February 2010
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Recipe: Tempting Tempeh! I know, the name is...
This recipe is actually almost a direct rip-off of one from Lisa Jervis’ STELLAR cookbook, Cook Food (BUY IT). This recipe goes out to everyone who thinks they don’t like tempeh (I too was non-believer at one point! Now I’m straight speaking in tongues on tempeh’s ass!) and for those Vegansaurus editors who are going back to school at Oberlin and need something to cook up...
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Delightful and unexpected vegan finds: 15 Romolo!
15 Romolo is near my school, right off Broadway, so it’s very popular with my school homies. I had been there a few times before but recently I’ve been going A LOT because it’s just been delightful! Sorry about the picture below, they have mood lighting so that was the best I could do; that’s the spicy carrot and fennel dip with pita and dude, it’s the hotness! I came...
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Anna's Brooklyn Supermarket Adventures: Neck Road...
Another lovely Eastern European supermarket is Net Cost Market, at 2257 E. 16th St. off the Neck Road stop on the Q (way down in South Brooklyn). It’s worth visiting for several reasons, and only one of them is the food. Like so many tiny cultural bubbles in New York, it’s a completely different country. I’m not exactly sure whether that country’s Russia, or Poland, or...
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Diddy Pon's Weekly Deals: Kettle Chips and Garden...
Now, from what I understand, not all Kettle Chips are vegan, so do your homework and don’t blame me because you accidentally ate some cheese or a whole steak. These are on sale at Whole Foods for 3 for $6 (normally about $3 a bag!), and if you go here and “take the pledge,” WHATEVER THAT MIGHT MEAN, you can get a $1 off coupon, making each bag after sale and coupon this week only...
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Hey San Francisco pet owners! Keep your cats and...
Your daily pissed-off PSA: San Francisco is full of urban wildlife, and that means coyotes. If you have a cat or a dog, then do everyone a favor and KEEP THEM INDOORS or on-leash. Cats and dogs who roam free are at risk of meeting and getting killed by coyotes. This isn’t just bad for your pets, but bad for the coyotes, too, who get killed when efforts to coexist with them fail. As...
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Never mind, Weird Fish IS changing their menu →
And to top it off, they’re being dicks about it. Dude, nobody ever accused you of being a vegan restaurant so fucking relax. We’re just bummed you’re taking away the one place we could get fried seitan in this city. To tell us to suck it up and head to Gracias Madre is a bunch of bullshit; the menus aren’t comparable at all! I hope your shit burns to the ground. I SAID IT,...
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Invest in a vegan future!
You’ve heard about Mission Street Food’s intention to become a full-time charitable restaurant, of course, and the organizers’ need for financial backers—they quote a figure of 100 people investing $500 each. Did that incline any of you toward the pecuniary?
We received an email from a Vegansaurus reader, who said she contacted Anthony Myint (you know, MSF head chef) and...
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"The Cove" and "Food, Inc." up for Academy Awards!
We reported that they were short-listed and they fucking made it! YES! Our heart belongs to The Cove but we reallllllly hope one of them wins. AND YES, we know the awards are totally ridiculous and the winners are usually just whomever the production companies pimped the most, but it’s still exciting. Pass the popcorn, bitches!
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Cheaposaurus: Your Weekly Deals! Um, that you...
Cheaposaurus would like to be referred to as Diddy Pon from now on. Now that that’s out of the way.
Diddy Pon back with some yummy vegan bargains! Hurroooo!! NEVER MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH ME. Also, use these deals today or um, never. I’ll be back with more deals & steals* very soon! At Whole Foods this week (Always check as the stores’ sales vary by region. AKA, do your...
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Rosamunde in the Mission: it's a vegan sausage...
Some of you may be familiar with the venerable Rosamunde Sausage Grill in the Lower Haight. It’s only about 20 square feet, but between it and its next-door neighbor, Toronado, I have spent many a perfect Saturday afternoon eating vegan sausage and drinking beer (don’t judge!). Now, Rosamunde has opened a brand-spanking-new Mission location (at 24th and Mission Streets), complete with...
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Vegansaurus NYC: Bonobo's Real Food
For the past few months, my life in New York City has revolved around the strange non-neighborhood that is “Flatiron.” Not quite Midtown, not quite downtown, not even the fucking Upper West Side, this strange little corner is where people go en route to somewhere else. That is how I walked by Bonobo’s dozens of times, not realizing that it was actually a place for eating....
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WEIRD FISH BRINGS BACK VEGAN OPTIONS (that people...
Let’s all fuck in a bucket of deep-fried seitan! Or make love, if you’d prefer DANG FANCY. Uptown Almanac has the scoop, including a picture of the new old menu. High fives team! What should we take on next? House of Prime Rib?
UA also has the scoop on the city of Las Vegas totally ganking our look. I’m pretty sure we have a restraining order against that chester the molester...
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An update on the Weird Fish menu: Weird Fish...
This was posted on the Bay Area Vegetarians Yahoo group:
As many of you may know, Weird Fish in San Francisco used to have amazing vegan treats on their menu. Some local vegan favorites were the buffalo girls, hell fish tacos and seitan fish and chips. Their vegan brunch was also great. They have recently updated their menu and removed all the dishes that many of us loved so much. I updated my...
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No dogs in the kitchen!
The New York Times and the Times of London are reporting that there is a law proposal in the works over in China that would ban the eating of cats and dogs. Oh happy day! Now ads like the above will make sense in Chinese!
From the Times of London:
In what would be China’s first law against animal abuse, anyone caught eating cat or dog meat would face a fine of as much as 5,000 yuan (£450)...
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Joel's Moderately Fancy Meal: Pasta Kinda...
Inspiration always seems to strike when fresh vegetables are low, the stakes are high, time is short, and various other nouns have various other quantitative adjectives applied to them. At least, that’s how it works at my house. At yours it doesn’t have to, because should you find yourself in similar straits, you can use this recipe instead of thinking for yourself. Here’s the...
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Does San Francisco need a vegan store? (hint:...
Some people are putting out feelers to see if the good vegans of San Francisco/the Bay Area are ready for our very own vegan store! Since we’re already lagging behind the likes of, oh, say, MARIETTA, GEORGIA (home of the lovely and cute Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe) in that department, I say we are more than ready for our own vegan mart. No more will we have to order our vegan caviar from Food...
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Unhappy cows, the power of YouTube, and a loserly...
An undercover video exposé of a New York dairy farm made the rounds on YouTube earlier this week. I haven’t watched it (even reading the description was monumentally depressing), but it apparently featured tail-docking. Tail-docking is the process of cutting off a calves’ tails, ostensibly to prevent them from flicking manure (and spreading disease) when they grow up. Now, besides the...
January 2010
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American crazies, awesome people in other...
We didn’t have a link-o-rama for a couple of weeks, whoops. Good thing we saved up all those links, so you have tons of good reading for this weekend.
Let’s get some shoes! Vegan shoes, on sale through the end of the month. Ohhhh man, I wear a 7.5 U.S./37.5 EU if anyone wants to buy me a special present for being so great.
Can I kiss, like, everyone in Ghent? Last year, the city...
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