Vegetarian Star

Angela Bassett plays Notorius B.I.G.’s mother in Notorious, which opened this past weekend, and looks like a hot momma on any given day.

She revealed to the LA Times how she keeps this up, especially when she’s filming for the big screen.

“I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role,” she said.

So where does she go when she doesn’t want to cook for herself?

California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena is for cooks in training but don’t let that fool you. Basset said the food is great and she loves how the students are excited to put their “artistic twist on things.”

Presentation is just as important as taste for Bassett as she added that was a bonus for another one of her favorite restaurants at La Costa resort in Carlsbad.

“You want art in your food. I’m looking for complexity and taste. Not just “my body needs to eat,” you know?”

Find out what other spots Angela likes to frequent, for both food and entertainment.

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Portia de Rossi recently attended the Disney/ABC Television Group portion of the 2009 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour where she announced she’s interested in starting her own vegan shoe line.

According to Fabsugar, Portia said she tries to wear leather as little as possible. Now she wants to make that even easier when it comes to footwear.

Not many other details were given, so we’re assuming the business plan is still in the draft phase and Portia hasn’t gotten her feet (pun intended) wet yet into the details.

But when she does, oh boy!

It was disappointing when Natalie Portman’s Te Casan shoes ceased production due to the recession, but with celebrities like Leona Lewis designing her vegan shoes and Portia dreaming big, your closet should be filling up again soon with awesome cruelty-free footwear.

Fingers crossed that Portia makes her shoes affordable as well.

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Baby Cakes, where actress Lake Bell stocked up on all her vegan desserts last Holiday season, has given several vegetarian and vegan celebrities a sweet tooth so big they’re willing to put a few kind words behind the cookbook that’s coming out in April.

After owner Erin McKenna was diagnosed with allergies to wheat and dairy, all she really wanted was a cupcake, but unfortunately, couldn’t find bakeries selling products that complied with her restrictions. So she opened her own.

Now she’s sharing her secret recipes for vegan, gluten-free, and some even sugar free cupcakes in her book BabyCakes: Vegan, Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York’s Most Talked-About Bakery, set to be released in April.

It’s already getting rave reviews and kudos from some great veg celebrities, including Pamela Anderson, Natalie Portman, and Zooey Deschanel.

“I have multiple food sensitivities…and I’d pretty much given up on the idea that I might be able to have a worthy treat every again. I was so excited to discover BabyCakes NYC, because not only can I eat everything they bake, it’s all delicious!”
—Zooey Deschanel

“At BabyCakes NYC I can eat what I crave without harming my lovely animal friends–or myself. Every since that first fateful day, I’ve been waiting for this cookbook.”
—Natalie Portman

“Thank all that is holy for BabyCakes NYC…”
—Pamela Anderson

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It’s been known for a few months now that Ellen DeGeneres has become vegan, but now her wife, Portia de Rossi, is opening up about how turning vegan has changed her life as well.

Neither of them were vegan when they met, but according to Portia, the couple made it a goal to cross animals off their lists after their very first date, according to Contact Music.

“When Ellen and I first got together I was wearing fur and Ellen was wearing very expensive Italian calfskin leather. She was giving me a hard time about wearing the fur and I said, ‘Why is a fox any more important than a cow?’

“We took that idea and went all the way with it. We are doing what we can.”

Last year, the menu at the couple’s wedding reception was completely vegan.

Nothing like a good woman to make a person change their ways. In this case, both members of the happy couple got a nudge from one.

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Emily Deschanel has something to look forward to on her Fox series “Bones.”

A vegan character, much like herself, will be introduced soon.

However, this happiness is somewhat dampened by a future episode involving a zoo, something she is against.

“I’m particularly disappointed that there’s going to be an elephant,” she said.

The particular episode involves someone being eaten by a tiger.

It’s safe to say that tiger isn’t the vegan character.

via Bones Spoilers

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The UK show Jamie Saves Our Bacon featuring celebrity chef Jamie Oliver may have a man behind the wheel, but there’s a female giving some directions as well.

Actress Joanna Lumley (The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel), both vegetarian and animal lover, will be demonstrating what pigs who are crated endure by joining students who will live in the farrowing crates for 24 hours.

Farrowing crates are the narrow cages pigs are kept in while giving birth and feeding their litters.

“The conditions they face are both physically and psychologically harrowing,” the actress told the Times Online.

The program is meant to educate on how pigs are treated on farms and to let consumers know where their food is coming from. While some have argued that it doesn’t solve the problem of animal abuse because it’s not advocating vegetarianism, it’s at least trying to incite the creation of more humane standards for the animals, which is a step forward.

“Jamie Saves Our Bacon” will be showing on UK Channel 4.

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When we last brought you the 411 on Gossip Girl, we learned that in the book series, unlike his television character, player boy Aaron, is a vegan and book Serena would never fall for the onscreen version.

Looks as if Taylor Momsen, who plays Jenny Humphrey, might get along better with book Aaron as well.

Although she’s not a vegan, she was vegetarian for awhile and still abstains from red meat, according to Taylor-Momsen.net:

“I don’t eat any red meat. I was a vegetarian for about a year, and then I incorporated fish back into my diet. And I eat a little bit of chicken occasionally, for protein, but I eat a lot of vegetables. I’m pretty much vegetarian, aside from when I do eat fish or chicken. And a lot of fruit—I eat pretty healthily. My mom raised me to eat pretty well. I never really got into junk food. But once in a while I do splurge, though.”

We would slam her for her “pretty much vegetarian” Gwyneth Paltrow slogan, but at least she’s not going around professing to still be one.

Not to mention how great it is that she’s not eating red meat.

On the set, she gets energy from eating apples and peanut butter and her “comfort food” is dipping animal crackers into water.

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