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Sudhir Kandula Is America’s Next Great Vegetarian Restaurant Owner (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, April 25th, 2011 in Business, Chefs, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV, Restaurants, Videos.

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Are you looking at American’s Next Great Restaurant owner?

We sure hope so!

Sudhir Kandula has made it to the top 3 finalists in the reality cooking show where one chef will be able to run his own restaurant invested by celebrity chefs Curtis Stone, Lorena Garcia and Bobby Flay, with several locations in key cities in the United States.

Kandula is the guy who wants to make vegetarian Indian food mainstream. And now there’s a pretty darn good chance he will.

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“Masterchef” Puts Vegetarian Chef Ahead Of Competition

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 in Chefs, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV, Recipes.

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Reality TV has a way of giving the vegetarian the shaft. And not the juicy, nutritious celery kind either.

Often, the contestant has to choose between continuing to compete or eating meat, cooking meat or gets lambasted by judges, competitors and blogs for cooking meatless dishes.

This season, BBC’s Masterchef tells a different story. One of the four finalists in the competition is known for her vegetarian dishes and Mastechef’s co-presenter Greg Wallace is impressed.

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Food Network Donut Champions Crowns Vegan Mighty-O The Winner

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 in Business, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV, Restaurants.

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This past weekend, the Food Network hosted its first ever breakfast making competition, which featured vegan donut baker Sara Beth Russert from Seattle’s Mighty-O donut bakery.

Russert won the challenge, beating out two other bakeries in a contest where bakers had to created donuts based on themes in two rounds of competition.

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“Food Network Challenge: Donut Champions” Vegan Mighty-O Donuts (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 in Chefs, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV, Videos.

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The Food Network has once again shown love to vegan chefs.

This Sunday, April 10th at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT the network will host its first ever donut making competition, Food Network Challenge: Donut Champions, that will feature a vegan donut bakery in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, Mighty-O.

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“Biggest Loser” Couple Ken And Hannah Make Almond Milk Shake (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, March 17th, 2011 in Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV, Recipes, Videos.

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When an aspiring Biggest Loser heads to the kitchen and comes back with a low-fat drink made of almond milk, he’s not the loser for the week, regardless of weight lost.

On a recent episode, the contestants teamed up to make meals worthy of the praise of celebrity chefs and America’s Next Great Restaurant judges Curtis Stone and Lorena Garcia.

Ken and Hannah (not Barbie) teamed up to bring the judges a Chocolate Peppermint Shake that replaced dairy milk with almond milk.

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“Masterchef” Contestants Get Vegetarian Lessons From Yotam Ottolenghi

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, March 17th, 2011 in Chefs, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Reality TV.

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The contestants on BBC’s television cooking show Masterchef got a lesson in meatless cooking when famed chef Yotam Ottolenghi stepped into the kitchens on the set during an episode where all meat products were banned.

Ottolenghi studied Philosophy before going on to learn cooking at London’s Cordon Bleu, then became a pastry chef for several London restaurants. For four years his weekly food column in The Guardian‘s weekend Saturday magazine was called “The New Vegetarian.”

During a previous episode of the New Zealand version of Masterchef, the show’s lone vegetarian chef was sent packing. So having an all-vegetarian challenge on the UK series was the perfect revenge for perhaps what may have be a veg-unfriendly environment on Masterchef.

Was it a good Meatless Monday? Or Meatless Madness?

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Bob Harper Creates Supplement Line “Bob Harper’s Smart Success”

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, March 17th, 2011 in Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness, Reality TV.

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The Biggest Loser‘s vegan coach Bob Harper has created his own line of nutritional supplements.

Expect to see Bob Harper’s Smart Success on the shelves sometime in April.

Vegetarians and vegans can also expect not to be disappointed, as Harper says on his blog he was careful to work with a manufacturer who adhered to his strict, animal-free standards.

“When I first started thinking about this project I had a very long laundry list of what I wanted for my products. Namely, I was looking for clinically proven key ingredients. I wanted it to be vegan and vegetarian friendly. It needed to be gluten free and dairy free. I wanted veggie caps. I wanted supportive ingredients like natural goji berry & pomegranate. The list went on and on – and the world-class company I teamed up with delivered on every single item.”

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