October 2009
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Noe Valley Whole Foods Opens Today! →
People, start your engines! And by people, I mean Rich White Ladies and by engines, I mean maids! WOO!
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“Lygomme™ACH Optimum functional system removes this instability by offering...”
– From Cargill (big evil dairy fools) via Paul Shapiro. Man, this could be amazing…NO MORE DAIRY FROM COWS. I mean, dang. Fingers and toes and even my legs are crossed. EVEN MY LEGS. That’s how bad I want this, people.
September 2009
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Pi Bar, take 52! OH AND SCREW YOU BEFORE YOU SAY...
I am in an ornery way today. A cocktail of vicodin, theraflu, and percocet (HA I WISH) will do that to a girl. I love my life, I’m alive, someone get me down from here, I think I need to go to the hospital. There, we’ve run the gamut of my emotions. I cycle those about every 15 minutes. Right now, I’m riding the high so let’s do the damn thing!
So, from our hot field...
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10th Annual World Veg Festival!
HELLO LITTLE DINOS.
This is Laura. I am back from the edge. I mean, I literally almost threw myself off a cliff because I’ve been SO FUCKING SICK AND ALL I WANT TO DO IS DIE. AND EAT. I don’t know what’s up with that? Why can’t I be like a fucking normal person and not want to gorge myself when I’m sick?? I swear, I might have a glandular disorder. Only cure? MORE...
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Everybody Hates Robin
[Note: I have been cross-posting my Top Chef recaps with my blog, BravoFan. So now you get to read these amazing masterpieces twice!]
On last night’s Top Chef, every one wore red scarves in honor of Mattin’s departure. I hope those were clean before he gave them away to everyone. Or was he like: “Here’s a parting gift, guys! My sweaty scarves! Au revoir!” The...
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Vegansaurus Visits Veggie Conquest NYC
The East Coast branch of Vegansaurus had the privelege of attending Veggie Conquest, a new amateur vegan cooking competition in New York City. It’s described as an event for “vegans, vegetarians, omnivores, raw foodists, fruitarians, and whatever-other-tarians with a love for food.”
Here’s how it works: a secret ingredient is picked a week before the event and is emailed...
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Tonight! Help chimpanzees!
The Great Ape Protection Act needs your help. Come to our letter writing party to help chimpanzees! We’ll be writing letters to Rep. Jackie Speier and other representatives to show our support for the measure.
Vegan cupcakes will be provided, naturally! More info here.
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“Animals do not want to die. They can feel pain and fear, and, just like us, will...”
– Notes from a slaughter class :: The Ethicurean
This is an interesting essay on “a course focused on the slaughtering and processing of meat animals” by a food science grad student. The author was and remains an omnivore.
What do you think, vegans? One of the commenters on The...
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International Hug a Vegetarian Day! →
Thanks for reminding us, Maria!
Now embrace each other! Double-hugs for vegans because, obviously.
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10 Weird and Gross Ingredients in Processed Food →
Hey vegans! Who already knew all seven of the animal ingredients? Who didn’t? The anal glands business was (disgusting, awful) news to me. Also, natural L-cysteine/cystine. Nastier living through chemistry!
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SF Vegan Drinks are TONIGHT!
SF Vegan Drinks are tonight (Sep. 24th), from 6 to 8 p.m. at Martuni’s! Yes! AND this month there will be FREE BAKED GOODS from Violet Sweet Shoppe on hand! If you haven’t tried the VEGAN WHOOPIE PIES, now would be your chance! See you there, party people! Ow!
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Top Chef Goes Camping
I have no excuse for the Top Chef recap being this late this week, except perfection takes sweet time. Besides, don’t you need a fresh reminder for tomorrow’s episode? So much has happened in the past week. There was the Emmys on Sunday, which unless you are an obsessive pop culture aficioniado (or someone posessing an actual life, which I most certainly don’t have) you probably...
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Banh Mi by Mai!
The Mission, already a magical neighborhood where vegans can eat like royalty, has become even better. How can this be so, in the land of soy milk and agave nectar? Fresh, delicious, vegan banh mi made to order and delivered to your door, is how.
Mai of Fashioni.st just launched Banh Mai, a one-woman Vietnamese sandwich operation based in the Mission. She has a vegan, a vegetarian, and a meat...
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Pigs in your blankets, our jerk governor, stopping...
Hey North Bay, busy on Monday, Sept. 21? There’s a sign-making party in Petaluma for World Farmed Animals Day (coming up!) that you could attend. Contact Kate Danaher for further information—location, supplies needed, etc.— and be ready for action from 6 to 9 p.m.
Win an ice cream party with Coconut Bliss ice cream! You guys this stuff is AMAZING, the cappuccino flavor is the...
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Product Review: Miracle Fruit Tablets!
This is also just basically a how to. HAVE AN AWESOME TIME WITH SOME COOL-ASS CRAZYPANTS BERRIES THAT CHANGE YOUR TASTE BUDS WHAT WHAT.
You will need: these Miracle Fruit tablets. No, they are not LSD, Dad. They are just tablets made to replicate the effect of the miracle fruit. And maybe some LSD WHO KNOWS? Oh wait, and there isn’t a real difference between the tablets and the actual...
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Coming Out: Six Reasons to Be a Vegan (and why we...
In the beginning, there’s OMFFGGGGGWHHHYYYYY???
Since I would reckon more of us came to the big V based on our own decisions, and not because we’ve been raised that way from birth, we undoubtedly will face the original question: WHY??? Hiss what you will about Mr. Bourdain’s Hezbollah vegan quote, right or not, he voices what a lot of people outside our tofu bubble think: vegans...
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"Dolphin-safe" tuna is just as bad! IF NOT WORSE! →
In a move of epically awesome parenting on the part of my father, I was allowed to watch Jaws with him when I was four. I sat next to him wearing my Wonder Woman Halloween costume. As a result (of watching Jaws, not of wearing the Wonder Woman costume), I have a hard time doing things like going into the ocean past my cankles, closing my eyes in swimming pools, being in swimming pools, and taking...
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Review: Basu's Homestyle Indian Cuisine (IS THE...
Basu’s graciously sent us some of their make-it-yourself Homestyle Indian Cuisine to check out, presumably because every vegan blog south of San Luis Obispo has already had the chance. This is probably because they are an adorable family startup company based in the L.A. area and distributing regionally, but I am still immediately resentful of Southern California having anything desirable or...
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RECIPE! Ms. Lonelyhearts' lentil soup
Sometimes you are on top of the world; life could not possibly be greater, everything is sunshine and lollipops, and those rose-colored glasses have become permanently affixed to your face, but in a pretty way (obviously, everything about you is pretty). The view is amazing from your shining city. Then, one day, you open your eyes and you can’t see the view for the fog; someone has ousted...
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Coco Loco!
It works like this: $2.50 buys you the coconut of your choice. He hacks off the top with a cleaver, puts a straw in it, then you drink the water. Then you bring it back to him, he hacks the whole thing open and puts a spoon in it, and you eat the jelly-like meat (cause they’re young coconuts, obviously). Then you feel fat and happy. The proprietor is very sweet and it seems like business is...
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Jay's Cheesesteak considering carrying vegan...
And they (according to our VERY SECRET PLEASE DO NOT ASK sources) want/need encouragement. Or just, you know, want to know that vegans will actually be psyched and into it. WILL YOU BE??? Can you imagine the pizza cheesesteak with some Daiya up on that bitch? Yeah, you can.
CALL TODAY!
Mission location: (415) 285-5200
Western Addition location: (415) 771-5104
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET....
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Offal IS awful. So is every other part of the...
Apparently there is a school of thought that acknowledges all the problems involved in animal agriculture: the ridiculous waste; the environmental holocaust; the abuses and tortures inflicted on farmed animals, and yet recoils at the thought of becoming vegetarian or vegan. It’s difficult to grasp the logic, except maybe that giving up meat is too “spartan,” strict, and...
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A million recipes, a whole bunch of videos, some...
The Cute Show visits an alpaca farm. It is unsettling to hear the farm children talk about the little creatures in terms of fleece quality, but I advise ignoring them and focusing on the unbearable squeezeability of the alpacas. Look at their furry little legs and their fuzzy heads! Look at the little bitty blue-eyed deaf one! It’s only four days old you can pick it up and snuggle it LOVE...
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Top Chef Loses Two
I tuned into this week’s Top Chef a little late, so I was delighted to find that Jessie had been put out of her misery and finally been eliminated after essentially living in the bottom three. Good riddance to those tacky face piercings.
The elimination challenge itself was to cook for and fellate Joël Robuchon. The latter may not have been an official part of the challenge, but it sure...
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Recipe: Cheddar Biscuits (made with Daiya!) →
From the Fat Geniuses over at It’s Faturday. I’m gonna eat so many of those Daiya cheddar biscuits and get so fucking fat, you have no idea. Okay, I think you have SOME idea.
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Holy cute!
A lost world of CUTE has just been discovered inside Mount Bosavi, an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea. New species of frog, bat, fish, and birds have been found here, including an ADORABLY tiny parrot, and an ADORABLY huge rat (is this the true Giant Rat of Sumatra?). There’s also a frog with fangs (supposedly, though I scoured the internet for a photo fruitlessly), a spider that’s...
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Here is a Professor at Texas State telling an old... →
In this editorial in Forbes, James McWilliams (author of Just Food: How Locavores Get it Wrong And How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, a book whose cover you want desperately to judge because looks exactly like every other paperback bestseller containing your newfound food philosophy) clarifies his position on locavorism (locavoreness? locavoraciousness? okay sorry.) And that is basically, not...
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Bethenny Frankel Gets Naked for PETA
Bethenny Frankel, who you probably don’t know unless you spend your life tracking the lives of reality stars and then making pithy comments about it, has just become the latest woman to go naked for PETA. Bethenny is best known for being on the cast of Real Housewives of New York City, but her “real job” is as a natural foods chef and diet pimp.
She’s launching a line...
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Bid on Dinner with Zoë Stagg at Brassica...
So the lovely Zoë Stagg (seen on the pages of Vegansaurus before and will soon have a regularly featured column here WATCH OUT WORLD!) is offering herself up to the highest bidder (NOT LIKE THAT PERVS! Okay, maybe like that. Are you attractive? BE HONEST.). We think a Vegansaurus reader should get on this. Awesome vegan lady, awesome cause, awesome dinner. Win win win win win.
Zoë writes:
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Ted's Market!
It’s all well and good that we have restaurants like Herbivore and Cha-Ya, fine all-vegan establishments that they are. But vegans don’t have to be ghettoized, consigned to eat only with our own kind in where places no gung-ho carnivore would set foot*. Sometimes vegan options turn up in the most unexpected places. It’s like finding Incan gold** (um, except without the...
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Chaat night at Mission Street Food →
I know Vegansaurus is not a major fan of Mission Street Food, but first the amazing vegan burger, and now a menu that is almost 100 percent vegetarian—if they’re going to give us what we want, we’d better be there to take it. Right? YES.
Thursday Sept. 10 at 6 p.m. inside Lung Shan at 2234 Mission St.; get there early or risk missing the tastiest dishes (lentil fritters please...
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Help Save Queenie the Elephant from the God-awful... →
Please email, call and fax* by tomorrow (Wednesday, Sep 9) and ask the USDA to remove the lovely Queenie from her shit-tastic owners and put her in a beautiful sanctuary. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT SO TAKE FIVE MINUTES OUT OF YOUR LIFE DON’T BE SO SELFISH GOD. I know you’re reading this on your MacBook Pro while you lay in bed and drink margaritas and are all fat and happy and rich and...
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Call for vegans: Cupcake Camp 2009!
Cupcake Camp is back again! It’s scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 4 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Automattic [sic] at Pier 38.* Your Vegansaurus entered two flavors in last year’s event, and we felt it went very successfully. HOWEVER: maybe 10 to 15 percent of last year’s cupcakes were vegan, and you know we cannot let that stand. It was like every sad dessert party you’ve ever been...
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Edible Expeditions at San Francisco Conservatory...
California is probably the world’s agricultural wonderland. It’s true: if you drive through the Central Valley, there is just as much topsoil in the sky as there is on the ground – the ability to grow crops in the sky is pretty dang impressive, EPA warnings be damned.
But when you live in a state where it seems like you can grow almost anything, it’s easy to forget that there’s actually a lot of...
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Interview: Amit Gupta!
We love Amit Gupta. Like, hearts and stars love. The kind of love you would kill a man for. That’s how we love Amit Gupta. He is a vegetarian entrepreneur…do you really need to know anything else? Any veggies out there who get out of bed everyday with the intent of kicking that day’s ass in a variety of ways are good by us. To elaborate, he started Jelly and organized the first...
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