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Marilu Henner

Marilu Henner was crowned grilling champion in the contest sponsored by Live with Kelly that pitted her vegan portobello entree against Ashanti’s chicken dish.

The celebrities were competing for their favorite charities and Henner won $25,000 for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an organization promoting plant-based diets as a solution to many of today’s common health problems like heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

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Marilu Henner

Marilu Henner is one of two finalist in a summer grilling contest sponsored by Live with Kelly.

Henner is competing to win $25,000 for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group of doctors and various laypersons recommending a vegan diet for health and animal welfare.

Henner’s Healthy/Easy Grilled Mushroom and Heirloom Tomato Summer Dish is pitted against Ashanti’s Grilled Pineapple Chicken Kabobs.

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Your Sister's Sister

The vegan pancakes cooked during an episode of Your Sister’s Sister featuring Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt as long lost half-sisters reunited were best described as “challenged.”

Writer of the comedy series Lynn Shelton says the scene was inspired by her real life attempt to create an egg-free version of the fluffy flapjack, the kindest words that could be used to describe them being “glue.”

“I have a ridiculous diet. Although, as Mark pointed out earlier, if we put my actual diet on screen nobody would believe it. So I was poking fun at myself. And those particular pancakes came out of a disaster years ago, which was the first time I’d ever tried using flax to replace eggs.”

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Tapped the movie

The producer behind Tapped, a film that examines the effects of the bottled water industry, Stephanie Soechtig, has teamed up with Katie Couric and producer of the environmental film, An Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David, to take a closer look at childhood obesity and its causes.

The Big Picture will follow children, aged 11-17, as they share their food experiences and weight issues through video diaries.

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Jon Hamm Jennifer Westfeldt

Mad Men‘s actor Jon Hamm and his partner Jennifer Westfeldt are no doubt a hot Hollywood couple who attend all the important red carpet events.

But at home, Westfeldt insists that at least one of the two leads nothing but a pretty boring life–at least in the kitchen.

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Mike Binder

Actor, writer, director and producer Mike Binder has finally opened his Coney Dog restaurant in West Hollywood, a stop for all treats native to his hometown in Detroit like dogs, Faygo pop and Better Made Chips.

Binder’s wife and daughter are both vegetarian, which prompted him to put veggie dogs and other items on the menu.

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Mike Binder has film stunts like The Mind of the Married Man and The Sex Monster as an actor, writer, director and producer to his credit. Now, he’d like to add restaurant entrepreneur to that CV.

The Detroit native is opening a 24-hour hot dog and spicy chili restaurant on Hollywood’s Sunset Blvd next month, Coney Dog, inspired by the taste of Detroit’s Lafayette Coney Island.

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The Cove

Residents in a town where an annual dolphin hunt takes place now have the opportunity to learn what happens during the slaughter in their own homes.

The Cove director Louie Psihoyos worked with a group called People Concerned for the Ocean and delivered a copy to every home in Taiji, Japan via mail.

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