The Blooming Platter Cookbook:
A Harvest of Seasonal Vegan Recipes 
Betsy’s first book is a celebration of the seasons, featuring a wide range of accessible and elegant vegan recipes for the home cook. Spanning regional American favorites and global cuisines, these 175 recipes and 8 pages of color photos feature all the essential goodness that fresh vegetables, fruits, and herbs bring to your table, all year ‘round.
Available on Amazon.
Cheers and thank you for your support!
What’s “The Platter”?
The Blooming Platter offers a growing collection of recipes for creative appetizers, beverages, snacks, soups, salads, sides and entrees with a tendency toward ethnic fusion dishes, lightened-up comfort foods and updated classics with a twist. A baker since childhood, I also include a burgeoning selection of dessert recipes that will tempt even the staunchest dairy-lover. Here's to compassionate plant-based cooking and eating!
~Betsy DiJulio
About Betsy DiJulio
When Betsy—an award-winning art teacher and practicing artist—is not teaching, making art, reading, writing, or walking her new dogs, Patsy and Urban, she can often be found in downward dog on her yoga mat.
And after that? A little food, a little more wine, and a lot of communing with friends, family, and students (well, no wine for her students).
In addition to authoring The Blooming Platter Cookbook, Betsy is a regular contributor, columnist, or featured writer for:
- SchoolArts
- Coastal Virginia Magazine
- VEER
- The Virginian-Pilot
- Alimentum
Look for the occasional link here on her website.
Besides art and cooking, Betsy admits to being a little obsessed with:
-Anything eco- or animal-friendly
-Artisanal and small business ventures
-Day hiking
-Consignment fashion
-Design in its many forms, especially interiors and landscapes
Did someone say mid-century modern?
Blooming Blogroll
My fantastically talented ballroom dance teacher, Brent Dunn (owner of Shall We Dance, for those of you in the Hampton Roads area), saw this car in a local parking lot and was sweet enough to snap it and email it to me. Love the “Powered by Tofu” sticker.
May 20, 2010 at 7:01 pm
This made me smile! Love it! I have one that says, "Powered by Veggies!"
May 20, 2010 at 8:51 pm
So cute! I'd probably have to leave them a little happy note or something. 🙂
May 20, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Donna Rae, you made me smile. I need to "join the club" and get myself a vegan decal. I have some on my office door at school. I also have a street sign that says, "Dogs welcome. Humans must be on a leash."
Keri, I definitely would have left them a TBP card! He says the vehicle must belong to someone who works there as he's seen it frequently. I may have to go try to find them. I guess that would make me a "celery stalker." Oooh, such a bad joke.
May 20, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Mrs. Dijulio, I believe this is Raven Price's (from AP Art back in 2007) car.
May 21, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Megan! So good to hear from you for any reason. But I bet you are exactly right because she works at that Starbucks. I was so excited to see in there recently and find out about her vegan blog. Have you been to The Vegan Tree? There's a link in my sidebar. Are you home for the summer? Would LOVE to see you. oxo
June 9, 2010 at 11:43 pm
I hope you are doing well! I just got home the other day. I'm an education intern at the Contemporary Art Center so my summer will be art-ed-tastic. I bet I'll catch you around the neighborhood!
June 10, 2010 at 6:34 am
Well, you lucked out and so did they! I hope to see you when I'm dog walking!
June 28, 2010 at 12:26 pm
THATS MY CAR!!!!!!
June 28, 2010 at 4:29 pm
It's a small world after all!