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Book of the Week: Bring Your Favorite Game to Life Through Food

November 11, 2023 By 1 Comment
CATAN®: The Official Cookbook
Ulysses Press
Hardcover; September 12, 2023 
ISBN: 9781646044528
$29.95; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4; 192 pages

Cook. Eat. Play.

Embark on a culinary adventure with CATAN®: The Official Cookbook [ISBN: 9781646044528; $29.95; Ulysses Press; September 2023], the perfect companion to your next game night.

All adventurers are welcome as the hexes of CATAN lie before you. The promise of abundant resources, development cards, and victory points are close at hand. But all Catanians need a good meal before they can build strong settlements and grand cities.

With CATAN: The Official Cookbook, fans of Klaus Teuber’s iconic game can now fuel up while road building and negotiating trades. From snack-worthy appetizers to feast-level entrées, this full-color cookbook includes more than 75 fun and easy-to-make recipes inspired by the game, including Scalded Feta Barbarian Skewers; Adventurer’s Charcuterie Board; Over-Knight Oats; Caravan Vegetarian Chili; Robber’s Discard Delight; Great Hall Rack of Lamb; Forest Mushroom Risotto; Rocky Road Cookies; Desert (Prickly Pear) Margaritas and much more!

Internationally beloved, CATAN is the powerful universal story of humankind’s quest to explore the world—to discover, trade, build, and settle. In a CATAN game, you become an adventurous settler carving out a home on an uncharted island. Violence holds no sway in CATAN. Cleverness, flexibility, and adaptability are your keys to victory.

While no two CATAN games can ever be the same, every game requires a community of friends and family to come together, communicate, and collaborate in order for one Catanian to win the day! Nothing builds community like a hearty meal to share. Packed with beautiful original photos, iconic artwork, and fan references, this book is a must-have gift for longtime Catanians or beginning gamers.

This book would also make a great holiday gift!

Self Disclosure: I received a free copy of the book to facilitate this post. Cover images and information were also provided.

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Watch Turkeys Feast at this Time-Honored Thanksgiving Celebration

November 11, 2023 By Leave a Comment

On November 4 in New York and November 18 in California, rescued turkeys will be given a seat at the table, not on it, at Farm Sanctuary’s Celebration for the Turkeys. Since 1986, the world’s first farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization has flipped the script on Thanksgving by hosting an event that honors the fascinating birds at the center of the holiday, instead of harming them. 

WATCH: TURKEYS ENJOY THANKSGIVING AT FARM SANCTUARY

The event comes at a time when bird flu, officially known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), has resurfaced on commercial poultry farms in the U.S. after being absent since April. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 58.8 million chickens, turkeys and other birds have been wiped out by the disease since 2022, with nearly 46 million more turkeys slated to be killed in the U.S. for Thanksgiving.

“Thanksgiving is supposed to be about gratitude, but the factory farming industry has co-opted it to promote the consumption of turkeys who’ve suffered tortured lives on industrial farms,” said Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur. “It’s more fun and more compassionate to celebrate the holiday with turkeys as our friends, instead of eating them.”

The event will feature:

  • Delicious Plant-Based Food
  • Virtual Feeding of the Turkeys Ceremony (due to Avian Influenza)
  • Speaker Presentations from Beyond Meat CEO and Founder Ethan Brown (CA) and Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur (NY and CA)
  • Book Signing by Gene Baur
  • Open Sanctuary Time with Rescued Animals

Event: Celebration for the Turkeys – LA

Date: Saturday, November 18, 2023 

Time: Time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. PT

Location: 5200 Escondido Canyon Road, Acton, CA 93510

Tickets: All humans welcome!

People who cannot attend the event, but would still like to honor turkeys this holiday season can symbolically adopt a turkey through the organization’s Adopt a Turkey campaign.

Founded in 1986, Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, 

people, and the planet through rescue, education, and advocacy. The organization provides lifelong care for animals rescued from abuse at Sanctuary locations in New York and California, fosters just and compassionate vegan living, and advocates for legal and policy reforms. To learn more about Farm Sanctuary, visit FarmSanctuary.org. 

Credit: Farm Sanctuary.

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