Vegetarian Star

Ah, the old tradition of asking for forgiveness by offering a gift. So not long ago, Gwyneth Paltrow did a very, very naughty advertisement. Well, it wasn’t really naughty, but it did offend quite a few vegetarian and vegan people.

Unlike Leona Lewis who said FUR-get it, Paltrow posed in fur lined boots and bags for the clothing line Tod’s. Known for her macrobiotic and vegetarian diet, she angered PETA and was rumored to upset her fellow veg friends like Stella McCartney. Now it looks as if she is offering a gift of a recipe for vegan pancakes to make it up to all of us.

She put a website up, called Goop (which incidentally, is the descriptive word that might come to mind when you think of pancake batter). Goop is all about goop good food: restaurants, recipes, advice, etc.

“I’ve got a thing for pancakes. This combination of nutty buckwheat and sweet, sticky banana is just great. You could sprinkle chopped walnuts on the pancakes as they’re cooking for a full-on pancake-meets-banana bread experience. These happen to be vegan, but don’t taste like it.”

Hmff. We don’t know what she’s implying by “don’t taste like it.” If “vegan” had a taste, we’d want to buy bulk size flavorings of it. But it does sound like a really great recipe, plus lots of more boring healthy information such as “calcium, vitamins, iron, gluten-freeness,” and so forth. If you’d like to accept Gwyneth’s offer of apology, keep going for the recipe. (more…)

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School’s been back in session for a little over a month (in places where there’s summer break) and it’s time to show who’s made progress.

Sprig.com has graded the top vegan celebrities. Moby and Chrissie Hynde are serving as valedictorians, both receiving an A+ and no one got anything less than a B-.

The class consists of the following celebrity vegan pupils: Natalie Portman, Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix (who only had one bad pizza experience, and it wasn’t in the school cafeteria), Russell Simmons, Alicia Silverstone, Prince, Shania Twain, Moby, Chrissie Hynde, Chris Martin, Pam Anderson, Andre 3000 Benjamin, and Tobey Maguire.

Oh, and of course, there’s plenty of school pictures. Only they look waaaay better than any of us did in ours.

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“Yes, Yes, Yes for Prop 2 for every reason. It’s good for the animals, the planet, your heart, the environment – it’s so important. It’s sets a precedent that’s brand new, which is just that we’re gonna change a system that been in place for a long time, that’s so suppressive and so hidden, just because we think it’s wrong…and that’s beautiful! That’s like a shift in human consciousness. And everyone can be a part of it.”

—-Persia White, in an interview with Ecorazzi. Prop 2 is a California ballot measure that would prohibit some farm animals from being confined so that they cannot move around freely.

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Davey Havok and the rest of AFI got down on their knees to thank her backstage at a concert. Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst can’t do without his peanut butter mousse dessert. Jason Schwartzman and Emily Deschanel dig them, and Gwyneth Paltrow requested the sweet goodies for her daughter Apple’s birthday party.

So who is this woman who caters to the stars and what eats does she create that brings grown men to their knees? Danielle Konya, owner of Vegan Treats Bakery in Bethlehem, PA, has earned the devotion of many celebrity fans from vegan desserts she’s spent years crafting in her home kitchen.

With a combination of great taste, word of mouth, not too mention some articles about her business in well known publications such as Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, and The Onion, she’s been extremely successful at selling pies, cupcakes, sticky rolls, cookies, and even wedding cakes that are free of dairy.

If you want to eat vegan sweets like a star, you can view the list of restaurants in the East Coast area (New York, D.C., Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia) that serve her creations on her Myspace page.

via lehighvalleyfive.com

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She tried to do the homeless right. And ended up looking like she was doing chicken really, really wrong.

Earlier we brought you the news of how Sophie Monk, a self-proclaimed vegetarian who has worked with PETA, was seen leaving a Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant with bags of not so vegetarian looking goodies in her hand.

Turns out, she was just trying to be nice and feed the homeless. A quote from The Daily Telegraph:

“I’m such an idiot – the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.”

Sure, KFC may have been one of the cheapest places to get some potatoes for a hungry man, but Monk has been quoted as saying she only eats from vegetarian restaurants because they have the best food.

Shouldn’t a guy currently without a permanent address have the best food as well? Especially if a superstar is getting it for him? What do you guys think? Do you even believe the story? And if it’s true, should Sophie have made an effort to get food elsewhere, especially not from a place that has such as bad a rep with PETA and other vegetarians?

via Medindia.com

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For our Canadian readers, this one’s for you. Of course, you could argue that any one of the Bryan Adam’s posts is for you as well. Or Avril Lavigne. Well, darn, never mind. Us posting news about Canadian stars isn’t so unique after all.

Anyway, we like talking about vegetarian stars from around the world and this time we’re heading north to bring you some info we found about actress Gabrielle Miller. She stars in a popular Canadian show, “Corner Gas,” which won a Gemini award (Canadian version of Emmy) in 2007. She’s also been a sci-fi chick, having roles in “Stargate SG-1” and “The X Files”, where she played two different roles (how out of this world does that sound? ha, ha, geek humor.)

She was raised vegetarian by her vegetarian and raw food enthusiast parents. “I sometimes eat rennet-free cheese but otherwise I’m vegan.”

Since she spends a lot of time in L.A., she’s had the chance to develop some opinions on the city’s culture, health and foodwise. Although we think of the city packed with fit bods and ultra organic foodies, she doesn’t feel everyone’s getting ripped the right way.

“They come to LA and have to stay slim so they diet and really mess with their metabolism which puts them unhealthily out of balance. But, on the other hand, LA is a wonderful city for vegetarians and those who eat natural whole foods, with an incredible support system of stores and restaurants that cater to this lifestyle.”

Go read the interview at vistamagonline.com and learn how she avoids cutting corners when it comes to healthy eating despite her hectic schedule at times.

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“Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.”

—Pamela Anderson, who although sometimes gives too much information, always has good intentions when it comes to speaking her mind on veg issues.

Photo: indio on Flickr

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“Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell ‘Boo’ out the window.”

—-Pamela Anderson, actress who protested against Kentucky Fried Chicken for its treatment of chickens before and during slaughter. When driving through Canada, her children can cheer now that KFC put a meatless chicken patty on the menu.

Photo: cdnmusicdiva on Flickr

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