Vegetarian Star

Giada At Home

Giada De Laurentiis has a new book out, Giada At Home, named after her newest Food Network Show.

The Boca Raton Vegetarian Examiner says Giada’s latest cookbook has a few vegetarian friendly recipes, like pecorino and bean salad, pea pesto crostini and Italian fried olives.

Sasha Muzzarelli says that Giada has “wonderful vegetarian dishes” from her previous cookbooks and Food Network Show and indicates that many of the recipes in Giada at Home contain meat.

Has Giada taken a more animal protein centered approach to her cooking this time around?

An attendee at the launch of Alicia Silverstone‘s party for her vegan cookbook, The Kind Diet, Giada doesn’t loathe dishes without meat.

Would love to see this Food Network star take the flexitarian approach to Italian cooking in future recipes, adding more Tuscan cuisine of legumes, vegetables and fruits and pasta with meatless sauce creations to the collection.

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The Butcher and the Vegetarian

The Butcher and the Vegetarian by Tara Austen Weaver starts off with every vegetarian’s nightmare.

Although Weaver grew up a health conscious vegetarian in a family that kept “jars of bean sprouts on its windowsill,” she starts to eat meat on the advice of a doctor when she became ill.

Yawn. How many times have you heard that advice from a M.D.?

A butcher gets her hooked on the drug after wrapping up her very first chicken and she progresses to steak, t-bone and other parts from the animal kingdom.

But she can’t do so without constantly ruminating about her decision’s impact on animals and the earth and although she seeks grass fed and free range  for her refrigerator, the more she learns about how meat is produced, the more she thinks about going back to tofu.

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Gristle

Moby and co-editor of the newly released book on factory farming and its impact on the planet, Miyun Park, spoke to Planet Green recently.

Although Moby is a staunch vegan, some might be surprised to learn that some of the contributors to Gristle are in the meat industry.

Park insists that everyone educate themselves on factory farming, one of the biggest disturbances to human, animal and environment health.

This means including insight from Paul Willis, manager of Niman Ranch Pork Co, who discusses how large farms put a strain on rural communities.

“The differences between industrial agribusiness and more sustainable, more humane, more ethical production practices are stark, and all of animal ag can’t be painted with the same brush,” Park explains. “The book focuses on intensive factory farming, which, unfortunately has a much larger share of animal ag. And this isn’t to say that there can’t be steps taken even within industrial agribusiness, but that won’t happen until we all—omnivores, flexitarians, vegetarians, and vegans alike—speak out collectively.”

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Gristle, a book about factory farmed animals and the impact on people and the environment, has finally been released.

Moby and co-editor of the essay compilation, Miyun Park, have a few cities on their agenda to tour for discussion and book signing.

The first stop is Los Angeles tonight at 7:30 PM, at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Other cities on the list so far are Seattle, Portland, D.C. and Brooklyn.

Visit Moby’s blog for more information.

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Jeff Garlin has lost weight by cutting almost every animal from his diet but fish.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm pescatarian has written a book, My Footprint: Carrying The Weight Of The World, that details his journey to lose both pounds on his body and impact on the environment.

Suffering a stroke in 2000, Garlin admitted his diet in the past couldn’t have enabled him to go from 320 to 260 pounds.

“I’m not fat from eating too many apples. It’s very serious, man. I could’ve died.”

Not only is Garlin enjoying better health, but he’s also gotten in good with the cool green kids.

He’s friends with Ed Begley Jr. and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David, both who are into the environmental scene.

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Moby has accumulated a lot of titles in his forty something years, and he now has the pleasure of adding one more-book editor.

The vegan musician, singer, DJ and activist spoke to Oregon Live about his new book, Gristle, filled with essays by those with a passion for food, animals and the environment.

People know you primarily for your music. Why was it important for you to do a project like “Gristle”?

I was raised by activists. My parents and the people in my family brought me up with the idea that the only way to lead a good and productive life was to be a voice for causes and issues that you find important. I’ve been involved with animal rights movement for about 25 years, and I found that when I talked to people, most of my friends weren’t aware of the ramifications and consequences of animal production. The idea behind the book was to make it as factual and revealing as possible.

In reading the book, the environmental issues struck me hard. As a consumer, it makes me feel overwhelmed. Can the individual decisions we make every day really have any impact?

Clearly, one individual’s choices aren’t going to have that much impact, but it’s the cumulative weight of all of our choices. If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren’t going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.

Read the entire interview with Moby at Oregon Live.

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Jonathan Safran Foer. Credit: David Shankbone on Wikimedia Commons

“I don’t see any point in asking waiters difficult questions. It just makes people uncomfortable. I never, ever get into arguments with people. I don’t think it works. If someone asks me why I no longer eat meat, I explain. This book is an occasion to express what I think.”

—-Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals during an interview.

Sounds like Foer is the most easy going vegetarian in the world.

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Someone at L Magazine swears by the seitan Moby was at New York restaurant Angelica Kitchen recently.

In between vegan snacks, the musician took to his blog to announce his return to NYC and write about his upcoming book, Gristle.

The book is a collection of writings by various  experts in their respective  fields on effects of meat production on animals, workers in the industry, human health and the environment.

“I’ll be travelling around promoting a bit. and, of course, neither Miyun or I are making a penny from the book, with all proceeds going to animal organizations.”

Hope Oprah adds this to her book club.

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