 80 wines
from around the world, a silent auction, and a lot of fancy food
(most of which, unfortunately, was not vegan).  It was a swanky
affair, so Misti and I glammed ourselves up.  Now, I don't know
how many of the red wines I tasted were actually vegan. I'm a
"don't ask, don't tell" vegan when it comes to sampling wines.
At events like this, most people don't even realize some wine is
processed with non-vegan ingredients like albumen. So asking
does no good. Basically, I'll drink it until I find out it's not
vegan...either from stumbling over the info online or in a
magazine. As far as I know, the albumen and/or isinglass doesn't
actually make into the wine anyway. I'm probably a bad vegan for
thinking like this.  As for the food, I could only eat the
veggie sushi,