July 2009
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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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