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Vegetarianism

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Snout and Co. Is a Cuban Thunderdome

    The Truck: Snout and Co., with various stops on the West side. Locations listed on their website. The Fare: Cuban with a South Carolina flare. The Stop: You will most likely see a long queue as you approach Scott Lee's prominent black truck with a red insignia, Snout and Co. Cruising in severa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Field Roast Hits It Out Of The Park With New Haute Dogs At Safeco Field

    The Eats: The Field Roast Stand, right behind section 133 on the main concourse at Safeco Field. The Beets: Vegetarian ballpark franks, themed vegetarian franks, and Field Roast veggie burgers (the Field Burger). 100% vegetarian and vegan ballpark dogs and burgers.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    At Chungee's Drink & Eat, Simple Flavors Translate Even For Vegetarians

    The Eats: Chungee's Drink & Eat, 1830 12th Ave., 323-1673. Traditional home-style Cantonese cuisine. The Deets: While there's Thai, Vietnamese, and Asian joints aplenty, few Capitol Hill restaurants serve traditional Chinese food. This cozy restaurant, with it's red-tinged lighting, low ceilings, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Cafe Bengodi's Rustic Pastas Will Carbo-Load You Into A Food Coma

    You're downtown, it's lunch time, and you're starving. You certainly have options--sandwich shops, soup and salad joints, Vito's two-martini lunch--but nothing satisfies a powerful hunger like a pile of pasta, and for this particular craving, Cafe Bengodi delivers in spades. What's more, the menu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Chef Janine Doran At Home At Cafe Flora

    If even a frame is out of place at Café Flora, chef Janine Doran will walk over to fix it. That is the kind ownership she feels over the place where she has been cooking for 20 years. In 1999, during Café Flora's renovation, Doran was right down on the floor with the rest of them ripping out carpe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Dinner, A View, Kayaks: Vegetarian Dining Is Swimmingly Easy At Agua Verde Paddle Club

    For many an undergrad, the college years are an experimental time: a time to do illicit drugs, bang your way through a fraternity, and explore the vegetarian lifestyle. OK, I don't have proper stats on those first two, but generally speaking, college towns have more vegan, vegetarian, and vegetarian ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Fake Seafood on Sampling Menu for Vegfest

    Increased sales of meat substitutes suggest a growing number of flexitarians are moving closer to the full-fledged vegetarian end of the dietary spectrum, says a co-cordinator of this weekend's Vegfest at Seattle Center. About three percent of American adults call themselves vegetarians, but studie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Vito's Is A Hideaway For Vegetarians, Too

    If the smell of baked veal and provolone doesn't get you, or claustrophobia--what with its low ceilings and mirror-paneled walls--the newly revamped Vito's is a great place to cozy up for a vegetarian friendly Italian meal. OK, so it's not an Italian vegetarian palace--as far as cuisine goes, this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Skip Project X and Go Straight for Snout & Co.'s Pork

    The Dinner: a cuban, greens, and veggie burger from Snout & Co. and a pint of ale from Hilliard's Beer BALLARD The Movie: Project X at the Meridian, 1501 7th Ave, DOWNTOWN. The Screenplate: I don't think there's any way to improve upon the first five words of the AV Club's review of the high-schoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Spinasse Could Use Another Spin

    ​Accustomed to casual dining the likes of Chaco Canyon and Araya's--indispensable, beloved eateries in their own right--we vegetarians sometimes crave an elevated dining experience: not just a well-prepared meal, but one that's delivered in a refined atmosphere, by an attentive staff, offset b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Tasting Tilth: The First Few Bites on Beet Street

    The Pacific Northwest is so devoted to its rich culinary heritage, inventive cheffing, and evolving food culture that talking about being vegetarian in a city like Seattle feels taboo. Sure, omnivores and veggies can share a passion for food, but when the discussion turns to meat--and it invariably ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    An Egg is Always a Good Decision, According to Carmelita Sous Chef Kim Sturts

    When Kim Sturts left his position on the line at Harvest Vine to be a sous chef (kitchen talk for second in command) at Carmelita, the omnivorous chef stepped into a meat-free world. Phinney Ridge's Carmelita serves only vegetarian food, with a significant menu of vegan options as well. Drawing on h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Joseph M. Megna, Escaped Prisoner Found in Corn Field: I Fled Because I'm a Vegetarian!

    It took dozens of state and federal authorities, a handful of local farmers, six combine harvesters, and 18 grain-hauling semi-trucks to root out escaped sex-offender Joseph M. Megna from the corn field he fled into. Upon emerging, shackled, shirtless, and filthy, he had a simple, earth-conscious e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    A Caribbean Food Truck to Soon Debut in Seattle

    Bigfood​A Caribbean food truck will hit the streets of Seattle by as early as next week, according to Seattle Met. Bigfood will serve slow-braised meats and fresh slaws on housemade flat bread, all seasoned with Caribbean spices. No worries, vegetarians: Non-meat options will also be available ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Kailash Won't Open in Mid-2011. Or Ever.

    ​The coming of Kailash, touted as a temple of high-end vegetarian cuisine, was enthusiastically noted by food writers across the region. But the planned restaurant's demise went largely unremarked. According to publicist Tamara Wilson, the project was shelved back in January--a full month bef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Chef Tim Love On Why NOT to be a Vegetarian (Plus a Few Thoughts of My Own)

    ​CNN's food blog, Eatocracy fans the flames this week with another one of their "5@5" interviews, this time bringing on chef Tim Love of Texas (chef and owner of the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth and the two-location burger empire Love Shack) to talk about why eating meat is aweso ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2010

    Jonathan Safran Foer

    ​CNN's food blog, Eatocracy fans the flames this week with another one of their "5@5" interviews, this time bringing on chef Tim Love of Texas (chef and owner of the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth and the two-location burger empire Love Shack) to talk about why eating meat is aweso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Travis' Fran Healy on His Solo Record, Neko Case, and Hanging Out With Paul McCartney

    ​Fran Healy is best known as the frontman of the Scottish rock band Travis, as well as the man who popularized the faux-hawk in the late 90s and early 2000s. On October 5, Healy will release his first solo album, Wreckorder, which features guest spots by Neko Case and Paul McCartney; he's curr ... More >>

  • Food

    August 11, 2010

    Sage Cafe Makes a Meathead Believe

    ​Fran Healy is best known as the frontman of the Scottish rock band Travis, as well as the man who popularized the faux-hawk in the late 90s and early 2000s. On October 5, Healy will release his first solo album, Wreckorder, which features guest spots by Neko Case and Paul McCartney; he's curr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Vegan Barbecue, Part III: The Conclusion

    Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​ A couple weeks ago, I posted what I thought was a fairly innocuous piece about vegans, vegetarians and the search for some decent cruelty-free barbecue. What someone should've reminded me of was that, these days, there is simply no such thing as an "innocuous piec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Friday Food Porn: Vegetarians Beware

    Photo courtesy Renee McMahonBurning the Beasts at Burning Beast​ Usually, these Friday afternoons excursions into the prurient belly of Seattle's food scene are linked somehow to the week's review. But this week? Not so much. This week, I reviewed Pho Bac. And while I certainly loved the plac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Video: The 'Unethical' Elk Hunt

    It's easy to forget sometimes that outside of this major metropolitan center (presumably with its fair share of vegans, vegetarians and anti-factory farm meat-eaters) there's a whole lot of countryside filled with hunters. Here's a reminder.

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    To Serve Vegetarians, Top Chef Edition

    Just caught up on Top Chef, and remembered why I don't watch it, which is mostly because it's more aggravating than relaxing to watch what you're around every day for a living. The nugget from this week's episode, built off of a vegetarian entrée challenge, was definitely actress Natalie Portman sa ... More >>

  • Arts

    March 25, 2009

    Books: Vegan Crusader

    Jeffrey Masson makes the slippery-slope argument.

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    The Vegetarian Meat Market: Naked Chicken Cutlets

    A serial in which we compare manufactured vegetarian meat substitutes to the real thing. This week's contender: Quorn naked chicken cutlets. I assure you, the specimen above is not burned, just caramelized with teriyaki marinade. Edit: Commenters, you are right. It looks gross in the current photo. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    The Vegetarian Meat Market: Ground "Sausage"

    A serial in which we compare manufactured vegetarian meat substitutes to the real thing. This week's contender: ground "sausage," pictured here alongside the genuine article. You can probably tell which is which-- or can you? Our subject: LightLife Gimme Lean! ground sausage in a tube. You just sl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    The Vegetarian Meat Market: Meatballs

    A serial in which we compare manufactured vegetarian meat substitutes to the real thing. This week's contender: Veggie Patch "Meatballs."Some vegetarians think eating faux meat products is creepy.  I never felt that way.  As long as it's not made of flesh, I'll try it. And it seems like th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2008

    Necrophagist

    Tuesday, August 26

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2008

    PETA Loves It Some Seattle

    Tuesday, August 26

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    Anthony Bourdain in Seattle

    Tuesday, August 26

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2008
  • Blogs

    April 7, 2008
  • Food

    January 16, 2008

    Mmmmmmm, Meatless Jerky

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2007

    Vegans love the placenta

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2007

    Austin Cantina

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2007

    Hot News: Hot Seattleite Makes Hot Veg Hot 20

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2007

    What Would Buddha Snack On?

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2007

    Imposter!

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2006

    Bye Bye Cafe Europa

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    The Expensive Expansion of KEXP

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • News

    August 10, 2005

    Best of Seattle

    Why do so many vegetarians make the slovenly choice of some imitation-meat vegetable product?

  • Diversions

    August 4, 2004
  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    "If our species was supposed to be vegetarian, we would have molars the size of shot glasses and jaw muscles the size of plates."

  • News

    February 25, 2004

    Two Sides of Beef

    From a slaughterhouse to a vegan house, a carnivore seeks the middle path to ethical eating.

  • Food

    May 21, 2003

    Veggies, Wine, and Copper River Salmon

    From a slaughterhouse to a vegan house, a carnivore seeks the middle path to ethical eating.

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    A Very Veggie Christmas

    How to satisfy guests at a green holiday feast.

  • Diversions

    August 7, 2002

    Best of the Rest

    How to satisfy guests at a green holiday feast.

  • News

    March 13, 2002

    The McWinner

    How to satisfy guests at a green holiday feast.

  • News

    December 19, 2001

    Fight Night

    Two combative takes—one meat, one veggie—on holiday dinners.

  • Arts

    November 21, 2001

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

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