Guest guest Posted January 17, 2002 Report Share Posted January 17, 2002 > In the midwestern US, hare krishna are looked > upon as the crazy people at the airport, or > at least that's how my mom portrayed them. I > think she about had a heart attack when I > told her my favorite place to eat during > Peace Corps was their resturant a couple of > blocks away from the main office. I know exactly what you mean. I recently had lunch with an old friend, and I told her that I had renewed my interest in Hinduism and had gone a few times to the Krishna House (ISKCON temple here in Columbus, OH). She looked at me and wondered aloud if she was going to have to grab me in a few months or so and try to deprogram me! The Hare Krishna's are actually jokingly referred to as the 'kitchen religion' because of the prasadam (meal of holy food which has been offered to Krishna) which is served after the services. Lacto-vegetarian, I believe, and free although a donation is accepted. They use neither mushrooms nor garlic in their cooking, either. I will admit, when I first went there, I had no idea that it was an ISKCON temple. When I saw that name on the door, I almost left; I also had heard some wild stories and dire warnings about them. I figured that I was already there, though, and might as well go inside and see what was going on. What I found were some really nice, intelligent people who gave me some really incredible food! I bought one of their cookbooks while I was there, and may post a recipe or two from there after I try it out. > Cheap, simple, veggie (I wasn't veggie then, > but the country I lived in only ate rice and > beans and boiled starchy things with lots of > salami or egg grease) and yummy. Take a look in their cookbook; some of the stuff there isn't as simple as you might think! But nobody I know of has tried their food and said that it isn't yummy ... ;-) If I didn't know better, I'd think that they were putting some " special ingredients " in there. > The strange thing is, this third world > country had at least 3 veg resturants that I > know of. Now I live in south Texas (grad > school) and in a university town with 45,000 > students, not a single veg place in the > entire town. If it did exist, it would be so > expensive. The closest we have is a cheap > Thai-ish place that will sub in tofu for > meat. It's yummy, but... Interesting. What town would that be? Sounds like a business opportunity in the making! :-) -- Chari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 Whatever the Hare Krishna believe, I don't care! Their food is WONDERFUL and I greatly miss their resturant that I used to frequent... I was in Peace Corps at the time and they had a resturant in Santo Domingo near the US Embassy... cheap and always great. Never a choice but whatever they served it was good. Does any one know of one in the HOuston area? The great thing about them is they only served food, not religion... There was another veg resturant in Santo Domingo at the time, too. It was hard to find and a ways away from the Peace Corps office, but we would often walk there. Most of the volunteers went there just to get a good dose of real veggies other than bananas, plantain, cassava... it was great! Not a tourist in there, there is no way they would have ever found it or known about it, and it didn't look so pretty, but I never cared. By the way, what is the name of the Hare Krishna cookbook? I would love to have a copy... Genie Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more faith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2002 Report Share Posted October 9, 2002 Hi Genie, Last I heard the Hare Krishna's in Houston (West 34th Street, I think) had a weekly free vegetarian feast on a mid-week day. Maybe Thursday's. Anyway, the meal was free but you had to stay through one of their sharing sessions. I never went but oft times wondered about it. Also, the Hare Krishna's are at the Westheimer Art Festival and give out free food there too (along with pamphlets). Food was delicious that I had. The music was toe tapping too! smile. windy --- genie bottle <geniesflower wrote: > > Whatever the Hare Krishna believe, I don't care! > Their food is WONDERFUL and I greatly miss their > resturant that I used to frequent... I was in Peace > Corps at the time and they had a resturant in Santo > Domingo near the US Embassy... cheap and always > great. Never a choice but whatever they served it > was good. Does any one know of one in the HOuston > area? The great thing about them is they only > served food, not religion... > There was another veg resturant in Santo Domingo at > the time, too. It was hard to find and a ways away > from the Peace Corps office, but we would often walk > there. Most of the volunteers went there just to > get a good dose of real veggies other than bananas, > plantain, cassava... it was great! Not a tourist in > there, there is no way they would have ever found it > or known about it, and it didn't look so pretty, but > I never cared. > By the way, what is the name of the Hare Krishna > cookbook? I would love to have a copy... > Genie > > > > > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more > faith. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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