Yearning for more

I like this Rumi book by Brad Gooch, Rumi's Secret, but he mentions Rumi's diet in passing, and maybe he could back it up and give it more context where he got it. He says he ate yogurt with raw garlic and bread (p. 236). 

I often think about Amos Bronson Alcott eating apple sauce on his ride across the Atlantic ocean to England. Alcott was an early American vegan, and his realizing you didn't need to make animals suffer to survive is a real impressive thing in 19th century America.