Vegetarian Star

Lea Michele‘s cast mate on Glee, Chris Colfer, joked about putting meat in one of her vegetarian dishes. Totally NOT funny, but the joke is on him and the rest of the cast because Michele once secretly gave the guys (and gals) on the set some cupcakes without telling them they were animal-free.

“I had vegan cupcakes on my birthday,” Michele said at PETA’s 30th Anniversary Gala. “Once you eat a vegan cupcake–I once put out vegan cupcakes for the whole crew and didn’t tell them that they were vegan. And they were like, those are the best cupcakes I ever had. And then the next day I was like ‘They were vegan. See, you can eat vegan food.'”

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TLC is debuting a new, six part mini-series where a 2 person team of regular people compete against 2 professional football players in a showdown of who has the best cooking skills for a tailgate party!

Kick Off Cook Off premieres October 7th and the following week on October 14th, a plant based cooking team made of Julieanna Hever and veg chef Chef AJ, the wellness experts of “The Chef and the Dietitian,” will show football fans how to keep it veggie at the next game.

Hosted by sportscaster Erin Andrews and featuring Top Chef finalist Brian Malarke, Kick Off Cook Off is scheduled to feature Indianapolis Colts’ Dwight Freeney & Adam Vinatieri, Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Ronde Barber & his brother Tiki Barber, a retired New York Giant, San Diego Chargers’ Stephen Cooper & Shaun Phillips, San Francisco 49ers’ Jerry Rice and New York Jets’ Keyshawn Johnson and Arizona Cardinals’ Kurt Warner.

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Eataly Jennifer Rubell. Credit: Mind Body Green

Like most grocery stores, Mario Batali‘s latest food enterprise, Eataly, features a butcher in the 50,000 square feet empire. However, Jennifer Rubell, a graduate of both Harvard University and Culinary Institute of America, is so good at cutting she doesn’t leave behind any blood. It doesn’t help that her victims are vegetables, though.

When asked by New York Magazine what a vegetable butcher does, Batali replied, “If you’re not familiar with how to trim an artichoke, we’ll trim you an artichoke. If you don’t think you have time to peel your baby carrots, you can leave them with us and go shop in the other parts of the store, and we’ll peel them. We’ll do anything but cook them. On your way out, we’ll put the peels in a little separate bag—because they’re going to weigh them at the checkout counter—and then they go into a compost can up front.”

MindBodyGreen conducted an interview with this plant killer to learn more about her skills.

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Paula Deen is working on her own line of produce. Amazingly, from current reports, the line doesn’t include vegetables wrapped in bacon, dipped in butter and doubled fried.

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Deen is working with both farmers and food producers and hopes to have the brand out next year and describes it as a “dream solution for young mothers” because of the quality of the food.

The southern food celebrity chef is using her 4-year old grandson Jack as the guinea pig, and Deen says he is fanatical about the broccoli.

If you won’t eat her broccoli, maybe at least the family cat will.

Photo: PR Photos

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"The Food Matters Cookbook" Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman‘s latest book, The Food Matters Cookbook, is filled with recipes designed for the flexitarian or those looking to consume less meat. Bittman gave an interview to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette where the topic of a study indicating Americans aren’t getting enough fruits and vegetables came up.

Bittman insists that most people would reduce meat intake if they had the resources, whether that’d be through enticing recipes, food stores or money, but questioned the reality that everyone could become vegetarian or vegan.

“Just about every study and survey show that people want to eat more fruits and vegetables and are aware of the benefits of eating less meat. They just don’t know how to do it,” Bittman said.

“A conservative estimate is that 80 percent of what we eat should come from unprocessed plants, which is such a big turnaround that we won’t be able to achieve it in our lifetimes. To say everyone needs to be a vegan is a nice idea, but that’s kind of like saying everyone should ride a bicycle. It’s simply not going to happen. The challenge then is, how do we move in that direction of eating less of A and more of B?”

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The ad sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine linking McDonald’s to heart disease by showing a dead man in a morgue with a hamburger in his hand has sparked a lot of discussion, particularly among those that may not feel vegetarianism is necessary for health or that the fast food giant alone isn’t responsible for the mass epidemic of health problems.

So says Rachael Ray, who recently chimed in her thoughts to Joy Behar on HLN. Ray has confidence that many people would walk right past the golden arches if they only had enough change in their pockets to purchase healthier options. Therefore, it’s not about just wiping McDonald’s off the planet, but giving people the resources to choose better.

“It’s our problem as a country to make good food more affordable and more accessible to everyone,” Ray tells Behar.

Hear the rest of Ray’s thoughts and her suggestions for taking strides for better health in the video of the interview below.

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Who says vegetarians miss out on omega-3 fatty acids because the don’t eat fish?

Rachael Ray recently featured HIP snacks as the “Snack of the Day” on her show. HIP features a Chocolate HIP cookie, that is rich in vegetarian sources of omega-3s, along with nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, iron and anti-oxidants.

HIP Snacks, along with HIP World Foods, were originally created to fund Hip4Kids Inc., a non-profit program designed to teach kids about healthier eating. Founded a decade ago, Hip4Kids aimed to prevent childhood obesity and Type II diabetes.

The omega-3 in HIP cookies is obtained from Salvia Hispanica L., a chia grain that is also high in fiber.

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Singapore Airlines has released a cookbook called Above & Beyond, A Collection of Recipes from the Singapore Airlines Culinary Panel. The panel is made up of some of the world’s top chefs, including Gordon Ramsay, who’ve provided expertise to the chefs at Singapore Airlines.

Fox took the cookbook’s debut as an opportunity to ask frequent fliers for their recommendations on meals by airline.

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