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Michelle Obama Talks Gardening On “The Daily Show” (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 in Authors, Food & Drink, Gardening, Videos.

Michelle Obama was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, discussing her latest book on gardening in America and the White House, American Grown.

After bringing up the fact the First Lady’s idea behind some of her initiatives such as the White House Garden was to change kids’ eating habits, Stewart jokingly asked, “Wouldn’t you have been more successful with the colonization of Mars?

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Eat & Run Scott Jurek

“Well, people have been telling me for years: “You’ve got to do a cookbook,” because they know how much I love to cook and spend time in the kitchen and cook up tasty meals without a lot of extravagant affair. But, it was a hard thing because I’ve had a bunch of other people asking for years about a running book. So it was like, how can I combine the two of them, and give something for everyone?”

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Mary McCartney On “BBC Women’s Hour” With Chili Jam Suggestions

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 in Audio, Authors, Chefs, Food & Drink.

Mary McCartney

Mary McCartney was a guest on BBC’s “Women’s Hour” where she made a dish with rice noodles and vegetables.

Mary uses chili jam, a favorite condiment that’s included in many of her other recipes in her new cookbook, Food.  Though prominent in the UK, it may be difficult to obtain elsewhere, so Mary gives a few substitute suggestions.

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Jennifer Nicole Lee Does “Fun Fit Foodie” Vegetarian (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 in Authors, Books, Food & Drink, Models, Videos.

Jennifer Nicole Lee "Fun Fit Foodie Cookbook"

Jennifer Nicole Lee, fitness model, actress, motivational speaker and author, has published her third diet and nutrition book, The Jennifer Nicole Lee Fun Fit Foodie Cookbook: JNL’s Secret Super Fitness Model Fat Blasting & Muscle Fueling Recipes.

Known as “JNL” to her fans and the fitness community, Jennifer received an email from a fan who wanted to know if a vegetarian could also be a “fun, fit foodie.”

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Kathy Freston On Chicken And Obesity

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 in Authors, Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness.

Kathy Freston

She’s already recommended skipping the chicken for environmental health.

Now vegan coach and author of The Lean Kathy Freston has written an article at the Huffington Post on how skipping chicken can also do wonders for human health, especially obesity.

Most chickens are bred with genes that make them grow bigger, faster.

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Kathy Freston, author of vegan diet and health book The Lean, appeared on HLN’s Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell to discuss how adopting a vegan lifestyle can help combat obesity, a disease one researcher has predicted will affect 32 more million people within two decades.

Although there’s no one cure for the disease, Freston suggests something as simple as an apple a day may keep the pounds away.

Of course, it helps if you eat it versus only balancing it on your head as Velez-Mitchell does in the segment.

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“Vegan Cooking For Carnivores” Recipes On “Today”

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 in Authors, Chefs, Food & Drink, Recipes.

Vegan Cooking for Carnivores

Roberto Martin, the personal chef to Ellen DeGeneres who’s just published his first cookbook, has shared a few recipes from Vegan Cooking for Carnivores with Today.

DeGeneres’ wife Portia de Rossi wrote in the forward to Vegan Cooking, “Roberto taught me that the key to making good food vegan is substitution…you can enjoy all your favorite foods and never feel deprived.”

There’s no deprivation with these three recipes for Vegan Southern Fried Chicken, Mac’ n Cheese and Chocolate Chip Magic Bars.

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Chloe Coscarelli Meatless Monday Live Chat On Ustream

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 in Authors, Charity, Food & Drink.

Chloe's Kitchen

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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