Every time I write a cookbook, there are a few recipes that I assume will be crazy popular (and I'm right, about 50% of the time). For example, I knew the Chocolate Cake in HHLL was going to be popular ;)

Then there are always the recipes that surprise me. Without fail, a recipe will take over Twitter, Instagram, blogs and Facebook, and I would never have guessed that recipe was going to be so popular. It's …

On January 19, 2012 my Dad had a heart attack. The following day he and my Mom both went plant-based. (I posted this on Facebook earlier this week and they were SO incredibly touched by all your kind words!)

To celebrate their plantiversary, I asked Mama and Papa Herbivore to give you all an update on how things are going now that they're two years plant-proud. (You can read about their first year of being plant-based here.)

Here's …

This week's meal plan is jam-packed full of brand new recipes!

This week you'll find the Tropical Breakfast Burrito (NEW!), Double Red Wraps (NEW!), Toasted Quinoa & Corn Chowder (NEW!), Slow Cooker Red Bean Coconut Curry (NEW!, fam.), & Vegetable Korma (NEW!, fam.).

Of course, there are also meal plan favorites like the Chips & Chili Bowl, Spicy Kale Scramble, Refried Bean Tacos and much, much more to keep you plant-strong throughout the week!

Tropical …

Welcome to Teaching Tuesday!

This new series is designed to help make you the best home cook yet! Each week we will explore a new ingredient and how to use it! (Feel free to leave a comment on what you'd like to learn about below!)

The first "installment" is a real tearjerker. Yep, I'm talking about onions!

As you probably know, onions come in a variety of colors, which make them all the more confusing. Here's a breakdown of …

I think speeches -- quotes -- are a lot like art. We see in them what we want to see, what we need to see.

This was something I came to appreciate during my rhetoric course in college. (We spent the semester reviewing and analyzing famous speeches. It was fascinating!)

When we came to study Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, I remember feeling angry when other students shared their interpretation of it, and those interpretations had …