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Taxing meat, hacking Ike's, saving birds &...
I missed you guys! So much, I made this big old link-o-rama just for you! That means extra swears, I know how much you love the dirty stuff.
LATE EDIT, UGH: In Defense of Animals and the SF Vegetarian Society are co-hosting a vegan halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 31! Check out A.Muse Gallery at 614 Alabama St. tomorrow from 7 to 11 p.m. for comestibles (Sugar Beat Sweets!), a silent auction, a...
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VegNews' Guide to Vegan Halloween Candy! →
It’s fully researched and quite delicious to read. PRO TIP: You can also use it at as a vegan binge guide! Also, HSUS has a list of Halloween safety tips for animals. People do messed up shiz to black cats on Halloween so keep them indoors so they can spook the crap out of only you BECAUSE DAMN THEY ARE SCARY*.
*kidding! mostly! actually, black animals have the hardest time getting adopted...
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Vegan Diplomat: Comeback Kids
By now you’ve made the decision, come out of the crisper, and are living a full, vegified existence. Whoo! The payback for telling the world your hot little garbanzo-bean secret? It’s like posting something on the internet—every one gets a crack at commenting.
Now, I’m a vegan from the non-Facebook Farmville. You better believe I’ve heard the best of the Guide to...
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Top Chef Six: Vegetarian hijinx
This episode of Top Chef is actually titled “Meat Natalie,” which is an idiotic pun that Vegansaurus scoffs at. We are above puns. OK, that is a lie. More importantly: Vegetables won! Hooray for vegetables.
Following a TV Guide-sponsored Quickfire, which we will skip over because of its impertinence to vegetables, the chefs are told they will get to cook at Tom Colicchio’s...
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Free Fair Trade Chocolate tomorrow! →
Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition and TransFair USA will be handing out free Divine (fair trade-certified cause duh) Chocolate Thursday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. outside of four BART stations: 24th & Mission and Montgomery in San Francisco, Rockridge in Oakland and Ashby in Berkeley. No guarantee it’s vegan but a lot of their chocolate it so you might get lucky. Anyway, this is a half-block...
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Recipe: Vegan Mission Burger!
Since Mission Burger has opted to discontinue their much-lauded vegan burger, they’ve invited their loyal customers, already desperate for its return to email them for the recipe. We did just that, and now we’re sharing it with you! They are actually really lovely people and if we are super duper nice and let them know how much we love (read: NEED) the vegan burger, perhaps one day, it...
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Last SF Vegan Drinks of the year is tomorrow...
Time to get down on some martinis at Martuni’s and party with other awesome vegans for the LAST TIME IN 2009! There will be some amazing drink specials, including a $6 Spiced Pumpkin Martini HELLO, and some surprise freebie vegan treats. Love free stuff, especially when there is a guarantee that I can eat all of it. Oh also, costumes are encouraged! I’ll be the one dressed as a...
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Recipe: Hacking Trader Joe's Boxed Cake Mixes!
What up fools. Okay, this is some world-class, grade-A advice that I’m about to give you.
I’m going to take three things for granted (because I know they’re hella true):
You’re poor - or at least you think you’re poor and I’m hear to tell you that you’re not poor if you can afford to live in the bay area but whatever pity party it up, i ain’t your...
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Mission Burger is CANCELING ITS VEGAN BURGER OH...
Mission Burger writes about the cancellation of the vegan burger on their Yelp page:
Unfortunately, yes we will cancel it pretty soon because it takes a lot of work to make and was sort of just a labor of love—love we lost a few weeks ago when people complained about frying a piece of battered fish in the same deep fryer as the vegan patty. Even though that was a one time contamination, we...
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Vegan Hash With Homemade Ketchup
I am reblogging this because we love potatoes and don’t think we’ve seen a homemade ketchup recipe yet! This is from the normally omnivorous food blog, Tessipes.
Full disclosure! I’ve made all of this except for the home-made ketchup. I’m going to try it, though, so I’ll keep you posted — the recipe seems promising.
Vegan Hash with Homemade Ketchup
Ingredients:
2 Russet potatoes,...
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“Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year...”
– That’s Natalie Portman, in a piece on Huffington Post. In her review of the book, she finally answers the question of whether she’s vegan or not and the answer is: she’s vegan now, bitches!! Anyway, that’s not the main takeaway from her review, which is good and you should...
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Jay's Cheesesteak now has vegan mayo, thanks to...
Hey All. Good morning, etc. ENOUGH WITH THE PLEASANTRIES. So, last Thursday, some friends and I were dining at Jay’s in the mission and one of us (possibly a member of the VegNews team) inquired about vegan mayo. The guy working was like, “Uh, okay?” and we were all like, “yeah, never gonna see that.” AND THEN, like five minutes later, he disappears across the street...
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Preview Gracias Madre! Right now!
OK, more like “pre-taste,” but the prefix is the key here because oh boy: They’re serving Gracias Madre tamales at Café Gratitude right now! Oh I cannot wait for this place to open, one of everything to stay, please.
The tamales are described as follows:”Stoneground heirloom masa steamed in the husk filled with seasonal vegetables. Served with pumpkin seed salsa and black...
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Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Diet
It kind of excites me that the following video of Alicia Silverstone is so amateurishly produced, especially because it’s by The Wall Street Journal. You’d think they’d do a better job than a profile shot from way far away, but that’s what they get for not calling me, Vegansaurus videographer.
Anywayz, if you didn’t already know, Alicia has a new book on veganism out...
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Joel's Moderately Fancy Meal: Sourdough Pumpkin...
So you roasted a pumpkin according to Megan’s directions? Nicely done! But don’t stop now, spanky. You’re just a few simple steps away from a finished product that you can bring in to work to cultivate your persona as the person who knows how to make stuff. You can also use it to curry favor, make friends, or start intra-office rivalries! Granted, a borrowed pen can do all...
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HSUS Town Hall Meeting in SF!
HELLO VEGANSAURS! My evil computer of doom BROKE on me this time last Monday, and I was completely away from the internet for five entire 24-hour periods! It was TERRIBLE, I almost DIED. Just kidding, I read a lot and watched a ton of television and it was both isolating and restful, I dunno. But I’m BACK, and I missed you SO MUCH!
Here is some breaking news for you: On Wednesday, Oct. 28...
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Natalie Portman on This Week's Top Chef
It’s finally here: Natalie Portman’s episode on Top Chef. No joke, our post on Natalie Portman guesting on Top Chef is our most popular ever. Never doubt the ability of dudes to Google the shit out of their out-of-reach crushes they will never get to sleep with!
Her vegan-ness is still up for some debate, and even the teaser clip (which you can watch below), doesn’t reveal what...
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Halloween Sweet & Sara Offer -- Limited Edition!
Sara of Sweet and Sara marshmallows has very generously extended an offer to Vegansaurus readers, just in time for Halloween! If you order more than $50, Sara will pay for expedited shipping to get your treats to you by Halloween! However, there is a catch : She MUST receive your order by this afternoon on Monday, Oct. 26. Get on that shit quick!
OH YOU WANT THEM FOR FREE??? Well, VegNews is...
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The Cove director on watching his film with the... →
“At one point, the mayor stormed out, and the [International Whaling Committee] delegate held his head in his hands.”
The Japanese reaction to this film at the Tokyo International Film Festival was wide-ranging, to say the least. Anyone had a chance to see The Cove yet?
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Recipe: Pumpkin Bialys! →
Go make those right now. The man behind the recipe, Philip Gelb, from In the Mood for Food: Vegan Catering, made a bunch of plain Bialy’s for the SF Vegan Bakesale and they sold out SOVERYFAST. They were delicious perfection. I can imagine they will only get better with pumpkin in them! Oh and he served them with this amazing homemade vegan cream cheez [sic] that was killer. Suck it,...
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Vegan Halloween candy, Oprah (!), weekend events,...
Meaverly’s computer is out of commission right now (ugh computers are such pieces of shit, except this one, i love you, computer, you are very attractive, please don’t explode on me) and so I’m taking over this ship. Get ready to crash into the rocks! Gloriously!
HERE WE GO:
Natalie Portman is gonna be on Top Chef. WILL IT BE AN ALL-VEGAN EPISODE, now that she is recently...
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Vegansaurus included in NY Times Bay Area Blog... →
I can think of lots of blogs that shoulda been on there (and I’m sure will be added) but as a blog that’s usually left out or not linked to in the Bay Area blog circle jerk (this is an especially lovely image b/c bloggers are all really attractive), i was stoked when we showed up in their food and drink blog roll (with just seven other blogs! at time of this publishing! and we didn’t even apply,...
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Farm Sanctuary's Walk for Farm Animals!
The Walk for Farm Animals is an amazing thing. Basically, people sign up to walk and then get sponsors and all the money goes to animals rescued from factory farms and to educating the public about said farms. Important stuff! The walks take place all over the U.S., and the San Francisco walk is happening this Saturday, Oct. 24 and we want to help fellow bay area bloggers/badass vegan sisters, The...
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Tell Chipotle we want vegan burritos everywhere!... →
Chipotle is test-marketing a vegan burrito in its D.C. location and we need to let them that we want it in all 837 of their restaurants! I know walking into a Chipotle in San Francisco is basically like going on a 12-state killing spree (but less understandable I MEAN WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?) but you know, sometimes we travel. And think of the poor vegans in Boise JUST THINK OF THEM FOR ONCE YOU...
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Michael Moore, the herbivore!?
I am totally stereotyping you based on your dietary habits, but I would guess that most of you Vegansaurus readers fall somewhere in the “not retarded” side of the political spectrum. With a notable Ron Paul/libertarian contingent in there somewhere (I’m looking at you, Silicon Valley!) (Also, WTF is wrong with you? That dude is an anti-gay, anti-women’s rights bigot who looks like a living...
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COOKIE DIET!? Sign me up! OH WAIT THEY ARE MADE OF... →
Well if this isn’t the sickest shit I’ve read in a long time. They are cookies that have meat (protein but still, MEAT) in them and they are being touted as part of healthy diet. Terrific. Actually, they’re not really being touted as part of a healthy diet, it’s more like a “lose 10 million pounds in five minutes so you can finally be healthy, fat-ass” diet....
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Vegan chef Tal Ronnen on MOTHERFLIPPING OPRAH →
It’s on Thursday’s “Oprah’s Best Things” episode. Watch that promo on the site and you’ll be all WHAT THE HELL THIS IS AMAZING A VEGAN CHEF IS ON “OPRAH” AND SHE’S TALKING TO HIM BEING ALL HE’S VEGAN AND I LOVE IT AND VEGAN FOOD IS GREAT. Anyway, mega-kudos to Tal Ronnen (also, buy his new cookbook, The Conscious Cook, because it’s...
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Recipe: Beer Bread made with Pumpkin Ale! YES YES...
This is the easiest, best thing ever to make. You’ll want to never eat anything else. Slather it with Earth Balance, make sandwiches with it, swallow the loaf whole (dang! you’re talented!) or whatever. Just eat it immediately. Also, it’s super cheap to make and will sustain you for days. I mean, in addition to other things, Anorexic Annie.
All you need is: a box of Trader...
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Vegan Bakery Cinnaholic wins FIRST PLACE in the SF...
SO AWESOME. First place OUT OF 20 competitors (and the vast majority of them weren’t vegan!!). They won Photographers Choice too. HOT DAMN. Having tasted Cinnaholic’s pumpkin cinnamon rolls and chocolate cherry brownies at the SF Vegan Bakesale, I can say, I AM NOT SURPRISED. You go ‘head and get down, ladies! I can’t wait to see (and eat!) what comes out of that new vegan...
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Pumpkin Bread is back at Rainbow & IT IS SO... →
Make sandwiches with it, toast it with Earth Balance, put two slices around your hand and try to eat it. whatever.
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“A diet of plants causes the fewest animals to be killed. Leaving chickens and...”
– Show this chart to the next asshole who is all, “More animals are killed when we harvest crops than when we slaughter them for food!”* or, “I’ve stopped eating red meat, throw me a party!” Assholes. Also, we were once like them so you know, be nice and all that blah...
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SF Vegan Bakesale is TOMORROW!!!
I don’t know how else to pimp it out because LORD I AM TIRED but you guys, this is going to be so amazing. It’s tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 17th) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., in front of Ike’s Place on 16th Street at Sanchez Street. Be there. Easy.
For more info, read this and check out their twitter.
SEE YOU TOMORROW, HOOKERS!!!!
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Parents Raising Free-Range Vegans: You'll Eat That...
Parents rule. Literally, they’re supposed to be the rule makers, the head of the household, the buck stops before somebody gets grounded. But sometimes, like last night’s parental usurping by BalloonBoy Falcon Heene (“we did this for a show”), kids know best.
Highly publicized accounts of vegan parenting gone tragically wrong muddle the ongoing debate: should parents raise...
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