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Oprah Winfrey tried the vegan life before as part of what she called her “inner makeover.”
If you’re interested in improving your inner beauty without sacrificing the taste of good food, you’ll be happy to hear the O has posted a recipe on her website, Heavenly Christmas Pudding, that has some deliciously vegan features to it.
The pudding calls for non dairy milk, such as hemp, rice or soy and the recipe creator suggests vegetable oils versus butter.
“I used coconut oil in place of the animal fat that’s traditionally used, but you could use ghee, butter or a vegan “butter” like Earth Balance instead,” says Aine McAteer.
Great idea, considering the saturated fat you find in regular butter.
Grab the recipe containing rich fruits like apricots, cranberries and prunes at oprah.com.
Seems natural for a vegetarian gal like Persia to have such passion for a project, and Persia explained to Beauty Interviews how she joined forces with director Shaun Monson and Phoenix help create an award winning film.
“I met Shaun Monson the director and he was trying to put together Earthlings as project of passion. I was already involved in animal welfare. Getting involved in Earthlings was pretty intense because there were still a lot of things I didn’t know. To raise compassion and awareness is so necessary. The documentary is not just about animals it’s about how we treat each other as well. How we have empathy for the weak and we don’t abuse it. It exposes the truth. It is a very difficult film to get into mainstream because there are so many corporations that will hurt if their secrets revealed.”
“It was very difficult. Joaquin Phoenix is a wonderful actor, and like myself, a vegan. However, Joaquin is booked and away so much. He’s schedule was intense. But we did it. The music was donated by Moby.”
Written by Vegetarian Star on December 11th, 2009 in Books, Food & Drink.
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Raw Food For Real People
If you like it raw, you might want to pick up a copy of Raw Food For Real People by Rod Rotondi.
Filled with raw vegan recipes from comfort food favorites like lasagna, pizza and and brownies to more exotic dishes like pad thai, Raw Food not only teaches how to cook raw, but gives arguments for why you should be eating raw.
As sbsun.com states, Raw Food is filled with “information on how raw foods offer a natural, healthy alternative to the overloaded, overprocessed diet that has made America bloated and sick.”
Chef Rotondi is the owner of Leaf Organics, an LA based raw food enterprise that attracts clients like Woody Harrelson.
Written by Vegetarian Star on December 11th, 2009 in Authors.
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Who would have thought that Skinny Bitch co-author Rory Freedman isn’t a big fan of writing.
“I hate writing,” Rory said. “There are a million other things I’d rather be doing. I write because I have to.”
With bestselling books under her belt like Skinny Bitch, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch and not to mention Skinny Bastard, Rory sure does a good job at something she’s not crazy about.
But Rory revealed that her motivation for never putting down the pen is the same for pushing away the meat and dairy.
“My unwavering dedication to vegetarianism was solely because of the animals—I could not and would not call myself an “animal lover” while contributing to their torture and slaughter.”
“Because if I feel so strongly about what is happening to animals, and I don’t do anything to help them, who will?”
Written by Vegetarian Star on December 11th, 2009 in Chefs, Food & Drink.
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Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy
Moby‘s prodigy from Teany has been named 2009 Chef of the Year by Metromix.
Although they love Amanda Cohen, Metromix isn’t too keen on the vegetarian food she cooks at her restaurant, Dirt Candy.
Just take a look at these two questions they fired at Amanda during an interview.
Does vegetarian food get a bad rap?
It does, and people can’t look behind what vegetarian food is about and not what it’s not about. The reality is that most people probably, at least once a week, have a meal that doesn’t have meat or chicken or fish in it. They just don’t call that meal “my vegetarian meal of the week.”
And then they just get real honest about it.
Well, we gotta say it: Most vegetarian food is pretty terrible.
That’s a hard thing for me to agree to [laughs]. But I think vegetarian food has a built-in audience, and [people] don’t necessarily have to try to go outside of that audience. So whether or not that makes the food good or bad, it has its audience. …There’s very few restaurants in this city where they’re expected to state their politics before you even walk in the door. But that onus is put on vegetarian restaurants, and I think it creates a world where it’s hard for vegetarian restaurants to necessarily make exciting and different food.
New Yorkers, what do you think?
Does Dirt Candy change the reputation of vegetarian food, for Metromix and everyone else?
