<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:17:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Miami Vegan Blog</title><description/><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/blogs.html</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>322</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-5413101904287723270</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-27T10:17:25.238-04:00</atom:updated><title>Inga's Vegan Happenings!</title><description>Hello Beautiful Souls,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't been blogging lately because #1 I've been fighting OFF a cold.  The sun and me don't get along very well.  I tell people I'm allergic to the sun and they laugh, but it's true.  Because of my B-12 deficiency from being vegan, I have to make nice with the sun occasionally.  But it always leaves me cold ... that was funny, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the latest in the world of Ambrosia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  I'm working on my album due out in October, called "Abyssal Plane".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  Working on an art project for Art Basel in the Winter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.  Coordinating my "Slumber Party Meditation" series to begin in October.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.  Rewriting my nonfiction book about energy transfer to be more of an autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.  DJ'ing as usual, spreading my love of ambient music to the masses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bear with me, I'll be back soon.  Just trying to make my mark on the world before 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~inga~</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/ingas-vegan-happenings.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-6992012730462093478</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-25T11:55:44.170-04:00</atom:updated><title>Inga Ambrosia for President</title><description>&lt;h2 style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); text-align: center;"&gt;Inga Ambrosia   for President&lt;/h2&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="384" height="304"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.paltalk.com/marketing/media/vanksen/main.swf"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="firstname=Inga Ambrosia&amp;amp;lastname=&amp;amp;urlfin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelopezfamilyonline.com%2Faol4pres.php"&gt; &lt;param name="BGCOLOR" value="#000000"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.paltalk.com/marketing/media/vanksen/main.swf" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="firstname=Inga Ambrosia&amp;amp;lastname=&amp;amp;urlfin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelopezfamilyonline.com%2Faol4pres.php" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" bgcolor="#000000" allowscriptaccess="ALWAYS" width="384" align="" height="304"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;  &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td bgcolor="white"&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Presented by:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!-- link {  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  font-size: 14px;  font-style: normal;  font-weight: bold;  color: #003366; } td {  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  font-size: 12px;  font-style: italic; } --&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/inga-ambrosia-for-president.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-584669595513133501</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-25T01:26:49.861-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cookies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>delicious</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vegan chocolate</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pastry</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>miami</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>eatpastry</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>desserts</category><title>Vegan Treats - Miami @ Eatpastry.com</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.eatpastry.com/images/buttons/eatpastry420_down.gif" width="250" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eatpastry.com/"&gt;www.eatpastry.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Last week, I had the delicious pleasure of eating a giant box full of treats from EatPastry, a  vegan organic chocolate company.  EatPastry recently moved their facility from Virginia to Miami and how lucky we are.  They are a Fair Trade Certified and Green Certified Company.    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We do cookies, truffles and other chocolate confections.  We're adding vegan cupcakes to our product line within the next month or so as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="style1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mission:  From Organic Ideas to Fancy Fruition&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;                                &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: left;"&gt;Eatpastry is a Greener approach to fanciful chocolates and cookies. By combining French and Raw cooking techniques we aim to push the boundaries as to how “pastry” is perceived; hence the name Eatpastry where traditional pastry is virtually non-existent.  At Eatpastry we enjoy eating foods that nourish our bodies and make us feel energized.  We know pastry doesn’t have to be something that creates a lull in our days, rather, it can become something to inspire and elate us.  We have created a line of organic and vegan products based on this belief.  We want our customers to get the same feeling of nourishment from our products that we do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/uploaded_images/IMG_2729-721139.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/uploaded_images/IMG_2729-719755.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. Here are a few of my friends enjoying some of the chocolate truffles.  The feedback was that the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;chocolate wasn't too sweet and it tasted very gourmet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jessie, the owner sent me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chocolate Truffles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chocolate, Peanut Butter w/Grape&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chocolate Peanut Butter w/Raspberry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chocolate wih Tumeric and Cayenne Pepper (my favorite)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chocolate w/Lemon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oatmeal Cookies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chocolate Chip Cookies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;YUM YUM YUM!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For Orders: &lt;a href="mailto:info@eatpastry.com"&gt;info@eatpastry.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/vegan-treats-miami-eatpastrycom.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-8065385117853763923</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-24T10:44:29.190-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ellen</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vegan</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wedding</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>portia</category><title>Ellen &amp; Portia - Vegan Wedding</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/uploaded_images/eap-799564.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/uploaded_images/eap-798240.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="a-teaser"&gt;Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are in wedded bliss and are eager to show it.&lt;/p&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                              &lt;p&gt;The newlyweds exchanged their personal vows in front of their closest family and friends at their home in Los Angeles last Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Amid candles and flowers by Mark's Garden, both brides, dressed in Zac Posen, sat on floor pillows with author Wayne Dyer, who officiated the ceremony. They exchanged Neil Lane rings, before sitting down to feast on an all-vegan menu designed by their personal chef and a vegan red velvet wedding cake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Showbiz/Ellen-luckiest-girl-world/article-279316-detail/article.html"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;I would've loved to see Ellen in a dress and Portia in a tuxedo.  &lt;/span&gt;;-)</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/ellen-portia-vegan-wedding.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-2834260883485916246</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-15T16:15:22.455-04:00</atom:updated><title>DJ Inga Ambrosia Spinning Tonight Friday @ Rumeur Boutique 5p - 7p</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm170/rumeurboutique/rumeurpostcard.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Finally Fridays @ Rumeur Boutique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Unique Clothing Store&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Wine and Cheese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Music by DJ Inga Ambrosia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Mixing Motown, Top 40, House, Lounge, Ambient&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Tonight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Friday, August 15, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;5:00 PM - 7:00 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Rumeur Boutique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;170 NE 96 Street&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Miami, Florida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ctl00_cpMain_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;305-754-9800&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/dj-inga-ambrosia-spinning-tonight.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-3200050441518536781</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-13T23:24:20.067-04:00</atom:updated><title>Download This Awesome Game - Zenerchi</title><description>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;I am a serious games player and always have been.  Not video games, XBOX 3??? or wow wiiii ... I play logic games, games that make you think.  It organizes my brain the way classical music does.  When I'm in a rut or having a mental block, I play at least one game a day to put me back into focus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This game claims to Revitalize your chakras and helps you encounter your inner chi ... You know what?  It does ... after an hour of this game, you can do anything.  It kicks your butt, but you can see how fast your brain adjusts to what seems to be an impossible level to win.  You can see how your fears take over, until you release them and let your intuition guide you to the answers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to tell you too much, just download it.  You can play for FREE if you watch some advertising ... its worth it in my book ... ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="rich-media" class="switcher"&gt;&lt;div class="bd"&gt;&lt;div class="box selected" id="image-box"&gt;&lt;div class="thumbs screennumbers"&gt;  &lt;table class="thumblist" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="one"&gt;&lt;a href="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/ga/dload/games/zenerchi/zenerchi_screenshot1.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="two"&gt;&lt;a href="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/ga/dload/games/zenerchi/zenerchi_screenshot2.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="three"&gt;&lt;a href="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/ga/dload/games/zenerchi/zenerchi_screenshot3.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;        &lt;div style="text-align: center;" class="big"&gt;&lt;a class="img disabled" href="http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDMTAyMwRzZWMDbHBvBHNsawNaZW5HZW1z?gamekey=zenerchi"&gt;&lt;img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/ga/dload/games/zenerchi/zenerchi_logo.jpg" alt="Zenerchi" class="logo" width="150" height="150" /&gt;&lt;span style="opacity: 0.8; bottom: -32px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDMTAxNgRzZWMDZ2FtZWxpc3QEc2xrA1plbmVyY2hp?gamekey=zenerchi"&gt;Zererchi&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- image-box --&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- bd --&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- rich-media--&gt;          &lt;div class="requirements"&gt;                 &lt;div style="z-index: 6;" id="game-req-popup_c" class="panel-container shadow"&gt;&lt;div style="visibility: inherit; width: 200px;" class="module overlay panel" id="game-req-popup"&gt;    &lt;div style="cursor: auto;" class="hd"&gt;System Requirements&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div class="bd"&gt;     &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/VISTA&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;700MHz processor or better&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;128 MB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;16-bit Graphics and Sound Card&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;DirectX 8.0 or later&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;                 &lt;div class="close nonsecure"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="underlay"&gt; File Size: 18.5 Megs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                     &lt;div&gt;    &lt;p id="req-trigger"&gt;&lt;a href="http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDMTAyMwRzZWMDbHBvBHNsawNaZW5HZW1z?gamekey=zenerchi#" onclick="return false;" onmouseup="return false;" onmousedown="showGameRequirements();return false;" onmouseover="triggerGameRequirements()"&gt;Read All System Requirements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;                          &lt;p class="average-rating"&gt;Average Rating:      &lt;small&gt;(94 ratings)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="stars" style="font-size: 110%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/ga/dload/experience/stars/or_star_3half.gif" alt="3.5 stars" width="93" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;           &lt;h4&gt;Game Features:&lt;/h4&gt;      &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Two gameplay modes, journey and zen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;50 levels of gameplay throughout 10 worlds.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;5 Different Busts: Small, Column, Ring, Change, and Color.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Soothing music helps all players unwind from a long day!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;      &lt;div&gt;      &lt;h4&gt;Game Description:&lt;/h4&gt;              &lt;div class="clip"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enter the world of Zenerchi, a meditative mind game which alternates between calm, flowing levels and delightfully complex puzzles… &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;        &lt;div class="full"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- e:mtfcut --&gt;Enter the world of Zenerchi, a meditative mind game which alternates between calm, flowing levels and delightfully complex puzzles. Find your zen as you match the vibrantly colored rings, filling your color containers with energy and eventually encountering your inner chi.&lt;!-- b:mtfcut --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;        &lt;p class="more"&gt;&lt;a href="http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDMTAyMwRzZWMDbHBvBHNsawNaZW5HZW1z?gamekey=zenerchi#" class="toggle"&gt;Read Full Description&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;             &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/download-this-awesome-game-zenerchi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-6665323862435226268</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-11T16:06:35.941-04:00</atom:updated><title>The Vegans and Honey Debate Continues ...</title><description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-style: italic;"&gt;Here is a clip from a NY Times Blog regarding why vegans don't eat honey:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rynn Berry, the author of &lt;a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=knJbcXVse0kC&amp;amp;pg=PA3&amp;amp;lpg=PA3&amp;amp;dq=rynn+berry+vegetarian&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ots=n70_gwQXFo&amp;amp;sig=ftCIq51jsrHqnQfnkrz-RjqmRHc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;resnum=3&amp;amp;ct=result#PPP1,M1"&gt;“The Vegan Guide to New York City,”&lt;/a&gt; answered City Room readers’ questions this week about his views on shopping, eating and living a vegan lifestyle in New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="question"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="question"&gt;&lt;img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/cityroom/q.gif" alt="Question:" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt; Can you address why some vegans do not eat honey? I understand the thoughts behind not eating eggs and dairy, but have not heard anything convincing about the ill-effects of honey production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And just a quick comment for #67 - I had the opposite effect of switching to a primarily vegan diet. My cholesterol when from a high in the 220s to 167 after ceasing to eat animal products with cholesterol.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: right; margin-top: -15px;"&gt;— Posted by Melissa&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="answer"&gt;&lt;img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/cityroom/a.gif" alt="Answer:" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt; Vegans eschew honey because they regard it as an unethical food. In the first place, honey is the work product of the bee, intended to nourish their offspring. Beekeepers snatch honey from the hive and substitute sugar water, depriving the young of their proper nourishment. Stealing honey is not only unconscionable — it is a violation of the precepts of asteya (non-stealing) and ahimsa (non-violence) that are promulgated by the oldest religions on the planet, Buddhism and Jainism, that promote non-violence and non-violent eating.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Aesthetically, honey is an unlovely food. Honey is nectar exuded by flowers, swallowed by bees then regurgitated by them. Ethical vegans accurately refer to honey as “bee spit,” or “bee vomit.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; At the core of every beehive is the queen bee—the only bee capable of laying eggs. While worker bees live only for a few months, queens live as long as several years.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; However, in commercial beekeeping, the same remorseless practices associated with factory farming are applied to bees. The queens are killed every six months, and replaced by virgin queens that are mass-produced by specialist breeders. These virgin queens are artificially inseminated by sperm collected from crushed males. The queen has her wings cut off –to prevent her from swarming, which is the natural reproductive activity of the colony.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; To increase crop yields, beekeepers often transport colonies to areas where crops are in flower, so that bees may artificially pollinate them. The unintended consequence of this is that it drives out the native pollinators, such as birds, bats, moths, butterflies, and other winged creatures. This creates a monoculture of pollinators that is subject to disease and dearth. Hence the recent alarming decline in honeybee populations in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;[&lt;a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/answers-about-the-vegan-lifestyle-in-new-york-part-2/"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/vegans-and-honey-debate-continues.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-4361817769561061963</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-08T13:04:38.144-04:00</atom:updated><title>My Article in The Miami New Times This Week!! - DJ Inga Ambrosia</title><description>&lt;h1&gt;Head Spins: Inga Ambrosia&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h2 class="cvh2"&gt;Miami's most unconventional DJ.&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;h3 class="cvh3"&gt;By &lt;a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/feedback/EmailAnEmployee/?to=233842"&gt;John Hood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;h4 class="cvh4"&gt;Published on August 07, 2008&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;div class="Story"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every once in awhile, I stumble upon a DJ who's diggable in ways even I've never considered. Such was the case when I slipped into the Grove's Butter Gallery for Alyssa Christine's photo show and got to hear the lady named Inga Ambrosia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First things first: Inga A. is not just a DJ. She's also "an artist, author, poet, blogger, art teacher, singer, and nature photographer/videographer." Which is to say it's highly unlikely this renaissance chick will become famous merely for her skills in the booth (consummate as they are).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A graduate of The Scratch Academy, where she trained under DJ Immortal, the Miami-born vegan grew up listening to "gospel, jazz, psychedelic, funk, and folk," yet it was instrumentalists such as Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn, Spyro Gyra, and the Yellowjackets from which she says she found her earliest inspiration. And though Inga's bio claims her style runs from ambient, melodic house, psychedelic, and trip-hop through funk, soul, and R&amp;amp;B, in person she states it's really "anything that causes people to say, 'What the hell is that?'"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mostly, though, Ambrosia's fusion of new, old, and unexpected is meant "to help people relax and reach a higher state of equilibrium." It is, if you will, a music of deeper meaning and higher consciousness, an elevated soundtrack for our wild lives. Sure, she'll pull tracks out of any shaman's hat, but Inga insists the simple beauty of something such as &lt;i&gt;Sala Santa Cecilia&lt;/i&gt; (a collaboration between sometime Sparklehorse Christian Fennesz and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto) works everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And in her case, &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt; really does mean &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;, from all the more enlightened galleries in town to any vegetarian eatery with speakers. It also includes hot spots such as The Vagabond, Circa 28, and The Standard, as well as — get this! — Wild Oats (really), where she spins once a month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's part of a continuing bright idea called Ambrosia Ambience, which, she says, "was born because [she] wanted to create an environment where she could play and listen to her favorite music, eat her favorite food (vegan), and hang out with her friends, all the while providing positive poetry, conscious music, and a good ambiance to places that promote wellness." It's an ambitious undertaking, all right, but I'm thinkin' if anybody can save this world from its mad self, it's gonna be Inga Ambrosia — one beat at a time.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="ContentSidebar"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;        &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Inga Ambrosia's current top five:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;1. "Namaste," Phisonica&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;2. "Bolota," Helveth&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;3. "Versatile Flying Objects," Kalahari Surfers&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;4. "Contemplation," Josh One&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;5. "We Live On," Praful&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://www.ingaambrosia.com/"&gt;www.ingaambrosia.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Ambrosia has a delicious flavor indeed.&lt;/h6&gt;     &lt;h4 class="details"&gt;Details:&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div class="details"&gt;Thursday, August 7. Andu Restaurant and Lounge, 141 SW Seventh St., Miami. Doors open at 10 p.m. Admission is free. Ages 21+ with ID. 786-871-7465, &lt;a href="http://www.andurestaurant.com/"&gt;www.andurestaurant.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;h4 note="WhoWhat"&gt;Subject(s):&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/search/?keywords=Inga%20Ambrosia"&gt;Inga Ambrosia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/search/?keywords=Miami%20local%20music"&gt;Miami local music&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/search/?keywords=Miami%20local%20DJs"&gt;Miami local DJs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/search/?keywords=Andu%20Restaurant%20and%20Lounge"&gt;Andu Restaurant and Lounge&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/search/?keywords=Little%20Havana"&gt;Little Havana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2008-08-07/music/head-spins-inga-ambrosia/"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/my-article-in-miami-new-times-this-week.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-3618128117435663573</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-06T18:53:48.362-04:00</atom:updated><title>Is cloning pets ethical?</title><description>&lt;embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1137883380" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1711801940&amp;amp;playerId=1137883380&amp;amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;amp;domain=embed&amp;amp;autoStart=false&amp;amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" width="486" height="412"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love my puppies just as much as anyone else, but people should probably get a mental health exam before being allowed to sell their home for this procedure, ~$50k - $100k.  This woman cloned her dog "Booger" - ok first sign that she is off - that died, then she got in her own words "5 more mini-boogers".... (laughing hysterically at keyboard)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay.. need I say any more?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One more thing - they are precciioouuss!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~inga~</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/is-cloning-pets-ethical.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-8781791276486521689</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-05T19:00:48.507-04:00</atom:updated><title>Different Kinds of Lightning!</title><description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;A friend of mine told me that lightning comes from the ground.  That it moves so fast that it only looks like it's moving downward.  Naturally, I told him he was nuts.  So I looked it up.  Did you know there were so many types of lightning?  The one he was talking about its called "ground-to-cloud lightning".  I looked it up on Wikipedia to blast him, and learned something instead.  Never underestimate people.  He was wrong but still, so was I ... ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Check it:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Lightnings_sequence_2_animation.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Ground-to-cloud lightning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning discharge between the ground and a cumulonimbus cloud from an upward-moving leader stroke.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Cloud-to-ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cloud-to-ground lightning is a great lightning discharge between a cumulonimbus cloud and the ground initiated by the downward-moving leader stroke. This is the second most common type of lightning, and poses the greatest threat to life and property of all known types.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's so many other types to [&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Cloud-to-ground"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/different-kinds-of-lightning.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-4784442620955800806</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-04T15:10:18.413-04:00</atom:updated><title>My Eclectic Musical Flavors</title><description>&lt;div class="padded_container"&gt;                    &lt;div class="header"&gt;                &lt;h2&gt;Song Clip&lt;/h2&gt;             &lt;/div&gt;             &lt;div&gt;                &lt;ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"&gt;&lt;li id="main_song_li" class="song_noborder"&gt; 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&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;|&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000009N0F%3ftag=wwwilikecom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26dev-t=0R5ZXV80MBKCZMCWZ282" target="_top"&gt;Amazon.com&lt;/a&gt;         &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                               &lt;/div&gt;           &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/my-eclectic-musical-flavors.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-8664653243189330552</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-03T11:36:14.775-04:00</atom:updated><title>Flexitarians, Vegans and Honey, Oh My!</title><description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;I love when someone writes an article that really puts it out there. Putting it bluntly, I think flexitarians are ridiculous.  Anyone that tells me they eat meat or dairy occasionally is someone who just can't decide whether they care about animals or not.  These people are not vegans, part-vegans, semi veg or anything.  Yes, it helps the environment, but what if the world was full of these kinds of on-the-fence people, we still would have a problem.  Because a flexitarian is just one hamburger away from being a carnivore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Since I made the sacrifice to not consume meat or dairy in over 5 years, I don't feel like applauding people who are too weak to make the same sacrifice.  When my vegan friends tell me they eat honey and occasionally consume dairy, it makes me cringe.  They are impostors but I'm not going to pull the plug on them.  I do want to take their vegan card away though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's just like the "light green" concept John Mayer proposed.  It's bullshit.  I know I'm an extreme, Type A personality that is punctual, makes lists, is obsessed with time, mine and others ... I just don't get the half-assed concept.  Someone called me militant the other day, without even meeting me.  Ok!  I might appear that way because I am a no nonsense kind of person.  Being vegan is hard, its not for everyone.  Just like being a good person is hard, some people have too much evil inside to contend with.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Anyway, read this article I found today.  I don't agree with everything he says, but its informative to say the least, even if he is on the other side it seems.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Here is an excellent explanation as to why I refuse to eat honey.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Decide for yourself:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div id="insider_ad_wrapper"&gt;&lt;div id="insider_ad"&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;          &lt;!--AD END--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old-guard vegans have no patience for this sort of equivocation: Animal products are off-limits, period. Indeed, the first &lt;a href="http://www.vegansociety.com/about_us/history/" target="_blank"&gt;Vegan Society&lt;/a&gt; was created in 1944 to counter the detestable, flexitarian tendencies of early animal rights activists. Founder Donald Watson called their namby-pamby lacto-vegetarianism "&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4450376.stm" target="_blank"&gt;a halfway house between flesh-eating and a truly human, civilized diet&lt;/a&gt;" and implored his followers to join him in making the "full journey." That journey, as the society has since defined it, takes no uncertain position on honey—it's summarily &lt;a href="http://www.vegansociety.com/food/criteria.php" target="_blank"&gt;banned&lt;/a&gt;, along with bee pollen, bee venom, propolis, and royal jelly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hard-liners argue that beekeeping, like dairy farming, is &lt;a href="http://www.vegetus.org/honey/honey.htm" target="_blank"&gt;cruel and exploitative&lt;/a&gt;. The bees are forced to construct their honeycombs in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langstroth_hive" target="_blank"&gt;racks of removable trays&lt;/a&gt;, according to a design that standardizes the size of each hexagonal chamber. (Some say the more chaotic combs found in the wild are less vulnerable to parasitic mites.) Queens are &lt;a href="http://www.beeclass.com/DTS/queenexcluder.htm" target="_blank"&gt;imprisoned&lt;/a&gt; in certain parts of the hive, while &lt;a href="http://basicbeekeeping.blogspot.com/2007/11/lesson-fifteen-making-spring-splits.html" target="_blank"&gt;colonies are split&lt;/a&gt; to increase production and sprinkled with &lt;a href="http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/mgmt/antibiotics.htm" target="_blank"&gt;prophylactic antibiotics&lt;/a&gt;. In the meantime, keepers control the animals by &lt;a href="http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/beekeepers-journal/" target="_blank"&gt;pumping their hives full of smoke&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_smoker" target="_blank"&gt;masks the scent&lt;/a&gt; of their alarm pheromones and keeps them from defending their honey stores. And some say the bees aren't making the honey for us, so its removal from the hive could be construed as a &lt;a href="http://www.veganrepresent.com/forums/showpost.php?s=102c2d4299fe3cc2fabb7612472e0978&amp;amp;p=31751&amp;amp;postcount=5" target="_blank"&gt;form of theft&lt;/a&gt;. (Last year's animated feature, &lt;em&gt;Bee Movie&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/beemovie.html" target="_blank"&gt;imagined the legal implications&lt;/a&gt; of this idea.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, any vegan who eats honey but avoids milk is making the tacit assumption that the pain experienced by a bee counts for something less than the pain experienced by a cow. It's exactly the sort of compromise that so appalled Watson and the early vegans. Once you've allowed yourself to equivocate on animal suffering, how do you handle all the other borderline cases of insect exploitation? What about &lt;a href="http://www.aurorasilk.com/tutorials_articles_faqs/fabrics_yarns_fibers/vegan_controversy.html" target="_blank"&gt;silkworms&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://theessentialherbal.blogspot.com/2007/09/vegans-beware-cochineal.html" target="_blank"&gt;cochineal bugs&lt;/a&gt;? Come to think of it, does a bee feel any less pain than a scallop or an oyster? Why can't we eat them, too?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2196205/"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/flexitarians-vegans-and-honey-oh-my.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-8945269360347765779</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-01T10:10:12.971-04:00</atom:updated><title>Tonight @ Circa 28 - DJ Inga Ambrosia, Elastic Bond, Alissa Christine (ilovemiami365.com), Deborah Magdalena (poet), Graffiti Artists</title><description>&lt;h3 class="byline"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilovemiami365.com/events.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ilovemiami365.com/events/eb-friends-ILM365.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="byline"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="byline"&gt;By LESLEY ABRAVANEL&lt;/h3&gt;   &lt;!--  begin /production/story/credit_line_format.comp --&gt; &lt;h3 class="credit_line"&gt;           &lt;a href="mailto:lank@aol.com"&gt;lank@aol.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!--  end /production/story/credit_line_format.comp --&gt;               &lt;p&gt; It's no secret that some of us, ahem, love little, off-the-beaten-path places, especially in this town, where paths may be off and may be beaten but rarely does the twain meet. One of those places is &lt;strong&gt;Circa 28 &lt;/strong&gt;in Wynwood. On Friday, a bigger than usual fusion of art, poetry and music will occur, beginning with a live performance by monthly resident band &lt;strong&gt;Elastic Bond &lt;/strong&gt;at 11 p.m. and continuing with poetry by &lt;strong&gt;Debrorah Magdalena, &lt;/strong&gt;graffiti by &lt;strong&gt;Rok One, Fisik &lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;Audet, &lt;/strong&gt;a photo shoot by &lt;strong&gt;Alissa Christine &lt;/strong&gt;(who's got a very cool project chronicling the city going on), and DJ &lt;strong&gt;Inga Ambrosia. &lt;/strong&gt;It's an Attention Deficit Disorder's delight!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/lesley-abravanel/story/623984.html"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/08/tonight-circa-28-dj-inga-ambrosia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-3286203597522683093</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-30T17:54:06.907-04:00</atom:updated><title>Raw Food Challenge - Begins August 1st</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rawfu.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rawfu.com/images/index.jpg" alt="" usemap="#index_Map" width="500" border="0" height="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rawfu.com/"&gt;www.rawfu.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/raw-food-challenge-begins-august-1st.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-5314391513778289163</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-30T16:06:40.761-04:00</atom:updated><title>Media can help stop climate crisis</title><description>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lQi1RJvkSck&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lQi1RJvkSck&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/media-can-help-stop-climate-crisis.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-7964960051258404888</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-29T13:30:28.498-04:00</atom:updated><title>My Dream This Morning ....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/34794142_58da379657.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometime during the night, I had a dream about a man with a Dick Tracy hat, driving me around in a buggy.  There was someone else in the car, a blond woman.  He was lost and I couldn't give him directions.  We were trying to get me to the airport.  During our journey, I made a decision for him to drop me off at the train station.  We couldn't find it.  The road looked familiar, and I could see the train station (Metrorail, I guess), but we couldn't figure out how to get there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were one way streets, dead ends, road blocks etc.  Finally, we decided that I should take an air car or trolley to the train station, you know the ones you use to get to ski lifts.  Well, the air car was fine until the bottom fell out.  I grabbed onto the rail and I was hanging by one hand.  My phone fell out.  The bottom closed up.  When I got to the top, the train station was right there, but I couldn't forget about my phone.  I decided to walk back down the steep hill to fetch it.  Just as I was bracing the dangerous climb downward, someone tapped me on the shoulder.  He had my phone.  I said, "Thanks," in a matter of fact way.  As I walked away from him, I was bursting with appreciation.  Before he walked away from me, he just stared at me.  Waiting for a hug or some money or who knows what. He had no idea how much I was thanking him inside my head, over and over.  I couldn't express how I felt to him because I was still getting over the trauma of falling and losing my phone.  He didn't know what I had just been through or how long it took me to get here, or where I still had to go.  He was one piece in a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I realized, the man was me.  Every person that I've helped, although they didn't show it, must have been feeling overwhelmed by their appreciation.  They couldn't escape it, long after I was down the road.  I thought about this person for the rest of the dream.   I was meant to be on the other side, the receiver's side, to experience that, to understand the power of the things we do not say!  But to close your eyes and feel it ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wild, huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ciao&lt;br /&gt;~inga~</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/my-dream-this-morning.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-512032749117583687</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-24T17:12:19.294-04:00</atom:updated><title>South Florida Vegans - M. Butterflies Katz</title><description>&lt;h1&gt;South Florida Couple Spreads The Word About Choosing Vegan Life&lt;/h1&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             &lt;dl class="byline"&gt;&lt;span class="story-byline"&gt;By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;|&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="story-titleline"&gt;Food Editor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="story-dateline"&gt;&lt;dd&gt; July 24, 2008&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;                         &lt;div id="full-image"&gt;             &lt;img src="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo/2008-07/41180550.jpg" alt="M. Butterflies and Brook Katz hold the Vegan cookbooks they have published at thier home in Coconut Creek." style="position: relative;" class="full-width" width="500" border="0" height="355" /&gt;                                    &lt;br /&gt;                                           &lt;p class="caption" style="width: 100%;"&gt;M. Butterflies and Brook Katz hold the Vegan cookbooks they have published at thier home in Coconut Creek.                               &lt;span class="credit"&gt;&lt;span class="photographer"&gt;(Joe Cavaretta, Sun-Sentinel&lt;/span&gt; / July 23, 2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                                                                             &lt;br /&gt;            &lt;/div&gt;                                                                                                         Living in a vegan commune for the past 26 years, M. Butterflies Katz is used to her door being open. So when she and her brother Brook decided to open their door to fellow vegans and vegetarians by hosting an open house and dinner, it wasn't that unusual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They put out the word on the Web, and on a recent Sunday afternoon about 40 people showed up at their &lt;a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/us/florida/broward-county/coconut-creek-PLGEO100100403010000.topic" title="Coconut Creek" class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100403010000"&gt;Coconut Creek&lt;/a&gt; home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that didn't faze this duo, who have been members of the Gentle World commune, a nonprofit organization that teaches people the advantages of a plant-based, sustainable lifestyle. After all, they've both written vegan cookbooks and cooked at The Vegan on Maui, a once-popular restaurant the Gentle World group used to educate people about the vegan lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Butterflies, 50, has been a vegetarian since she was 15 and entered the vegan communal group when she was 24. She still lives with them, commuting between their facility on the big island of Hawaii and their land on the north island of New Zealand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/food/sfl-flvegansbjul24,0,751091.story"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/south-florida-vegans-m-butterflies-katz.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-2892556145694109470</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-24T11:20:21.149-04:00</atom:updated><title>World's Sexiest Vegetarians 2008</title><description>&lt;img src="http://www.peta.org/images/420_sexiest_vegetarians_alive.gif" alt="Leona Lewis and Anthony Kiedis Voted 2008's World's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities" usemap="#Map" width="410" border="0" /&gt;                            &lt;h1&gt;Leona Lewis and Anthony Kiedis Voted World's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities of 2008&lt;/h1&gt;                   &lt;p&gt;The votes have been counted, and the results are in. It's official—pop princess &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/leonalewis" target="_blank"&gt;Leona Lewis&lt;/a&gt; and red hot chili pepper &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kiedis" target="_blank"&gt;Anthony Kiedis&lt;/a&gt; are the sexiest vegetarian celebrities alive!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/worlds-sexiest-vegetarians-2008.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-2437062252737113706</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-24T11:18:42.644-04:00</atom:updated><title>Clean Up Your Mind</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.meditationsforwomen.com/dailys/111119/111119_words.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/clean-up-your-mind.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-1386844853281029479</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-22T11:21:44.423-04:00</atom:updated><title>Psychology Today Has An Opinion on Raw Foodists</title><description>&lt;p class="text"&gt;But what's wrong with cooking, you ask? Raw foodies argue that major health problems—including diabetes, obesity and heart disease—arrived with the modern, processed, fat-laden diet. Food that has not been cooked is healthier, because it is high in fiber and no vitamins have been lost in cooking, says Natalia Rose, author of &lt;i&gt;The Raw Food Detox Diet&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="text"&gt;Raw foodies are essentially vegan, eschewing most animal products. Instead of a hamburger, raw restaurants might serve a nut-meat patty.&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="text"&gt;Any restrictive diet has a psychological component that's appealing to some, says Madelyn Fernstrom, a nutritional biochemist and director of the University of Pittsburgh Weight Management Center. Raw food is no exception. "Heating instead of cooking is ritualistic, so it helps people latch on to the diet," she says. "Many people feel devoted to this style of eating because it gives them structure."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="text"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20050617-000003.html"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/psychology-today-has-opinion-on-raw.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-9217642146595459614</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-22T09:55:20.848-04:00</atom:updated><title>Environmental Animated Movie</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/skins/7351/graphics/int-header.gif" width="450" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/uploaded_images/stuff-742904.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/uploaded_images/stuff-742899.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.storyofstuff.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Watch the Eye-Opening Movie]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.storyofstuff.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/environmental-animated-movie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-1576339152722976629</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T10:58:17.141-04:00</atom:updated><title>Ambrosia Ambiance TMW - Saturday, July 19, from 6p - 9p</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a353.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/40/l_71463b313a5eddab9a052f8c555a5610.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+2;"&gt;OUR NEXT STOP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, July 19, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt; Life Food Gourmet (2nd Floor)&lt;br /&gt;377 SW 15th Road&lt;br /&gt;Downtown Miami, FL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open mic sign up begins @ 6pm&lt;br /&gt;Show starts at 6pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   6:00 p.m. DJ Inga Ambrosia&lt;br /&gt;7:00 p.m. Open Mic&lt;br /&gt;8:00 p.m. Ana Kanpa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raw vegan Food, Juices, Desserts, Salads, Good Vibes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmluZ2FhbWJyb3NpYS5jb20vbGlmZWZvb2Rnb3VybWV0bWVudS5wZGY="&gt;Life Food Gourmet Menu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PERFORMERS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Ana Kanpa&lt;br /&gt;Alternative Rock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFuYWthbnBhLmNvbQ=="&gt;http://www.anakanpa.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm15c3BhY2UuY29tL2FuYWthbnBh"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/anakanpa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ambrosiaambiance.com/myPictures/val.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BIOGRAPHY: Ana Kanpa is an alternative/indie rock band from South Florida, performing hypnotic jams, melodious songs of Spirit and Earth, and compelling spoken word poetry. The name comes from an ancient Sumerian prayer, translated as "Spirits of the Earth." Ana Kanpa has been creating and performing around Florida at various venues, festivals, private events and benefits over the past five years. Their music ranges from melodic rock and blues, to acoustic songs and unique improvised jams, in which they experiment with sound, bringing together different flavors from Middle Eastern to rhythmic chants and tribal beats. Their shows are a journey through different moods and eclectic sounds, inspiring thoughtful reflection and a deeper connection with the Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+1;"&gt;Live DJ Set Ambient, World Music, Melodics by&lt;br /&gt;DJ Inga Ambrosia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://a884.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/120/l_d413cd60ce57ce88e9544bb0b06e980b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BIOGRAPHY:&lt;br /&gt;Inga has been DJ'ing for four years. Two of those years were spent DJ'ing in her bedroom, the other two out in galleries, hotels, nightclubs etc. Inga grew up listening to gospel, jazz, psychedelic, funk and folk music. Instrumental music had always inspired her and taken her to another place. Musicians such as Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn, Spryo Gyro, Yellow Jackets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 90s, she developed a taste for ambient music when mp3.com was in its prime. Her favorite artist at that time was Bassic. His music was atmospheric and spacy and allowed her to search into deeper places in her mind. Over the years, she discovered house music, trance, trip hop and minimal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambrosia Ambiance was born because DJ Inga Ambrosia wanted to create an environment where she could play and listen to her favorite music, eat her favorite food (vegan), and hang out with her friends. All the while providing positive poetry, conscious music and a good ambiance to places that promote wellness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Inga is an artist, author, poet, blogger, art teacher, singer and nature photographer/videographer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmluZ2FhbWJyb3NpYS5jb20="&gt;www.ingaambrosia.com&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/ambrosia-ambiance-tmw-saturday-july-19.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-3737129442837717823</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T10:53:11.812-04:00</atom:updated><title>DJ Inga Ambrosia @ Miami's 112th Surprise Birthday Party - 7/26/08</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.camposition.org"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee148/campositioninc/112Campositionflyer11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.camposition.org"&gt;One One Two WebPage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/dj-inga-ambrosia-miamis-112th-surprise.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-2519725944664814289</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T10:51:21.134-04:00</atom:updated><title>DJ Inga Ambrosia @ Circa 28 - 8/1/08</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilovemiami365.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ilovemiami365.com/events/eb-friends-ILM365.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilovemiami365.com"&gt;ilovemiami365.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/dj-inga-ambrosia-circa-28-8108.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3192146886490599646.post-7939466701549133238</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T10:03:37.997-04:00</atom:updated><title>Hilarious!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v271/250/46/643007454/n643007454_996010_3101.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i'm in a weird mood this past 24 hours.  a great mood actually!  forgive my silly billiness ...</description><link>http://www.ambrosiaempire.com/vegan/2008/07/hilarious.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Inga Ambrosia)</author></item></channel></rss>