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Vegetarians in Paradise
 Vegetarians in Paradise Vegetarian/Vegan Magazine


A Los Angeles Vegan Web Magazine

A Nonprofit Vegan Public Service Publication

Over 1,000,000 hits and 100,000 visitors monthly

By Zel and Reuben Allen

JUNE 2013 Vol. 15 No. 6


Welcome to Vegetarians in Paradise. With each new issue we at vegparadise.com hope to provide you with a variety of information pertinent to the vegan community. For those who visit us from other areas of the country or from distant lands, we offer great diversity and invaluable vegan resources for vegetarians anywhere in the world.


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    ZEL'S COOKING CLASSES
    IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA


    Saturday June 8, 2013

      Hands-on Cooking Class: VEGAN DELIGHTS FOR SUMMER NIGHTS
      Time: 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
      Where: Topanga Library, 122 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290
      Held in the Meeting Room
      FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
      Reservations: 310-455-3480

    Saturday June, 22, 2013

      Hands-on Cooking Class: VEGAN DELIGHTS FOR SUMMER NIGHTS
      Time: 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
      Where: La Crescenta Library, 2809 Foothill Blvd,, La Crescenta, CA 91214
      Held in the Community Room
      FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
      Reservations: 818-248-5313

    Thursday, July 11, 2013

      Hands-on Cooking Class at Glendale Community College Community Services
      Time: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
      Where: Toll Middle School, 700 Glenwood Rd., Glendale, CA 91201
      Held in Room 1206
      Cost: $35 plus $20 for food and recipe handouts
      Contact: 818-240-1000, Ext. 5015

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    Zel Teaches 2 FREE Hands on Cooking Classes in June
    Tofu Puffs

    Cambodian Noodle Salad Join us for an exhilarating afternoon of fun hands-on cooking to discover how delicious vibrant health can be. The menu features a dazzling array of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables students will assemble into tantalizing dishes for the delicious vegan feast that follows.

    Call 818-258-5313 now to make your reservation for the La Crescenta class.

    Call 310-455-3480 now to make your reservation for the Topanga class.
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    Celebrate Deliciously All Year Long

    Vegan for the Holidays Chocolate Truffle Mousse with Cranberry Splash


    The Vegan for the Holidays cookbook may have played a special role in bringing delicious foods to our holiday tables. But did you know that Vegan for the Holidays can continue to bring dining pleasure throughout the year with its multitude of non-seasonal recipes?
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    Honor Vesanto Melina, Recipient of the 24 Carrot Award

    Vesanto Melina

    After being immersed in academia, studying and teaching university, I lived in India for 4 years, along with 4 trips to Nepal. The Eastern experience gave a balance to a life that had kept me in my head, my mind. India has such a profound spiritual foundation, a reverence for life (including the lives of animals) -and great vegetarian food. Twenty years ago, sitting in the sun at the top of a mountain in Nepal, I realized that teaching people how to manage well on a plant-based diet would be my life work.
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    Chef & Dietitian Create Cooking Classic

    Cooking Vegan Cooking Vegan is much more than a cookbook. It is a basic guide for approaching the vegan lifestyle sensibly with an emphasis on sound nutrition. By combining their knowledge and skills, Vesanto Melina and Joseph Forest have created a cooking manual that can be used as a foundation by someone new to the vegan path. The easy-to-prepare recipes and the health information make this book a boon to all vegans.

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    Veggie Grill Lands in the San Fernando Valley

    Veggie Grill When the Buffalo Wings arrived at the table, our squeals of delight along with an "Oh, Wow" or two could be heard two tables away. The wings with the sauce were fabulous and zinging with spicy flavor. Anyone watching the excited bunch of us dipping the unsauced Buffalo Wings into multiple sauces would have thought we hadn't eaten in weeks. Picture a frenzied quintet of hands criss-crossing each other to dip the wings into the spicy buffalo sauce, creamy ranch dressing, and BBQ sauce.
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    Healthy Taste of South Bay
    Brings Wellness Message to Torrance

    Healthy Taste of South Bay An all-day event featuring food, information and chef demonstrations by the finest medical doctors, vegan chefs and fitness experts. Vegan lunch catered by Chef Babette Davis of Stuff I Eat Restaurant in Inglewood. Sunday, June 23, 2013--9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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    Vegetarian Diet Reduces Risk of Early Death

    Vegetarians rejoice: Cutting meat out of your diet may have lowered your risk of an untimely death. A new study of more than 70,000 people showed that vegetarian diets were linked to lower death rates when compared to meat-eaters. The research was published on June 3 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

    "I think this adds to the evidence showing the possible beneficial effect of vegetarian diets in the prevention of chronic diseases and the improvement of longevity," lead author Dr. Michael Orlich, program director of the preventative medicine residency at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California.
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    Aunt Nettie Knows What to Do With 'Taters; Cauliflower 'em

    Aunt Nettie Smoky Cauliflower & Potato Chowder 'Cause I been so watchful with spendin' money all my life, I learnt mighty young how ta stretch the doller. Bein' careful simply got ta be a habit. These days is no different--I'm still penny pinchin' but ain't sufferin' none. There's jes no need ta pay big dollers ta cook up a pot o' something that's like ta stick ta the ribs and taste mighty fine, too.

    Ain't nothin' like a nice big bowl o' soup that's thick, creamy, an full o' flavor ta make ya rub yer tummy with a smile o' happiness. 'Taters is almost always a good buy at the market and make up the bones of a good soup along with onions, celery, an'-- of course, some garlic.
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    VeggieTaster Returns with Three New Vegan Delights

    Don't Go Nuts Soy Butter Organic Don't Go Nuts Soy Butter Organic is a blessing for anyone with allergies to peanuts and tree nuts. But the cool thing is the soy butter is also darned good tasting and comes in 5 flavors: Chocolate, Cinnamon Sugar, Lightly Sea Salted, Slightly Sweet, and Pure Unsalted. I'm in Loooovvve with the luscious Chocolate to the last teaspoon, but have a sweet spot for the Pure Unsalted when I want that taste that sorta simulates the richness of peanut butter. Elianni Veggie Cutlets


    Elianni Veggie Cutlets (distributed by Canaan Foods LLC) is so crazy good I needed to share the news! The ingredient list is amazingly short: defatted soybeans flour, pinto beans flour, and filtered water. I swear--that's the whole list. First I rehydrated the unseasoned, dried cutlet chunks in veg broth. Then cooked them a zesty tomato sauce with lots of herbs and spices for 30 minutes. Result? Yum!!!! Even a meat-eater would have loved it!


    Freekeh Toasted Green Wheat It's my new food passion, and I simply can't stop eating it. It's Freekeh Organic, Toasted, Green Wheat and comes in 8-ounce packages. It's an awesome grain and cooks up in about 20 to 25 minutes. It's so good I had to try all three flavors--Tamari, Original, and Rosemary Sage. I love, love, love the chewy texture of the little grains, and it's delish with or without sauce or in a soup or salad.

    See VeggieTaster Ratings for More Info.


    Grill Your Way into Dad's Heart and Stomach

    Veggie Kebabs Brassica Slaw Since a barbecue meal isn't quite complete without a simmering pot of beans, Dad can look forward to the lusty flavor of Bean Bash in Dragon's Breath Sauce. Accompanying the Texas Veggie Kebabs is Dad's Favorite Potato Salad, a mouth-watering medley of white and sweet potatoes enhanced with red and green bell peppers, sweet onions, diced apples, and bits of veggie bacon.

    Make sure Dad receives his 5-a-day-plus veggies with Brassica Slaw that features plenty of crunchy vegetables like red and green cabbage, carrots, shredded kale, broccoli, and raisins in a well-seasoned dressing.
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    All Carbs Are Not Demons;
    Discover The Starch Solution
    Starch Solution

    Dr. John McDougall has been battling demons during the 44 years he has been practicing medicine. The demons he has faced are his medical colleagues who have ignored nutrition as a cornerstone of their practices and diet gurus who have promoted high protein diets as a weight loss solution. He has not been in the mainstream of the medical industry because he advocates starch as the principal ingredient in a healthy diet.

    In The Starch Solution he lays out the principles he has stressed for many years.
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    New York Public School Goes Totally Vegetarian

    School A Queens elementary school has become the first traditional public school in the country to serve all vegetarian all the time, replacing lunchroom legends like meatloaf with organic tofu, spinach wraps and couscous.

    Education officials say PS 244 in Flushing was the natural choice to pioneer a meat- and fish-free menu because it has incorporated healthy living and eating into its academics for years.
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    Cook with Zel to Create a Delectable Hawaiian Entrée
    Kona Coconut Stir Fry

    The easy stir-fry is a colorful and super-flavorful main dish that uses familiar items from the pantry, so you won't have to spend valuable time searching exotic markets. It's also an ideal weekday meal that's quickly assembled. Funny thing is, it's so delicious, it disappears almost as quickly. Serve the dish over steamed brown rice or other whole grains like quinoa or buckwheat to soak up the richness of the coconut milk sauce.
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    New Food Products Enhance the Vegan Lifestyle
    Natural Products Expo West

    In Part 1 of our reflection of Expo West 2013 we reviewed our impressions of trends in the introduction of new products. As we attend each year, we experience more companies offering a complete line of vegan products and others making sure they have vegan offerings.
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    Vegetarian Diet May Protect Against Heart Disease and Cancer

    Playa Vista Farmers' Market

    Researchers in Dumfries, Scotland, have analysed blood samples from 37 vegetarians and 39 meat and fish eaters in their early 40s and found a striking difference. Levels of salicylic acid are up to 12 times higher in vegetarians -- no surprise, since this is a compound widely distributed in the plant world.

    But salicylic acid is the active ingredient of aspirin--which is widely used to protect against heart disease and may also play a role in reducing the risk of bowel cancer. So are vegetarians taking the equivalent of a daily aspirin in their natural diet?
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    Early Vegetarians Were Really Vegans
    John Davis

    This website is called "Vegetarians in Paradise," and I do hope that Zel and Reuben keep it like that, and do not change it to "Vegans in Paradise"--but to explain that I have to go back about 170 years.

    We now know that the first people to call themselves "vegetarian" were, in every respect, what we now call "vegan." Before they invented the "V word," the most common phrase was the "vegetable diet"-- but that included fruit, nuts, grains, etc. The word "vegetable" had a wider meaning in those days (think of "animal, vegetable, or mineral").
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    Meatless Monday: An Initiative We Should All Support

    Meatless Monday If we are judged by the company we keep, we are in good company. Vegetarians in Paradise bedfellows turn out to be an impressive group of organizations interested in public health.

    The roster of organizations includes Columbia University Mailman School of Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications. They're all on board to promote Meatless Monday, a campaign to improve national health and benefit the environment. We would like to urge our readers to join us in bringing this message to the attention of the public.
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    LA Vegetarian Restaurants VEGETARIANS IN PARADISE WELCOMES THESE RESTAURANTS
    AND FOOD TRUCKS
    TO THE LOS ANGELES SCENE

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    What's Happening in Vegetarian Los Angeles?

    LA Vegetarian Calender

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