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This came up in an email conversation today, and I thought I’d post about it here, too.

Beth Livingston’s Kind Veggie Burritos is still available, and she’s still donating her proceeds to the Rex Foundation.

From the web site:

Recipes for Deadheads, by Deadheads

Heading into our Lucky 13th year, Kind Veggie Burritos has been bringing smiles and good vibes to Deadheads and other kind people all over the globe. It’s got over 120 pages of yummy recipes, tour photos and fun — collected with love from Deadheads everywhere. Includes recipes for munchies, breads for your head, breakfast treats, entreés, home-brews and of course, plenty of kind veggie burritos.

Mail order only – not available in stores! No profits, no corporate trips!

All proceeds go to
SEVA
which is the non-profit foundation for compassionate social action, headed by good people like Ram Dass and Wavy Gravy.

And also to
The Rex Foundation
the Grateful Dead’s own charitable foundation that supports the arts and honors the spirit of community, service and creativity.

And here’s a blurb from the web page:

“This is a wonderful book, aglow with Deadhead spirit, warmth, and unpretentious good eats. When I first read it, it seemed like one of the sweetest homespun products of the culture of Shakedown Street; now it brings a wistful tear or two and a flood of memories. The only place food ever tasted better than it did in the lot after a raging show was breakfast over a campfire in the mountains.

“Turn these pages, and feel the fresh air cooling your sweaty back-of-the-knees as you bite into a mouthful of something body-warming, soul-nourishing, and healthy, ladled from a steaming pot in the back of a bus. Sure, there was a lot of skanky, carelessly-prepared food out there too – but not in this book. Beth has done justice to our culture and our memories of the vittles that kept us going through the best times of our lives; and made it possible to at least taste those times again.”

— Steve Silberman
Author of Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads

Here’s an article about the new Donna Jean and the Tricksters CD by Steve Terrell in the Santa Fe New Mexican

I disagree with Terrell’s assessment of the new CD, but I enjoyed the article anyway.

The official release date of Donna Jean and the Tricksters is next Tuesday. I’ll be featuring some tracks from the CD, plus a few highlights from the band’s September 2007 live performance on KPFA, in Grateful Dead Hour #1011.

Details and updated gig info at dgans.com/gigs.html

Details and updated gig info at dgans.com/gigs.html