So a Reuters reporter emailed me last week. She had seen my Jew & the Carrot post “Could I play for the other team?” in which I mused about whether I could go back to eating meat after almost 20 years of being a pescatarian. She asked whether she could interview me for a story she was writing about “Compassionate Carnivores,” and vegetarians who are thinking about eating meat once again because of the more humane methods now being used in farming.

She interviewed Mollie Katzen, of Moosewood cookbook and restaurant fame. She interviewed Isa Chandra Moskowitz, TV personality, vegan punk rock spokeswoman and cookbook author. And she interviewed me. What’s more, I’m the first to be quoted in the article, and she gave me equal time with these two food world luminaries.

Katzen and Moskowitz are food personalities. While those who know me certainly would say I have a personality too – and even a strong one at that – I am not even a blip on the foodie radar screen. I certainly don’t have a cookbook or TV show to my name. I am just a journalist-turned natural foods chef who is still trying to get my business up and running. I am truly honored to be in such great company.

What’s fascinating though, is that all three of us interviewed for the story are Jewish women, when the reporter is not tackling this at all from a Jewish angle. Of course it’s just coincidence. Or is it?

I’m also happy to say that after 15 years of being a journalist, and only being interviewed a handful of times, I feel the article perfectly captures my point of view. Sometimes you are interviewed for half an hour and maybe one sentence you say makes it into print, and while you’re not misquoted exactly, you’re like “I can’t believe of all the reasonably intelligent things I said, she chose that one which makes me sound like a complete ninny.”

Terri Coles definitely didn’t do that. My only gripe — and it’s not even a gripe, really — is that I have been thinking a lot about whether grass-fed, organic meat is healthier than overly-processed soy products with all those chemicals you can’t pronounce, and I am coming to the conclusion that it probably is. But never mind. Thank you, Terri, for doing your job so well. Now maybe I need to get to work on that cookbook ;)