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Bethenny Frankel "The Skinnygirl Dish"

Skinny girl dishes or Big Oranges…

Two celebrity chefs have recognized the power of cooking with plants, and it’s time to give them some love!

Bethenny Frankel has always included the veggies in her culinary work, founding the now defunct Bethenny Bakes, which specialized in dairy, egg-free and gluten free goodies.

Besides giving veggie burgers and vegan mayonnaise the shout out, Bethenny has included tips for turning the recipes in her latest book, The Skinnygirl Dish, vegetarian.

Rachael Ray finally got on board a year ago and included an entire chapter of vegetarian recipes in her Big Orange Book cookbook and featured a dessert with vegan marshmallows on her website.

She still runs in the opposite direction when approached by a vegan, though.

Between the two chefs who sometimes put a sprinkle of herbivore happiness in their otherwise meat based cuisines, who would you rather…

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This year Jane Goodall celebrates 50 years since starting her work with chimpanzees.

She’s gained more attention from mainstream media through a recent book, a BBC documentary to be released in the spring and a film, Jane’s Journey, to be premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Jane Goodall Institute was recently awarded a four-year grant worth more than $5.5 million from the The U.S. Agency for International Development to expand conservation programs in Tanzania.

The renown scientist and environmentalist has always worked for the good of animals, even when her work caused a rift in her personal life.

Her son, Hugo, also known as Grub, is now developing an eco-tourist project in Tanzania.

But he once participated in commercial fishing, something vegetarian Jane disapproved of, and this hindered their relationship, according to The Guardian.

Goodall was raised Christian, but feels the interpretation of man having dominion over animals is incorrect, insisting the real meaning is “stewardship.”

Unlike some who identify with the same religion, Jane sees no contradiction believe evolution and God, and feels her work has made her even more spiritual.

“I realised that my experience in the forest, my understanding of the chimpanzees, had given me a new perspective,” she wrote in her book, Reason For Hope. “I was ­utterly convinced there was a great ­spiritual power that we call God, Allah or Brahma, although I knew, equally ­certainly, that my finite mind could never comprehend its form or nature.”

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Bill Maher has written a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, asking him not to allow a 1.75 million dollar radiation experiment on live squirrel monkeys.

The experiments are designed to test the effects of interplanetary travel.

“Squirrel monkeys are tiny but intelligent primates who live in large colonies with strong social structures,” writes Maher. “If this experiment goes forward, these highly intelligent animals will be sent to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where they will be exposed to radiation that will produce physical and likely mental damage. They will then be turned over to cognitive experiments to a researcher in Boston who commonly uses monkeys in protocols that involve electric shocks and other inhumane practices.”

Maher insists that previous NASA experiments using radiation and squirrel monkeys did not produce any useful results applicable to humans.

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The Conscious Cook author Tal Ronnen visited Chicago recently to chat with Oprah and demonstrate vegetarian cooking to students at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school.

If any chef who came out of Tal’s class claims to be clueless about vegetarian food, you know they were playing hooky!

Ronnen lead the group through making three recipes: tortellini with an artichoke-”ricotta” filling and saffron cream sauce; celery root soup with Granny Smith apples; and Gardein “chicken” scaloppini with shiitake-sake sauce.

He touted the goodness of faux meat products by Gardein, which he says have the texture of the muscle fibers of real meat.  Ronnen also explained how to make your own cashew milk.

And in case you didn’t already know, all the important names in Cali eat veg.

“Every celebrity under the sun is a vegetarian,” he said of LA.

Sweet.

Now every ordinary person in Minnesota, Louisiana and that town with only 30 people and four streets can learn to cook like a star.

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Bethenny Frankel "The Skinnygirl Dish"

Not long after debuting her anti-fur PETA ad, Bethenny Frankel has released another cookbook, titled The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life.

Not afraid to be the omnivore who admits to loving and even promoting meatless food, Bethenny has given advice on how to make many of her dishes vegetarians.

The Skinnygirl Dish is divided into three parts.

First, Bethenny gives readers the advice needed to become a master chef in the kitchen. The Real Housewives of New York City star emphasizes making use of what you have, substituting when necessary and utilizing everyday stores like Cosco for ingredients.

Second comes the recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, drinks and desserts.

Finally, there is a chapter on entertaining guest once you’ve mastered mashed sweet potatoes and red velvet cupcakes.

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The weather’s chilly in some parts of the world, and the winter season is the best time for indulging in some old fashioned comfort food.

The Conscious Cook author Tal Ronnen demonstrates how to make the traditional meal of meat stew using one of his favorite faux meat products, Gardein Beefless Tips.

“You can find this just about anywhere,” Ellen said. “And it tastes just like beef.”

February could be a cold one, folks.

Watch and learn what to cook when you’re snowed in and reminiscing about the days of canned beef stew.

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Erykah Badu has lofty goals for the year 2s010, according to a recent Tweet.

She’s going to make a lot of money. And a lot of vegan desserts. All with her fingertips.

“this is the year of mastery .all i touch will turn to gold and vegan cinnamon rolls . watch .”

Call it Erykah’s positive attitude, her proclivity towards wishful thinking or too much vegan vodka, one thing you can agree on is that vegan cinnamon rolls sound delish!

Grab yourself the recipe for some now.

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This season’s Celebrity Big Brother received a thumbs down for furnishing the house with fur rugs and leather couches.

But on a recent episode of the show, the residents were turned into senior citizens in the Last Legs Old People’s Home and given the task of completing an obstacle course called the Klapped Out Factor, based on the quiz show, The Krypton Factor.

One part of the challenge was a “bobbing for apples” like task, where contestants had to grab dumplings from a bowl of stew.

The dumplings were said to be vegetarian.

Heidi Fleiss got a compliment from Sisqo on a job well done, even though she broke the bowl trying so hard.

Was he just kissing up because he wanted to see her thong?

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