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Papa John’s Specialty Pizza Challenge Gets Vegan Suggestion

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 in Business, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

Papa Johns

Papa Johns

Papa John’s is holding a challenge for its fans to create and name the next specialty pizza.

The contest started April 26 and runs through June 14.

Customers can go online to facebook.com/papajohns and create a specialty 14 inch pie with up to 7 ingredients.

According to Pizza Market Place, there are over 250 suggestions and healthier options are being favored.

For example, one customer suggested a Vegan Hawaiian Barbecue.

“With extra barbecue sauce and double pineapple, this specialty pizza becomes a Hawaiian luau in your mouth. No cheese and no meats makes this a delicious, healthy vegan alternative for your family.”

Papa Johns is one of the more vegetarian friendlier pizza companies for several reasons.

Their website clearly indicates which products contain meat, dairy and poultry.

In addition, most of their cheeses are made with synthetic or microbial enzymes versus animal.

So a vegetarian cheese pizza can be made more ethical by choosing any crust but pan and any pizza except the Tuscan Six Cheese one, both of which contain animal enzymes.

And for a vegan pizza, leave cheese off completely and follow recommendations for the crust.

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Martha Stewart Featuring Gluten Free Granola Bars On Show

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 in Business, Food & Drink, TV Hosts.

Vanity Fair Celebrates The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

Martha Stewart will feature gluten-free, vegan products on her show on Thursday April 29.

Martha will host the founder of NoNuttin, a line of granola bars, snacks and baking ingredients that are dairy free, egg free, nut free and gluten free.

And according to NoNuttin’s website at NoNuttin.com, there are absolutely no animal by-products in the foods, including honey and gelatin.

The Canadian based company sent a sample of their granola bars to the producers of the Martha Stewart show who were impressed with what they tasted and decided a segment about allergy friendly granola bars would work.

Yeah, business deals often go over well when there’s a full stomach of goodness at the table.

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Olivia Munn Accused Of Wearing Leather Boots At PETA Event

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 in Fashion, TV Hosts.

Iron Man 2 actress Olivia Munn unveils her naked PETA billboard at the intersection of Highland Ave and Wilshire Blvd

It was the attack of the Attack of the Show host on Tuesday when Olivia Munn posed in front of both the billboard and poster displaying her PSA against circuses.

A visitor to the event saw that Munn was wearing a pair of boots that resembled leather and decided to make a fuss about it, according to The Superficial.

“I went to the PETA Protest today (4/27) in Los Angeles against Circus Elephants featuring Olivia Munn. It appears Olivia is wearing leather boots. I yelled out, “Are those boots leather?” but the PETA people got in my face and said, “This isn’t a leather campaign.” Olivia said, “They’re not,” but I was not allowed to examine the boots.”

The Superficial reader who called Munn out obviously lives in the dark ages, cause everyone knows about the availability of boots made from synthetic material, only looking like leather on the “superficial.”

Be it vinyl, faux leather, pleather, or whatever you call it, one looking to be fake has every option from an $800 Stella McCartney to a $21 pair from Target.

Maybe he just wanted to cause a scene and sensationalize things?

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Slice Of Vegan Celebrity Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 in Actresses, Birthdays.

Glee Spring Premiere Soiree

A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

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Chanel - Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010
Singer Prince was spotted at San Francisco’s Farmer Brown restaurant eating vegetable jambalaya.

The celebrity stalker, or, uh, the person who spotted him posted a picture of the text that was sent to someone else as the event took place.

“Actually…vegan. He is eatin veggie jambalaya.”

“Wow, that’s so tight. Jealous right now!”

Here’s the picture for the entire conversation.

Prince Farmer Brown restaurant

Prince Farmer Brown restaurant

If Prince got everything according to the menu, the veggie jambalaya comes with portobello mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower and baby carrots.

According to its website, Farmer Brown is a soul food restaurant, with an emphasis in supporting local, African-American farmers that produce organic and sustainable foods.

Apparently, it’s also where all the sexy MFs dine.

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“To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we’re also going to be a lot healthier.”

Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, in an article from CNN on Meatless Mondays.

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Vegan Chef Bryant Terry Cooking Tips And Backyard Buried Chicken

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 in Authors, Chefs, Food & Drink.

Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry

Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry

When Bryant Terry, author of Vegan Soul Kitchen and co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, with Anna Lappe became vegetarian, he was one of the most militant people in the world.

“It caused so much stress and conflict in my home,” he said at the Changing Courses: Race, Class, Sustainability and Food lecture at Arizona State University.

He went so far as to bury a whole chicken in his mother’s front yard so she couldn’t cook it.

Wow.

It’s recommended you eat “foods from the ground” to be healthy, but you can never make chicken grow from it.

Terry said that when cooking with oils, put spices like garlic in the oil before heating it.

And don’t expect to substitute tofu for every meat recipe–sometimes you have to get creative.

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Vegetarian Leona Lewis “In Style” UK Magazine June 2010

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 in Female Singers, Food & Drink.

Leona Lewis "In Style"

Leona Lewis "In Style"

Leona Lewis is the cover girl for the June 2010 issue of UK In Style.

Leona told the magazine, “I’m very fiery and very passionate,” adding that she has debated several times with Simon Cowell.

The vegetarian was probably very passionate when she convinced Simon to do Meatless Mondays.

More Leona can be found inside UK In Style, which went on sale today.

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