I like the idea of bribing me with food in order to get me to pay attention to a cause. PETA, for one, would do better to give away free vegetarian food that tastes good rather than getting celebrities to act like idiots -- sorry, but I'm not gonna spare the poor animals' lives if it means eating disgusting crap for the rest of mine.
And speaking of disgusting -- granola bars with dried fruit just ain't my thing. Which I know is weird coming from someone who eats duck fetus and snails, but y'k
Irvine's Veggie Grill is slated to open it's second Irvine outlet at The Irvine Spectrum, fellow food-blogger Brekkie Fan told me. The original, across from UCI, has become the darling of local vegetarians and omnivores alike, thanks to one of the co-founders of Costa Mesa's Native Foods.
As Brekkie Fan succinctly puts it, "tempeh is the new chicken"; and soon those whose who stream out of Edwards Irvine Spectrum can have it in lieu of Johnny Rockets.
I kept pacing, walking, texting, getting insane. Saturday near noon in Little Saigon, with horrific traffic and sad news. I was supposed to meet a pal at Zen Vegetarian Restaurant, a place I hadn't visited in a while but which my vegetarian friend swore by. Only problem: it no longer existed; construction workers were busy ripping apart its former confines to prep for a creperie, while a group of elderly men sat in the patio outside, gossiping in Vietnamese.I kept waiting. Noon turned into 12:10
Of course, by 'mainstream' I mean that celebrities are now endorsing the campaign. Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney today launched a new website, Meat Free Monday, which encourages everyone to, yes, you guessed it, give up meat on Mondays. Other famous names weighing in include Kevin Spacey, Sheryl Crow, Woody Harrelson, Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais and Chris Martin.The idea of cutting back on meat isn't a new one: think of rationing during the wars, due to short supplies. But this time it's out o
