Vegetarian Star

Coming from an area in Maryland that is big on crabmeat, Helene Leeds said her mother threatened to disown her when she switched to a vegan diet.

The Masterchef finalist isn’t used to making crabmeat and that’s probably why she performed poorly during the challenge on Gordon Ramsay‘s Fox television series.

It’s too bad she couldn’t show off her cooking skills with the vegan dish that got her into the top 36 finalists.

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Ani's Raw Food Essentials

Raw foods chef Ani Phyo will give “Uncooking” demonstrations at the American College for Advancement in Medicine’s Fall Conference and Trade Show on November 5, 2010 in Las Vegas.

Phyo will share some of her favorite recipes and show how to “uncook” several raw food meals.

Phyo has published several cookbooks on raw food, including her latest, Ani’s Raw Food Essentials, released earlier this year.  She has received numerous awards both as a chef and for her cookbooks.

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John Joseph. Photo: Punkhouse

John Joseph, punk rock singer best known for his work with the Cro-Mags, is training for a triathlon in his late 40s.

If you’re wondering how this is physically possible, you might ask him about his diet, which is mostly raw and filled with plant based proteins.

Then again, it may those supplements he’s creating with a internationally known nutritionist, Dr. Fred Biscie.

All this is accomplished while John has worked on a new book about how the wrong diet and lifestyle choices will eventually make you a “pussy.”

The vegetarian of 30 years said of the upcoming book, Meat Is For Pussies:

“The new book’s title is a play on words. Everyone thinks that I’m calling you a pussy if you eat meat. That’s not what the title is suggesting. What I say in the foreword is that if you continue to leading a sedentary lifestyle, sitting in front of the TV, getting no exercise, eating poisonous foods, you will become a pussy that is dependent on the pharmaceutical companies. If that’s what you want, right on, don’t buy my book. If you want to know what’s really going on, then I suggest you pick it up.”

Fair enough.

John says about half of his diet is raw and he’s not a fan of GMOs.

Read more of his thoughts at Miami New Times.

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Raw Food For Real People

If you like it raw, you might want to pick up a copy of Raw Food For Real People by Rod Rotondi.

Filled with raw vegan recipes from comfort food favorites like lasagna, pizza and and brownies to more exotic dishes like pad thai, Raw Food not only teaches how to cook raw, but gives arguments for why you should be eating raw.

As sbsun.com states, Raw Food is filled with “information on how raw foods offer a natural, healthy alternative to the overloaded, overprocessed diet that has made America bloated and sick.”

Chef Rotondi is the owner of Leaf Organics, an LA based raw food enterprise that attracts clients like Woody Harrelson.

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If you love to be up at 2:00 in the morning with your credit card on hand in case Time Life is offering their latest collection of [Insert Music From Genre X] for five easy payments and you’re chowing down on an avocado and seaweed wrap at the same time, we’ve got an infomercial for you.

Celebrity Chef Bryan Au, adored by many vegan celebrities like Anthony Kiedis and Alicia Silverstone now has the very first raw food infomercial.

The author of several raw cookbooks that you can check out on his Raw In Ten website, will be demonstrating creating raw food dishes on Jan 23 2009 at 8am and 3pm on WTCN in West Palm Beach in Florida on Comcast 15. But even if you’re not in Florida, you can still call 1-800-970-2281 to make a purchase and keep Bryan’s raw show going!

Television devoted to vegan and raw is long overdue. Good luck to Bryan on making this mainstream. What’s next, a vegan Food Network Iron Chef?

For more info, visit Raw In Ten.

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Update 1/7/09: Ani actually won 3 categories, as her book, Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen, placed first for best raw vegan book of the year. Woohoo!

Remember that awesome vegan chef, Ani Phyo, who catered Maroon 5’s vegan Halloween party? Who knew that most of the guys in Maroon 5 were vegan before she came along? We sure didn’t!

She’s won two categories in the Best of Raw 2008 poll!

Ani won for Best Raw Chef and Sexiest Raw Vegan Woman (hubba, hubba, giggity, giggity). And although she is sexy, brains are what really count, and she won second place for her intellectual efforts as a Raw Vegan Educator.

Congrats to Ani!

With celebrities like Eva Longoria and Fergie making New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier and raw, Ani just might find herself catering more vegan parties to the stars soon.

via Ani Phyo

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