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Meatless Mouthful: Amanda Cohen On Future Of Vegetarian Chefs

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, October 9th, 2009 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Meatless Mouthful.

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Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy

Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy

“I think the challenge to all of us is that we have to be better. Vegetarian chefs are like the Ginger Rogers to the omnivore chef’s Fred Astaire: Our job is harder because we have to do everything they do, only backwards and in high heels. We have to work twice as hard for half the respect. Despite this, we desperately need to engage with the mainstream food world, because it’s not enough to preach to the choir anymore. Chefs and owners, myself included, need to step up our game. We need to become the 4.0 GPA overachievers of food.”

—-Amanda Cohen, owner and chef at Dirt Candy, an award winning vegetarian restaurant in New York City.

via vegcooking.com

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Heather Mills Vegan Meals At V-Bites Will Taste Like Meat

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 in Business, Chefs, Food & Drink, Models, Restaurants.

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Heather Mills Hosts Healthy Meal Cook-A-Thon with students in The Bronx

Heather Mills‘ vegan restaurant in the UK, V-Bites, is set to open next month and Heather’s been running her vegan butt off trying to get everything ready, especially the menu.

Heather says one thing that might surprise meat eaters is that the substitute meats she’ll be cooking and serving at V-Bites will taste just like the real deal.

“What is definitely going to shock people is the meat replacements,” she told Metro. “They have a real meat taste to them.”

Fake meats come in handy for those who went veg for reasons other than disliking the taste of meat.

And there’s certainly no shortage of varieties to choose from: fake turkey, chicken, bacon, even gourmet creations like faux chicken cordon blue.

What’s your favorite fake meat?

via nowmagazine.co.uk

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Heather Mills Cooking Roast Potatoes, Veggie Gravy At V-Bites

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 in Business, Chefs, Food & Drink, Models, Restaurants.

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Heather Mills Hosts Healthy Meal Cook-A-Thon with students in The BronxEven though it took her almost forever to finally get her vegan restaurant off the ground, we’re learning more and more about Heather Mills‘ plans for her diner, V-Bites.

Chef Heather will be making guest appearances every Sunday cooking her favorites for customers. Now that’s ownership!

“I’ll be coming in on Sundays, making my speciality of all the roast potatoes, parsnips, all the veg and gravy,” Heather revealed.

Mmmm…Who doesn’t like vegan gravy? Yum!

If you can’t make it to Heather’s place every Sunday, there’s tons of vegan gravy recipes on the good ol’ net, like Brown Gravy, Chickenless Gravy, and Roasted Garlic Gravy over at vegcooking.com. 

Vegan gravy goes great over seitan, biscuits, tofu, and veggies. There’s no need to wait until the Holidays to make it!

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Christina Pirello Takes Vegan Cooking To The Seas

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 17th, 2009 in Authors, Chefs, Food & Drink.

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christina_pirello1Vegan chef Christina Pirello once said that dairy should be illegal.

She’ll be sharing her legal cooking secrets with passengers abroad Holland America Line’s Zuiderdam in August, performing cooking demonstrations, answering questions, and offering tastes of her vegan cooking.

This woman is the Rachael Ray of vegan cooking!

Famed for overcoming leukemia which she attributed to taking on a plant based diet, Pirello hosts the PBS television series Christina Cooks and has authored several books, including This Crazy Life: A Prescription For Endangered Species, Cooking the Whole Foods Way: Your Complete, Everyday Guide to Healthy, Delicious Eating with 500 Vegan Recipes, Menus, Techniques, Meal Planning, Buying Tips, Wit, and Wisdom, and Christina Cooks: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whole Foods but Were Afraid to Ask.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Food Science and Nutrition, has been a guest on television shows like “The Early Show” on CBS, “Home Matters” on The Discovery Channel, “Women’s Day TV” on The PAX TV Network and “In Food Today” on the Food Network.

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Chrissie Hynde’s Chef, Scot Jones, Writing Books, Cleansing Oprah

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in Authors, Chefs, Recipes.

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Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal

Chrissie Hynde’s gotten a lot of publicity for opening a vegan Italian restaurant in her hometown of Akron, Ohio, but her Executive Chef, Scot Jones, may have been hiding in her shadow.

Not anymore.

Jones has authored a few chapters in an upcoming vegan cookbook and while he wasn’t in The Vegiterranean kitchen perfecting spaghetti with “rawmesan,” he developed recipes for Oprah’s famous 21 Day vegan cleanse.

The book’s working title, The Conscious Vegan, is written by chef Tal Ronnen, founder of Veg Advantage, a non-profit organization that helps restaurants put vegetarian items on their menus.

When Jones met Ronnen to consult on the menu for The Vegiterranean, the two hit it off well and Jones was asked to assist in providing recipes for Oprah Winfrey’s 21 day vegan cleanse.

”He used 21 of my recipes and 21 of his recipes to do Oprah’s 21 Day Cleanse in Hawaii last summer,” Jones said.

The book is scheduled to be released this fall and will feature a couple of chapters and recipes from Jones, like SPLIT PEA SOUP WITH TEMPEH BACON AND CHIPOTLE CREAM.

Jones isn’t a vegetarian yet, but he’s added more vegan foods into his diet.

via Ohio.com

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