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Today is World Vegetarian Day and also kicks off Vegetarian Awareness month. I tried complete vegetarianism out for awhile and it wasn't for me (my omnivore cravings were just too strong). But I still believe there are a lot of advantages to even a partial vegetarian diet: Eating less meat can be healthier, easier on the environment, and more ...

Filed under: Recipes, Vegetarian/Vegan, Slashfood Bowl 2008In all the hubbub over super bowl treats, we can't forget the vegan(s) in our lives. Thankfully, Gail at Cooking at the Pacific Outpost has us covered: here's her recipe for vegan sugar cookies, that can be cut out with football-shaped cookie cutters and decorated with vegan frosting to ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Books, Raves & ReviewsFor Christmas, I received a super-cool vegan cookbook (thanks, Mom!) that's become my new favorite. I find that some veggie/vegan cookbooks, while gorgeous and filled with fantastic recipes, have an air of pretension about them that irks me as I struggle to, say, wrap my ...

Filed under: Recipes, Books Last Friday I featured one of my favorite cookbooks, The Frog Commissary Cookbook. After writing about it, I left my copy sitting on my dining room table and ended up flipping through it over lunch, looking to be inspired. You see, I was supposed to attend a Philadelphia food blogger potluck that night, and I had no ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, British Isles, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, Books, How To, Boiling, Roasting, America, Europe, Comfort Food, Spices My Slashfood friends, I am a sadist. Or is it masochist? I never knew the difference between the two. Either way, for some reason known only to, well, to no one, I decided to do the most punishing ...

Filed under: Dessert, Vegetarian, Vegan, Recipes, Fruit, Baking, On the Blogs, America, Comfort Food, Sugar Not that I would ever turn down a real mojito, but if for some reason I had to eat a dessert instead of drinking a cocktail, I'd love this Mojito Cupcake, from food blog Vegan Yum Yum. The recipe in on the blog post, but as a summary, the ...

Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, West Coast, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, On the Blogs, How To, America, Europe Have you ever eaten an olive straight from the tree? Doesn't sound like it would be so fabulously fresh and delicious, like a fresh-picked apple? Wrong. Olives taste like (excuse the language) crap when they're ...

Filed under: Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Far East, Recipes, On the Blogs, How To, America, Comfort Food, Spices If there's one food I couldn't live without, it's kimchee. It makes sense, since I'm Korean and all. And you would think that 1) being Korean and 2) it being my favorite food, I would know how to make the spicy, pickled cabbage, but I ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, West Coast, Restaurants, Vegetarian, Vegan, Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs, How To, America I recently went to The Penthouse, the new restaurant at the top of The Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica. While the food was a little less than spectacular, the view of the Pacific from that high up was pretty stunning. ...

Filed under: Vegan, Recipes, On the Blogs, How To, America, Health & Medical When I think of shortbread, I think of nothing else but butter. Butter is what gives shortbread that rich, crumbly, crisp-in-some-places texture, so I couldn't imagine how someone could make vegan shortbread -- without butter. But vegan food blog Vegan Yum Yum has ...