Blossom on Columbus - Upper West Side

Written By Elaine Perlman
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Having eaten here so many times, I’ve tried and loved many dishes, including:

CRISPY ARTICHOKES - quinoa-flour battered, lemon-caper aioli

WILD MUSHROOM RAVIOLI - truffle-butter sauce

NACHOS - pico de gallo, jalapeños, black beans, sour cream, guacamole, tapioca cheese 

ANCIENT GRAINS - forbidden black rice, quinoa, barley, avocado, radish, dijon-balsamic vinaigrette

SEITAN PICCATA - pan-seared seitan cutlets, white wine-lemon-caper sauce, garlic mashed potatoes, sautéed kale

'SALMON' TOFU - beet-marinated grilled tofu, sautéed broccolini, forbidden black rice, grilled trumpet mushroom 'scallops', sautéed leeks, dill mayo

ROSEMARY SAUSAGE PIZZA - cashew cheese, roasted potato, marinara, rosemary oil (available gf w/o sausage) Note: I substitute ariichokes for the “sausage.”

HUEVOS RANCHEROS - refried black beans, tofu scramble, ranchero salsa, guacamole, tapioca cheese, sour cream, corn tortilla

BREAKFAST BURRITO - tofu scramble, sausage, brown rice, black beans, avocado, tapioca cheese, red bell peppers, ranchero salsa, spinach wrap, field greens

GRILLED CHEESE & SOUP - tapioca cheese, tempeh bacon, red onion, multigrain toast with tomato-eggplant purée soup

Elaine Perlman

Elaine is aiming to pass two federal laws in the United States, the End Kidney Deaths Act and the Honor Our Living Donors Act. Elaine is the Executive Director of Waitlist Zero, an advocacy group that seeks to end the kidney shortage and provide kidneys to the 90,000 people who are waiting for their lives to be saved in the United States. Both Elaine and her son Abie gave their kidneys to strangers. Elaine founded the groups NYC One Kidney Club, Kidneys 4 Strangers, and Vegan Kidney Donors. She leads the Global One Kidney Club meetings and the Ask Me Anything meetings for the National Kidney Donation Organization. She is also on their Mentoring Team. Elaine cohosted an National Kidney Foundation workshop about the benefits of plant based eating to promote kidney health in addition to a cooking demonstration. Elaine has been a mentor for Plant Powered Metro New York during nine Jumpstarts that help people make the transition to plant based eating.

From 2016-2022, Elaine was a Professor and Program Director for the Peace Corps Fellows Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. For 30 years, she has been a teacher of nearly every subject for all grades from 2-11, in addition to 7 years of teaching children under the age of five. Elaine was a public school specialist teaching children in grades 2-5 about eating healthy foods in the South Bronx, Crown Heights, and Harlem through the Coalition for Healthy School Food. Elaine has painted eleven school murals. She completed the Columbia University course "Food and Nutrition For All," the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate course from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell and the Main Street Vegan Coaching Certificate course.

http://elaineperlman.com/
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