Vegetarian Star

Alicia Silverstone recently interviewed with Natural Solutions magazine for its April 2010 issue.

As expected, the conversation was filled with the topics Alicia is known best for–health, environment and veganism.

A few highlights:

It Is Easy To Be Vegan:
Everyone has to make time to find food, and it doesn’t add any extra time to find vegan food. It’s about prioritizing your life and figuring out what is important to you. I don’t care about new clothes, new cars, or fancy jewelry. I don’t go out and spend money on alcohol. Most people spend a lot of money on stuff: coffee, cigarettes, medication, or liquor. But when you stop spending money on stuff and start spending money on living well, it’s amazing what can happen to you.

On Her New York City Food Orgy:
In New York, I’ve been on a food orgy, walking around trying all the great restaurants, stores, and vendors. I can get a warm bagel with vegan cream cheese on almost every corner. The vegan cheese plate and vegan mint ice cream sundae at Pure Food and Wine [a raw-foods, vegan restaurant in Gramercy Park]? Oh my God, it’s so good. And there are falafels everywhere—I love falafels.

Read the entire interview with Alicia at naturalsolutionsmag.

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Mariel Hemingway was recently out promoting her latest book, Mariel’s Kitchen — Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life, which contains several vegetarian friendly recipes.

A few years ago in 2003, Mariel created Blisscuits, a healthier cookie filled with omega-3 fatty acids and free of refined sugar, hydrogenated oil and gluten.

In addition, Blisscuits use egg whites sourced from suppliers that use cage free hens.

Blisscuits were created for her ex-husband after he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma.

“(So, I told him) Give me a couple months, let’s work on this together, your food,” Mariel told the Bothell Reporter.

“And he had to change the way he lived his life, so he had to start eating differently and looking at his life differently — so it was food, it was exercise, it was learning how to meditate, it was having a different perspective.”

Mariel’s ex-husband has been cancer free for 11 years.

The granddaughter of the famous writer Ernest is into seasonal foods and her current favorite food of the season is the artichoke.

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500 Vegan Recipes

Alanis Morissette has put a photo of her latest favorite cookbook on Twitter.

500 Vegan Recipes: An Amazing Variety of Delicious Recipes, from Chilis and Casseroles to Crumbles, Crisps, and Cookies is just of the vegan books that have changed Alanis’ life.

It was a copy of Dr. Joel Fuhrman‘s Eat to Live that prompted her to go vegan.

Not wanting another fad diet, she was motivated by preventing disease and loss weight was an added consequence.

She now fills her plate with foods like fruit, nuts, collards, kale, and spinach.

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Jennifer Hudson has signed on to be a spokesperson for the weight loss program, Weight Watchers, after losing weight herself after the birth of her child.

Hudson was quoted by Popeater as saying, “{It’s} a lifestyle change, not a diet.”

When it comes to losing weight, what works?

Counting calories? Spends hours every week at the gym?

According to Food Consumer, Dr. Colin T Campbell, a Cornell University nutritionist and author of The China Study, suggests that what you eat is more important than how much and that eating a well balanced vegetarian or vegan diet may prevent weight gain.

Will Jennifer soon discover what another American Idol alumnus, Ruben Studdard, did about meatless eating and weight loss?

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Isabel Lucas may have two men to thank for her going vegetarian.

The actress stopped eating meat after watching Earthlings, a documentary narrated by Joaquin Phoenix at Red Hot Chili Peppers front man Anthony Kiedis‘ home.

“I don’t feel limited by not eating meat. I eat lots of veggies and pasta and nuts, tofu and soups,” she was quoted by Popsugar as saying.

Being the environmentalist she is (she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness of the lack of clean drinking water in many areas), it’s no surprise Isabel would take the natural step by not participating in something that largely involves the very earth unfriendly practice of factory farming.

“Looking after the environment and doing things in nature was really an integral part of my life growing up. I love the environment and I want to be able to protect it.”

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Two vegetarian performers are making sure their staff eats humanely while working under them.

As mentioned before, Paul McCartney‘s crew gets about 480 vegetarian meals a day as they tour the U.S., South America and Europe.

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Olivia Wilde recently went to a restaurant that did not take good care of the vegetarian customer.

Her experience was so bad, she had to Tweet about it.

And this establishment was one Kitchen Nightmare.

“Went to a depressing vegetarian-hating restaurant with bad wine in WINE country. No excuses. Wish I was Gordon Ramsay and could fix them.”

You tell ’em Olivia!

What’s the worst vegetarian-hating experience you’ve had in a restaurant?

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Rachael Ray has been known to feature vegetarian love on her website, like the Sweet & Sara Vegan Marshmallows based out of a factory in New York.

Rachael recently featured Surf Sweets jelly bean candy as the “Snack of the Day.”

Surf Sweets are organically sweetened with no artificial coloring or flavoring, are gluten, casein and peanut free and are produced in a factory free of wheat, dairy, soy, eggs, tree nuts, nuts, fish, and shellfish.

Four of Surf Sweets products are vegetarian (Fruity Bears, Gummy Swirls, Jelly Beans and Sour Worms) and three are vegan (Fruity Bears, Gummy Swirls, and Sour Worms).

Only the Gummy Bears and Gummy Worms are not suitable for vegetarian as they contain gelatin.

Gummy, fruity, bears and worms.

Be careful not to get your animals and flavors mixed up!

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