August 2009
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Friday link-o-rama: Tomato cocktails, Michael...
Top Chef’s Richard Blais, who owns a fancy burger joint in Atlanta that’ll likely horrify you with its menu, is looking for partners in a new vegetarian eatery. This follows a monthlong experiment in veganism.
Zooey Deschanel is vegan-ing up Top Chef Masters next week. Yes we talk a lot about Top Chef around here, but if they’re going to put veganism on TV, we’re going to...
July 2009
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Write in Vegansaurus for Best Veg Blog in the... →
We just want to remind y’all that YOU OWE US LOVE US and therefore will be clicking on that link up there to write in Vegansaurus for Best Veg Blog in the VegNews Veggie Awards poll that close at 11:59 TONIGHT! Go do it to it! Time to root for the Underdino! If there are any prizes, we’ll totally share.* Also, you look so pretty/handsome today. SO PRETTY/HANDSOME.
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Interview: Minty Lewis
Melanie “Minty” Lewis’ wonderful new book, P.S. Comics, is a collection of her minicomics to date. Minty’s tales of “Fruit Pals” and “Yorkie Roommates” are cute but heartbreaking accounts of everyday melodrama, which earned her an Ignatz award in 2007. She also recently created the most freaking cutest ever iGoogle theme, which you should all...
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Vegan Dunkin' Donuts? →
Compassion Over Killing is part of a new campaign to get Dunkin’ Donuts to add some vegan donuts to the menu. Do we have DD in California?
Regardless, we wholeheartedly support the addition of vegan donuts to any menu, especially a national chain’s. Should you agree, visit the above site, fill out a contact form, and say your piece from the comfort of your living room. While eating...
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Capybaras and wtf people EAT THEM!?
Okay so look at that photo. If that family of fucking perfectly beautiful capybaras doesn’t make you want to find/lose religion, there is no fucking hope for your whatsoever. Capybaras are the world’s largest rodent (the average weight is 100 pounds) and while that might freak you out, being hella large furry rats is actually AWESOME and you are just a close-minded anti-rodentia bigot...
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Heaven's Dog
Firstly, I wish it had a different name. “Heaven’s Dog” makes me think of gourmet hot dogs or some such, and I don’t want to make a special trip for gourmet hot dogs, however the rest of the world feels, I just don’t like them in that way. Luckily the restaurant doesn’t actually have anything to do with hot dogs, gourmet or otherwise, so if you get over the...
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Ezra Klein on limiting meat consumption (& being... →
As we mentioned in last week’s link-o-rama, we love us some Ezra Klein. It is so important for “thinkers” to understand the impact that meat (and dairy and eggs) have on the health of our planet and ourselves and to TALK ABOUT IT. I love this article for so many reasons, from him acknowledging that veganism is the best thing you can do to the calling out of the weak-ass Sierra...
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Recipe: Corn Jalapeño, Marry Me.
Corn is CHEAP and plenty this time of year: 25 cents at Safeway and 50 cents for organic stuff at Whole Foods. My local produce stand was more expensive than either of these so you make the call. Serving size: for two Prep time: 15 min Ingredients 2 ears of corn (white or yellow, though I prefer white) 1/2 jalapeño red onion 1 lemon 1 lime 1 to 2 tomatoes (Roma, sweet 100, heirloom—whatevs)...
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Charity raffle at this Thursday's SF Vegan Drinks! →
SF Vegan Drinks is this Thursday, July 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Martuni’s! Yes! AND starting this month, they’ll sell raffle tickets for $1 each. The prize is a $50 gift certificate to a fabulous SF veg restaurant (this month it’s Herbivore!) and the proceeds go to charity; both the restaurant and charity will vary monthly. The inaugural charity is SF Bay Veg! See you there, party...
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Vegan gardening, by Ben
Please welcome guest writer Ben Pearson. Between acquiring master’s degrees, Ben tends to his parents’ garden. It’s a pretty all right gig.
Veganism is about lots of things. It’s about helping the planet. It’s about getting laid by that one girl who rides the bicycle with the wicker basket. It’s about not eating things taken from sad and dead animals. But, it’s also about what...
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Pi Bar, Mark THREE!
The determined sleuths/neighborhood busybodies over here at Vegansaurus snapped a shot of the interior of Pi Bar and it’s lookin’ fresh! We also got our hot little hands on a business card. Yes! We’re obviously very interested in the availability of vegan pizza options, so we made a call to request vegan pizza (please please please), but just got a recorded message that...
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Awesome new vegan website: VegTable!
A VERY PROFESSIONAL interview with the fabulous Sharon Troy, founder of the AWESOME new vegan restaurant and airport survival guide, VegTable! Please check out the interview and then go join VegTable and populate it and make it awesome and LET’S GO VEGANS TAKE OVER THE INTERNET.
Q: What inspired you to start VegTable? A: I’ve been planning several trips this summer and I like to find the...
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Souley Vegan re-opens!
MAC N CHEESE AND BBQ TOFU AND POTATO SALAD AND HOLY SHIT SHOOT ME IN THE FACE THANK YOU JESUS.
It’s at 301 Broadway at 3rd Street in Oakland. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Check out our Souley Vegan review and go go go go go GO!
“Yes, all 6+ billion people on the planet become Veggies. In the meantime there...”
– Yes, that is exactly what would happen.
From our new favorite blog fuckyeahyoutubecomments <3
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Friday Link-o-rama: Veggie Awards, Naked Dudes,...
IMPORTANT: The VegNews polls close at 11:59 p.m. on July 31, and we want you to write Vegansaurus in for Best Veg Blog! Also, win prizes. Yes! Time to root for the Underdino! If there are any prizes, we’ll totally share.
Veggie Trader provides free classifieds for home-grown produce! People like Meave’s parents, who have uncontrollably prolific orange and peach trees, should really...
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Book Review: The Better World Shopping Guide
The other day, Laura and I were shopping for tomato sauce or something. We ended up spending a ridiculous amount of time researching various organic brands on our phones to see who owned them, and weighing the consequences of our purchase. Rainbow Grocery, where we were (and where there is terrible phone reception—is the building lined with lead?) used to have some kind of chart displayed that...
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Store Review: Loyal Army!
The stuff at Loyal Army is so fucking adorable it’ll make you barf kittens. The cuteness, it’s painful like a migraine. Like the kind of migraine you get when you look at me because I AM SO CUTE SOMETIMES IT CROSSES THE BORDER INTO REPULSIVE. Loyal Army is a relatively young, SF-based company (the flagship store is in the Upper Haight!) that makes cute hoodies, cute shirts, cute bags...
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Recipe: Mango Pudding, love of my life!
Recession hasn’t got me down! Sometimes cheap ingredients = decadent dishes.
Here’s a delicious recipe that takes advantage of all the ripe mangoes overflowing at our local produce stands. And guess what: (almost) NO COOKING and also VEGAN. SURPRISE!
Ingredients 5 to 6 large ripe mangoes 3 vegan gelatin packets (what’s the equivalent for agar agar?) 1.5 c boiling water 1c sugar...
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Sushi Bistro opens second location in the Mission!
Sushi Bistro opens a second outpost tomorrow (July 23) at 24th Street and York Avenue and looks to have some decent vegan sushi offerings. Obvs you’ll be seeing our fat asses in line tomorrow night.
Here’s the entire veggie section of their menu, (almost entirely) copy-and-pasted because it all looks so g-d delicious:
Crunchy veggie roll Lightly deep-fried vegetables with crunchy...
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Rico's Diner!
Go here. Get the VEGAN PULLED PORK SANDWICH and a side of TATER TOTS. Kill yourself as life will never, ever be this amazing ever again even if you were having sex with Gael Garcia Bernal on a bed of $100 bills while walking on the moon with Michael Jackson whilst doing the moonwalk YOU FEEL ME?
Rico’s Diner has a small but potent vegan menu (including tofu scrambles and whatnot but EFF...
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One body is the same as another
Another delightful juxtaposition of pictures from Sociological Images, today two guides: the first, the qualities constituting the best body of the contestants in the 1959 Miss Universe pageant; the second, those qualities constituting the best-quality steers in the Kansas State University 4-H club.
What?
The text from the guide, as quoted from SI: “ALL FIGURED OUT–-This chart is used by...
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Activists needed to help promote "The Cove"!
Just got word from the fine people at Earth Island Institute that they need volunteers to help promote The Cove, a new documemtary about the multibillion dollar capture-and-slaughter dolphin trade. Sad face(x)infinity. The Cove won the Audience Award in Documentary at Sundance. I saw a preview recently and it looks INTENSE. And by INTENSE, I mean that the preview totally made me cry and feel all...
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“Do You Love Animals? Do You Have Lady Bits? Take Off Your Clothes!”
– How cute. This time, the two ladies are wearing lettuce-styled bras and undies sets and Playboy Bunny necklaces (because these vegan role models are also Playmates!) while they distribute vegan hot dogs. Also, they have similar hair and body types, so not only are they two hot chicks in matching...
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You bought a dog, and we're judging you →
Vegans love to feel superior to strangers, and it’s really easy to sniff at Jill Abramson and her new puppy, a golden retriever, whom she bought from a breeder in Massachusetts.
She acknowledges that she could have adopted a shelter dog, which she calls “an unselfish act,” but that she and her husband “were leaning selfish.” To them, that meant getting a brand-new...
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Vegansaurus' Upsetting Corner
Vegansaurus is having a slow day. To elaborate, a slow and angry day. Thusly do I present to you Vegansaurus’ inaugural Upsetting Corner: more constructive than screaming into a pillow, less therapeutic than punching someone in the face.
Upsetting Topic dem Tag: Designer impostors and animal skins The uproar about counterfeit designer goods greatly offends me. OF COURSE I want to eliminate...
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Vegansaurus PODCAST →
It’s true! All of our VegansaurusTV episodes are now available through iTunes! We have a free* podcast!
*We wouldn’t charge you for our podcasts. That’s tacky.
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Lamb Cam, Vegan Spam, Penguin Divorce: it's the...
Lamb Cam blog, a.k.a., the Martha’s Vineyard/Hudson Valley Fiber Farm blog. This is a family farm that raises goats and sheep for their fleece, exclusively: they never sell any of their animals for meat! The work of shepherding, from the birth of a lamb to its shearing, and then from the newly sheared wool to the dyed and spun yarn, is documented in detail on the blog—there are no more...
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Arnold is lame; Arizona is awesome
It is better living for animals in Arizona, thanks to SB 1115. The governor signed the bill yesterday, which passed 28 to 1 in the Arizona state Senate, and 53 to 1 in its House. Impressive! The legislation addresses mostly dog and horse issues. More broadly, it “prohibit[s] the intentional, staged fighting of any species of animal.” Did you know that people make different kinds of...
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Farmer's Market Dinner
All you so-called locavores: next Wednesday, July 22, is Millennium’s 10th Annual Farmer’s Market Dinner, a sure-to-be-delicious $80 prix fixe menu. The farmers themselves will be on hand with their earthy charm, and their produce will also be available for you to take home and do a much worse job with than Eric Tucker.
Make reservations now, space is limited!
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Shave me off some "meat," please
Hot dogs are already synonymous with “vomitous mixture of ground animal parts that out of context the eater would never sincerely eat,” and they have friends now: the animal parts that make up a gyro cone. This is an especially nauseating video, which everyone who has ever eaten and/or plans to eat a gyro must (be forced to) watch, because, holy shit.
Did you know that gyros were...
WatchIntroducing VegansaurusTV!
We are taking this operation into multimedia mode, bitches! Welcome to our very first episode! It’s an interview with Vanessa Barg, the woman behind the raw vegan chocolate company Gnosis Chocolate. From her headquarters in NYC, I spoke to Vanessa about how her company came to be, and how the chocolate is made. Look for part 2 to come very soon!
Gnosis Chocolate...
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Gussie's Chicken and Waffles
Thrillist points us to a new chicken and waffles restaurant opening Monday in the Fillmore. Surprise, surprise: scouring the menu revealed that they do, in fact, serve vegan buckwheat waffles, complete with Earth Balance! Vegan waffles are near-impossible to come by in the city—not even Herbivore serves them—so it might actually be worth a trip when the waffle craving hits.
It looks like this and...
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Mac n' Cheese Wars! We need a vegan to represent!
Fuck those self-described “foodie” asshats, a vegan should win this shiz.
Details come from the awesome kkr:
“I encourage entries, email to enter. free to compete and there are lots of prizes like restaurant and grocery store gift certificates, omnivore books gift certificates, food goodies and CASH MONEY.”
Obvs there is no reason to attend unless you’re there...
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Update on SF Vegan Bakery! Verrrrry Mysterious...
YOU GUYS. This email just came in from SF Vegan Bakery TO OUR VERY OFFICIAL VEGANSAURUS EMAIL ACCOUNT WE ARE LIKE A REAL BUSINESS:
Hey Vegansaurus!
As you have mentioned on the blog (thank you!), San Francisco’s 1st Vegan Bakery is coming soon! We’re just about to start the building process, but what we need are a few handy veg-friendly folks to get things going, so we can get our...
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Product Review: Joseph Banks Cassava Chips!
Joseph Banks Cassava Chips are the best chips I’ve ever had in my life. This week. They’re now available at all Northern California Whole Foods and in a few other places around the United States. Get the Roasted Tomato flavor even if you don’t like roasted or tomato things. It is eating savory smoky deliciousness perfection in a chip. Plus, cassava chips are (way?) better for you...
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Summer vegetable soup!
After sitting near the open windows during so many workweeks, I’ve become used to the smells and sounds of the neighborhood. Mostly it’s cars and kids and fresh summer air (read: cold-ass wind), but on the warmest evenings, it’s backyard barbecue, and it’s starting to make me nuts. A person can only stand the delicious smell of barbecue for so long before she absolutely has...
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WatchFor Jonas, because it’s still his birthday week, Vegansaurus presents Nibbler in action: a short film. As bunnies are not much for noises, Nibbler throws his toys (including a nickel in a yogurt container, a tiny truck from Big Lots!, and two useless hairbrushes) to celebrate his pal Jonas.
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Free shit, Peta's non-crazy iphone app and WOODY...
Hey, we’re nothing if we’re not inconsistent. And attractive. And very inconsistent. But whatevs, here we go.
Want to win a free copy of The Vegan Scoop and make really delicious vegan ice cream all summer long? Yeah you do, fatty. Head on over to VegWeb giveaway thread and let them know your favorite vegan ice cream flavor is for a chance to win! Speaking of ice cream because I...
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This weekend in the citay by the baaaay...
Alternately, fun stuff you might enjoy if you’re a vegan in San Francisco this weekend WOO!
Friday, July 10th
Them crafty street food folk are at it again and this time they’re playing matchmatcker with Street Food for Singles (or coupled people who bring a single friend! but what about polyamorous freaky type folks? WHAT ABOUT THEM???) There will be plenty of vegan food on hand from...
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LGBT Compassion!
New(-ish?) Animal Rights group, LGBT Compassion, has set up (an awesome) shop in San Francisco! YES! Another AR group in town! But really, I’m not surprised; when you’re gay (and gay-friendly) and love animals, where the fuck else you gonna go? God I love this city so much.
From their site: We are a coalition of San Francisco Bay Area gay animal advocates (and some non-gay friends) ...
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Just what do you want to do with that pig? →
Today, Hamilton Nolan is our best friend.
Did any of you even read that article in The Times? Knowing what’s good for me, I did not, and it seems like that was the right decision.
