MetaFilter posts tagged with vegetarian

A vegetarian spider

dhruva — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0800

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."

Veat: It's what's for lunch

mrgrimm — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:16:40 -0800

The top 10 fake-chicken sandwiches in the U.S. Fake meat is popping up more and more, but it still can be hard to find a good vegan/vegetarian sandwich that doesn't provide its protein from cheese and bread. Amy from PETA's VegCookingBlog has selected her top 10 faux-chicken sandwiches. In reverse order: 10. Chickette Sandwich - Red Dog Saloon, 1421 Colley Ave, Norfolk, VA 9. Breaded Chicken Sandwich - Vertical Diner, 2280 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 8. No Chicken Caesar Club - Foodswings, 295 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 7. Grilled Gardein Bruschetta Pomodoro Panini - VegiTerranean, 21 Furnace St, Akron, OH 6. Mock Chicken Dijon - Pizza Lucé, various locations, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN 5. Chicken Parmesan Hero - Red Bamboo, 140 W. 4th St., NYC, NY 4. Chicken Run Ranch Burger - Native Foods, southern CA 3. Bayou Chickin' Sandwich - Veggie Grill, L.A. and Irvine, CA 2. Vegan Philly Chicken Cheese Steak - Govinda's Gourmet Vegetarian, 1408 South St, Philadelphia, PA 1. Secret BBQ Chicken Sandwich - Green New American Vegetarian, 2240 N. Scottsdale Rd. #8, Tempe, AZ Red Bamboo might be my favorite vegan restaurant, but for fake meat in San Francisco, I like Golden Era, Loving Hut, and Millennium. In Louisville (KY), I like Zen Garden. The latter offers a bitching BBQ Soy Sandwich, but none of them have fake-chicken sandwiches. Got a local favorite that should make the list? What's the best fake-chicken sandwich in the world? Does anyone really care? Bonus content: Recent update on in vitro meat from Wired UK. And CNN. And Wikipedia. (previously)

Operation Pancake

divabat — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:03:16 -0800

An expose of non-vegan ingredients in pancakes at LA Vegan Thai inspired the QuarryGirl.Com writers to conduct their own extremely thorough investigation of LA vegan restaurants, testing their meals for traces of casein, egg, and shellfish. Over $1000 and a chain of interviews up to Taiwan later, they find that half the restaurants aren't as vegan as they claim, with half registering Positive or High and one registering Overload. Some restaurants vowed to conduct their own tests or requested further assistance; one banned them from the establishment.

Namaste! Welcome to my kitchen!

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:18:50 -0800

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*

How to Make All the Meat You Eat Out of Wheat

Deathalicious — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:13:52 -0800

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. The term "Seitan" was supposedly coined in the 1960s by George Ohsawa, the founder of the Macrobiotics movement. However, the use of wheat gluten (seitan's sole ingredient) as a meat substitute has a much longer history. Its use supposedly began in Buddhist monasteries as a substitute for duck. Today it is popular in both Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Having made it from scratch (that is, from whole wheat flour) myself I can tell you that it is not difficult, just time consuming. It's faster to make it with instant gluten. This is probably obvious, but seitan is made of 100% wheat gluten, so you should not eat it if you are Sarah Vowell or anyone else who suffers from Celiac disease or wheat allergies. (You could try gluten-free gluten instead). The name of this post came from one of the earlier books on "Wheat Meat" that also taught me how to make seitan the first (and only) time I made it.

Making a Mockery of Meat.

gman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:35:12 -0800

Meat analogue or faux meat comes in a variety of forms with plenty of ways to cook it. Although not the first, Seth Tibbott invented Tofurky back in 1986, with KFC getting in on the action earlier this year.

Animal Rights History - source documents and more

mediareport — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:23:52 -0800

Animal Rights History collects quotes and original source documents from historical figures concerned with animal welfare, animal rights and vege tarianism throughout history, including John Locke on kids' cruelty to animals, Voltaire on vivisecting dogs, the author of history's first protected species list, lots about Pythagoras, timelines, a survey of anti-cruelty laws and more.

Veganizing Anthony Bourdain

joeclark — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:57:39 -0800

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.” Bourdain continues (autobloggatio): “To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.” With his recipes veganized, does this make Bourdain all hat and no cattle, so to speak?

The Vegetarian Lunchbox

ontic — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:45:21 -0800

The Vegetarian Lunchbox seems like a good resource. Hadn't heard of a strawberry and cucumber sandwich before.

"It is with extreme modesty that I present the following pages to be read by other eyes than mine..."

amyms — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:37:49 -0800

Went To Kansas: Being A Thrilling Account Of An Ill-Fated Expedition To That Fairy Land, And Its Sad Results. A personal account by Mrs. Miriam Davis Colt (based on her daily diaries) about her family's move from New York to Kansas in the 1850s, and the tragic story of the Vegetarian Settlement Company, which sold cheap land to settlers (if they signed an oath swearing they would never consume alcohol, tobacco or animal flesh) along with the promise of a prairie utopia.

MeatLifter.

loquacious — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:52:05 -0800

MeatLifter. Why is meat the most shoplifted item in America? (Previously: Meat Filter .)

Veggies

caddis — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:49:58 -0800

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.

Onan the vegetarian

rxrfrx — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:58:55 -0800

Onan The Vegetarian: The story of a raw-food guru turned "subway perv."

Fish in your beer (Isinglass)

Plutor — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:01:24 -0800

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.

onlyconnect — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:40:05 -0800

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.

Metafilter, meet meatfilter.

clevershark — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:08:27 -0800

Metafilter, meet meatfilter. An index to things vegetarian and vegan.

Killing animals nicer

lazywhinerkid — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:55:41 -0800

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.

Fruitarianism: A lifestyle with a peel

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 08:12:23 -0800

Metafilter has a rich history of posts about vegetarianism, and veganism, and carnivorism, but have we ever delved into the world of fruitarians? Here's a guidebook on how to become one [Eat fruit! Whod've guessed?], a somewhat-puzzling Turkish fruitarian organization, a debunking of some fruitarian claims, and some words of caution for aspiring fruitarians: "...some commercial fruit, such as citrus, is very acidic and will dissolve the teeth out of aspiring fruitarians."

Fat Buddha — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 09:46:08 -0800

It's national vegetarian week, apparently. After reading this article on chicken nuggets, I might be converting, not that I have ever eaten a chicken nugget, of course. It's not just junk food that leaves one feeling green about the gills though. I identified all of the vegetables in this quiz, I don't know that I would want to eat all of them though.

NortonDC — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:55:50 -0800

Where are your limits? Inspired in part by mikhail's earlier post on the gelatin used in Guinness (and Bass), for those with voluntary diet restrictions (kosher, halal, vegetarian, etc.), what unexpected choices have you faced? Does it go beyond food? Toothpaste? Collagen injections? Silk? Buying a car with leather seats? A used car with leather seats?

astrogirl — Thu, 03 May 2001 08:55:35 -0800

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?