Vegetarian Star

Mario Batali "Molto Gusto"

Mario Batali‘s latest cookbook, Molto Gusto, is being highlighted by Food Examiner Dara Bunjon for its colorful photographs, pasta cooking and pizza making tips and variety of recipes based on culinary expertise.

She also adds that there is a “large mouthwatering selection” of vegetarian recipes that “carnivores will love.”

Now we’re talking!

Has Mario picked up on Italian where Giada de Laurentiis left off?

The chef who recently said protein is “over represented on the plate” and recommended everyone fill their dishes with more foods from the garden, lost over 40 pounds by eating more vegetarian meals, presumably like those from the “Vegetable Antipasti” “Insalata” and “Pasta” sections of Molto Gusto versus the “Seafood and Meat Antipasti” one.

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There’s nothing worse than digging into your favorite microwave pack of sesame noodles, only to later find out there’s fish seasoning in the dehydrated packet.

Developer Faizal Mohammed knew this pain, and created two iphone applications, one for vegetarians and one for those who eat halal.

When you take a picture of the list of ingredients, the app scans the pic and looks for unacceptable ones.

Treehugger says an iPhone 3GS is necessary to take a legible photo of the ingredients that can be read by the scanner.

As of now, only additives are included in the app, which is good, because most of those are the names we don’t quickly recognize.

The one downside is that ingredients such as “natural flavors” can’t be decoded with the app, since the source of the flavors doesn’t have to be listed.

In the future, more ingredients will be added to the database.

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Simon Cowell is worried about his thighs before his big wedding to Mezhgan Hussainy.

The X Factor and American Idol judge has been reportedly drinking several fruit and vegetable mix shakes every day in an effort to slim down.

Cowell has lost 12 pounds from his homemeade V8 efforts.

According to The Mirror, Cowell said, “I am vain. I’m obsessed with my weight,” which explains why he has no issues downing 200 ml mixes of “spinach and banana” drinks.

Not that Popeye’s food and Chiquita Organic aren’t good.

But as a couple, their compatibility is questionable.

Admittedly, the drinks sound like a great way to get servings of produce in, especially for a guy who’s so committed to bettering the environment, he’s giving Meat Free Mondays a try.

And all the good looking gents are doing this, as Peter Max can’t get enough of his salad in a glass either.

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Gwyneth Paltrow has a couple of tykes of her own, so she knows firsthand the joy of reading children’s books, both classic and modern.

In a recent edition of her online newsletter, Goop.com, Paltrow has included several of her favorite children’s books and for parents who wish to combine bed time stories with education, Hubert the Pudge: A Vegetarian Tale by Henrik Drescher, is one she recommends picking up during your next trip to the library or bookstore.

Hubert is a pig-elephant hybrid with horns (could this be a result of some terrible big farm GMO project?) who narrowly escapes his fate as bacon and ham when he slides through a hole at Farmer Jake’s Processing Plant.

After meeting up with some other animals with freedom, the team devise a plan to rescue the others and persuade the farmer to open a tofu dog factory instead.

“This book is a great way to teach kids about vegetarianism plus the brightly colored ink illustrations make each page fun to get lost in,” writes Gwyneth.

For more of Gwyneth’s book recommendations, visit Goop.

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Credit David Shankbone on Wikimedia Commons

How do you embarrass an anti factory farm, pro plant based diet guru?

Remind him of his past transgressions.

Jonathan Safran Foer was at a book festival in London discussing his Eating Animals book, when British author Hephzibah Anderson mentioned something to Foer about sharing a bacon cheeseburger with him several years ago.

How did Foer respond?

The New York Post described his reaction as “sheepish.”

Gotta wonder what this Anderson guy’s intentions were, bringing up Foer’s “past” in front of everyone like that.

Was he hoping Foer would say something along the lines of, “Yeah, that was the best tasting burger I ever had–before I went vegetarian.”

Or was he waiting for Foer to deny it, then whip out the big photo taken back then for memories?

If you’ve taken to spreading the good news about how a vegetarian diet is better for yourself, animals and the planet, be aware that what happened in carnivorous days doesn’t stay there.

If you get reminded of  how you used to eat the double double with fried egg on top in the most annoying and inconvenient situations, politely say that was before you realized how crowded the conditions in factory farms are or the amount of antibiotics wasted in animal agriculture.

Then ask him why he is still going to the steakhouse twice a week–with two different girls who think they’re “exclusive.”

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The clip above shows some highlights from Pamela Anderson making and debuting her signature celebrity milkshake at Millions of Milkshakes in West Hollywood.

Pamela’s is the first vegan celebrity milkshake and Hollywood.tv got the chance to chat with Pamela during the event.

Pamela said her kids like the milkshake and it’s what she makes for them at home in Malibu.

“I think a lot of young people love being vegetarian, because they’re more open to being educated about it,” Pamela added.

Sure the old will like Pamela’s shake just as much–especially if a daily shake will bring them her Dancing with the Stars legs!

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“It is my recipe. My kids love milkshakes. If you are a vegan you don’t drink milk, so I wanted to do something vegan. I think it is important for kids to eat healthy. You just have to expose them to it and they make their own decisions.”

—Pamela Anderson, on her new vegan milkshake at Millions of Milkshakes in West Hollywood, California, which PETA called a “cow-friendly concoction.”

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Pamela Anderson debuted the first ever vegan celebrity signature milkshake at the famous West Hollywood Millions of Milkshakes restaurant. The vanilla, coconut and pineapple non dairy blend is appropriately titled the “Pamela Anderson.” Pamela’s friends from PETA were there to cheer her on. Enjoy the pics!

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