title: Garden Cuisine: Heal Yourself Through Low Fat Meatless Eating
author: Paul Wenner
description: Paul Wenner created the Gardenburger, a mushroom-based veggie burger sold in food stores and restaurants all over the U.S. He is also a messianic advocate for eating a vegetarian diet and a businessman who believes "a dream too big is just the right size."
zlib_text: THE FOOD FARM
   
  by Kit Reed
   
   
  So here I am, warden-in-charge, fattening them up for our leader, Tommy
  Fango; here I am laying on the banana pudding and the milkshakes and the
  cream-and-brandy cocktails, going about like a technician, gauging their
  effect on haunch and thigh when all the time it is I who love him, I who could
  have pleased him eternally if only life had broken differently. But I am
  scrawny now, I am swept like a leaf around comers, battered by the
  slightest wind. My elbows rattle against my ribs and I have to spend half the
  day in bed so a gram or two of what I eat will stay with me, for if I do not, the
  fats and creams will vanish, burned up in my own insatiable furnace, and
  what little flesh I have will melt away.
   
  Cruel as it may sound, I know where to place the blame.
   
  It was vanity, all vanity, and I hate them most for that. It was not my
  vanity, for I have always been a simple soul; I reconciled myself early to
  reinforced chairs and loose garments, to the spatt