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Veggie Chic

Archive for December 2006

December 21st, 2006

Veggie Links for 21-Dec-2006: Holiday Edition

The authors of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World (which I have given to myself as an early Christmas gift) have a couple seasonal treats on their blog, including a snowman cupcake and Christmas stollen.

Vegan Finds has found a delicious seasonal vegan treat: Vitasoy Peppermint Chocolate Soy Drink. If you live somewhere where this is […]

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December 20th, 2006

What are you supposed to be eating?

In my endeavor to learn more about nutrition and creating a healthy vegetarian diet, I have come across a lot of articles opining on what we humans are supposed to eat. Specifically, there are a lot of people out there arguing that humans aren’t supposed to eat meat for one biological reason or another. They […]

By Jul -- 6 comments

December 19th, 2006

Veggie Links for 19-Dec-2006

Even the Huffington Post is thinking vegan these days. Check out this post listing a whole lot of reasons to make the switch to vegan.

I found this article about an Indian expat’s struggle to eat vegetarian in Korea quite interesting, and true to my own experiences of dining at Korean restaurants outside of Korea - […]

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December 18th, 2006

Vegetarian ecstasy in Japan

There were a lot of culinary highlights on our recent trip to Japan, but the best meals we had there were easily at the Shojin Ryori restaurants we visited. Shojin Ryori is a cuisine based upon the vegetarian diet of Buddhist monks. It has evolved into an exquisite form of haute cuisine based primarily on […]

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December 16th, 2006

Easy vegetarian travel

Today I stumbled upon the website for Green Earth Travel, an agency specializing in vegetarian and environmentally-friendly travel. I wasted more time than I’d care to admit browsing through the descriptions of their offerings and daydreaming about staying at a luxury resort or rustic bed and breakfast where the vegetarian food was the star attraction, […]

By Jul -- 4 comments

December 15th, 2006

Smart people go veggie!

Not that this comes as any surprise, but a recent study has proven that intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life.
Men who were vegetarian had an IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians.
The article goes on to explain how […]

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December 14th, 2006

Veggie Links for 14-Dec-2006

Liz Kohman has found a way to keep growing her pile of vegetarian recipes without purchasing more cookbooks: joining vegetarian email lists. Her article suggests four email lists that deliver tasty vegetarian recipes to you inbox weekly or monthly.

British animal rights activists clad only in lettuce bikinis (in near-freezing temperatures) campaigned for vegetarianism in Kazakhstan […]

By Jul -- 3 comments

December 13th, 2006

Is soy turning America’s children gay?

A website called World Net Daily (whose name cleverly disguises the fact that it is a mouthpiece for right-wing extremists) published a piece yesterday calling soy “a devil food” and claiming that feeding it to young boys can cause them to turn out gay.
Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size […]

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December 13th, 2006

Truffle oil, the new love of my life

Looking for a healthy way to add orgasmic flavor to a soup, salad or pasta dish? Truffle oil may be just what you’re seeking. The golden liquid is simply olive oil infused with the aroma of white or black truffles (white is best), and it is extremely flavorful. So flavorful, in fact, that you need […]

By Jul -- 1 comment

December 12th, 2006

Shhh… don’t tell the Swiss…

I finally tried out the Lunch Box Fondue recipe from Vegan Lunch Box. I was horrified and then intrigued when I came across this recipe, and eventually my curiosity got the better of me. After procuring some nutritional yeast flakes (no easy task in Zurich), I was ready to give it a go.
My husband and […]

By Jul -- 3 comments