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John Robbins “The New Good Life” Sneak Peaks, Julia Child Encounter

Vegetarian Star — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:54:32 +0000

John Robbins "The New Good Life"

John Robbins has released his latest book, The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever In An Age Of Less, and VegNews has provided an exciting sneak peak as to what you’ll get should you choose to purchase a copy or borrow from your local library.

Robbins, who would have been the heir to the Baskin Robbins ice cream fortune, but chose to follow his ethics instead, writes he once took famous chef Julia Child to a farm that produced veal.

“Julia Child, the famous chef, author, and TV personality, used to dismiss vegetarians as sappy. But when, late in her life, I took her to visit a veal production facility, she was horrified by what she saw. “I had no idea it was so severe,” she told me.”

As evident from the title, Robbins wants readers to comprehend a different view of what “the good life” is about–instead of enormous homes that waste energy, regular expensive steak dinners at gourmet restaurants and other “status” symbols previously created by society, he’d like us to think of the good life as one that requires us to live a sustainable and compassionate one.

Although himself a vegetarian, Robbins even tries to recruit meat eaters into living a different good life, suggesting they at least buy more ethically raised meat available in grocery stores like Whole Foods.

For a bigger sneak peak, visit VegNews.

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Moby Can’t Cook But Doesn’t Have To

Vegetarian Star — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:27:40 +0000

Moby has been a vegan for 20 years, but is bashful about proclaiming himself as a great vegan chef.

He told the Milwaukee Wisconsin Sentinel Journal, “I’m a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.”

Sounds like vegan men aren’t any different from meat eaters after all when it comes to the kitchen.

Could it be the only decent meal Moby can make is his vegan blueberry pancakes?

Thankfully, if you’re not a great cook either, there are dozens of ready made vegetarian and vegan meals that require the simple skill of manipulating the microwave buttons.

A visit to the frozen aisle of the grocery store can stock your freezer with simple vegetarian meals like burritos or old fashioned macaroni and cheese to ethnic dishes containing samosas and dahl to fake meat and potatoes.

Those ramen noodles you used to make with chicken during the after school hours?

They now come flavored with miso.

Of course, when you’re ready to become Julia Child (who at one point couldn’t understand why anyone would want to be vegetarian) these lists for the top 10 vegetarian and top 10 vegan cookbooks will help get you started.

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Julia Child Home Occupied By Vegetarian Now

Vegetarian Star — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:13:23 +0000

Julia Child was not exactly known for her love of vegetarian food or vegetarians.

So it’s a funny and refreshing coincidence to learn Child’s old home is now occupied by a vegetarian and animal rights activist.

Lisa Landsverk is the owner of Child’s house on Irving Street in Cambridge where Child lived and cooked for 43 years.

Landsverk said the situation is a “bit ironic.”

Inside the home, there is a painting of a cow with a caption that reads, “Nobody says when I grow up I want to be a hamburger.”

Fans and media stop by to take pictures of the home and one person even left a stick of butter on the fence post.

Yeah…we were thinking the same thing-CREEPY!

As part of the hoopla surrounding the movie, Julia & Julia, Landsverk allowed a reporter into her home and cooked one of Julia’s recipes-a completely vegan one.

“Landsverk chose ratatouille for an entrée – she liked Child’s assertion that the eggplant casserole “perfumes the kitchen with the essence of Provence’’ – and, for dessert, pêches cardinal, a compote of fresh peaches with raspberry purée.”

Forty-three years of meaty cooking in the kitchen?

The ironic situation of Landsverk living in Child’s home now is good karma that’s been long overdue.

via boston.com

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Julia Child Hated Organic Food ‘Till Alice Waters Made Her Warm And Fuzzy

Vegetarian Star — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:14:16 +0000

Yesterday we learned that legendary chef Julia Child couldn’t understand why anyone would want to follow a vegetarian diet.

Now, we find out not only did Julia hate on tofu, she didn’t care too much for organic food either.

According to green gossip website, Ecorazzi.com, Meryl Streep, who plays Child in the movie Julie & Julia, recalled the time when she asked Julia what she thought of organic ingredients.

Child wrote Streep a pretty nasty letter saying she didn’t care for organics.

It was only later when locally grown, sustainable foods champ Alice Waters came along that the chef started to embrace the food.

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Julie And Julia: At Least One Didn’t Get Vegetarians

Vegetarian Star — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:59:00 +0000

Planning to see the blockbuster hit Julie & Julia?

Before you go, you should know, when it came to vegetarians, Julia Child was a little…well, just read this quote from a 1999 interview with PEOPLE magazine.

“Personally, I don’t think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. It’s more fear of food—that whole thing that red meat is bad for you. And then there are people who don’t eat meat because it’s against their morals. Well, there’s nothing you can do with people like that. I’ve often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever? “”

Well, then…we suppose a vegetarian never looked forward to any dinner Julia Child made.

via vegdaily.com

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