September 2010
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Charlie Brooker's modest proposal
Charlie Brooker has something to say about our attitude toward food and its presentation. As a satirical genius, he uses the porniest, most revolting writing possible to address it. Here he describes the experience of eating the titular item at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, which is a sort of “upmarket fast-food chain.”
You’ve got two options: tackle it with a knife and fork (the coward’s way out), or...
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Project Just Desserts: Veganizing Top Chef! Week...
Last week Meave wrote about a super-secret project that we’re unleashing on the world, and THIS IS IT: we’re veganizing the winning dessert recipe from each week of Top Chef: Just Desserts. FOR SERIOUS. And not just us—we’re getting famous vegan chefs and bloggers to do it, too! All your favorites, making you brand-spanking-new vegan dessert recipes, inspired by television!...
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Breaking news! Animal Collective partners with...
Here’s a good bit of news!: Animal Collective is partnering with Keep shoes to raise money for the Socorro Island Conservation Fund! They are going to make a Keep shoe collection together! Yee-ha!
Animal Collective is like totally popular, right? The kids these days, they love them, no? I don’t know much about this newfangled music but I did see Animal Collective with Panda Bear like...
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See Jonathan Safran Foer read from Eating Animals!
This is short notice, vegans, but famous author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer will be reading from his book, Eating Animals in San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 21 and 22. He’s doing two readings each day: on Tuesday, one at San Francisco State at 1 p.m. and at the Commonwealth Club at 7 p.m.; and on Wednesday, one at 826 Valencia at 12:30 p.m. and at 6 p.m., as part of the...
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Psycho Donuts! Let's all move to San Jose!
Move over, San Francisco! Make room, Berkeley! San Jose is a hotbed* of vegan activity. There’s a little bit of something for everyone in downtown San Jose regardless of your reason for coming here, be it a nerd-fest comic convention, a quick pit stop on the way home from scoring weed in Santa Cruz, or that you actually live here (YES, AWESOME VEGANS DO LIVE DOWN HERE**). If you’re...
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What happened to Michael Vick's pit bulls? An... →
WHYY did an interview with Jim Gorant last Wednesday, author of Lost Dogs. At the beginning, he addresses the issue of whether it’s good use of resources to rehabilitate Vick’s dogs, considering just how many homeless dogs there are and how much work goes into rehab for dogs abused in dog-fighting. I think he and I agree that these dogs deserve a chance at a good life, and that this...
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Work at Native Foods! In San Francisco! THAT'S...
The amaaaaaazing southern California vegan chain, Native Foods, is coming to SF, and they want to hire you! In your face, Depression 2.0! I mean, at least a little bit, they can’t hire all your funemployed asses.
Man, I love Native Foods so much, and if you don’t already, you will soon love it, too. Could you even read that sentence? Moving on! It’s Herbivore (hey! it’s...
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Vegansaurus NYC: Pilgrimage to MooShoes
My friends! I’ve been to vegan fashion Mecca and I can now tell you with all certainty that Allah loves us! The proof is in all the beautiful vegan duds at MooShoes. OMG you KNOW Megan Rascal was dying, as I do love a nice vegan shoe. And the women working there were very nice! Even though I insinuated that their cat was fat within the first five minutes I was in the store. I’m all...
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BREAKING: Bob Barker Collapses at Shooting Range?! →
OUR HERO!! I hope he is OK!
So much of this doesn’t make sense:
1) Barker is still alive HE IS SO OLD (but this is good news); 2) SHOOTING RANGE?!!? Wha??? Maybe he was living a double life, Dexter-style, where he had to shoot cans to keep from shooting bunnies! Drama! Intrigue! (related: who is gonna take me to a shooting range? I think I’d be very good at this, what with my lack of...
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Is that the pungent odor of bitter disgust mixed...
What ho, young Philip! When Your Vegansaurus leads with a bunny photo, it means there’s an adoption event this weekend, and this one is tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 18 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at George in Berkeley! Harvest Home Sanctuary and House Rabbit Society buns will be waiting for you in the Fourth Street Shopping Center at 1824 Fourth St.—big buns and little buns, baby buns and...
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Tasty vegan recipes from non-vegan blogs! Holla!
Apparently “The American People” (shittiest expression ever) aren’t eating produce anymore. WELL WHY??? Vegansaurus to the rescue! The recipes below leave you no excuse for not getting your 5-Alive. Do it up, fatties!
Bay Area Bites wants us to make apple butter (DO IT!), and The Paupered Chef has some Mexican food snacks that aren’t deep-fried (don’t hold it against...
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Fur shame, Project Runway!
I generally do not watch Project Runway, especially since they went to that 90-minute format where they try to sell us more HUMAN INTEREST and more of that HORRIBLE WRETCHEN (totally came up with that and have been DYING TO USE IT!), but Allen* was watching it tonight and I was sitting next to him playing “Imagine Artist” on my DS pretending that we were having some semblance of...
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Tal Ronnen wants to cook for you! For free! In... →
Well, we’re not sure how much he actually WANTS to fly to Des Moines and cook for you and your cats? Maybe he does? We all have our freaky fetishes. I personally love to eat lasagna pan crust while listening to old Tim Gunn podcasts. WHAT? Both are delicious!
Anyway, enter here to win a vegan chef cooking up a feast at your place for you and three of your closest friends/lovers/parents.
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Beats 'n' Brunch still killing it!
I was back in SF last weekend and we had a regular old Vegansaurus party at Beats ‘n’ Brunch! Laura reviewed it before but I had never been. IT’S OFF THE HOOK! I got the “Freedom toast” pictured below (9/11 humor!). It was bangin’. I also got the bottomless mimosa and this I MUST RECOMMEND.
Next is some tortilla thing that almost everyone got but me. I hear it...
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Vegans! Vegetarians! How about some cricket fried... →
I wish I were kidding! But according to insect-cuisine evangelists, there is nothing tastier than a bug, and guess what, it’s totally vegan! Or at least, these people have no compunction inviting “vegans and vegetarians” to entomophagous dinner parties, where people who describe themselves as “mostly a vegetarian” can try all kinds of nibbles, like waxworms, bamboo...
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The apocalypse is coming! Take a shower!
And after you take that shower, stop pestering your doctors for antibiotics…BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT WORK!
A new super-bug, NDM-1 has popped up in California, Massachusetts, and Illinois. It was first identified in India and can be transmitted hand-to-mouth. That means keep yourself clean y’all!. It may or may not also be turning people into zombies, à la 28 Days Later. Which, by the...
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Announcing Vegansaurus' super-secret,...
You guys, it’s going to be great! I wish we could tell you more about it—we are so close to having all our seeds in a row, so to speak—but for now, I can say that Your Vegansaurus has fun surprises in store for you in the coming weeks! Fun surprises directly related to the new Bravo show Top Chef: Just Desserts!
We are unaffiliated with the Bravo network, although our Maria owns...
