Vegetarian Star

Mary McCartney has published a vegetarian cookbook filled with recipes inspired by her mother’s cooking and tales of food memories she formed in the famous McCartney household.

“Growing up in a vegetarian family and having Mum at the helm in the kitchen, encouraging us all to muck in, was the best education I could have asked for,” writes Mary at Food and Drink. “Over the years I have continued to cook as my mum did, experimenting with ingredients, flavours and textures.”

One of the recipes in Food is for a hummus sandwich with chilli jam.

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Roberto Martin, the personal chef to Ellen DeGeneres who’s just published his first cookbook, has shared a few recipes from Vegan Cooking for Carnivores with Today.

DeGeneres’ wife Portia de Rossi wrote in the forward to Vegan Cooking, “Roberto taught me that the key to making good food vegan is substitution…you can enjoy all your favorite foods and never feel deprived.”

There’s no deprivation with these three recipes for Vegan Southern Fried Chicken, Mac’ n Cheese and Chocolate Chip Magic Bars.

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How do you plan to celebrate Cinco de Mayo this weekend?

If your ideas include purchasing cheap tortilla chips from the gas station and buying some cheap, off-brand guacamole spread you think is vegan, but actually contains milk, it’s time to take some advice from one of the biggest names in home cooking, Betty Crocker.

The company has unveiled “Feed Your Fiesta: 5 Tacos. 5 Margaritas. 5 de Mayo,” five tacos paired with five margaritas based on today’s trends in food. As it has in the past, Betty Crocker recognizes vegetarianism as being one of those hottest trends and has included a vegan taco that also happens to be gluten-free, paired with Frozen Mango COCOritas.

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Vegan chef Bryant Terry is out to entice those looking to make diet changes that are better for human, planet and animal health with his newly released cookbook, The Inspired Vegan.

Terry is best known for his genius of transforming traditional southern African-American cuisine rich with meat, butter and cream into dishes that lack the animal products but not the taste.

The Inspired Vegan continues that tradition, but also explores plant-based Asian entrees, such as the “Two-Rice Congee with Steamed Spinach and Other Accompaniments.”

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Of all the celebrity chefs who’ve warmed up to the plant-based lifestyle, Jacques Pepin is still not one of them.

The master of French cuisine recently spoke with Bay Area Bites when he touched on the subject of California’s foie gras ban that goes into effect July 2012 and Paula Deen‘s grease fest southern cooking.

“They have no idea what they are talking about. And the worst is that they are righteous,” Jacques said of officials who created a ban that makes it illegal to “force-feed a bird with the intent of enlarging the animal’s liver “beyond normal size” or to “hire a third party to do so” and suggested similar measures to improve animal welfare standards like those in chicken slaughter were also ridiculous.

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Food and opinion writer for the New York Times Mark Bittman serves as a good example of how to live as a flexitarian for those that do not shun all animal products, for whatever reasons.

His self-invented “vegan until six p.m.” program helped him lose weight, lower cholesterol and incorporate a variety of plant-based meals into his diet, such as this Chickpea Salad with Arugula.

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Paul McCartney invited a slew of big celebrity names to daughter Stella McCartney’s West Hollywood clothing store to celebrate the premiere of the “My Valentine” video from his latest Kisses on the Bottom album.

Jane Fonda, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin and Reese Witherspoon gathered around the McCartney family to enjoy vegetarian Mexican appetizers.

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Country music favorite Trisha Yearwood‘s new six episode Food Network series debuted this weekend.

Southern food is traditionally known for the Paula Deen food groups of butter, cream, meat and butter, but Yearwood started experimenting in the kitchen with vegan dishes when her mother became ill and today she continues to enjoy plant-based meals with her family. She’s promised to use Trisha’s Southern Kitchen to show fans how easy it can be to make home-cooked comfort meals without animal ingredients, like this recipe for her Chickenless Pot Pie.

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