Veggie Chic

May 19th, 2008

Is regular toast too vegetarian for you?

I saw a commercial the other day which made me shake my head in disbelief. It was for Tillman’s Toasty. The tagline on this inventive new product roughly translates to “the meat snack for your toaster”. Oh those Germans…
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January 13th, 2008

2007’s worst foods: meat, meat, and more meat

Mr. Bad Food has just put out a list of the 10 worst foods of 2007 that made me giggle. I’m always wary of new developments in the world of fast or convenience foods, but they’ve really outdone themselves with these items. The creators of these monstrocities scoff at the notion of healthy eating, laugh […]

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December 3rd, 2007

Vegetarian’s worst nightmare?

Bacon and corndog scented ‘air fresheners’. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeew.

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June 26th, 2007

Do green beans have to be green?

I found these beans at the farmers market last week. They look like green beans, smell like green beans, and taste like green beans, but they’re purple. So I guess that makes them… purple beans?
Inside they were green, and the outside color faded from brilliant purple to kind of a greenish-purple while they were steaming. […]

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May 13th, 2007

It comes in purple, too

Last weekend some friends are I headed out to an asparagus festival on a nearby farm. We learned about how the spears are grown and harvested, and were able to sample several asparagus dishes.
In addition to green and white, the farm grew purple asparagus, too. They are similar in shape and texture to green ones, […]

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May 9th, 2007

Ryegrass: not for eating

One of the swag items I picked up at a conference last month was this little grow-your-own-plant kit. I finally got around to setting it up and planting the seeds last week, and up they came.
I don’t know if it’s the size of the thing, or the fact that I never grow anything that’s not […]

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February 14th, 2007

Putting cow poop to good use

I have been reading a lot recently about how very bad livestock are for the environment and the massive amounts of greenhouse gasses they produce. So I was thrilled to hear about (from my friend Sara) the The Straus Family Creamery and its greenhouse-gas-reducing technology.
The details of the process are not for the easily-queasy, but […]

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December 28th, 2006

Moby’s hangover cure: Tofurky and vegan chocolate

This article about celebrity hangover cures caught my eye because of Moby’s answer:

My hangover cure is pretty complicated. Before you go to sleep, you have to have some sort of food that’s quite salty. I have this vegan stuff called Tofurky, a tofu substitute for turkey, which is really good. I make a sandwich with […]

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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 […]

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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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