Vegetarian Star

What’s hot for cooking this holiday season? If you subscribe to the opinion of one of the queens in all things food, you’ll agree with Betty Crocker and “Hold the Gluten. Embrace the Vegan.”

In a top ten list of trends on its website that includes putting kids in the kitchen and baking for charitable causes, Betty Crocker reserves the number eight spot for “Alternative Diets Go Mainstream” and offers two delicious recipes for cookies, one gluten-free and one vegan.

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[picappgallerysingle id=”9790928″]So former NFL player Eric Johnson and Jessica Simpson are engaged, with an expected wedding date by the end of the year. Terrific! More importantly, however, is the expected date that Eric will open his chain of vegan fast food restaurants!

From E! Online:

“His new one is a plan to start a fast-food vegan restaurant in L.A. and eventually expand them across the country,” says a pal of the couple. “Jessica’s supportive of everything he wants to do, so she’s into it.”

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How food gets from the farm to your plate is becoming an increasingly popular topic, given the fact most conscious eaters want to know what they eat was grown under environmentally friendly conditions for the planet and farm workers and had minimum impact, if any, on animals.

The farm is also where many food education programs take children as part of an initiative to get them to eat better once they’ve become acquainted with how produce is grown and harvested.

Skinny Bitch author Rory Freedman and Jenny and Heather Goldberg of Spork Foods, a company that offers organic, vegan cooking classes in the LA area, visited a farm to learn the ins and outs of produce growing.

In between chit chatting with the “meat-eating farmer,” Freedman discusses vegan issues, such as cruelty to male chicks in the egg industry and what motivated her to give up animal products as well as environmental changes that have affected the nutrition and safety of our food.

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Legal analyst for CNN and CBS Lisa Bloom says don’t let her shark lawyer image fool you. She told Vegetarian Times in the October 2010 issue that although she’s thought of as a tough lawyer, she’s actually a marshmallow. “A vegan marshmallow, that is,” Bloom said. “Not the gelatin kind.”

This Sweet and Sara-esque lady gave cooking with fresh herbs as her #1 tip for great vegan food.

“Always have fresh herbs on hand, and when you add them to your cooking, it’s going to be good.”

There’s nothing fresher than what you grow, and VIVA! Gardens has compiled some tips for growing and harvesting herbs from several of their newsletters over the past years.

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The owners of Sugar Cupcakery were thrilled to compete on the debut episode of the Food Network show, Cupcake Wars, but along with the fame and excitement came a little apprehension.

Krista Tevar of the bakery described a situation akind to a football team playing on a turf other than home. It’s hard to get adjusted sometimes.

“I thought, ‘How are we going to pull this off? We’ve barely gotten the store open,'” Tevar said. “It was challenging to work under the time constraints and to be out of our element. We didn’t have the equipment we’re used to and everything was different, especially the ovens.”

“Vegan cupcakes in particular have certain cooking temperatures and times that we’ve honed to our equipment. We have no real culinary experience, so it was hard to jump into another place.”

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Could an online cooking show be the next step in guitar guru Orianthi‘s next career?

The musician who is supporting John Mayer on his Australian tour told 9 News she could incorporate unplugged tunes with vegan cookies.

“I was sort of thinking about doing some mini cooking things on YouTube – like a musical cooking thing,” Orianthi said.

“I’d cook and then as I’m waiting for it to bake in the oven I’d play a few songs and then I’ll go back and check on it.”

“(If it’s) not quite ready yet, I’d play another song.”

Music and good food usually keeps a crowd together longer, so marketing wise, she’s not too far off from a great idea.

She’ll need to have the 1-800 number frequently displayed throughout the segment, so viewers can order the already made varieties.

“I bring cookies and vegan cupcakes to rehearsals … I should probably sell my cookies at the merch (merchandise) booth.”

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Two eco chefs and cookbook authors, Alicia Silverstone and Alice Waters, are scheduled to attend the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 24 and 25.

The event is being promoted as one of the largest literary ones in the United States and will feature chefs from both the Food Network and Bravo’s Top Chef.

The cooking stage is free of charge and will be open from 11AM to 3:30PM both Saturday and Sunday.

Silverstone is expected to be interviewed by the LA Times at 3:30PM on Saturday and Waters is expected to speak on Sunday at 11AM on the UCLA campus.

For more information, visit the event page.

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If you need to brush up on your veggie cooking skills, chef Christina Pirello is offering several classes that give veg love in the city of brotherly love.

The same chef who brought you better sex tips offers three different culinary programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States: demonstration classes, a three-day Intensive Study Program and a six-month Cooking and Integrative Health Studies Program.

The classes cover topics such as kitchen utensils and menu planning to complete lifestyle assessments to help students make healthy decisions away from the dinner table.

Pirello’s book, Cooking The Whole Foods Way, was recently chosen as one of the top 5 cookbooks of the decade by the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine.

For more information on the cooking classes, visit Pirello’s website.

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