Vegan Mofo: Corners
by Caroline
What a long week! I’m substituting in a different department because a large project is taking some of my coworkers away from their duties temporarily, and while it isn’t my favorite thing, it has been a nice change of pace and a different crowd.
All week, I have been nearly running into one of my colleagues around the only real corner in our office — literally once every day all week, sometimes more. Another time, I ran headlong into another colleague, and luckily we were both unharmed. Today I got Thai food for lunch and my fortune cookie told me: Contentment is just around the corner for you. Look forward! I laughed long and hard. The irony of this single fortune is much more compelling than the near-misses of the more generic ones.
But wait! Actually, the fortune cookie had a point, because this week my friends and I went to the Dragon Lady Lounge in Avondale (Elston and Belmont) for their Thursday night vegan buffet, where the most beautiful things waited around owner Sue’s kitchen corner. I was out the door for $11.25 ($13 with tip) and the food was wonderful, colorful, obviously homemade:
Oh, oh, my. Everything on this plate was delicious, from half-moon fried dumplings to something that tasted like cauliflower parmesan. Sue did not deal in meat substitutes as such, the closest being a tofu dish.
Partway through the meal, people in whimsical costumes began gathering in the bar, and at first we thought they were just, you know, eclectic regular people. It turns out they’re part of a band called Environmental Encroachment, which includes many marching-band-type instruments and a general attitude of disrupting your normal routine. A trombone? I’m so there.
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