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Raw Food For Real People

If you like it raw, you might want to pick up a copy of Raw Food For Real People by Rod Rotondi.

Filled with raw vegan recipes from comfort food favorites like lasagna, pizza and and brownies to more exotic dishes like pad thai, Raw Food not only teaches how to cook raw, but gives arguments for why you should be eating raw.

As sbsun.com states, Raw Food is filled with “information on how raw foods offer a natural, healthy alternative to the overloaded, overprocessed diet that has made America bloated and sick.”

Chef Rotondi is the owner of Leaf Organics, an LA based raw food enterprise that attracts clients like Woody Harrelson.

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Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy

Moby‘s prodigy from Teany has been named 2009 Chef of the Year by Metromix.

Although they love Amanda Cohen, Metromix isn’t too keen on the vegetarian food she cooks at her restaurant, Dirt Candy.

Just take a look at these two questions they fired at Amanda during an interview.

Does vegetarian food get a bad rap?
It does, and people can’t look behind what vegetarian food is about and not what it’s not about. The reality is that most people probably, at least once a week, have a meal that doesn’t have meat or chicken or fish in it. They just don’t call that meal “my vegetarian meal of the week.”

And then they just get real honest about it.

Well, we gotta say it: Most vegetarian food is pretty terrible.
That’s a hard thing for me to agree to [laughs]. But I think vegetarian food has a built-in audience, and [people] don’t necessarily have to try to go outside of that audience. So whether or not that makes the food good or bad, it has its audience. …There’s very few restaurants in this city where they’re expected to state their politics before you even walk in the door. But that onus is put on vegetarian restaurants, and I think it creates a world where it’s hard for vegetarian restaurants to necessarily make exciting and different food.

New Yorkers, what do you think?

Does Dirt Candy change the reputation of vegetarian food, for Metromix and everyone else?

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“Among the “nasty” foods is white sugar (and its friend high fructose corn and syrup). Simply put, you should just consider it crack, only sliiiiightly less addictive. White sugar leeches vitamins and minerals from your blood and bones, messes with your immune system, leads to insulin resistance, and makes you feel crazy-extreme peaks and dips in blood sugar can cause nausea, headaches and fatigue, irritability, anxiety, dizziness, heart palpitations, crying and depression. And it makes us fat.”

—-Alicia Silverstone, in an interview with Planet Green, giving examples of what she calls “nasty” foods in her book, The Kind Diet.

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Vegetarians may be excited about Paul McCartney‘s Meat-Free Monday initiative, but not everyone is welcoming the singer’s push to save the planet through less meat.

During a debate at the recent European Union Parliament, McCartney went head to head with MEP Mairead McGuinness.

And although McGuinness never threatened to shock her children like Gordon Ramsay did, she made it clear she doesn’t think a veggie burger a day keeps the emissions away.

“Getting rid of livestock from the planet as a solution to climate change is too far-fetched and unrealistic a proposition to be credible,” McGuinness said.

“Research shows that a change in European diets with considerably less dairy and meat products would have only a marginal impact on the environment,” she added.

Okay. But the meat industry does produce more emissions than all forms of transportation combined.

“Lastly, those of us who enjoy a roast on Sunday and who hope to continue to do so, would never even consider a meat free Monday.”

Ah, might as well skip the roast the next day.

Leftovers are never as good as hot from the oven anyway.

via Dundalk Democrat

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Half of the pop duo The Veronicas really likes to get her vegan nacho fix on at Real Food Daily.

Last month, Lisa Origliasso Tweeted:

Is in LOVE with the vegan nachos at @realfooddaily everyone needs to go try them <3

And more recently, she Tweeted about RFD nachos again, in case the fans forgot:

Had the best vegan nachos at @realfooddaily…

Obviously, Real Food Daily’s got some great dairy-free grub, but if you can’t make it there, head to your closest natural foods store or go online and order Teese Vegan Nacho Cheese from Chicago Soy Dairy (and pick up some of their vegan ice cream or marshmallows while you’re at it).

You’ll get the best damn at home nacho cheese experience.

Period.

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Kerry McCarthy Labour Member of Parliament for Bristol East

Comedian Ross Noble recently played a game with Labour Member of Parliament Kerry McCarthy using the social media Queen’s own method of promoting the party-Twitter.

Noble asked his 30,000 Twitter follows to bombard McCarthy with questions and McCarthy agreed to answer as many as possible.

One follower asked her advice for a good brand of vegan cheese.

McCarthy, being vegan herself, answered, “I prefer Cheezley though Sheese sometimes has its uses and the soft Scheese is good.”

Cheezly is produced by Redwood Foods, the company recently acquired by Heather Mills that specializes is vegetarian faux meats and cheeses.

Another follower asked McCarthy if she’d ever wear a gorilla suit to Parliament and she replied, “I don’t think it’s expressly forbidden, I could give it a try?”

McCarthy should do it, but only if the other members of Parliament agree to eat veg for a week!

via blogs.coventrytelegraph.net

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Bryce Dallas Howard is reportedly taking steps to slim down for the cameras that will be spotlighting her during the Eclipse press tour that begins June 2010.

Howard’s plan includes using a detox cleansing system and avoiding oils.

“Bryce is not looking to lose 20 pounds,” says her rep, Stephen Huvane, according to eonline.com.

“She does cleanse from time to time, but the one you describe is not at all what she has done in the past or has any plans to do,” Huvane added in regards to a stringent plan described by the source.

Regardless of how Howard will lose the undesired pounds, one thing’s for sure–she won’t be using any Taylor Lautner tactics to get there.

Howard is a vegetarian, who used to be a vegan, until pregnancy made her switch back, fearing she’d lose essential nutrients required while carrying a child.

To get his ripped abs and V hips, Lautner became a meat and sweet potato addict, even carrying baggies of the “drug” around to get his fix every few hours.

“Yeah, so I carry around a Baggie and it has meat patties in it,” Lautner told Entertainment Weekly.

“The worst is not the patties. It’s the sweet potatoes. They get raw and cold and gushy.”

Eww. The worst is having to listen to Lautner describe his carnivorous vice.

Best of luck to Howard.

Bet fans can’t wait to see her on the Eclipse tour next year!

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“I’ve never felt better in my life. I’m less tired; my body has more energy. It’s unbelievable! When you become a vegan, you learn to put the right stuff in your body.”

—Montreal Canadienes hockey player Georges Laraque, on how switching to a vegan diet has affected his performance on the ice.

Laraque made the big V switch in June and it doesn’t look like he’s turning back!

Learn more about what Laraque has to say on veganism and activism in the January 2010 issue of Vegetarian Times on the stands.

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