Vegetarian Star

France hasn’t always held the best reputation for being vegan friendly.

Some have even proposed that to be a real Frenchman (or Frenchwoman), you have to eat cheese.

But while dining with company at a restaurant in Paris, Washington Post food editor turned vegan Joe Yonan experienced a vegetable salad that puts any American tossed with iceberg greens to shame.

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You’ve already been given the worst. Now it’s time to take a look at some of the best in vegetarian news and gossip of 2013.

#5 Monopoly Replaces Iron With Cat
After years of conquering Boardwalk and Park Place, players of the popular Hasbro game now have an animal-friendly token option. A cat based on a real life rescue story replaced the longtime Iron. Do not pass go…without stopping by the shelter for your pet.

#4 Vegetarian Cory Booker Elected to U.S. Senate
New Jersey mayor Cory Booker was elected to the U.S. Senate. Booker has been a vegetarian for about two decades. Like all great politicians, he’s already gotten his sex scandal out of the way. After Tweets between him and a stripper, a vegan “gentlemen’s club” named a veggie burger after him.

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“You can use meat to season rather than being a big hunk of protein in the middle of the plate. But if you have a hard time breaking out of that, then I would start by just designating certain meals as meatless. Mark Bittman does a beautiful job of this philosophy with his Eat Vegan Before 6:00. Certainly the Meatless Monday campaign is a good way to think about it.”

—Joe Yonan, food critic and editor for the Washington Post, with his advice on going vegetarians or flexitarian. You can read more about Yonan’s journey to a plant-based diet in his interview with the Humane Society’s November/December 2013 issue of All Animals magazine.

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When Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan was invited to a summer cookout, he warned the host in advance he was veggie.

The host had no problem–just advised him he’d be cooking his own dinner.

It may not sound like the best of hospitality, but it gave the newly vegan who just published the cookbook, Eat Your Vegetables, a great reason to try tempeh kebobs, a perfect dish to make before the fall season hits and the weather turns cooler.

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Looking for a preview of Washington Post editor Joe Yonan‘s cookbook, Eat Your Vegetables, before purchasing?

Try a sample recipe from the collection created from the former meat-loving Texan and food critic that utilizes the flavors from around the globe.

Yonan travels to Egypt via the spice section of the grocery store in his recipe for Roasted Carrot, Green Bean and Coconut Salad.

Dukkah is a mixture of spices and nuts, often blended with olive oil and used as a dip for breads.

In Yonan’s recipe, it makes a crunchy topping for the salad much like breadcrumbs, nuts or crumbled hard cheeses do.

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Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan not only made the decision to adopt a plant-based diet, he decided to put his journalism skills to good use and write a cookbook on it.

Eat Your Vegetables debuted this month, and it represents part of a bigger move that Yonan labeled “bold” for a major food critic–to both eat vegetarian and make it the focus of your column that reaches thousands, if not millions of people.

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Joe Yonan‘s “coming out as a vegetarian,” as many journalists and bloggers are calling it, has resulted in good publicity for the diet. As the food editor of the Washington Post, Yonan now has the ability to share the benefits and tasty secrets of a plant-based diet to millions of Americans.

In addition to discussing vegetarian and vegan dishes in his regular Post column, Yonan has an all-vegetarian cookbook scheduled for release this summer.

Yonan latest attempt at proselytizing the heavy meat eaters is through the Huffington Post, where he’s named the top vegetarian and vegan restaurants located in the nation’s capitol.

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Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan has an interview with NPR on his recent decision to go vegetarian and devote his regular newspaper columns to plant-based eating.

Yonan’s “coming out as a vegetarian,” as NPR puts it, as a writer for a major national paper isn’t the only thing that sounds odd and surprising.

Yonan also hails from cattle country.

He grew up in west Texas eating “steak and barbecue and all sorts of meaty goodness.”

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