FOODIE URGES MEATLESS MEALS
Can a true foodie eat only fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains and legumes — and live without bacon and doughnuts?
Ask Jessica Murnane. The restaurant lover and graphic designer has been eating this way for three years and says she’s never felt better.
The 37-year-old Murnane is the creator of One Part Plant. It’s one part website
dedicated to “plantbased” eating, one part dining project wherein restaurants commit to putting at least one plant-based item on their menu. She has 12 such restaurant partners (and one caterer) to date.
Murnane always had been a beef-loving, fondue-dipping gal — one plagued by health problems since puberty. Facing a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis, she took the dietary 180 into clean eating on the advice of a friend.
“I thought that veganism — and I tend not to use the ‘v’ word — was not very cool at all and not something I ever saw myself doing in a million years,” she says.
She cooks now but hasn’t had to give up on dining out, due in part to her own advocacy.
“The main reason I wanted to start [One Part Plant] was to be able to have everyone who eats this way be able to eat anywhere they want.”