July 2009
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San Francisco's FIRST (storefront!!) VEGAN BAKERY!
Okay, we’re only in rumor stages here, folks, but word on the street is that these people are in the process of signing a lease and making all of our FIRST STOREFRONT VEGAN BAKERY IN SAN FRANCISCO piggy dreams come true. They have a website, a twitter account and my undying affection if they can get that bitch open in time for my birthday. WHICH WILL BE EVERYDAY WHEN THERE’S A VEGAN...
June 2009
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Sunrise Deli!
I am declaring Sunrise Deli the best falafel in San Francisco proper. DEAL WITH IT. You all can argue with me but whatever, I don’t care what you have to say and won’t pretend to, either. As you can easily tell, I am a popular girl.
I was turned on to Sunrise by the good people at VegNews magazine and Brassica Supperclub and they collectively know their shit (read: food). The best...
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We made $3,000 at the World Wide Vegan Bakesale...
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That is not a typo, we don’t mean $300. We mean THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE ANIMALS WHAT’S UP, BIZNATCHES!!!
Many, many thanks to all of our fabulous bakers, donators, advertisers, eaters and other awesome folks who donated time, money and space to make this happen! You are all so so so so amazing. Thank you x 10 million bajillion trillion!!
Now, we’re off to bathe...
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PETA's SEXIEST VEGETARIANS 2009 →
You were dying to hear this news, which is why Vegansaurus is bringing it to you a mere nine days after its release. The internet voted, and PETA tallied, and here they are, your 2009 sexiest vegetarians!
For the U.S.: Kellie Pickler and Milo Ventimiglia For Asia-Pacific/Australia: Portia de Rossi and Andrew G. (co-host, Australian Idol) For Asia-Pacific/Asia: Barbie Hsu (Taiwan) and Shahid...
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World Wide Vegan Bakesale San Francisco is THIS...
This is just a reminder that we will be out in full force on Saturday, June 27th (in front of Ike’s Place at 3506 16th St., 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.!) and Sunday, June 28th (24th St. at Capp St., 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.!) with HUNDREDS of delicious vegan baked goods! Pies, cakes, cupcakes, pastries, donuts, breakfast bars, blondies, brownies and much, much more! Our bakesale is stocked by generous...
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Product review: Vaute Couture Coats!
Um, I can’t really review these because I haven’t tried them on but Vaute Couture has some hella super cute vegan winter coats. As any vegan lady knows, those are as hard to come by a baby robin at a Cute Baby Animals Convention. Just not happening. Plus, Vaute Couture is the baby of Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, a rocking vegan lady who is doing it to it and she definitely deserves our...
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Pi Bar: Take two!
I was walking Hazel past the Pi Bar this morning and I swear to God I heard that door open from a block away. I was like Scooby Doo, my ears perked up and I was all, “bwuh?” Hazel was mid-crap so I urged her to cut this one short so I could get my foot in the door before it closed. We ran across the street, dodging bikes and cars, barely making it across this dangerous span of Valencia...
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GOOP on BLAT. Ugh, why with the disgusting... →
Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest GOOP newsletter has some vegan recipes from Gwynie herself. GODDAMMIT FOR MAKING ME HATE YOU LESS. Hopefully this awful feeling will pass soon. Brb, gonna go look at a poster from Shallow Hal. Ahh, yes. Better. My unbridled hate has returned and all is right in the world. I seriously want to throw this bitch out a window. She is so bad for women. I’m gonna tie...
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Two vegan-tastic events tonight in San Francisco!
Two awesome events in San Francisco tonight. If you’re vegan, vegetarian or veg-curious and living in or around SF, I expect to see you at one of the following events. I will know if you are there or not because I have people. That is right, I am in the Russian Mafia. The Vegan Russian Mafia. There are only three of us but we’re mighty! And have eyes in the back of our heads so...
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Measuring "gastronomic value"
“Carrots are the new caviar,” according to Daniel Patterson in the Financial Times. Patterson is the chef and owner of Coi, one of a handful of haute cuisine restaurants in San Francisco that serve vegetarian specialties alongside meat dishes. Patterson says that modern haute cuisine végétarien began when a French restaurant stopped serving meat during a 2001 European outbreak of BSE;...
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“DNA tests revealed that in the two most serious cases, the vegetarian patties...”
– Taipei, Taiwan Investigation Bureau makes some disgusting findings.
The article tells us is that 17 out of 31 “vegetarian food vendors in Taipei city and county” were selling lies, and some may have been doing it accidentally (not that that excuses it, but it’s better than...
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Philz Coffee vs. Rodger's Coffee and Tea!
Why am I comparing the two? Because one, I love to pit friends against each other in a bloody battle for my affections and two, they both specialize in “One Cup at a Time” coffee. If you live under a rock (or not in the Mission), what that means is, you choose exactly what type of beans you want, and they grind and brew them, mix in your desired quantities of sugar and soy milk, and...
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Violet Bake Shoppe bakesale presale!
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Violet Sweet Shoppe won’t be at our bakesales next weekend (COME) but she’ll be at the Hemlock Tavern today, June 22nd, selling her (delicious) wares! Cinnamon roll cookies with vanilla icing; spice cake with creamy cinnamon frosting; and THE MOST AMAZING ginger cookie things with a lemony cream filling! They ARE SO VERY VERY DELICIOUS. You must eat all of them.
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“You can vote to change the system,” it declares,... →
That’s Nicholas Kristof on Food, Inc.
It’s kind of amazing that just a few years ago the New York Times all but refused to print anything about big animal agribusiness. Pretty exciting.
Also, developing the TINIEST of crushes on Kristof. What? He’s kinda cute! Ask your mom!
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Free Vegan Tacos on Sunday, June 21st at 2 pm in... →
Well, they’re not all vegan but you know, you can work a vegan one. As far as the Crème Brûlée Cart: Sorry, you’re screwed. Unless that fool would make us some delicious vegan brûlée, but I’m guessing no. “Foodies” are normally total a-holes.*
Also, this movie looks kinda terrible…like Garden State-lite. Zooey, you are the most adorable, but I can’t trust...
Two things.
The first is Roger Ebert’s review of Food, Inc., in which he doesn’t so much review the film as claim that it scared the “bejesus” out of him.
The second is Kottke’s post about Lant Pritchett’s observation on how big ideas are perceived over time: “silly, controversial, progressive, then obvious”. I’d say that, depending on where you are in...
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World Wide Vegan Bakesale News!
Next weekend is the official World Wide Vegan Bakesale—come see Vegansaurus next Saturday and Sunday (June 27th & 28th!) at the sale we’re awesomelly participating in—but you don’t have to wait that long to buy delicious baked goods, for charity.
Valencia Street’s own Little Otsu is hosting a solo bakesale by Violet Sweet Shoppe on Sunday, 21 June, from 1 to 4...
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New Cha-Ya Location!
We’ve just become aware that a third Cha-Ya is opening this weekend! It’s in the Inner Sunset at 1386 9th Ave. at Judah, where Empress Garden used to be. If you’re not familiar with Cha-Ya, it’s a lovely all-vegan Japanese restaurant, with locations already in the Mission and in Berkeley. And it’ll get a proper review around here sooner or later.
This is...
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Pi Place: New Pizza in the Mission!?
I got an odd letter in the mail today, informing me that a new alcohol purveyor was opening on my street. Well, sure, I’ll take another one of those! Reading further I found out that this new establishment will be called Pi Bar and is setting up shop at 1432 Valencia—also known as the space where Suriya Thai used to be. Proprietors Jen and Richie say that they live in the neighborhood...
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Joel's Moderately Fancy Meal of the Week:...
I often find myself between shopping trips, with a not entirely cohesive assortment of vegetables and staples to work with. Frequently in this situation I’ll make a stir fry, or greens and rice, or slap together some sandwiches* and call it a day. But sometimes if you squint and turn your head just so, the stuff in the fridge kind of pulls together in your imagination. Or, you know, you made...
“In the early stages of the disease, gout attacks, which can last several days...”
– Another reason it’s great to eat vegan: you’re not going to eat your way to the gout.
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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and Bryant Terry at...
Compassionate Cooks founder Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is celebrating the release of her new cookbook, The Vegan Table. I just got this book and I LOVES it already! It’s organized in sections to make entertaining easy, whether it’s for two people or 200! I hate how I sounded just there but it’s TRUE. Damn Colleen for bringing out my deeply hidden kindness with her relentless...
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Soy is making kids "gay". Yep. →
This is a for-real article. No, seriously; for real.
Credit to Vegan.com for finding this GEM.
Editorial note: Vegansaurus stands in staunch opposition to the beliefs detailed in the above-linked World Net Daily commentary by Jim Rutz, and further notes that the piece is a “commentary,” by a total crazy person, and not a neutral, fact-driven news article. Vegansaurus consists of gays...
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Bike Basket Pies!
These pies are seriously ridiculous. The strawberry rhubarb! The blueberry & candied lemon*! Heaven! OH AND THEY’RE VEGAN. Well, not all of them but I’m working on that (can I get a what-what for Earth Balance!? Nevermind! Further, BLOW ME, EARTH BALANCE IS THE SHIT AND ISN’T MILKED FROM THE UDDER OF A COW WHO’S USED UNTIL SHE LITERALLY FALLS DOWN AND DIES. Oh those are...
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Guest Post: Recipe: THE ARBIZOID!
Vegansaurus friend Max G. clued us in to one of the nastiest but hella tastiest treats he loves. Why is the grossest food always the best? I blame chemical additives, shitty parents, our screwed national school lunch program, and every large corporation ever. Especially Monsanto. Gotta throw in some hate for Monsanto, because what kind of vegan blog would this be if we didn’t? Also, they are...
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“French luxury goods group Hermès has resorted to breeding its own crocodiles on...”
– Hermès, so clever! Now they have their own death mill, just like fur- and leather-goods producers, so it’s easier for them to make their $48k (US) crocodile-skin handbags; apparently demand is way up!
I especially liked learning that despite keeping the crocodiles individually caged (to...
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Review: "The Goode Family"
The Goode Family Episode 1, Season 1 A review, by Meave and Joel
Because we are the/a definitive (/arbitrary) guide to modern vegan living, I felt obligated to watch The Goode Family, to see how exactly these ca-razy vegans were being portrayed. I cajoled Joel into watching it with me, to make it less of the drag I feared it would be. This is our story. (outside the Goodes’ house, the...
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Guest post: Book review: Vegan Brunch!
Apparently Laura was too busy “working” on more “important” things like “making the world a better place” this weekend to come to my birthday brunch. Okay, I guess that’s fair. But as Isa Chandra Moskowitz asserts in her dedication page of her new cookbook Vegan Brunch, “Scrambled tofu saves lives!” So I was doing my part as well in testing out...
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Supreme Master merchandise!
Laura has spoken before about wanting a Loving Hut apron, as worn by the waitstaff (or at least the ladies on the team), and through some odd path of links, I found myself at Supreme Master’s official merchandise site this morning.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, she does not sell those adorable aprons. She does, however, make shopping bags, mugs, coasters, travel utensil sets,...
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Bender's Bar!
UPDATE:
Bender’s has a new menu because Weird Fish is whack and ended the satellite kitchen. HOWEVER, they have stuff that can be made vegan and are CARRYING DAIYA CHEESE NOW! All right now, yall.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Okay. So I heard from KevinMonty that Bender’s Bar has a very similar menu to Weird Fish, so I had to check it out. He’s right! and further, it’s actually a...
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Chocolate Covered!
Chocolate Covered is straight Willy Wonka PIMP y’all! What? I don’t know. Anyway, I believe they have the best selection of fancy candy in all of San Francisco, and I’ve been around the candy block, if you know what I’m saying. (whore!) (shut up!) It has a fantastic selections of chocolates from all over the world, and MANY of them are vegan. Jack (the awesome owner!) and...
“Perhaps, some day, the very idea of eating animal flesh will seem as remote as...”
– Meat: the slavery of our time | The Argument
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Island Earth Farmers' Market in the Metreon!
The Island Earth Farmers’ Market opened on May 15th in the Metreon (in the old Discovery Store space) and we hear that it has tons of vegan options, from vegan dim sum to vegan Afghan food to vegan pastries to an entirely veganfalafel stand! Has anyone been!? We’re gonna check it out tomorrow and want a heads-up on what to pig out on and what is funk nasty.
Expect a full report on the...
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World Wide Vegan Bakesale in SF Blog! →
World Wide Vegan Bakesale SF now has a blog! Ow! We’ve teamed up with the excellent and awesome Bay Area Post Punk Kitchen Crew and Melisser at The Urban Housewife to make this TWO DAY event a smash success for the animals! But we need your help!
1) Advertise the blog! Follow it/link it/rss it/follow it/do that thing you do to it!
2) If you are interested in DOING ANYTHING FOR THE SALE,...
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Le Colonial: a place for compromise!
Unless you live in a magical family of non-meat-eaters, who raised you meat-free (it happens! I know one such family, eating at their house is THE BEST), you are probably related to omnivores. And unless you are a horrible person who never learned to grow up and stop having a fit every time a family member ate something that offended your vegan sensibilities (which, come on guys, are we still...
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All You Knead!
I never would have thought to visit All You Knead, except for the chance that brought me to the Haight one weekend morning, when the line at the Pork Store (across the street) looked a little too daunting. I was initially skeptical that they would have any decent vegan options at all, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Not only does All You Knead provide a few vegan selections right on the menu, but...
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Can I get a what-what for $1 Wednesdays at Maggie...
Just wanted to inform/remind yall that Wednesdays are $1 cone days at Maggie Mudd. If that won’t get your fat ass up Cortland, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL.
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Anyone else going to see Jens Lekman at Bottom of...
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