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Spebnan Spotlight, Atlanta, GA
March 4,1993
CULINARY CORNER
Restaurants Serve Vegetarian Cuisine
NEW!
Wheat Furter
By Malaika Kamunanwire
After restricting my diet to solely
fish, vegetables and some poultry, I had
a hard time eating out. I found that the
vegetarian meals, consisting primarily
of poultry sold at fast food franchises
and restaurants were both limited in
their variety and more expensive.
When I first stopped eating red meat
and pork in high school, I found that I
did not even miss it. I replaced
hamburgers with turkey burgers and
beef lasagna with vegetable lasagna. I
never really liked the meat substitute,
Tofu. I would rather not eat meat at all
than eat a substitute.
That all changed when I went to
Soul Food Vegetarian last Friday and
ordered a Wheat Furter. As you can
guess, a wheat furter is a frankfurter
substitute. It’s made out of Kalebone, a
high protein vegetable.
Surprisingly, the wheat furter was
the best meat substitute I have ever
had. I tasted very little difference
between these two furters.
For all you frugal students, the
wheat furter also came with a salad and
baked potato strips for little over $5.
If you want something that is high
in protein, but tastes great, look out for
Soul Food Vegetarian’s wheat furter.
It’s worth your dollar!
Delights of
the Garden
By Binta Robinson
One Saturday afternoon, I decided
to check out a vegetarian restaurant
that was recently opened in February
by two Morehouse graduates,
Anealwisye Showki Kmt and Anu
Nankole Kmt.
Delights of the Garden Restaurant
specializes in a type of vegetarianism
that is different from mainstream
vegetarianism. In addition to the
exclusion of all meats and dairy
products, cooking of food is also
avoided. The restaurant operates on
the belief that cooking food drains it
of its essential nutrients. One of
Delights’ beliefs is that the "sun is the
cook." Delights of the Garden lives
by their word literally: the restaurant
does not even house a stove.
Delights of the Garden cuisine is
based on the nutritional principles and
philosophy of African holistic health.
On the back of the menus is the
Delights of a Garden motto: "the
Perfect Food for the Perfect People."
African people have physical needs
that differ from other people
according to this philosophy. For
example, African people have lactose
intolerance and therefore should not
consume dairy products.
"When we were flourishing as a
people, we were eating right," said
proprietor Showki Kmt.
If a person does not possess
maximized physical strength, a person
is not maximized spiritually, he said.
According to Showki Kmt, the
common mortality age of 60 to 70
years is a biologically premature one
that is onset by mainstream dietary
habits. A completely new set of cells
is regenerated every seven years and,
consequently, the human body is
supposed to live forever.
A primary reason this diet is more
healthful is that uncooked, naturally
seasoned vegetarian food is digestible
within the human body. Any time a
person has a bowel movement that
does not occur within a few hours
after consumption of a meal, digestion
is being hindered within the body
according to the African holistic health
philosophy.
Showki Kmt estimates that people
who abide by mainstream dietary
habits carry anywhere from 10 pounds
to 20 pounds in fecal matter. Many
times the nutritional value of healthful
foods is nullified by the effect of an
unhealthful food or a food that differs
drastically in nutritive properties. For
example, eating a hamburger would
null the nutritive effects of an already
eaten banana. For this reason,
Delights of a Garden cuisine is
designed on the basis of bringing
different foods together that possess
the same nutritive properties.
During my visit, I had the Garden
sampler: kush (cracked wheat), nut
meat (a variation of kush and spices),
nori roll (seaweed wrap), marinated
vegetables, veggie tuna (carrot pulp -
no meat in it), and avocado salad - all
for a price of $4.25.
Contrary to my typical experience
with vegetarian food, this meal was
filling, tasteful, and delicious. I highly
recommend Delights of a Garden.
Check it out at 136 E. Marietta Street.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
On the Creative ‘lip: &n ‘Exhibition
By Maleka Ingram
Carl Williams and Kendel
Carter, two art students at the
Atlanta College of Art, presented an
installation at the Woodruff Arts
Center Feb. 23 during a reception.
The theme, "Journeys," is an
expression of the African American
race traveling out of psychological
slavery.
According to Carter, the exhibit
represented a "journey from
oppression using symbolism
through objects of the past to show
how we can go back to the ‘glory
days.’"
The materials on exhibit were
paintings by Williams and
sculptures by Carter. Williams’s
style consists of painted wooden
boxes filled with symbolic matter.
His art work represents someone
moving through another person’s
life. For example posted with some
of his paintings were the pages of a
young girl’s diary. In another
painting, Williams simply took a
Photograph by Maleka Ingram
Artist Kendel Carter
girl’s mirror from her bedroom that
was plastered with Michael Jackson
stickers.
Some of his paintings were
modeled around a series of jokes
told by Richard Pryor referred to as
"Stories about mother f who
died funny."
Carter’s sculptures are made of
scrap metal painted black,
highlighted with straw and wood.
Although at first glance his
sculptures appear abstract, there is a
symbolic meaning in each of them.
In reference to one of his works
that appeared to be an animal
standing next to a door, Carter said
he likes to "leave (meanings of the
works) to the imagination" of
observers.
These two young African
American artists, Carl Williams and
Kendel Carter, put on an impressive
exhibit. The room was filled to
capacity with the air of genuine
creativity.