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Celebrity chef Lorena Garcia (America’s Next Great Restaurant) has designed a menu for Taco Bell restaurants that is both more upscale and vegetarian-friendly.
On July 5, Taco Bell will launch its Cantina Bell menu nationwide, featuring eight new ingredients including whole black beans, cilantro rice, guacamole made with 100 percent Hass avocado, fire-roasted corn salsa, creamy cilantro dressing, romaine lettuce and pico de gallo.
The Cantina will be available in both bowl and burrito form and cost around $5.
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Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls has used online media to fuel the band’s success, utilizing Kickstarter to raise money for a new album or reaching out to her more than 500,000 Twitter followers to spread the word about the Dolls’ music news.
And it’s awfully nice when the online community gives her a shout back, especially during a hunger moment.
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Mike Zygomanis has just been called the “unofficial nutritionist to his fast-food-eating teammates” by the National Post.
The Toronto Marlies’ ice hockey centre started phasing animal products out of his diet five years ago, beginning with red meat, then moving on with other meats and dairy products.
He might be a rarity in the world of ice hockey, but Zygomanis has plenty of rebuttals when faced with a snicker from a sports enthusiasts on why he packs tofu and not turkey sandwiches.
“It’s a stigma, I guess, when you’re a vegan and guys kind of label you,” Zigomanis said. “Hockey’s a big, macho sport. And when people think of vegans … what do you think of when you think of vegans? You tell me.”
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“The whole idea is baby steps. Try one dish a week. If it’s a big hit, throw it in the rotation, and then do another dish on Monday so then Monday is meatless, but Thursday is red beans and rice. What I love hearing is “My husband is a card-carrying carnivore, but I made him this dish from your book and he loved it so much he took leftovers to work.” When I hear that a dish is going to become someone’s staple, that’s just the coolest thing.”
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Michelle Obama was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman where she had the honor of counting down the evening’s top 10 list.
This list revolved around gardening to coincide with the publication of the First Lady’s book on her gardening experiences at the White House and gave some pretty useful facts for those with green thumbs.
For example, did you know that, according to #9 on Letterman’s list, when you plant avocados, tomatoes, onions and cilantro together, you grow a guacamole tree?
Comments Off on Chace Crawford Butchers Vegetarian Heart In “Peace, Love And Misunderstanding”
Chace Crawford plays a butcher named Cole in a film about an uptight, conservative lawyer Diane (Catherine Keener) who pays a visit to her hippie mother (Jane Fonda) she hasn’t seen in two decades.
Diane has a daughter Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) who apparently takes after grandma, as she’s vegetarian, but still falls for Cole.
Unfortunately vegetarian ladies, although Crawford doesn’t butcher in real life, you’d have to be a Zoe to fall for him because he does eat meat. But the film did make him explore the idea of where it comes from.
Morgan Freeman is gearing up for the third season of Through The Wormhole, a series on Science that explores the many relationships between science, philosophy, mankind and the universe.
Freeman narrates each episode and tonight he’ll guide viewers through the question of whether a superior race exists.
Some say humans are so intelligent because their ancestors ate meat, which provided nutrients essential for brain development. This theory will be covered, as Freeman explained.
“We discuss the idea of a superior race coming here,” he said in an interview with The Wrap. “Professor Michio Kaku has an interesting discussion on it. Intelligence apparently requires an enormous amount of protein. Which is why we eat meat. Instead of being vegetarians. We have this enormous brain capacity.”
But when asked if meat eaters were still intellectually superior, Freeman was hesitant.
