Vegetarian Star

Mario Batali has shared his favorite restaurants internationally.

Most vegetarians and vegan know the way to good plant-based food is often through foreign or ethnic cuisine.

It’s no surprise that one of Batali’s favorite eateries has a vegetarian menu he highly recommends.

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If you past the eggplant basket in the produce section because you think cooking with the purple vegetable is akin to cooking for purple aliens, have no fear.

Mario Batali is here to answer all your questions about the plant so you can put something delicious like vegan eggplant parmesean on the menu for next week!

How can you tell if an eggplant is ripe?

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Mario Batali "Molto Gusto"

Chef Thomas Keller made a statement to the New York Times that sounded as if he was not hopping on the bandwagon to cook with more sustainable ingredients anytime soon and that it wasn’t his job to do so.

“With the relatively small number of people I feed, is it really my responsibility to worry about carbon footprint?” Keller asked. “The world’s governments should be worrying about carbon footprint.

Elizabeth Meltz, director of sustainability for Mario Batali and several other popular chefs, responded to Keller’s comment on Bay Area Bites, suggesting that even observing something as simple as Meatless Monday can go a great way towards preserving the planet.

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“The fact is, most people in the U.S. eat way more meat than is good for them or the planet, but even knowing this, the chances are little that we are all going to become vegetarians, much less vegan. Asking everyone to go vegetarian or vegan is not a realistic or attainable goal, but we can focus on a more plant-based diet and support the farmers who raise their animals humanely and sustainably. This is why I am such a big believer in the Meatless Monday Movement and the Environmental Working Group’s Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change and Health.”

—Mario Batali, on the Environmental Working Group’s site that helps potential part-time vegetarians learn how to reduce their footprint. The guide discusses both the environmental and health benefits that are gained from reducing one’s intake of animal products.

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The Guardian has featured an article discussing Rain Phoenix‘s childhood, including how her family went vegan.

Rain and her brothers River and Joaquin saw fisherman throwing fish against nails that were sticking out from their boat. The image was so gruesome, the three siblings went home and announced to their parents they were turning vegan. Soon mom and dad followed their lead.

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Mario Batali is on board and ready to embrace a life with less meat. He’s observing Meatless Monday is his restaurants, has plans for a vegetarian cookbook and made one of his New Year’s resolutions for 2011 to learn to cook more vegetarian meals.

Making vegetables the center of his plate is how Batali lost a significant amount of weight and continues to maintain a lighter figure.

During one of Grubstreet’s regular “a week in the food life of [insert famous person],” Mario gave an an example of how he keeps Meatless Monday.

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Mario Batali will return to the New York Botanical Garden to help the organization kick off its 2011 gardening season and launch his Edible Garden.

On April 12, 2011, Batali will be joined by Bronx schoolchildren to celebrate both the benefits of gardening and the 25th anniversary of the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, a hands-on exhibit at the Botanical Garden that teaches gardening techniques.

Batali will prepare vegetable beds and plant seeds for his Edible Garden, an exhibit that runs for several months starting in August, featuring the celebrity chef’s favorite vegetables, cooking demonstrations from Batali and recipes using plants from the garden.

Batali made one of his New Year’s resolutions for 2011 to “master more vegetarian dishes” that can be cooked as a team.

A clip of Batali at the New York Botanical Garden from a previous year can be viewed below.

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Mario Batali and Alton Brown have both made resolutions this year to eat more animal and environmentally friendly. Batali says he will learn to cook more vegetarian meals while Brown, who is already eating mostly pescatarian, will start eating eggs from chickens he raises in his backyard so he won’t have to “worry about the chickens welfare, or what’s in the egg.”

Between the two celebrity chefs, who would you?

Photo: Lawrence Lansing/Creative Commons

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