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The Kind Diet

Everybody knows Chinese veggies love their vegan peanut butter chocolate cups too!

Alicia Silverstone‘s vegan diet, lifestyle and fitness book, The Kind Life, will be translated in Chinese and sold in China!

This comes straight from the blog created to accompany the principles taught in The Kind Diet, The Kind Life.

It’s gobble, gobble, vegan Global!

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Here’s the perfect opportunity to use those FAQs Erin McKenna has  recently compiled for her BabyCakes cookbook.

As previously reported, McKenna has added about 20 of the most common questions or problems people have had with the recipes.

The owner of the famous bakery in New York City offering vegan, sugar-free, and gluten-free desserts has a blueberry muffins recipe that she made on Good Morning America.

If you’re out of coconut oil, don’t despair.

According to the FAQs, any other vegetable oil can be substituted in the batter. However, if you were making frosting, you’d have to use liquid coconut oil.

Grab the recipe here, and to learn where to get your Bob’s Red Mill flour, visit the FAQs.

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"Put On Your Crown" Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah has authored a book about empowering girls and women, Put On Your Crown.

Good self esteem starts by eating healthy and the Queen begins chapter one of her book reflecting on a moment after she’d finished her yoga class and ate a vegan breakfast.

Yes, she even specified vegan.

Sure would have been nice if she gave more details.

Granola over soy milk?

Tofu scramble with vegetables?

If you’re treating yourself like a queen, there are dozens of breakfasts you can consume that are free of milk and eggs and EatDrinkBetter has suggested 10 ways to start your day with a vegan meal, some traditional, some you may have never considered breakfast food.

Like banana boats.

“Split each banana length-wise and spread each half generously with peanut butter. Top with raisins, drizzle on the agave nectar, and dust with cinnamon.”

Yum! Sounds like dessert for breakfast!

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Erin McKenna is busy cranking out another cookbook, but if you’re still navigating your way through her first one, BabyCakes: Vegan, Gluten Free and (Mostly) Sugar Free Recipes from New York’s Most Talked About Bakery, there is help available on her website.

If you’ve ever wondered if potato starch can replace potato flour, you’re in luck.

Over the months since publishing the book, she’s compiled a list of some of the most frequently asked questions about her recipes, and she’s created an FAQ list.

BTW, potato starch and flour are TOTALLY different and you have to use what the recipe calls for.

Here are a couple of other commonly asked questions.

Q: What if I can’t have gluten or bean flours? Is there a substitute?
A: You may substitute rice flour for the recipes that call for Garbanzo-Fava bean flour, but not for the recipes that call for Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Baking Flour or Spelt Flour.

Q: What is Evaporated Cane Juice? Is it liquid or granular?
A: It’s granular and relatively easy to find. Try Florida Crystals. You may also use Rapadura.

For the complete list of FAQs, visit BabyCakes.

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"Oh My Dog" Beth Ostrosky Stern

Beth Ostrosky Stern‘s new book on choosing and caring for a dog, Oh My Dog,  may appear to have a mixed message about animal welfare.

The wife of Howard Stern who has been both a volunteer at animal shelters and a North Shore Animal League America spokesperson, wrote that although her family had always taken in rescue pets from shelters, for some reason, she and Howard were set on finding a breed-an English Bulldog.

When she arrived at the breeder, she fell in love with a Bulldog that was a former show dog, but developed a wiggle and was of “no use” anymore in her former profession.

The dog went home with Beth and was named Bianca Romijn-Stamos-Ostrosky-Stern.

While adopting a shelter dog is the best way to reduce the millions of animals euthanized every year, like Beth’s story, some adoptions of breeds can prove just as beneficial, especially if the breed was “rescued” from a dangerous or unhealthy situation.

Like a bred dog suffering from the genetic mutation of missing or disabled limbs due to generations of inbreeding.

Retired racing greyhounds are another example of taking in a breed otherwise likely to be euthanized or abandoned.

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Betty Crocker Cookbook

A couple has decided to make vegan versions of every meat, poultry and dairy dish in the Betty Crocker Cookbook.

Dan and Annie Shannon at MeettheShannons.net decided to take on the faux whopper of a project after watching Julie and Julia, which freaked Annie out because of the lobster killing scene.

According to Ecorazzi, Annie said, “For as long as it takes – Dan & I will be veganizing every recipe in The Betty Crocker Cookbook and sharing our tips and secrets with you – our lurking readers.”

Dan and Annie have already veganized recipes like Cheeseburger Pie and Tuna Casserole.

Hop over to their website to see if an old comfort food favorite of yours has already been veganfied!

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"Meat is for Pussies" John Joseph

If a man had been given the opportunity to write Skinny Bastard, the male component to the best selling vegan diet book by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, Skinny Bitch,  John Joseph would have been the ideal candidate.

His latest book due out May 15, Meat Is For Pussies, appropriately titled as the guide for how to “get fit, kick ass and take names” is meant to shatter the myth that going meatless takes away the manly in anyone with a Y chromosome.

The Dish is Vegetarian has an exclusive excerpt from the book that tells men they can either “continue living like a pussy” or take charge of their health.

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Missy Chase Lapine Jerry Seinfeld. Photo: New York Daily News

The saga continues in the case of The Sneaky Chef author Missy Chase Lapine and Jerry Seinfeld, the New York Daily News reports.

Lapine sued Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica Seinfeld, accusing her of plagiarism, saying Seinfeld’s book, Deceptively Delicious, also about incorporating vegetables in meals that taste good, was a rip off.

After a federal judge said, “No,” Lapine took the case to a Second Circuit Court of Appeal, and argued that a jury should decide if pureed carrots are unique.

The Appellate court has yet to issue a ruling.

When it comes to cookbooks, plagiarism and copyright issues are shady, because recipes generally aren’t copyrightable (although it’s best to always say where you got it or developed it from).

The U.S. Copyright office has this to say about recipes:

“Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.”

Green beans, onions and carrots together as a dish probably isn’t copyrightable.

The song you wrote to put your kids in a trance to eat them that you printed along with the recipe in the cookbook probably is.

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