May 2009
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recipe vs. recipe: chocolate cookies with peanut...
Like most of you palate-less plebes, I love peanut butter and chocolate; I believe I’ve spoken before about how much I like peanut butter and chocolate sandwich cookies especially. Of course best are homemade cookies, and being a very selective egomaniac, I feel that my cookies are the best cookies, so ideally when I am eating a chocolate cookie with peanut butter filling, it is one...
April 2009
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Food, Inc.
Tentatively excited for this movie, a documentary along the lines of Fast Food Nation and Omnivore’s Dilemma.
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Enjoy Vegetarian!
Enjoy Vegetarian used to have a dish on its menu named “vag ham.” It has since been corrected to read “veg ham,” but for one glorious year, it was known to me and my friends simply as ham of the vag. And it was simply delicious. OKAY SORRY I HAD TO GET THAT OUT THE WAY IT WAS KILLING ME. Oh adorable Chinese-menu-Engrish, I love you. You bring me happiness in a way that few...
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Breakroom Cafe!
Somewhere in my brain there exists a template for the ideal vegan restaurant. I can’t tell you exactly what it is because I don’t totally know myself. Somewhere in the intersection between Candle 79 in New York, and Paradox Cafe in Portland, perhaps? Does that even make sense?
The Breakroom Cafe, I’m sorry to say, is not that perfect restaurant. I kinda psyched you out with that...
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Vegan Survival Guide: Westfield Center Mall!
This Monday, as most of us return to our ridiculous jobs, let us celebrate the fun times every vegan has searching for affordable, tasty (read: not insanely expensive and edible) meals in the Financial District. Our guest post is brought to you by the fantastic Sharon who braves through the best and the worst of the Westfield Center Mall so that you may reap the rewards! What a gal!
At my...
Are Oreos Vegan??!
The answer is in the United States: MOST LIKELY YES (and that includes all of their flavors, from the Golden ones to double stuffed mint! Hello!). In other parts of the world, yes and no. Lesson here: always read the label. Another lesson: never trust Nabisco, those fuckers will unveganize your favorite accidentally vegan snack before you can say, “Fuck you, Nabis!” SEE HOW THEY DO!!!
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Friday Poll: What's Your Favorite "Accidentally...
I asked our Twitter followers what their favorite “accidentally vegan” find was and here’s what some people answered:
Oreos and cookies appear to be people’s favorite “can’t believe it’s vegan” snacks. How about you?
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Product Review: Quong Hop tofu
Please welcome guest writer and frequent Vegansaurus photograph-provider Joel!
“In 1906, Sing Hau Lee established Quong Hop, the first tofu shop in America.” This was in San Francisco proper; the company now manufactures its soy products in South San Francisco. “He brought with him his family’s tofu-making secrets that had been a tradition for generations.” Man! That is old!...
Watchherbivorg:
Rate of slaughter of chickens, pigs and cows in the USA in 2008. (via vegan.com)
I know Vegansaurus has become our soapbox lately but things needed to be said! The next post will be a restaurant or food review. Most likely.
Happy Earth Day, bitches!
Today, celebrate the Earth and how awesome it is by giving up meat, dairy, and eggs! Together we can make a diffference! I am a total hippie!
Check out the PDF report from HSUS, which includes the findings of the 2006 United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization Report, Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options, “stating that the livestock business generates more...
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“The way Americans eat has lots of problems, to be sure, but telling people that...”
– Maria posted that quote from the Jezebel piece on Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and veganism.
Jezebel - Animal Advocate Doesn’t See Why Veganism Is So Difficult To Do - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
I have some thoughts on this. They are posted below (with a little help from Meaverly!) I’d love to...
Water Footprint Chart
Good Magazine posts this nice-looking infographic showing the cost, in gallons of water, of various foods and activities. It would have been nice if they had compared a hamburger to a veggie burger instead of a boring-looking salad, and compared beef to tofu or seitan instead of to chicken. And what about the cost of a bottle of water, shipped from, say, Fiji?
Framed this way, I don’t know...
Foie Gras. Boo.
Gavin Newsom* did the right thing this week, he removed foie gras from the menu of all his PlumpJack restaurants. This follows the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimous vote to commend restaurants that don’t serve it. (Not a ban, dumbasses. I don’t expect SFist to publish anything worth reading but to just print lies? World Class, you guys.)
Foie gras is, like, the weirdest...
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SF Bay Area Vegansaurus readers! Give ONE day to...
Hello AWESOME Vegansaurus Readers.
First, you are so awesome.
Second, The Healthy School Lunches campaign that Laura is working on with Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has been gaining huge momentum in Congress. It’s looking more and more like getting healthy nondairy vegetarian food and nondairy beverages into the National School Lunch Program could actually freaking...
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Amici's!
Amici’s pizza has seriously stepped up the New York-style pizza game in San Francisco. As of this past weekend, they started serving vegan cheese. It’s melty, gooey, tasty Cheezly vegan cheese* and it is marvelous. A little vegan birdie told me that this would be happening months ago and I dared to dream but didn’t think too much about it because if it didn’t happen, I...
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Bacon on the radio
Because nothing tastes as good as living a as cruelty-free and environmentally responsible life as possible feels, EXCEPT EATING MEAT IT IS SO DELICIOUS.
(Thanks to commenter TM Moore for the link)
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Road Trip: Sweet Cakes
All I’ve wanted for a week, or I don’t know, a while, has been to make the banana bread in The Joy of Vegan Baking. (Here is a tip: toast nuts before you bake with them for richer and fuller flavors.) Then I made it on Saturday and the batter was delicious as ever but the bread turned out…not the way I wanted it to. Worse, the next day when I gave it a light toast and a healthy...
March 2009
New Vegan Marshmallows! And shoes! Woo!
So apparently there are new vegan marshmallows called Dandies from the mad geniuses at Chicago Soy Dairy. And apparently they’re quite good. We’re waiting for our shipment in the mail but have heard nothing but vegans FREAKING OUT for them. Anyone tried them yet?? Opinions?? I know you got ‘em!
Edit: the brilliant and fantastic Quarrygirl.com review of Dandies can be seen here....
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“This is a slam-dunk to say that, ‘Yes, indeed, if people want to be...”
– A piece of cow a day WILL SEND YOU TO AN EARLY GRAVE
Of course the interpreters of the study go on to recommend eating “white meat” as a substitute; it’s important to make sure people do not conclude that eating zero meat might be the best choice. That’s crazy-talk, and...
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Burma Superstar!
Burma Superstar: You either love it, or you refuse to put up with it because of the ridonkulous wait*. I love it, I can’t help it. I’m a glutton for food you must fight for. And all other food too. Burma Superstar I love so much that it’s usually the first place I take out-of-towners and it’s always the favorite. In fact, I have a friend who went three times on her last...
