Vegetarian Star

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Spencer Haywood once told Sports Illustrated magazine that as a vegetarian he eats a lot of “Sad-ass food: sorry proteins, sorry beans”-food he ate while growing up with less means that what he has today. He also takes vitamins and drinks protein shakes all for sake of being able to live long enough to enjoy his legendary glory.

In his professional basketball player days, he served on the Los Angeles Lakers men’s basketball team and helped them win an NBA title, as well as the 1968 Olympic champion U.S. men’s basketball team.

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He ain’t nothing but a burger digger.

Kanye West is giving Fatburger boys in Chai Town the option of a veggie burger. Well, maybe he’s not specifically offering veggie burgers, but he’s become the owner of 10 Fatburger Franchises in the Chicago area.

Besides the usual fare of greasy, bloody Baby Fat and Kingburgers, Fatburger also offers a Boca Burger. While this probably won’t convert Fatburger’s loyal flesh lovers, at least it does provide some healthier options. We don’t know the details about how a Fatburger Boca Burger is cooked (on the same grill as meat or not), so this may or not please all vegetarians.

The first restaurant is set to open in Orland Park in September.

via Pop Crunch

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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta was a strict vegan for awhile. Lately, he thinks his body is telling him to do some egg every now and then. From an interview with The Dwarf.

D: What have you been eating lately?

O: Eating!? Oh yeah let’s talk, I’ll talk about that! Lately I’ve been also incorporating more things into my diet. It’s been nice to taste new foods and stuff.

D: Because you were pretty strict for a while, right?

O: Yeah very strict, very regimented. I mean, I still don’t eat sugar or caffeine or anything like that. For a while there, I was just eating ‘no processed foods’ so nothing that wasn’t natural. If I could look at it and couldn’t define every ingredient that was in it, I just didn’t want to put it in my body. But lately I’ve been eating eggs for protein and stuff. And it’s been strange for me, you know, psychologically (laughs while talking) or mentally, as lame as that sounds. Ha, but my body really loves it and so I have to listen to my body because it knows more than me.

D: So are you finding a lot more energy…?

O:Well, yeah that’s what happened is that my body was telling me things, and it was falling apart, and it was giving up on me, and then so it interfered on me being able to work and me being able to express myself correctly. And so I talked to a nutritionalist[sic], and you know I’ve always fought against the idea you need animal protein and all that blah blah, and I fought that for fifteen years. But at the end of the day I also didn’t take care of myself and I didn’t take supplements because I didn’t want to take pills, blah blah blah. At some point you make some sort of a decision of what’s more important. And so I thought of it, he said, “think of it as you’re taking medicine. You’re sick, and you need medicine. So take it for a while and see what happens.” And so I made the egg, I cooked it and I felt bad for this little chicken, that I took her egg, and I ate it and then my body wanted more! It just said “Gimme more of that, I like that!”

Read the rest of Omar’s chat with The Dwarf.

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Heather Mills has confirmed that she will be coming out with her own line of vegan food but is refusing to reveal its name until the launch in October.

Earlier, we brought you the news of her shopping around in Chicago for possible business and living headquarters.

She made this announcement at the 2008 Animal Rights National Conference in Washington, D.C., where she was given the Celebrity Advocate Animal Award by FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement).

via Daily Mail

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Gwyneth Paltrow teamed up with Italian designer Tod’s and has been modeling fox fur and fur lined boots in advertisements. Obviously, PETA is not too pleased:

“We’ve written to her many times, and sent her videos showing how animals suffer for fur, but have never received a response,” said a spokesperson for the group.

“Apparently her beauty really is only skin deep. Gwyneth Paltrow won’t be the apple of her daughter’s eye if she continues to flaunt fur. It’s a terrible example to set for a young child.”

But the story is even better, as she is the wife of Coldplay’s Chris Martin, a vegetarian.

Sources say she may be jeopardizing her friendship with vegetarians and animal lovers, such as Stella McCartney. And we already know how she feels about the whole fur thing.

via Telegraph

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Emily Deschanel, star of the crime solving TV series, Bones, was on Craig Ferguson discussing her vegan diet, including her love for vegan cheese. Craig mentions that he doesn’t want to drink soy milk because he’s afraid of “growing boobs.” Deschanel explains there are lots of other non-dairy options, such as rice and cashew milk. To which Craig responds, “How do you milk a cashew?”

Some of her favorite “junk” vegan food on the show include french fries and vegan milkshakes.

The interview is spread over 2 videos. The vegan talk starts later in the first one, about minute 7 or so and continues immediately on video 2.

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Olympic Judo champion Ronda Rousey is going to try and kick butt vegan style. The first U.S. female to win a medal in Judo, Rousey was asked soon after winning what she was going to do next?

Disney World? World Peace? No, for now it’s just give up dairy.

“As of right now I am a vegan. I put that off until after I was done with this tournament.”

Martial arts toughness seems to run in the family, or at least the female side of it. Rousey’s mother, AnnMaria De Mars, is a former U.S. world champion judoka. A reporter asked her mother if a vegan lifestyle really jived with participating in an aggressive sport. “I mean, we’re tough but we don’t kill our opponents and eat them,” De Mars said.

One of Rousey’s favorite veg foods is imitation crab meat.

via Washington Post

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A couple of days ago, we introduced you to Kevin Nealon’s Chickpea Tacos. Turns out, after examining that website more closely, there are several other celebrity favorite recipes that also looked tasty. So we decided to bring them all to you in case you were too hungry to bother clicking more to go to the site. Enjoy!

Emily Deschanel’s Seitan Piccata from The Millennium Cookbook – Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine,by Eric Tucker and John Westerdahl, Dessert Recipes by Sascha Weiss.

Serves 6

HERB CRUST:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
1/3 cup polenta
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper 
1 cup soy milk
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
6 servings (1 1/2 pounds) marinated seitan, cut into medallions
1/4 cup canola oil

PICCATA SAUCE:
2 teaspoons minced garlic
6 paper-thin lemon slices
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
2 cups dry white wine (you can use non-alcoholic wine)
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
1 tablespoon capers, drained
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon cornstarch or arrowroot, dissolved in 3 tablespoons cold water
Thin lemon slices and minced fresh parsley or chives for garnish

DIRECTIONS:
In a shallow bowl, combine all the ingredients for the herb crust. In another shallow bowl, combine the soy milk and mustard. Dredge the seitan with the crust mixture, dip in the soy milk mixture, then dredge again in the crust mixture. Cook the seitan in a dry nonstick pan over medium-high heat until lightly brown, about 2 to 3 minutes per side. Keep warm in low oven.

To make the sauce: Wipe out the pan and place it over medium heat. Add the garlic and toast until lightly browned. Add the lemon slices, the remaining sauce ingredients. Boil until the volume is reduced by almost half. Stir in the cornstarch mixture and cook until thickened. Serve the hot sauce over seitan. Garnish with more lemon slices and parsley.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION:324 Calories (11% from fat), 34 g Protein,  38 g Carbohydrate, 4 gFat, 0 mg Cholesterol, 781 mg Sodium, 3 g fiber

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