Steve Urow has been running VeggieDate since 1999 when he started the vegetarian dating website to make it easier for people who believe in the “vegetarian lifestyle” to meet. Vegetarians are very geographically spread out and hard to meet, and it is difficult to find support and encouragement in this meat-eating world, he says. VeggieDate [...]
Veggie health — the well-being of not only vegetarians and vegans but vegetables themselves — is easy when we have a nonprofit like San Diego Roots, which has been strengthening the local food movement since 2001. While they don’t focus on vegetarian issues, they address the bigger picture of sustainability within our urban food system [...]
On June 17 at a packed Swedenborg Hall in San Diego, Barbara Cole-Gates — not only an activist but one of the creative veggie people California is graced with — performed her one-woman show, Surviving Chrysalis. The three-part show explores key turning points in a woman’s life – from becoming a new mother to losing [...]
What do vegans eat? That is a common question we vegheads receive. What some folks don’t know is that for many people, the diet consists of a plethora of vegan dishes from all over the world. Check out websites like International Vegetarian Union, which lists over 3,000 recipes from around the world. Some authors specialize [...]
At the recent wedding of the dynamic San Diego couple Jason and Pia Rotman, ambassadors of the raw foods diet who I blogged on previously, I had the pleasure of trying yummy innovative food by Veggie Vibes. Five years ago Perkunas Cornejo started the business which has been in San Diego for the last few [...]
Gautam, Freedman, me (R) I grew up in Los Angeles and left just after high school, never looking back other than visiting loved ones. Recently, however, I have been enjoying a new side of L.A. through sampling regional vegan cuisine and attending events. This weekend I had a great time at the Spork Foods West [...]
Famous vegetarians are not only superstars like Paul McCartney and beloved writers like Alice Walker, but satirical animated characters found on TV who live by the motto WWAGD (“What Would Al Gore Do?”). That motto belongs to none other than The Goode Family, a rather politically correct family that feeds their dog Che vegan stew [...]
