
Most of you know, Jamie is a private chef, and an extreme foodie. When I met her she got off have conversations about consumer-grade vs. commercial-grade steel cutlery. If you got her going on the topic, she'd actually walk over to her knife block and start balancing knives by the handles to illustrate her case and point.
Since we became a vegan household (who also shuns white flour like the devil's one-legged whore), Jamie has intensely studied the vegan side of cooking. An art form completely unique and all it's own. In this universe, typical cooking laws don't apply! No longer does cornstarch fill our needs, it's arrow root. And in this world, "Fakin-Bacon" bits, home-made in her iron skillet out of Texturized Vegetable Protein, are one of our most sinful pleasures.

So Jamie and I kicked around Pensacola for the better half of yesterday with the purpose of visiting her favorite vegan restaurant End of the Line Cafe. The only pure vegan restaurant I know of locally. She enjoys having a conversation about exactly what we plan on ordering 45 minutes before we arrive at the cafe.
Here, in this vegan world, she fits in. We enter the run down building, and she feels right at ease with her "people". We had knuckle sandwiches with tofu. I had the side of quinoa tabouli, and Jamie had the pasta salad. I got a coffee, and then we kicked around the city.

As the day droned on, the vegan food was rapidly burned by our metabolism, and her tastes quickly shifted towards other things. Pizza. And so, to add a very contradicting twist to our "vegan journey" Jamie chose to visit Cici's pizza at 10:45pm for din din. Where the very "non-vegan" chees-sticks taste as if God christened them in his holy sanctuary of goodness and purity for our consumption. And when they brought out the hot cinnamon buns, I swear I heard a bell ring signifying that somehwere in the cosmos an angel got his wings.
We laughed on the way home about our very contradicting day!
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