Well, it’s a new year and that’s got a lot of us thinking about resolutions — maybe being healthier, eating better. One popular resolution for health and sustainability is always to cut back on meat — or cut it out all together and go vegetarian for the new year.
Well, our next guest is here to say: You can do it — and still enjoy the Sonoran favorites that make up Southwestern cuisine.
Jackie Alpers is a cookbook author and food photographer and one of her latest Substacks is all about vegetarian Sonoran options. The Show spoke with her more about it.
Full conversation
JACKIE ALPERS: My husband is a vegetarian, and so I’m constantly kind of trying to balance out what he’s eating with what I’m eating, and it’s resulted in me making a lot of more vegetable forward dishes where vegetables are really the star and meat is secondary…