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Jessica Chastain Shares Favorite Christmas Dish

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, December 24th, 2012 in Actresses, Food & Drink.

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Jessica Chastain and several other celebrities have shared their holiday plans with E Online.

Vegan Jenna Dewan-Tatum and husband Channing Tatum are skipping the big vacation trip this year and plan staying close to home while expecting their first child. Miranda Cosgrove would like to add a new four-legged friend to her family.

And Chastain is looking forward to preparing one of her favorite Christmas dishes–poached pears and sweet potato ice cream.

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Meatless Monday Recipe–Carla Hall Cranberry Pear Relish

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, December 24th, 2012 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Meatless Monday Recipe, Recipes.

Carla Hall

Carla Hall is known for being a celebrity chef who–although not a vegetarian herself–is very fond of plant-based dishes and frequently incorporates them into her live cooking demonstrations.

The Top Chef alum has a fruit relish that will serve as the perfect side dish or dessert for your Christmas dinner tomorrow.

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Chloe Coscarelli “Today” Vegan Cooking Demonstration (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 in Chefs, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Videos.

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Chloe Coscarelli visited Today to demonstrate several meals to serve to guests this holiday season even if no one else is vegan.

Not only are Chloe’s dishes great for vegans, as Today show hosts Kathy Lee and Hota Kotb point out, they’re great for gluten-free,  lactose-free and other dairy-free dieters.

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Addict Nation Jane Velez-Mitchell

Jane Velez-Mitchell may be one of the healthiest journalists around.

But that doesn’t mean she’s free from any vices.

The vegan and animal rights’ activists has an excerpt in her book, Addict Nation, that discusses her occasional indulgence in food that’s not always the healthiest even though it’s animal-free.

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Kathy Freston

Kathy Freston has shared some research on how a vegan diet may prevent and increase one’s odds of recovering from cancer at the Huffington Post.

Citing several studies discussing rates of cancer among plant-based eaters vs. omnivores and factors involved in cancer growths, Freston concludes that, “We aren’t helpless at all; in fact, the power is largely in our hands. It’s on our forks, actually.”

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John Joseph

“It’s so cool – yoga peeps, Christians, rabbis, all working together to feed the needy healthy organic, plant-based meals. The elderly woman I was feeding in the photo was 93. She was trapped on the 17th floor of her building for 5 days, no power or water, eating only peanuts. She loved that there was NO meat in the donated meals.”

John Joseph, author of Meat is for Pussies and member of the band Cro Mags on his experience feeding the hungry at Interfaith Community Services, an organization serving vegetarian and vegan meals to those in poverty in New York City.

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Fran Drescher

Fran Drescher has been a great champion for the vegan lifestyle ever since she lost weight and gained a ton of energy by eliminating animal products from her diet.

Never one to shy away from vegan cooking on television, the actress and talk show hosts has brought us great recipes like white bean hummus, fudge cake and more.

This week’s Meatless Monday recipe features another favorite veggie dish of Fran’s–Kale Soup.

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Allrecipes.com Vegetarian Holiday Menu

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, December 13th, 2012 in Food & Drink, Recipes.

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Seattle Weekly has a vegetarian holiday menu complements of Allrecipes.com, one of the largest databases for recipes.

Allrecipe.com content producer Sonja Groset told writer Gwendolyn Elliott the number one ingredient searched for on the site is “chicken,” but Elliot had no problem turning up an abundance of ideas for those fearing they’ve arrived at “chickenrecipes.com,” as Groset joked the site could be named.

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