In a first-person tale of woe, a beleaguered New Yorker stranded in the Land of Lard related his
struggle to find adequate vegetarian options [NYT link, featuring obligatory pic of sullen, obese Midwesterners]. Reactions came swiftly, albeit
indirectly [also NYT] since, curiously, the article itself lacks a comment section.
Best comment: the one touting the multiple and tasty options, including veggie dogs and veggie chili on coney dogs, at the dive bar just across the street from the KC Star. Despite an apparent unfamiliarity with such staples as grilled cheese sandwiches, the cub reporter's failure
probably won't keep him down for long. [more inside]
posted by Madamina
on Jan 11, 2012 -
99 comments
Doppelgänger Dinners. That was the seed of an idea that grew into our most recent dinner: a 7 course meal with an omnivore and vegetarian option where each corresponding course looked identical across the meat/vegetable line. [...] We also wanted to challenge ourselves by not simply creating a bunch of meat dishes and substituting each meat with tofu or some other protein stand-in. So no repeating of ingredients: if we used basil puree in the veggie dish, then we had to use parsley puree in the meat dish. Studiofeast commits culinary counterfeiting. [
via]
posted by shakespeherian
on Jul 27, 2011 -
26 comments
The two year long
saga of how McDonalds engineered the perfect cottage cheese filet for the McSpicy Paneer burger. McD has a
turbulent history in India where its processes, practices and products, successfully developed over decades, have been turned upside down and
redesigned, often from scratch.
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posted by infini
on Jun 12, 2011 -
116 comments
A (mostly) vegetarian spider: "A small jumping spider has taken to hunting plants instead of bugs. Bagheera kiplingi dodges throngs of aggressive ants to feast on the leaf-tip morsels of acacia shrubs, making it the first mostly vegetarian spider known to science."
posted by dhruva
on Oct 13, 2009 -
37 comments
Never had an Indian mom? You poor, deprived wretch! Meet
Manjula.
She'll be happy to teach you to make
Naan,
Rotis,
Pani Puri,
Vegetable Pakoras,
Paneer,
Raita,
Navattran Korma,
Palak Paneer,
Pulav,
Malai Kofta,
Aloo Gobi,
Chana Masala,
Hari Chutney,
Ras Malai,
Gajar ka Halwa and
much more! I can... almost... smell her kitchen. *sigh*
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Dec 7, 2008 -
50 comments
So when I was in London some buddies and I went into one of the many
all you can eat Chinese restaurants. It was a nice spread too: fish, chicken, steaks all slathered in sauces. "That was great," one of my friends said. "Yeah," I responded. "And all vegetarian, too!" They were dumbfounded. I was apparently the only one who'd noticed the "Vegetarian" sign in the window, and they were all victims of the hoax meat known as
Seitan.
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posted by Deathalicious
on Dec 4, 2008 -
151 comments
Hezbollah-Tofu Renegades systematically vegetarianize recipes from antiveganist chef Anthony Bourdain, who wrote (in
Kitchen Confidential): “Vegetarians, and their Hezobollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.”
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posted by joeclark
on Mar 25, 2008 -
181 comments
Eat your vegetables, they are good for you.
the goal ... it seemed so ambitious at the time! ... was to cook a vegetable, with new recipes and new vegetables, every single day for an entire month. (Why? Because our diets need more vegetables. Because vegetables are too often an after-thought. And because it's easy to get stuck in a veggie rut.) But after a month, it felt like I was just getting started ... and the asparagus was calling. And then ... 365 days of new vegetables and new recipes.
posted by caddis
on Aug 12, 2006 -
13 comments
Serious vegetarians know to keep on the lookout for
isinglass and other animal products in their beer. Isinglass is a fish-derived additive that's
primarily used to help speed up the clarification of cask-conditioned ales, although some beer-makers will use it to reclaim batches that didn't filter properly. You can help keep your diet swimbladder-free with
this awesome list.
posted by Plutor
on Nov 30, 2005 -
86 comments
At
veggiedate.org, "It's even possible to narrow your search to find only macrobiotic nonsmokers, 'almost-vegetarians' who live in Australia or Buddhist vegans." Sweet site with a surprisingly large number of
success stories.
posted by onlyconnect
on Aug 10, 2004 -
21 comments
Calls for a ban on Halal and Kosher slaughtered meat in the UK are being called
an attack on religion or
necessary to improve the welfare of farm animals... Where to start thinking about this? Take 1: Is there a vast
right-wing, um, wait,
left-wing, um wait, err, something-wing conspiracy against Muslims right now? Take 2: Is this a case of "colliding waves of political correctness"? Take 3: As a vegetarian (works for me, ain't gonna preach) the notion of killing animals nicer is kind of funny. Why couldn't we just survey the animals as they enter the slaughterhouse? "Slash to throat? Bolt to head? Electrocution? Thank you, drive through." Whichever way you look at the story, it just goes to show you, the world's a complicated place and you can't please
anyone.
posted by lazywhinerkid
on Jun 10, 2003 -
82 comments
McDonald's Fries NOT Vegetarian After All While I realize that a large percentage of veggies avoid McDonald's on principle, an equally large percentage of them go there for the fries.
A McDonald's spokesman said the restaurant chain had never claimed to offer vegetarian food and that it freely provides ingredient information to anyone who requests it.
I can assure you that no where on that ingredient sheet does it say there's animal products in the fries. They went to a good deal of trouble to switch to
vegetable oil so they could say they were healthier.
If they've always contained the beef fat and they are not trying to hide that, then why the hell isn't it on the ingredient list?
posted by astrogirl
on May 3, 2001 -
124 comments
