Veggie Goes Vegan

Ellen DeGeneres says her vegan diet wasn’t always easy, but glad she made the change - The Washington Post

“I’ve always called myself an animal lover. And yet I ate them,” she said. “Until four years ago I would be driving past these cows on pastures, and think ‘What a lovely life that is,’ and I’d go and order a steak. It takes a click, just one light bulb, and you’re like ‘I can’t do that anymore.’”

via www.washingtonpost.com

As always, Ellen is a radical who is somehow adorable and loved. It's subversive, I tell you!

All-Vegan Cupcake Wars Tomorrow at 5PM PT

There aren't a lot of cooking shows I watch on TV, mainly because there aren't any veg-focused ones.

But while watching this weekend's episode of my friend and colleague Ree Drummond's Pioneer Woman show, I saw a commercial for a show just for me.

And maybe for you, too, so I thought I'd share.

A show called Cupcake Wars is having an all-vegan cupcake episode tomorro at 5PM PT on The Food Network.

Now I'm so out of it, I don't really know anything about this show, but vegan cupcakes? Sign me up.

The only thing is, it will be a total sham if they don't have Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero there, given they literally wrote the book on vegan cupcakes!

That's my public service anouncement for the day: Enjoy.

Cooking Channel to re-play vegan show!

As you may or may not know, there are hundreds of cooking shows on cable TV, between The Food Network and its sister channel, The Cooking Channel, alone. And they have never had a regular show about vegetarian cooking, let alone vegan.

Well, they still don't have a regular show, but they did do a one-time episode called The Veg Edge.

I thought I'd missed my one chance to see it, but thanks to This Dish is Veg, I now have a list of encore showings the Cooking Channel is planning this holiday season.

Now, if only my TiVo wasn't on the fritz. (And yes, that is exactly as tragic as you'd imagine it to be!!! Live TV? With commercials? Ack!]

Thanks Cooking Channel, now let's make it a regular show!

Vegan Cooking on The Biggest Loser

I don't often catch The Biggest Loser. Partyly because I find it a little disturbing. Partly because it conflicts with both Glee and the results show for Dancing with the Stars.

I sort of watch it from afar, though. Partly because Jillian Michaels came to BlogHer '07. Partly because Bob Harper is hot. And a vegan.

And I'm wishing I watched it last week when a buddy of Bob's cooked a bunch of yummy vegan food.

Luckily for me (and you): Bob posted the recipes on his blog.

S0: Enjoy.

Echoing Ecorazzi: Dear Food Network: Please add a veg*n show!

I gotta say I hadn't really thought about the numbers. But when Ecorazzi published their post pleading with the Food Network to add a veg-focused show, there it was: Between the Food Network and sister channcel The Cooking Channel, they have over 150 regular cooking shows.

And not one is from the vegetarian, let alone vegan, point of view.

This despite veg*ns being about 5% of the population.

AND despite the fact that several vegan cookbooks have been bestsellers over the last year or two. Books like Skinny Bitch, The Kind Diet,  The Conscious Cook etc.

AND despite the popularity of such food newsmakers as Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Pollan, Mollie Katzen and Alice Waters (not all of whom are purely veg, but who all focus on plant-based diets).

Are you saying Rory Freedman, Alicia Silverstone or Tal Ronnen aren't worthy of their own show? Those folks are TV-ready, people!

So, I just wanted to echo the plea: Dear Food Network: Please add a show...just one out of 150...that speaks to the veg in all of us.

Our cholesterol levels (and palates) will thank you :)