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"Good Housekeeping Family Vegetarian Cooking"

One of the oldest magazines featuring articles related to diet, recipes and health, Good Housekeeping, has released another vegetarian cookbook, Good Housekeeping Family Vegetarian Cooking: 225 Recipes Everyone Will Love.

Good Housekeeping’s latest is said to feature a variety of meatless recipes from wraps, sandwiches, soups and casseroles and includes a chapter designed for families with only one vegetarian so the meals can incorporate meat.

Kinda silly to do for a vegetarian cookbook and you would think the lone veggie in the family chapter would be an opportunity to introduce a variety of meat substitutes or plant based substitutes like seitan.

At any rate, you may purchase the collection for around $25 retail and MSNBC has included two sample recipes on their site for what you might find inside.

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Green Music Group is a group of musicians, industry leaders and fans dedicated to spreading the environmental news throughout the industry.

Every two weeks on their website, Green Music Group, will present a challenge to fans and from now until June 18, Guster is challenging their fans to eat local at least once a day.

Lead singer and founding member of Green Music Group, Adam Gardner, speaks in the video.

“I feel personally connected to this challenge because I just recently joined a community supported agricultural program. And it was just amazing how much better the food tasted. The fact that I knew who was growing it, I met the farmer and knew that I was supporting that local farmer and that local economy just felt good to do.”

Gardner’s got a point about the taste. Compare fresh, local, crisp green beans to those brought halfway across the country or frozen or in a can.

No competition!

Once you try eating local, we promise, as Guster would say, “Fa Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa,” it will “never be the same again.”

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“It may take a little effort for the first few weeks. Then you’ll start getting used to it and you’ll find more and more fun things to eat. ’Cause food’s a drug, and you gotta do the happy drugs rather than the sad drugs, you know what I mean?”

—Russell Simmons, explaining switching to a vegan lifestyle, at an event honoring him by the National Arts Club.

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Reports are that Glee star Lea Michele is acting all diva and bitchy on the set.

“Lea acts like she’s better than the rest of the cast,” a source told US Magazine.

Another source said, “She’s sweet, but she has her moments,” while yet another mentioned “she has become super-strict about her diet. She is a vegan now and says she hasn’t eaten cheese in a year!”‘

Duh! Hence the reason for the bitchiness.

If you’ve been a good boy or girl and know cheese is nothing but the product of whoring out cows that live only a 1/5 of their natural lifespan, not to mention the environmental impact of those same whores passing gas on dairy farms, you might have some “moments” of your own after giving up such an addictive and admittedly tasty product.

In walks vegan cheese to soothe yourself and everyone around you.

From soy based to rice based to nut cheese, there’s a block, bag of shreds or log to fulfill you when you need it. Check out this extensive list of vegan cheeses featuring products available at both the grocery store and online.

It’s been a year. It’s time. No one should go through that kind of dry spell.

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Andrea Curto-Randazzo. Credit: Bravo

Top Chef contestant Andrea Curto-Randazzo says the celebrity she had the most fun cooking for was Mike D. of the Beastie Boys.

“I was pretty excited to cook for the Beastie Boys. While I was at Wish there were quite a few celebrities that came in. They were really cool. During the MTV Awards their manager called up and was asking about all these vegetarian things because Mike D was a vegetarian.”

Fellow band member Adam Yauch adopted a vegan diet after undergoing treatment for cancer.

And a restaurant in San Francisco, Weird Fish, thinks the Beastie Boys are so much fun, they’ve redone a traditional seafood dish into a vegan one.

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Once upon a time Dr. Oz was a processed food, steak loving junkie. Then, he met his wife Lisa, the vegetarian, who, although not able to bring him completely over to the veg side, has improved his eating dramatically after he followed what doctor wife ordered.

Known to give advice that follows eating more plant based foods for proteins, Oz recently recommended eating nuts for the brain and examining the testicles for the health of where some men may store their brains.

This advice was given in Oz’s “25 Greatest Men’s Health Tips” printed in Natural Awakenings magazine.

“Nuts are among the best sources of healthful fats and protein around. I keep a bag of walnuts in my fridge and use their massive dose of omega-3 fatty acids to boost my brainpower while I see patients. Half a handful eaten about 30 minutes before a meal will temper your appetite and help you avoid the drive-thru.”

Avocado means “testicle” in Aztec, according to Oz, which is what your own nuts should resemble if healthy. So don’t forget to examine your jewels, preferably not while consuming guacamole. Here’s how:

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Microsoft makes their vegetarian and vegan techies happy by offering an extensive selection of appropriate food through the food service provider located on the campuses, which probably has a lot to do with the activism of a group called MSVeg.

MSVeg is a group of about 650 active members who are employees of the company who refused to carry peanut butter and jelly to work every day. As a result, it’s a lot easier to be a vegetarian or vegan at Bill Gates’ empire than it was a decade ago.

Mark Aggar, leader of MSVeg, had an interview with IVU online. A few highlights:

How the idea for MSVeg came about:
“It was formed out of frustration of not having very good or consistent vegan choices in the MS cafeterias and the suspicion that there were a lot of folks at MS who felt the same. Basically I formed it to create a loud voice for better food choices for veg*ns.”

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Australian model and MTV VJ Ruby Rose recently had to defend her choice of words when she said she follows a mostly vegan diet. Anyone who’s ever used the term loosely around a hard-core, purist vegan knows the trouble Rose found herself in.

Part time vegetarian, flexitarian, pescatarian, and now “veganese,” is the new term for someone who doesn’t eat certain animal products, thanks to Rose’s new coined phrase.

“I don’t eat any meat, I don’t drink milk, but I do eat cheese and fish, just to get my iron levels back up,” Rose told Confidential.

After the series of backlashes from the “you are not a vegan biotch,” crowd, Rose defended herself on Twitter.

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