Vegetarian Star

Wrigley Field made PETA’s top vegetarian friendly ballparks for the first time ever.

The animal rights group’s annual list is out, and the Chicago Cubs were a tie with Prince Fielder‘s home turf and home of the Milwaukee Brewers, Miller Field.

Several vegetarian options at Wrigley’s include black bean burgers and vegetable wraps.

With Aramark, a major food supply company to many sports arenas, expanding their vegetarian menu at places like Boston’s Fenway Park, more first time nominees are sure to land on the list next year.

Some winners from last year are taking another victory, like AT&T Park.

San Francisco Giants fans may feel as if they’ve stepped into a fine dining restaurant instead of a ballpark, where vegetable pot stickers, portabello mushroom sandwiches, veggie sushi and edamame can be devoured.

Who was number one?

The Philadelphia Phillies were a repeat winner with Citizens Bank Park offering an eclectic selection of faux crab cakes, faux steak and faux chicken sandwiches as well as faux dogs, wraps and salads.

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You already know that Moby is sensitive about his pancakes.

Thankfully, he does have other talents to help his self-esteem, and a therapist one day reminded him of what a great smoothie maker he was.

Still, it doesn’t help when you insult his pancakes.

“A few years ago, I was in therapy and my therapist kept asking me to name some things I did well. I mentioned making smoothies. It was sad that I couldn’t think of something more significant. It’s açaí juice, almond milk, frozen bananas, blackberries, spirulina powder and cacao powder. I put it in my crummy blender and make one smoothie. I take my ugly, dark, purple smoothie and I sit at my laptop.”

Smoothies are a class in their own, which is why you aren’t likely to find too many cookbooks with an entire chapter devoted to them.

Who needs them anyway, when you’ve got Smoothies: 50 Recipes for High Energy Refreshment, which utilizes soy, yogurt and milk to instruct you how to whip up the perfect fruit concoction.

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Kirstie Alley took to Twitter to express her excitement for the Oscar nominated documentary, Food Inc.

“Yes, we’ve been talking about Food Inc all day…great informative needed flick.”

An inside look at the industrial mass production of food while highlighting small, organic farms as a better alternative, Food Inc. can be viewed for free on PBS on April 21.

The best films in life may really be free after all, and not available through pay-per-view.

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"The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson, aka. Daniel Bryan. Credit-ShawnSavior on Wikimedia Commons

Michael Cole, who’s real name is Michael Sean Coulthard, made a meatless boo boo the other day on a recent episode of WWE NXT.

The World Wrestling Entertainment play by play announcer mispronounced the word “vegan.”

Wrestler Bryan Danielson, also known as Daniel Bryan or “The American Dragon,” played on this verbal feud started by Cole by addressing Cole’s ignorance on his blog.

“Yes, I am a vegan, and no, it is not pronounced vee-jan… nor is it pronounced vee-jan in any part of the world. Michael Cole simply mispronounced it on NXT, and I assume he doesn’t know what it means.”

A vegan wrestler in WWE?

Oh, hell yeah!

Bryan Dan-Dan Bryan-Dragon Man is also no geek, either.  He’s a classical book/music nerd. Got it?

More from the blog:

“For all of his talk of me being a computer geek, I suspect I spend less time on the internet than just about anyone in the WWE, including him. Unlike Michael Cole, however, I don’t feel the need to judge people who do love using the internet. It’s a great social and commercial tool that allows people to access an infinite amount of information in a matter of seconds…I am probably some sort of geek/nerd… but more of the classic book reading, record listening. Perhaps Michael Cole will get it right next week and he can rip on me more for reading Carl Sagan’s “The Varieties of Scientific Experience” than for using the world wide web. But then again, he would probably mispronounce “varieties.”

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If saving animals, helping the Earth and lowering your cholesterol aren’t enough to motivate you to go vegetarian, it’s time to wake up early on the weekends and go to church!

The recent PBS documentary The Adventists, explores the connection between faith and science and attempts to explain why Seventh Day Adventists live, on average, 5-10 years longer than most Americans!

Could it have anything to do with their diet and lifestyle?

As a major component of their faith, the Adventists promote and focus on maintaining a vegetarian diet, exercise and refrain from alcohol and tobacco.

The church bases this belief from the Christian Bible passage that “reminds us that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,” said Duane Rollins, treasurer of the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Church congregations across the nation have taken steps to improve the health of its members, whether through inviting health care practitioners to screen in between Sunday School and worship or programs that encourage a combination of exercise, calorie reduction and overall diet changes.

During the next Single Men or Single Ladies study, skip your trip to retrieve donuts for the group and bring fruit, low-fat animal crackers and Go Vegetarian pamphlets instead.

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Dave Lieberman, Food Network chef and co-author of The 10 Things You Need To Eat, is taking cooking to a whole new healthy level by incorporating more of what he calls “super foods” into his regime.

This includes using quinoa in many dishes and putting vegetables in desserts.

“Veggies like beets are actually a great thing to add to desserts because they not only make them moist and more delicious, but add fiber and vitamins,” Lieberman said. “Plus, if you use canned beets you get all of the flavor and nutrition for a lot less money, and they are easier to mash.”

Lieberman is so confident in his cooking skills for quinoa, he says not to bother following the instructions on the quinoa package, and instead refer to his book to avoid that “soggy” quinoa outcome.

Great way to increase sales!

Quinoa and beets are two top super foods you’ll want to add to your pantry, even if you don’t buy a copy of Lieberman’s book.

Quinoa is a great source of magnesium, which helps maintain healthy blood pressure, and contains all nine essential amino acids.

In addition to being blood pressure helpers, beets are high in folate, a must have for women of child bearing age and a key in regenerating new cells and preventing DNA damage that causes cancer.

Plus, a 2009 British study showed beet juice may increase workout stamina by 16%.

Uh-oh.

Will beet juice be next on Simon Cowell‘s list of mixed vegetable drinks to try?

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Carrie Underwood revealed some interesting facts about herself in a recent edition Cosmopolitan magazine.

Most of you already know the American Idol country music sweetie has been a longtime vegetarian, even though her parents work as cattle ranchers.

But just because she eats vegetarian, doesn’t mean she cooks it.

“It’s bad..real bad,” she said of her culinary skills.

Carrie still sticks at the diet though, partially because she feels it makes her have a less negative impact on the environment.

Another interesting fact: Carrie said in a relationship, she wears the pants and “over analyzes” everything.

Maybe she’ll tighten the belt buckle and start putting the rules down for fiance Mike Fisher and ask him to do Meatless Mondays.

With her fantastic cooking skills, she’s sure to keep him straight by offering the same dish of boiled pasta every week.

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Some say a man’s top loves are cars, food and women.

At Lloyd Motors Alfa Romeo showroom in the UK, chef Aldo Zilli brought almost all of them together.

Zilli, who recently opened a vegetarian restaurant in the Soho area of London, was there to prepare a dish of ravioli stuffed with wild mushroom, sundried tomato and goats cheese in an arrabiata sauce.

Audience members got a chance to ask Zilli about his cooking and restaurant and left with a signed copy of his latest cookbook.

Zilli enjoys the event because it also promotes Alfa Romeo cars.

“I have seven older brothers who all had Alfa Romeo cars when I was growing up. When I got married I got an Alfa Romeo – hence the reason I got married twice,” he joked.

Zilli has performed cooking demonstrations in the car showrooms before and said it’s good for the company because they end up selling a few cars that day.

Full bellies must bring on multi-thousand dollar purchases!

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