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The Intrepid
Herbivores - By Bethany
J. Royer, Mother of the Munchkins
I’ve tried to imagine thirty year old Sadie Bowman in her Voracious
Herbivore kitchen in Portland, Oregon, but I can’t seem to imagine her
anywhere but at the Greenville Public Library in Ohio.
I can barely get past the fact she’s thirty!
When did that happen, Sadie?
We first met at the library and became friends in 1992, which seems
eons ago. After all, we both assisted library patrons with the Dewey
Decimal system not with a keyboard, but via use of a card catalog that
actually had paper cards.
I always thought of her, and still think of her, as the little sister I
never had so when she moved from Ohio to Oregon to pursue her culinary
dreams in July, I was terribly excited for her but also sad to see her
go.
Once upon a time, Sadie was active in the Dottie's Olde Tyme Players
and The Versailles Towne and Country Players, in Darke County, before
she headed off to Edison Community College in Piqua where she was
active with The Edison Stagelight Players.
She eventually moved to Minneapolis where she co-founded the
educational theatre company Matheatre and toured nationwide as part of
the production team for Calculus: The Musical! from 2006-08.
Sadie also spent a month in Montreal to study French, a month in
Florence for Italian and a month in Buenos Aires to study Spanish. (She
lived Eat Pray Love years before Elizabeth Gilbert!) She’s also
back-packed through Europe, and visited Germany, Czech Republic,
Switzerland, France, Italy and Ireland, as well as, South Africa, Japan
and Costa Rica.
Now she has a domestic kitchen processor license so as to make various
vegan goodies, such as her specialty, Hazelnut Buckeyes, for the local
coffee shops and grocery stores in the Portland area.
Not that being in the kitchen has slowed her down!
Oh goodness, no, she started her own vegan cooking, catering, and
baking business, The Verocious Herbivore, in October and is about to
pursue her biggest and possibly grandest adventure yet.
And that’s where cameraman, Joe Bourguignon, comes into the picture.
Joe, originally from Toledo, attended Indiana University in Bloomington
where he got his film degree. He worked for a time in the film industry
and solar energy in San Francisco before he came to Portland where the
two met over the summer. They quickly discovered a similar interest in
vegan food and an idea for a documentary.
Now this industrious duo call themselves the Intrepid Herbivores who
are about to embark to Thailand to film the pilot episode of their
travel/cooking show that will be geared towards vegan and vegetarian
travelers.
Their first stop will be to an organic Thai Farm cooking school where
the owners show guests how to shop for and prepare their very own fresh
Thai meals. From various curry dishes, to soups,
rolls and salads. All located on a farm that grows many of their own
culinary ingredients such as rice, coconuts, eggplant, chili, beans,
ginseng, papaya, lemongrass, and mango, to name but a few, and boasts
an astounding 1000 trees.
Course, Sadie and Joe will visit many different locations around the
world to tour farms and markets so as to help viewers navigate language
barriers as they read menus and ingredient lists. Their ultimate
goal is to get the word out to vegans and vegetarians that love food
that there are wonderful options to be found and created across the
globe.
Eventually Intrepid Herbivores would like to have a companion series of
books, website, reviews and recommendations and references from other
vegan and vegetarians globetrotters.
But first they’ve got to get to Thailand!
If you would like to help former Greenville resident, Sadie Bowman aka,
The Intrepid Herbivores, on their grand adventure to Thailand you can
make a donation until January 22nd at: www.kickstarter.com search for
The Intrepid Herbivores or visit http://kck.st/eOzIZ6.
You can also order fabulous confections from Voracious Herbivore at
http://voraciousherbivore.com.
The mother of two
munchkins, Bethany J. Royer is an independent contractor and writer
currently studying psychology with Florida Institute of
Technology. Who wishes she could cook without having to include
the local fire department every time she turns on an oven. She is
actively seeking a publisher for her first completed novel and blogs
prolifically at motherofthemunchkins.blogspot.com.
She can be reached at
themotherofthemunchkins@yahoo.com.
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