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Heather Mills Plans To Expand V Bites Worldwide

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, July 27th, 2009 in Business, Chefs, Food & Drink, Models, Restaurants.

Heather Mills Launches V-Bites Restaurant

Heather Mills is taking over the world!

Well, maybe just focusing on Los Angeles.  And she only wants to dominate what people are eating.

Mills, who just opened her vegan cafe and restaurant V Bites, recently Tweeted about her plans to expand her UK business.

“Once V-Bites is perfected we plan to open them worldwide – we have a few willing franchisees there,” Heather said in response to a Twitter follower who wanted to know if she would open one in the LA area in the U.S.

Heather is claiming that V Bites is quite popular, her customers “loving” the recipes.

via digitalspy.com

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Heather Mills Buys Veggie Redwood Wholefood Company

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 in Business, Chefs, Food & Drink.

Heather Mills Launches V-Bites Restaurant

Heather Mills has bought the vegetarian food supplier Redwood Wholefood Company.

The UK based company is the leading supplier of veg foods and has ranked high with the Ethical Company Organisation’s list of vegetarian foods suppliers for three years in a row, with a score of 95%.

Redwood produces over 50 different types of vegetarian foods under several brands, including Cheatin’, VegiDeli and Cheezly.

Director Keith Scott said this about Heather’s recent acquisition:

“We are delighted that the business has been acquired by someone with the dynamism and passion of Heather. We’ve been approached by many large food manufacturers in the past but have never wanted to jeopardise the future of our employees – who we value so much – or our factory by selling the business to a large corporation. By selling to Heather we are protecting our loyal staff and also our base in Corby.”

“Heather shares the same values and aims as us, namely to spread compassion across the planet and promote a healthy and more ethical lifestyle,” Rob Garland, an additional director for the company said.

“Heather has always rated Redwood as the best producer of plant-based animal-free foods in terms of ethics, the integrity of the company and brand and the quality of its products.”

via Sourcewire.com

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Heather Mills leaves This Morning TV Studios after a cooking demo - London

Okay, so you’re out with friends and everybody’s hungry, but you’ve been trying to figure out where to eat for the past 1/2 hour because you can’t agree on one place.

You want Chinese, your sig other wants Italian, your best friends wants Greek…arghhhh!

Heather Mills has recognized this issue and plans to put at least two dishes from various International cuisine types to make groups of people like you and your friends happy.

“And the evening menu will include two Thai dishes, and two Indian dishes, and two Italian dishes, and so on; because you know what it’s like when you want to go out for dinner with your friends, and one of them wants Italian, and one of them wants Thai, and you want Indian … well, that won’t be a problem here, will it?” Heather said, in an interview with the UK Guardian about her new vegan restaurant, V Bites.

Problem solved for where to eat. You can even plan ahead by reading the V Bites menu before you go.

Now, if Heather can resolve the argument of paying separately or paying with one check.

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BabyCakes Founder Erin McKenna Talks To Vegetarian Star

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 in Business, Chefs, Interviews, Restaurants.

Erin Author Photo Book Copy

Photo Credit: Clarke Tolton

As if you really need another reason to enter our contest to win a copy of Erin McKenna’s BabyCakes cookbook as part of our one year anniversary giveaway. Isn’t the picture of the cupcakes on the book cover enough?

The lovely lady who founded the New York city bakery that is so popular among celebrities and mere non Hollywood mortals like ourselves answered a few of our questions about herself, the bakery, and some of her favorite recipes from her recently published cookbook, BabyCakes : Vegan, Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York’s Most Talked-About Bakery.

How did you determine which of your recipes to include in the BabyCakes cookbook?
I chose the recipes that people seemed to favor. I wanted to offer a collection of the greatest recipes.

What are a few of your favorite recipes from the cookbook?
I think my favorites are the volcanoes and the macaroons for sure.

You used to work in fashion and you said the one thing that really relieved stress at the end of the day was experimenting with baking and that prompted you to change careers. What advice do you have for aspiring entrepreneurs who may still be stuck in a day job and want to get out and have a successful business?
I would tell them to live fearlessly and go for what is in their heart. It will work out and nothing beats doing what you love for a living. It’s what life is about.

There are several celebrities that have their personal stories in the Baby Cakes cookbook like Natalie Portman and Pamela Anderson? What was either your first or most memorable experience learning a celebrity was so fond of your desserts?
The first time a celebrity made it known how fond he was of BabyCakes was Jason Schwartzman. He came in once by himself the first time and then brought a whole gang of friends with him and had an eating contest in here. He was going crazy over everything–it was really fun!

Guess how many siblings Erin has? Four, five, six, seven? Higher than that! Find out after the jump… (more…)

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Heather Mills’ Vegan Lemongrass Chicken, Muffin Cupcakes Recipes

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 in Chefs, Models, Recipes.

Heather Mills leaves This Morning TV Studios after a cooking demo - London

Want the recipe for Vegan lemongrass chicken style with coconut rice that Heather Mills cooked up on This Morning? Grab it here!

Heather has also been gracious enough to publish the recipe for her vegan muffin cupcakes.

She had said she’ll be sharing recipes on her Twitter page. If that’s the case, we’ll be checking for her updates every hour!

In the meantime, let’s start on those muffin cupcakes. U.S. fans, we’ve got you covered with a handy Metric Conversion.

Ingredients

200g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
30g cocoa
55g maple syrup
90ml oil
230ml water
Topping
Any melted vegan chocolate

Preparation

1. Mix dry ingredients

2. Mix oil and water and stir into dry mix

3. Beat until smooth

4. Pour into muffin tins or ramekins

5. Cook at 350 f / 180c or gas mark 4 for 15 mins. Allow to cool

6. Pour topping (melted chocolate) on to muffin

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Heather Mills Entices “This Morning” Audience With Vegan Thai Food

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 in Business, Chefs, Models.

Heather Mills leaves This Morning TV Studios after a cooking demo - London

Heather Mills demonstrated her cooking skills and gave her vegan restaurant V Bites some publicity today on the This Morning show on Britain’s iTV.

She showed off her animal free physique, wearing a black sporty top lined in white, and forgoing the apron guests usually wear when cooking on the show.

Heather thinks she can win people over with a just a few bites.

“I’m not telling people to stop eating meat and dairy altogether but people don’t have a great opinion about veganism and the easiest way to change people’s minds is to do it through great tasting food,” she told hosts Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield.

She took the time to explain the difference between “vegetarian” and “vegan” and whipped up a spicy thai dish using her V Bites chicken substitute.

View pics of Heather on the show and her vegan dishes at mailonsunday.co.uk.

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Heather Mills Launches V-Bites Restaurant

“Just got a call from V-Bites – 3000 plus today – unbelievable. So happy people are loving it.”

“I am knackered but on an adrenaline high – and getting to watch people eat great food everyday. What more could I want?”

—-Heather Mills, on recent Twitter updates on the success of her new vegan restaurant, V Bites,  in Hove Lagoon in the UK. Sounds like Heather’s got a party going on in her body like Ginnifer Goodwin had when she went vegan.

via digitalspy.com

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Heather Mills’ V Bites Faux Meats And Cheeses Available Online

Written by Vegetarian Star on Saturday, July 11th, 2009 in Business, Chefs, Food & Drink.

Heather Mills Launches V-Bites Restaurant

Heather Mills is offering some of her vegan meals she serves at her V Bites restaurant in frozen entrees to eat at home.

But there’s a catch.

Your doorstep must be within mainland UK.

There’s no 30 minutes or less guarantee either.

Green gossip site Ecorazzi.com speculated this might be Heather’s frozen line of vegan meals she’s been talking about for some time. But other sources says those are expected to be named Mighty Meatless Meals in Minutes, so perhaps Heather’s just making some of her restaurant selections available for customers to heat up at home, with an additional frozen line to come.

Keeping with traditional British food, V Bites online offers Breaded Fish Style Fingers.

There’s also vegan versions of  hotdogs, quarter pounder burgers, as well as vegan Greek and smoked style cheese.

Ingredients for all products are simple, mainly consisting of soya or texturized vegetable protein and sometimes tofu in the case of the cheeses. A few spices here and there complete the meals that are high in protein, free from GMOs, and completely animal product and by-product free.

To view all V Bites foods currently offered online, visit the V Bites online store.

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