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May 15, 2012
Veganism Safe for Kids, Says Lisa Dorfman, Director of University of Miami's Nutrition Program
Last week, I reviewed Vegan Is Love, a children's book that explains the reasons behind the choice to go vegan. It contains a page dedicated to the health aspect of the lifestyle, but most of the book is devoted to outlining the ethics of veganism -- how animals are treated on the dairy farm, at the ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
Children's Book on Veganism Could Trouble Non-Vegan Kids
The big news on the vegan scene is that Deuce Lutui, the Seattle Seahawks' new guard, has gone (mostly) vegan to get his weight in check (he's dropped 60 pounds since June 2010) and improve his performance on the field. This is just more proof that anyone can benefit from embracing a vegan diet, but ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
Dating Vegans: Enlightening or "Very High Maintenance and Kind of Annoying?"
I ran into an optometrist we'll call "Richard" at Ultra and then a month later at Arkadia. Thanks to his unrelenting persistence, I agreed to go out with him. But I knew we might have some issues when he told me he was working on eating healthier by consistently ordering the chicken sandwich with th ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
"Am I a Total Bitch for Thinking Vegan Guys Are Lame?" Dating Without Meat, Part 1
Since I recently hit the dating scene again, the difficulties the vegan diet can present when navigating eligible singles has been at the forefront of my mind. Sometimes I think it's no big deal. And then I read something like this, a question excerpted from the New York Post's "Ask Ashley" dating c ... More >>
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April 23, 2012
Babies Don't Want Vegan Mommies? What a Load of Baloney
This past weekend, the LA Times published an editorial suggesting pregnant women who adhere to a vegan diet and subsequently raise vegan children are irresponsible. The writer, Alexandra Le Tellier, was responding to the release of Vegan Is Love, a new children's book that explains and advocates a v ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
Main Street Vegan: How to Go Vegan in the Real World (Book Review)
When I first read about Victoria Moran's Main Street Vegan, I thought the book was beneath me. After all, it's primarily a guidebook for aspiring vegans, and I've been on the vegan wagon for a few years now.In reading it, though, I learned some powerful new things about the ethics of veganism (and h ... More >>
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April 13, 2012
Tomorrow: Om Nom Nom Party at Panther Coffee. New Website, Free Cookies
Vegan cookie company extraordinaire Om Nom Nom is ready to go global with the launch of an official website, and to celebrate, it's throwing a party tomorrow, Saturday, at Panther Coffee in Wynwood. Anthea Ponsetti from Om Nom Nom and Illeana Cardenas from Panther are cohosting the event, which ... More >>
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April 4, 2012
"Where Do Vegans Get Protein?" A Plant-Eater Answers This Common Question
"You're a vegan?""Uh huh.""Oh. So where do you get your protein?"Every vegan who's been at plant-eating for any length of time has been faced with this question. Ironically, it often comes from the mouths of the unhealthiest and least conscious eaters in the world, and is directed at lean, immensely ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Starbucks Puts Dead Beetles in Frappuccinos
Which would you rather drink: chemical coloring, beet juice, or dead bugs?Apparently, Starbucks thought you'd pick that last option.In an effort to remove artificial ingredients from its menu, Starbucks recently replaced the food dye in its Strawberry Frappuccinos with a "natural" substitute: bee ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Bombshell 70-Year-Old Raw Vegan Annette Larkins Leads Us to Fountain of Youth
The outside of Annette Larkins' pastel-pink Kendall home looks like it belongs to a grown-up Barbie doll.In a way, that's not far from the truth. Larkins' curvaceous chest-to-waist-to-hip ratio must be close to that of America's favorite figurine. One big difference, though, is that there's no pl ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Veganism Is My Health Insurance
Going to the doctor is hardly an option for me. It hasn't been since I left my last full-time job -- and the health insurance it offered -- about a year and a half ago, when I decided to pursue my writing career.As a freelancer, I'm lucky to enjoy a steady stream of work and a lot of creative fre ... More >>
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March 19, 2012
T.H.R.I.V.E.'s $20 Three-Course, Raw Vegan Weekend Brunch
The typical South Beach Sunday brunch often includes a bloody Mary/mimosa budget that hovers around $25. Tack on some half-cooked eggs slathered in glorified mayonnaise and some breakfast rib eye or butter-soaked French toast, and you've got yourself a $50 to $75 tab that serves only to postpone ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Oil-Free, Plant-Based Diets: Extreme or Extremely Necessary?
The term "fat-free" rarely brings joy to anyone's heart. But a vegan diet free of extracted oils -- including extra virgin olive oil -- can literally save your heart.The trouble is, as I personally have discovered, it's hard as hell to stick to such a plan.Have you noticed those "no oil added" si ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
Michael Schwartz's Farm to Table: Lack of Vegan Food Crushes Dreams
The phrase "farm to table" to me implies lush green produce being wrenched from the ground, maybe run under a garden hose, and then plopped onto your waiting plate.Apparently, I need to consult my rural dictionary, because what happened to the locally sourced and fresh fruits and veggies between ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2012
Vegans Have Better Sex in Miami (Interviews)
PETA recently launched a (typically) controversial ad campaign that features a battered-looking woman walking down the street, complete with neck brace and sling. We discover she sustained her injuries as a result of her boyfriend's recent conversion to veganism and his resulting new animalistic ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
Om Nom Nom Cookies Bring Vegan Deliciousness from Miami to Miami
Delicious vegan cookies, you say Impossible! Well, was impossible. Now that Miami has Om Nom Nom cookies, no one will be able to question the ability of a vegan treat to shine. First spotted by Short Order at Panther Coffee, these desserts may be lacking animal products, but they lose nothin ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Rick Ross Goes Vegan and Four Other Bogus Music Predictions for 2012
With just a few days left in 2011, we can't help but predict what 2012 has in store. Will the world come to an end? Maybe. Will Barack Obama be re-elected? Hopefully. Will the Miami Heat dominate the NBA? Of course. But what about the music world? What changes will it see in 2012? What's going ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Last Week to Enter the $1,400 Whole Foods Holiday Bake-Off
Photo by Bryan Ochalla/Wikimedia CommonsIf one of your wild food fantasies includes running up and down the aisles of Whole Foods like a crazy person, filling your shopping cart with any and everything your heart -- and stomach -- desire, and doing it without spending your whole paycheck, read on ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Bunnie Cakes: Gluten-Free, Vegan Love Cakes by Family Gal Mariana Cortez
Even though, or maybe because, I was always a really really tall girl, I've always gravitated toward tiny things. I love miniature doll furniture, pocket-sized notebooks, glitter, and as a child of the '80s, Shrinky Dinks.So does vegan baker Mariana Cortez, who at 29, is the exact same age as I a ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Beet Reporter Hustled into Breaking Vegan Diet with $2 Taco Bell Burrito
As I stood in line at a Taco Bell on NE 36th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, I was not comfortable or hopeful. It had been a long time since I'd been in a fast food joint, and the proximity of all the nutritionally bankrupt white flour tortillas, preservative-packed foodstuffs, and grade D meat ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Tim Crandall, Sous Chef at Red the Steakhouse, Dishes on His Vegan Past
Tim Crandall, sous chef at RedHis passion for a woman brought him to veganism. After five years, his passion for culinary art brought him back to beef.Okay, so maybe that's packaged a little too neatly. Timothe Crandall, the relatively new sous chef at Red the Steakhouse, never enjoyed eating meat a ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
NYC Marathon This Weekend: Vegan Ultra-Marathoner Terence Gerchberg Runs on Rice
Terence Gerchberg is fit to be tied. Literally, fit to be tied. In June, he and four friends tied themselves together and ran the God's Country Marathon in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, breaking the Guinness world record for "fastest marathon completed by a linked team," with a time of 3:26:15.He will ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Scarpetta's Chef Michael Pirolo Crafts Gourmet Vegan Tasting
In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami's tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.There are two ways to make vegan food. Or rather, there are two ways to make food vegan.One starts with "normal" dishes, subtracting the ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Former Vegan Chef at Red the Steakhouse Does Tofu Three Ways
There's a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami's tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.I doubt many vegans have ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Vegan Resorts to Eating Garnishes at Iron Fork
Vegans are optimists. How else would you describe people who think they can change the world simply by eating sprouts and abstaining from gummy bears? As one of these people, I decided to go to the New Times Iron Fork chef competition with an empty stomach, despite warnings from my co-workers tha ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Tudor House Gives Damn Good Vegan
There's a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami's tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.Celebrity chef Geoffrey ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Vegan Dining at Tapas y Tintos: Popeye and Olive's Chickpeas and Creamy-Crunchy Paella
There's a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami's tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.The menu at Tapas y Tint ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Vegan Dining at The Forge: Veggie Canneloni and Tomatoes Brulee
There's a perception that the vegan diet, which excludes all animal products, is incompatible with fine dining. In this new series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami's tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.I hadn't been to The For ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs & Food
Steve Jobs is not normally associated with food. You don't know where he goes to dinner, his favorite coffee shop, or find him on top chefs' lists. Surprisingly, aside from dramatically changing the entertainment and media industry, he's had the greatest effect on the food industry.
Blogs
October 4, 2011
Best Vegan Halloween Candy Countdown
To vegans, the frights of Halloween Horror Nights have got nothing on the idea of unknowingly savoring pulverized pig parts in the form of the gelatin or glycerine commonly found in so many candies. But that doesn't mean our plastic jack-o-lantern buckets have to go empty, or even that we've got ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2011
Vani's Vegan Cupcakes at Govinda's in the Grove
Contrary to popular belief, vegans love cupcakes. In fact, we probably love cupcakes more than the average omnivore. We go months on end conscientiously filling our plates with leafy greens, quinoa, tofu, and vibrant seasonal fruits. We stopped bothering to look at dessert menus at tradition ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Derek Tresize, Vegan Bodybuilder: Meat Grows Muscles and Cancer
Derek Tresize has an unreal body. The 24-year-old has been bodybuilding on a plant-based diet for five years. This summer, he took third place in his class at the North American Natural Bodybuilding Federation competition, his first contest.He grew up a multitalented athlete in San Diego. At age 19, ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Coconut Grove Organic Market is a Vegan Nirvana (Photos)
All photos by Laine Doss Spinning tunes and serving coconut water at the Coconut Grove Organic Market.Every Saturday, an empty lot just a few blocks from CocoWalk turns into a tent-city of vendors selling everything a Miamian could want to lead a cleaner (and greener) life. People from a ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Vegan Juice Jam Ends Mass Fast at Choices Cafe (Video)
Camille Lamb Raw vegan Marie Jorgensen and Amanda Resto, the raw vegan chef at T.H.R.I.V.E. on Miami Beach, get goofy on juice.In the world of puritan health foodies, Welch's grape, Capri Sun, and even Tropicana are not acceptable examples of "juice." The word, and associated terms like "j ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Miami Communes at Alex Cuevas' Vegan Potlucks (Video)
Camille LambThe entrance fee for a vegan potluck is an animal product-free dish, like this "fruits of the forest quinoa."At 7 p.m. Sunday, Short Order pulled up to the quiet block near Brickell where Om Garden used to be. It was a little dreary outside, but we followed some smiling, healthy looki ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Forks Over Knives: A Case Against Animal Food Products
Dr. Pam Popper in Forks Over Knives.Forks Over Knives is a new food documentary that makes you take a long, hard look at what you eat. It follows filmmaker Lee Fulkerson, an average middle-aged man with high cholesterol and high blood pressure, who decides to treat his conditions with a "whole fo ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Musings On A Year Without Cheese
A quick recap: I went vegetarian in '94 and over the years phased out eating gelatin, buying leather, and cut way down on eggs and dairy. Toward the end of 2009 I decided to stop making excuses to myself and just go vegan. Never imagined I'd do it, but it's now 1.5 years later and I've settled in ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Vegan Alert: Get Nutritional Yeast at SoBe's Apple A Day
Camille LambNutritional yeast packs the B-12 most vegans lackI hate saying the words "nutritional yeast" out loud. It sounds like the most unappetizing product ever cultured. And truthfully, it can be. Try putting a straight spoonful of the powder in your mouth. If you don't suffocate on accident ... More >>
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February 12, 2011
Waffles and Records: a Talk with Lolo
It's about the food, not the plates!While everyone's sucking down greasy maple syrup covered bacon at Sunday brunch a group of people more conscious of the fact that meat is murder gather at Sweat Records for the Waffle Party. This isn't just your run of the mill waffle party (if there is such a ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
From Oreos to Zagnuts: Ten Foods Vegans Eat to Scrape By
Oprah and 378 staffers recently took a one-week vegan challenge.Or, "How to Succeed at Veganism Without Really Trying."Vegans are humans too. Like most Americans, we have only so much time to dedicate to food preparation. So it is an error when outsiders ponder the vegan lifestyle and automatical ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Top 5 Vegan Restaurants in South Florida
Riki AltmanVegan restaurants in Miami are rare. For the most part, they cater to a granola-munching, Birkenstock-wearing demographic, but neglect the rest of us who just like to eat. Maybe veganism would be more widely accepted if it struck a balance between looking appetizing and providin ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
Miami's Vegan Pizza Options Are Limited
The coolest thing I heard this week is that Bill Clinton is now eating a mainly vegan diet. Not only that but he's doing it right -- vegan protein shakes in the morning and a eating well-balanced, colorful range of foods. You go, Bill, the whole vegan community is rooting for you.The second best ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Raffa Jo Harris Seen Eating... Lots and Lots of Avocados
Courtesy of Raffa & RainerRaffa Jo Harris sings and plays guitar in the neo-folk duo, Raffa & Rainer, which won New Times Best Acoustic Performer this year. Just this past weekend, the duo opened for indie folk group CocoRosie.Raffa & Rainer also put on the monthly "Can You Rock a Lit ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
Sweat Records Hosts a Vegan Waffle Party
Photo By Danielle AlvarezThe question, "Hey, are you here for the waffle party," isn't something you hear every day inside the muraled walls of Little Haiti vinyl provider Sweat Records. But this past Saturday afternoon, the quirky record store/ venue/vegan coffee shop hosted a vegan waffle party ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Nature Gourmet, Vegetarian & Vegan Catering for South Florida, Chef Interview
via naturegourmetcaterers.comChef Julez Sometimes it seems like a world meat conspiracy is afoot. Are evil, global agrifarm executives fighting a secret war against the vegetarian and vegan elements to keep them on the fringe if in existence at all?Yes.For those who support the meatless revolutio ... More >>
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December 21, 2009
Lunch Eater: Om Garden's Mock Tuna Salad Sandwich Special
Jackie SayetOm Garden's generously portioned Mock Tuna Salad Sandwich Special also comes with a side salad and cup of Russian beet and chickpea slaw for $12Raw veganism is alive and well at Om Garden. Like owner Dionette Kalkhofer, I first sampled such delights at Lifefood Gourmet (which used to ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2009
Harmony Vegetarian Meats: Fake Fish, Chicken, Beef, Pork, and Shrimp
Jacob KatelChef Bernie Matz, Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan, and Julio Maza at the Café at Books & Books' fifth anniversary party. Hippies, peaceniks, and pothead philosophy majors, rejoice! It's OK to kill and eat plants. They won't scream, they don't cry, and "they don't have a so ... More >>
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August 14, 2009
Flyer of the Week: Jacobs Ladder, Arboles Libres, Flower Flower Yes, and More at Churchill's August 21
The endlessly fascinating thing about this flyer for the Obey Your Mastour kickoff party is the oddly erotic moment transpiring between the two humanoid creatures, struggling front and center. To be honest, I can't fully decode the sequence or nature of whatever's happening here ... I mean, what ... More >>
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