Bloomberg Businessweek featured a short article on the rise in entrepreneurs who offer meatless products or services.
“Vegepreneurs Set Their Sights Beyond Food” focuses on companies offering something other than food–clothing, shoes, office supplies and furniture.
Vegan shoe company Moo Shoes, eco-friendly office supply store Shoplet.com, vegan home furnishing store Aellon.com and vegan coat company Vaute Coutre are all mentioned.
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One of the biggest websites for recipes, Epicurious.com, has published a cookbook.
The Epicurious Cookbook: More Than 250 of Our Best-Loved Four-Fork Recipes for Weeknights, Weekends & Special Occasions is presented by Tanya Steel and the editors of Epicurious and includes both vegetarian and vegan recipes.
Such meatless entrees in the “Please Everyone Vegetarian and Vegan Dishes” include Chilled Soba with Tofu and Sugar Snap Peas, Spiced Lentil Tacos with Chipotle Sour Cream, Roasted Eggplant Salad.
Comments Off on Meatless Mouthful–Renee Olstead On Her Vegetarian Cause
“I went vegetarian when I was twelve, and I went vegan about a year and a half ago. I actually did a pilot for a show and there was this character that had a line: ‘I don’t eat anything with a face.’ I made the connection between life and what’s on my plate. Ever since then, I haven’t been able to eat meat.”
—Renee Olstead, Secret Life of the American Teenager actress on causes that are important to her as told to Teen Vogue.
Comments Off on Meatless Monday Recipe–Presidential Pickled Okra
If you’re hosting a political party tomorrow to root for your favorite candidate, why not serve this pickled okra, created by a former First Lady, to entertain your guests.
Lady Bird Johnson was the wife of former president Lyndon B. Johnson, and like many first ladies, left a legacy of her own instead of standing in her husband’s shadow.
An environmentalist, she was active in several beautification and preservation projects in the D.C. area, including planing tulips and daffodils that are still seen at the nation’s capitol, campaigning for the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 and pushing for hiking and biking trails.
Comments Off on Anthony Kiedis Celebrates 50 Years With Almost Vegan Diet
Anthony Kiedis turned 50 this week, making him one more vegetarian celebrity who’s physique and energy both represent the diet and lifestyle well and put omnivores to shame.
Although he has been following a mostly vegetarian diet for many years, the Red Hot Chili Pepper singer has also attempted to go vegan.
Comments Off on Carrie Underwood Enjoys A Veggie Dog
Country music singer Carrie Underwood was reported to have dined on a vegetarian hot dog one evening before one of her shows to promote her latest album Blown Away.
If you’re like Carrie and enjoy a meatless wiener from time to time, don’t just place one between a bun and eat it the old boring ketchup and mustard way. Dress it up with one of several exciting suggestions from those posted by VegNews.
