October 2010
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East Bay Vegan Bakesale! Plus sexy pandas,...
Hello, tiny owl! This is Sam Adams, a resident of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society Center bird sanctuary, who really wants to be in pictures. So much so that he hogged this nice couples’ wedding photo, but that is all right with us because marriage is patriarchal nonsense, while saving owls is wonderful and right. [photo by Hoffer Photography/Rex Features]
Some events for your non-costume...
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The Cook and Butler! EAT THIS RAW DELICIOUSNESS...
The Cook and Butler is a team of crazy talented chefs who give raw food a great name. As you know, I love my bacon filled tator tots as much as the next vegan, but sometimes you want to eat healthy food that makes you feel all peaceful and in tune with your body and the universe but also, that shiz better taste delicious! Well, the Cook and Butler makes my hands-down favorite raw food in the...
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Chef Tal Ronnen's Thanksgiving menu: Beet and...
Yesterday we told you about Gardein’s new, limited-edition holiday product, the Savory Stuffed Turk’y with gravy. We also told you about the special Thanksgiving menu that chef Tal Ronnen had prepared to complement the Turk’y, and promised to post one recipe a day until you got them all. There are six recipes, and today you get the first!
Beet and Orange Autumn Salad by chef Tal...
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Guest interview: Justine Quart talks to vegan...
Please welcome guest-interviewer Justine Quart!
I love burlesque, especially if it involves a fabulous outspoken vegan performer, go-go dancer and pin-up model who reps compassionate fashion choices with style. In our chat, Anja Keister explains what’s is like to source non-feather glam and how the OG diva RuPaul inspired her to perform on stage. How long have you been vegan? I’ve been...
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Radiolab blows our minds again with "Wild Talk"
Animals: they are amazing. Did you know? Radiolab, the most interesting English-language radio show in production, has some new, specific examples of animal behavior that will amaze you, guaranteed—unless you are heartless and/or totally jaded and/or have already listened to this podcast.
This short, called “Wild Talk,” is about two different animals and how they communicate. As...
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Canadian Gardein expands your U.S. Thanksgiving...
It’s Gardein Savory Stuffed Turk’y, hooray! It won’t put an end to Tofurky jokes—nothing will ever, ever put an end to Tofurky jokes—but it might entice your family to try something less murderous than actual turkey. These little fellows come in two-packs plus gravy in the freezer section; the actual “Turk’y” is “breaded with toasted crumbs...
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The last SF Vegan Drinks of 2010 is TONIGHT!
Let’s celebrate this shit-tay weather by getting shitfaced with our vegan brethren at Martuni’s for the last SF Vegan Drinks of the year! Sad face. As always, SF Vegan Drinks is sponsored by your Vegansaurus, and the wonderful folks at VegNews, who bring you this important message:
The special drink this month is a Pumpkin-based (Yes!) Fall Harvest Martini for $5. IS THAT NOT...
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Bear killing exposed, thanks to Freedom of...
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on vegansaurus.com]
This is disturbing. Some country music bro killed a tame and adorable bear named Cubby, making a big to-do about his “wildlife” hunt. There was a whole court case about it and Troy Gentry, the bro in question, was fined $15,000 for falsely registering the kill (got to righteously register those kills, bro!). What makes the...
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Fallout from Missouri's puppy mill proposition has...
The big election doesn’t happen for six more days, but the threat of Prop. B ending canine slavery in Missouri puppy mills has already shut down some breeders. OK, technically it was a massive investigation by the Humane Society of the United States, but the horrors HSUS revealed is definitely helping the case for Prop. B.
HSUS released its report on Missouri’s worst puppy mills [pdf]...
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Hello, friends! It's WTF Wednesday!
Halloween falls on a Sunday this year. This is a dilemma! Do I go out Saturday night and spend it drunk out of my mind screaming “BUON GIORNO! OLIVE GARDEN!” at strangers, or do I do the same thing on Sunday? Except sober. Because I have to work on Monday. I hate being an adult. Remember how awesome we thought being an adult would be? Staying up late! Candy for breakfast! All the...
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Animal parts everywhere: the return of pig 05049
You remember pig 05049, of course; we introduced you last year September, when Christien Meindertsma’s three-year-long project cataloguing the 185 products that some of pig 05049 went into making was first released. Since then, she has published a book, also called PIG 05049, and given a TED Talk. Forewarning: she is absolutely adorable.
[can’t see the video? watch it at...
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Threadbared: cement is the new nacre
You read Threadbared, right? It’s so smart! It makes me feel like I’m always learning something about, and also am really bad at dressing myself, which is fair; those ladies are creative and brilliant. Today, they found the cleverest not-pearl jewelry since Kaisli Kiuru for Regensi: these cement “pearl” earrings by Metsa Design. Each little not-pearl is hand-cast! And,...
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Jenn Shagrin of Veganize It...Don't Criticize It...
Introducing Jenn Shagrin (aka, Jenn Shaggy!) from the fantastic vegan blog/vegan blog with BEST NAME EVER, Veganize It…Don’t Criticize It! and the upcoming cookbook, Veganize This!. We love her and her blog, her new cookbook appears to be UNSANE; this lady can veganize pretty much anything and her recipes freak us out, in a totally good way. You need to get to know her and then buy her...
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Hey, MoFo! What do you want to see this year?
For those of you who don’t have as intense a relationship with the internet as I do, you may be as yet unaware of the vegan blogging sensation currently gearing up to take over the internet. It’s called Vegan MoFo (no, it’s not rude—it stands for VEGAN MOnth of FOod), and it’s, well, totally awesome.
Started in 2007 by Isa Chandra Moskowitz as a way to up the...
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Nasoya + Skinny Bitch + God's Own Shorts contest...
OK everyone, today’s deadline for the big Nasoya prize package is 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, which is just over two hours from now. If you haven’t entered already, click through to the original post and enter! What are you waiting for? Do you honestly think you can live one more day without these shorts in your life?
No. The answer is no. So don’t be a dummy and 1.) not enter! or...
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Go see comedians TONIGHT at Saturn Cafe! AND...
You already know about Saturn Cafe in Berkeley having all this awesome new vegan stuff and you want to check it out, right? Well, why not do it tonight and see some comedians at the same time? Comedy is funny! Even when it’s not! However, this comedy night is hosted by Alex Lerman, who is both vegan and hilarious. It is possible, folks. The show is FREE and they’re hoping for a good...
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Breaking: Paul the octopus dies at two and a half...
It’s a sad day. Paul, the famous World Cup-match-predicting octopus, died in his sleep last night. He was two and a half years old, which is kind of old for a common octopus (seriously, that’s what they call his type of octopus, so “rags to riches”); their life expectancy in the wild is one to two years. But poor Paul died never knowing freedom! Well Paul, hopefully now you...
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Project Just Desserts: Veganizing Top Chef! Week...
It’s the sixth week of our Just Desserts challenge, and time to add another fantastic vegan dessert to the list of our guest chefs’ accomplishments! Last week ambitious Canadian Vegan Dad showed us those amazing Red-Hot macarons; today, all the way from Vienna, Melisser brings us Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Mousse, Berry Compote and Almond Milk Ice Cream! Woo!
While it seems...
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Vida Vegan, a vegan bloggers conference! Let's all...
If you are vegan and a blogger and haven’t been living under a rock (‘cause The Rent is Too Damn High!), you probably already know about Vida Vegan, the very first vegan bloggers conference! Well, what you might not know is that Meave and I will be speaking at it and it’s gonna be Hella Fascinating. If you’re interested in meeting vegan bloggers or learning how to become a...
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Sweet & Sara introduces Pumpkin Spice and...
Let’s eat these Pumpkin Spice and Chocolate Peppermint vegan marshmallows forever and for always, even after the holidays.
I’ll be ordering 1 million of each flavor and then sweetening every single thing I eat and drink with them until they’re gone and then I’ll cry and cry because food is very important to me.
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Your holiday novelty food, veganized: Pumpkin Pie...
I saw this weird/gross/totally fascinating post on Limited Edition Frosted Pumpkin Pie Pop-Tarts about a month ago, and it made me feel funny inside. “We might be delicious,” they said to me. “Don’t you want to find out how delicious we might be?” Yes, oh yes I did. Once upon a time I was a novelty Pop-Tarts junkie; never the fruit flavors, only the nastiest kinds...
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It's your weekend activities, featuring Chrissie...
Are you ready for fun this weekend? Well? Because we have FUN ACTIVITIES for you and we expect you to PARTICIPATE. The Chrissie Hynde show, Pet Pride Day, rodeo and animal testing protests, and the Mini Maker Faire—FUN!
Saturday, Oct. 23 Chrissie Hynde plays Bimbo’s, and you could win tickets to see her! Remember, your Vegansaurus has three pairs to give away; enter ASAP because the...
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Annals of self-promotion: Best practices for being...
From today’s SFoodie:
Important: Slow food doesn’t mean eating Snooki (or anyone else who is “slow” mentally). Besides, that shit is definitely NOT organic. Slow Food is an eating movement that counteracts fast food and fast life, and connects us with the Earth and its Magical Bounty. Basically, it’s the dietary equivalent of Sting and Ms. Sting’s sex life....
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Vegansaurus Giveaway: Tickets to Chrissie Hynde at...
Chrissie Hynde, we love her so. Not only is “Brass in Pocket” the preferred Karaoke song for several Vegansaurus writers, she’s a bad-ass vegan and even owns a vegan restaurant, Vegiterranean, in Ohio. How much do you want to marry this woman? The only correct answer is VERY FUCKING MUCH.
But wait! It gets better! Chrissie Hynde is performing at Bimbo’s 365 Club this...
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Hunting chic: fall '10 is all about wild pigs
A roving pack of 15 feral hogs have dared to venture onto a private golf course in Clayton, Calif. and will now pay for their impiety with their lives. See, normally the pigs live in the foothills of Mt. Diablo, but thanks to this wretchedly long summer, there isn’t any pig-food in the foothills of Mt. Diablo, so they were forced to look for delicious, nourishing grubs elsewhere—like...
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Protest animal testing at UCSF on Sunday for...
Animal experimentation is the fucking grossest. When did you first learn about it? When did you first connect actual animals with that torture? My little brother and I, after we bought up all the Calvin and Hobbes books, began spending our allowance on Berkeley Breathed’s collections, so it must have been sometime in the early ’90s that we read The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos,...
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Happy-time puppy pictures from Jorge Garcia and...
You guys. YOU GUYS!
First, because I am like a newborn baby who knows nothing outside of her internet bubble of journo-criticism, esoteric fashion (Should Be on The Nanny, I love you), Bay Area gossip/news, and Wonkette, did you know there is at least one dog adoption organization that takes MOSTLY PUPPIES, because I had NO IDEA!! Someone should have told me, I would visit it every day. Even the...
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Top Chef: Just Desserts, episode six airs tonight,...
(Red Hot Cinnamon Macarons by Vegan Dad from last week’s Top Chef : Just Desserts challenge, you complete me.)
The fifth episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts airs on Bravo tonight (10 Eastern/Pacific), which means that we’re ready to unveil our sixth guest chef (see the first five here! Chocolate mousse! Margarita bombes! Toffee brownies! Panna cotta! Rice Krispy bars coated with...
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When it comes to Michael Pollan take-downs, Adam...
Sometimes your Vegansaurus feels like the only sane Michael Pollan critic in the world—we try to exercise restraint, but can you blame us? It’s Michael Pollan, one of our sworn enemies! Who can be calm around a sworn enemy?
Happily, we are not alone: our internet-pal Adam Merberg has an entire site dedicated to Michael Pollan’s hypocrisy, inaccuracy, and general bad attitude,...
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Hello, friends! It's WTF Wednesday!
Goats, man. Why you gotta fuck with ‘em? ‘Cause you think they’re all docile and shit? You think a goat can’t get gangsta? No, a goat can get gangsta. And unfortunately a goat got medieval on a hiker who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. You don’t hear about something like that every day, do you? But that’s probably because you don’t hear about...
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A Fire Inside vegan bakery is back in search of...
Remember vegan baker Davey and his plea for investors in his Oakland-based vegan bakery? Turns out Kickstarter wasn’t the place for him, but he continues in the pursuit of his dream!
Now you can visit the official A Fire Inside vegan bakery website and order from his menu of sugary baked goods, like bread pudding, cheesecakes, and the infamous Weekend Ruiners, hooray! You probably...
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Half Off at Ananada Fuara & The Front Porch!
Two Vegansaurus favorites, Ananda Fuara and The Front Porch are having mega deal group coupons today!
First, Groupon has $14 worth of Ananada Fuara goodness for only $7! And you can buy up to three! That’s a lot of nut loaf!
Next, SF Gate Deals has a coupon for $10 for $20 worth of eats and drinks at The Front Porch! If you’ve never had their french fries or the vegan plate or one of...
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The news you need: cute staffie video!
Watch this adorable video by a little British girl who loves her adopted staffie (Staffordshire bull terrier, i.e. pit bull) and try not to die:
[can’t see the video? watch it on vegansaurus.com!]
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Thursday: Curry Cook-Off for a Cause! →
The 2nd Annual Curry Cook-Off is this Thursday, Oct. 21st, at the Women’s Building from 6-8 p.m.! Indian chefs both professional and amateur will be attempting to woo your vote with their delicious curries. We have confirmation from one of the event organizers, Shana Ortman, that all curries will be vegetarian, some will be vegan! All the curry you can eat and all the wine you can drink...
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A Vegansaurus Giveaway: Tofu, cookbook, and THE...
So, last week, we were invited to The Plant Cafe to enjoy a delightful lunch prepared by Nasoya and Kim Barnouin of Skinny Bitch*. The lunch was to celebrate Nasoya’s unleashing of its new website, Nasoya’s Tofu U. It’s actually super-adorable, and aimed at making tofu cooler, which frankly, tofu needs. Tofu is the Urkel to Bacon’s The Fonz. Does that make sense? Anyway,...
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Quick! Go see Jónsi at the Fox Theater tonight!
What? YES. Tickets are still available for this show! Can you believe it? Maybe it’s because they cost $35? Is that a lot of money? It seems like a lot, but the majority of Vegansaurus is old and does not know the price of music shows, all loud and smashed in and standing. Gross.
Maybe you’re excited for this, though! Totally possible, Jónsi is great. Also, he’s a raw vegan!...
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Design a shirt with Monkey + Seal and raise money...
This is so ridiculously awesome and if you don’t participate, I’ll cut off your balls.
Two of our most favorite people, Rick and Eve of Monkey + Seal, are the super-cutest, most talented design duo in history. You might remember Rick from creating the most bad-ass watercolor illustration of Vegansaurus saving a chicken? Well, these two geniuses want to create a...
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Saturn Cafe in Berkeley veganizes it!
So I’m about to start your day off with some good news and you may return the favor with large wads of cash. Deal? No? OK! I just heard from Tristan, the most wonderful owner of Saturn Cafe, and she has some NEWS: Saturn’s Berkeley location has buttloads of new vegan options (ow!), including:
Vegan French Toast
Vegan Sampler Platters
Vegan Quesadillas
Vegan Cheeseburgers
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Vanilla Ice goes vegetarian!
That’s right people, Vanilla Ice has been vegetarian for three whole months and he’s loving it! Homeboy has cholesterol problems and decided to get his diet in shape, with impressive results!: “I tried being vegetarian for three months, and it brought my cholesterol from over 300 to 133 without drugs.” Hot damn! That means nothing to me but seems really good! Maybe if he went...
