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Fran Drescher Vegan-Curious In The Kitchen

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, July 27th, 2012 in Actresses, Food & Drink, TV Hosts.

Fran Drescher

Fran Drescher will be hosting the GLAAD annual signature food-themed event in Los Angeles. This year, it’s called Hancock Park Top Chef Invasion and is scheduled to feature Top Chef: Texas Chef’testant Chris Crary and Top-Chef all-star Chef’testant Jamie Lauren.

Drescher spoke to Radar Online about her upcoming celebrity host gig, and shared her experience with cooking in the kitchen.

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Slice Of Celebrity Vegan Birthday Cake To (Drum Roll)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, July 27th, 2012 in Birthdays, Comedians.

Carol Leifer

 

A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

Photo: Bridget Laudien/Creative Commons

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Howard Stern

Howard Stern hosted a week of yogis and vegetarians for his radio talk show recently.

Stern invited guests Woody Harrelson, Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand to discuss both their pilates and rice pilafs.

Vegetarian food brought Harrelson and another famous vegetarian, Paul McCartney, together.

“I met him at a feed-in event,” Harrelson said.

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Angela Simmons Everything Girls Love

Angela Simmons, reality TV actress, niece of Russell Simmons and the daughter of Rev Run, is featured on a recent cover of Everything Girls Love magazine.

Inside, Simmons’ interview reveals her favorite charities, love for animals and the vegetarian secret that plays a major role in her physique.

“Lately I’ve been working with an organization called NYClass, to get the horses off the streets of New York,” Simmosn told EGL.  “The horses that ride us around on carriages are treated so horribly and horses have no business being in the city.”

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Olympic Athletes Following Plant-Based Diets

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, July 26th, 2012 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Food & Drink.

Garrett Weber-Gale

Fox News simply puts one of them in the category of “9 Athletes on Weird Diets,” but you may be pleasantly surprised to hear there are several potential Olympian champions who follow a vegetarian or mostly plant-based diet.

Gulf News profiles several Olympic athletes and their food regimes. Those who power up with plants include USA Swimmer Garrett Weber-Gale and USA Marathon Runner Michael Arstein.

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Carrie Underwoood spoke to Self Magazine about her vegetarian diet and fitness routine. Definitely, not a three cheese sandwich a day vegetarian, Underwood has a pretty good idea of what to put into her body. However, Self readers got an extra lesson in nutrition when a dietitian weighed in on the country singer’s breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So what’s on Carrie’s menu for breakfast?

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Target To House Pret A Manger Natural Foods Restaurant

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 in Business, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

Pret A Manger

Target’s newest opening in downtown Chicago will feature a Pret A Manger, a small chain of nationally recognize restaurants that serve natural foods.

More prominent in the UK, Pret A Manger stores feature an in-house kitchen and bakery and a fresh selection of daily soups, salads, sandwiches and more.

A few of the vegetarian items listed on Chicago’s menu include Falafel, Avocado and Pine Nut Wrap and several fruit salads.

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Jennifer Esposito Puts Gluten-Free, Vegan On Same Beat

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 in Actresses, Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness.

Jennifer Esposito

Jennifer Esposito, who plays a detective in the CBS series Blue Bloods, did some investigation in real life after suffering from bouts of headache, fatigue, exhaustion and nausea.

Her diet police work led her to diagnosis of Celiac disease, a condition, according to one source, an estimated 1 in 250 people suffer from.

After solving that mystery, Esposito cracked another case–that some of the best gluten-free foods are also vegan.

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