Vegetarian Star

Food Network chef Michael Symon sells t-shirts that read, “Eat More Meat.” The Chew hosts wrote a cookbook titled, A Modern Day Meat Bible. And at his Roast restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, there’s a regular meat item featured on the menu titled “Roast Beast of the Day.”

So what the heck is this guy doing professing his love for Meatless Mondays?

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“The whole idea is baby steps. Try one dish a week. If it’s a big hit, throw it in the rotation, and then do another dish on Monday so then Monday is meatless, but Thursday is red beans and rice. What I love hearing is “My husband is a card-carrying carnivore, but I made him this dish from your book and he loved it so much he took leftovers to work.” When I hear that a dish is going to become someone’s staple, that’s just the coolest thing.”

—Roberto Martin, author of Vegan Cooking for Carnivores and personal chef to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.

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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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Celebrate Meatless Monday with vegan chef Chloe Coscarelli!

The winner of the Food Network’s 2010 Cupcake Wars will be hosting a live video chat through uStream to answer questions about vegan cooking on Monday, May 7 at 11 AM PST.

Veggie fans can Tweet their questions to Coscarelli both before and during the event using hashtag “#chatSS.”

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Giada De Laurentiis has already predicted that vegetarianism is going to make it big this year.

The Food Network chef who’s mother’s vegetarianism inspired her to to create more plant-based meals recently expressed her appreciation for the Meatless Monday initiative, which encourages everyone to eat vegetarian once a week for better health.

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The King of promoting a vegetarian lifestyle for Britain, the U.S. and the rest of the world, Paul McCartney, has compiled a list of his favorite recipes to help promote his campaign by enticing every meat eater’s taste buds,  the Meat Free Monday Cookbook.

From the publisher:

“Often, though, our vegetarian repertoire is limited, with the result that our enthusiasm to continue with a meat-free day wanes when we are confronted with yet again eating the same dish. With menus for each of the 52 weeks of the year – two main recipes, plus four other ideas for each meal of the day – The Meat Free Monday Cookbook addresses this problem and is aimed at everyone who cares about the environment, is happy to eat vegetarian one day a week, but needs inspiration and guidance to do so.”

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Okay. So you’ve finally made the decision to change your eating habits because you know that daily burger isn’t doing anything for your health or the environment and the last farm sanctuary you visited made you want to freak your doberman out by introducing him to his latest animal housemate Mr. Pig.

Meatless Monday is a good start, but is the 4th of July holiday the best time to convert, considering there will be all those hot dogs, burgers and other meaty goods on the grill?

Mark Bittman recently explored this dilemma is his New York Times food column.

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What evidence exists that more and more people are reducing their meat intake?

At least 18% of Americans are implementing Meatless Mondays in their diets.

More corporations are putting vegetarians entrees in the cafeteria.

Even the Facebook guy won’t “Like” anything he didn’t kill himself.

And when Emeril Lagasse‘s fans pick a portobello mushroom veggie burger as the second best burger in the Viewer’s Choice Burger Bonanza, you know less beef is going in America’s shopping baskets.

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