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August 2006—Issue #33
Vegetarian News, Food & More!
Brought to you by VegNews Magazine
**Vote in the 2006 Veggie Awards and Win Great Prizes!
**Inside the July+August Sizzling Summer Edition
**What's Happening: Movement Buzz
**Recipe this Month: Debra Wasserman's Tofu Dill Dip
**Surf's Up: Online Hot Spots
**Your Say: Ordinary Heroes
**Win it Now: Ultimate Summertime Bodycare
**Wedding Bells in 2006
We thank you for your interest in VegNews, America's premier vegetarian lifestyle magazine. The popular VegNewsletter arrives in your e-mailbox just once a month and is filled with vegetarian news, tidbits, recipes, products, activist alerts, reviews and more. It's the perfect accompaniment to a VegNews subscription.
It's that time again to vote for your favorite vegetarian products, people, and places in the fifth annual Veggie Awards! The annual celebration has become one of the magazine's most popular features, with winners announced in our November+December "Best of Vegetarian" holiday edition. It's the largest survey of its kind in the world and features over 40 categories, from best vegetarian restaurant to best vacation destination to best dairy-free ice cream. As always, all ballots are entered into a Grand Prize Drawing with a chance to win these great prizes:
Grand Prize: BED & BREAKFAST FANTASY GETAWAY
One lucky winner and a guest will be swept away for 5 days and 4 nights to the Vegetarian Bed & Breakfast Inn of their dreams, and to sweeten the prize, we're including a bonus $500 for airfare. This is your chance to relax and enjoy sumptuous surroundings, delicious vegan meals, gracious service and luxurious amenities. From lavish oceanfront suites on the Mendocino Coast to a historic sea captain's home in Cape Cod, this fantasy getaway package is definitely an opportunity of a lifetime! Participating B&Bs include Farm Sanctuary, The Lodge Grenada, Shady Hollow Inn, Stanford Inn, Sweet Onion Inn and Sweet Thyme Inn.
Second Prize: VEGAN VICE PACKAGE
This fabulous package is oozing with indulgences vegetarians love most. Two lucky winners will each receive a gift box overflowing with vegan wine, decadent chocolate truffles and crèmes from Rose City Chocolatier, and a super stylish handbag from Matt & Nat. How badly do you want to win this package? (two winners)
Third Prize: $100 VEGAN ESSENTIALS SHOPPING SPREE
From stylish shoes, wallets and belts to snacks, soy candles and sweets, Vegan Essentials is one of today's hottest online vegan stores and has something for everyone. Shop 'til you drop on anything your heart desires with this $100 gift certificate. (three winners)
Plus, Weekly Giveaways!
Each week during the month-long voting period, we'll be giving away a Vegan Unlimited Spa Basket, brimming with cruelty-free bath goodies to relax and rejuvenate, to one lucky winner. Winners will be pampered with bath salts, body wash, soy candles, eye tea and an exfoliating hand mitt.
Hurry and vote today! Polls close September 5.
Click here to vote NOW in the 2006 Veggie Awards!
Our July+August SPECIAL 50th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE is available on our website and newsstands everywhere, and it may be our best ever! Here's a sneak peak of what's inside:
**12 Hippest Hometowns for Vegetarians
**1st Annual VegWebby Awards
**Plant-based Cultures around the Globe
**Argentina and Meat Eating
**Summertime Grilling Veggie Style
**Austin's Veg Firehouse
**Taste Test: Dairy-free Ice Cream
**What's in Your Makeup?
**Plus... All the usual goods—the latest vegetarian news, reviews, exciting new products, health advice, hard-hitting features, celebrity buzz... because you know what they say: you are what you read.
Click here to order this issue from our website NOW!
Animal Rights 2006 Rocked the House
Think about it: a weekend with hundreds of thriving vegetarian advocates. The Animal Rights 2006 Conference held August 10-14 didn't disappoint those hoping for just such an experience, where social networking at its finest and a sharp, enlivened program made for one hell of a seminar. On the foodie side of things, highlights included delicious baked goods from Vegan Treats Bakery, waffle cone scoops of Chicago Non-Dairy Temptation Frozen Dessert, hot icing-drizzled cinnamon buns from Sticky Fingers Bakery, and gooey, delicious grilled chreese sandwiches from Road's End Organics. Farm Animal Reform Movement put on the event, which culminated in a banquet and awards ceremony. Grassroots activist awards inspired by our own publisher Joseph Connelly went to 30+ year AR activist Chaz Chiodro, Kinship Circle founder Brenda Shoss, SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) founder Steve Hindi and Camille Stadts of Win Animal Rights. Moby received the Guardian Award, which he accepted graciously along with the other winners before a night of schmoozing and fun in the warm summer air. Who says activists don't have any fun?
Japanese Tuna Scandal
An investigation has uncovered evidence that Japanese fishers have overreached their quota of Southern Bluefin Tuna by more than $2 billion, depleting the population dramatically. According to the The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, this fastest-swimming fish in the ocean can fetch upwards of $250,000 a head in Japan's fish market.
Chicago Foie Gras Ban Kicks In
Chicago restaurants can no longer legally serve foie gras as of August 22, when the city council's ban comes into effect. Disgruntled chefs have threatened to continue serving the dish or even to file suit against the city, but they face staunch opposition from animal rights and welfare groups. Stopforcefeeding.com cites several ways to involve yourself with the campaign to end this practice, including contacting restaurants, writing a letter to the editor, and passing out brochures.
It’s no shocker that Debra Wasserman and Reed Magnel’s Simply Vegan has sold more than 80,000 copies since it first released in 1991, making it among the most popular cookbooks of its kind. This manual adopts the credence that less is more, with understated yet delicious recipes you can put together with some fresh produce from the farmer’s market and essentials typical to the everyday vegetarian pantry. Get yourself the newly released 4th Edition for more than 150 recipes and a weighty nutrition section that covers everything but the kitchen sink, from getting your B12 to feeding the little ones.
This recipes for Tofu Dill Dip blend a small amount of ingredients into a surprisingly tasty side dish that you can whip up quickly for a beachside snack or barbeque side dish. The beauty of this recipe and all the others? You can jazz it up—throw in some cayenne, turmeric or nutritional yeast—to add intriguing new dimensions.
(Serves 5)
1 cucumber, peeled
1 pound tofu, crumbled
1 teaspoon dill weed
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 Cup fresh parsley, chopped or 1 Tablespoon dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Salt to taste
Place all ingredients into a food processor or blender and blend until creamy. Serve with raw vegetables or crackers.
Order Simply Vegan NOW!
Simply Raw
You know a food movement has arrived when the websites touting it offer a polished interface and in-depth resources to match. The Ottawa-based simplyraw.ca does just that, both with professional consulting and free online information. Brush up on the benefits of raw, shop for spiral slices and yacan slices, or get to licking those fingers at their first annual pie contest September 9.
This Blog's Got Sass
Blogs can bore if the voice isn't engaging, but get someone with the gift of gab online and you've got yourself a pretty entertaining read. Discover a new internet obsession in the guise of Vegan Chai, a sassy little blog by an ardent vegan who knows how to laugh and make you laugh with her, like when she says of gelatin-free Vermints, "They're similar to altoids, but you know, without the hooves and tendons."
Eat Yer Vitamins
According to our reader survey, more than 70 percent of you take vitamins. Visit vuru.com if you prefer shopping online to schlepping through grocery aisles. Here, you can put together a pack by inserting "vegan" into the search engine for vegetarian capsules. Or, try out their Vegan Veggie Pack, which includes a multivitamin and CoQ10, Vitamin E and Grape Seed Extract for cardiovascular health and antioxidants.
Fast Food for Veggies
Laughing is important. That's why you should watch this skit on YouTube, which we found thanks to the Grumpy Vegan, a UK-based blogger with dry-as-toast humor and insightful posts about the cause.
Last month, we asked, "Whom do you admire most in the veg movement?" Colleen Gray took the prize, a Larenim Mineral Cosmetics basket full of press foundation and powder, brushes and shades. Here's what Colleen wrote:
"Whom I admire most isn't any one person, but my friends. While you won't see us on the cover of a magazine, we do influence the people we know. Whether it is with a calm, rational explanation of our beliefs or an offer of tasty treats that others might not have tried, we have influenced more long-lasting change than would a movie or pop star causing a flash-in-the-pan decision. I never would have thought my brother (who used to call me a Commie) would be drinking soymilk with the vegan cookies I made, but it happened. As the saying goes, a butterfly flapping it wings can be felt—in a tremendous way—at the other end of the earth."
Greenridge herbals hails from the lush Florida coast, where botanist and vegan Colleen Miller creates natural, botanical lotions, masks, exfoliants, and other bodycare luxuries for those of us who only want the purest products. Pastoral tinted glasses and clever concoctions such as a Midsummer Night's Cream complement potions made of natural oils and butters, organic, botanical ingredients like sea buckthorn berry oil, and exfoliating properties such as jojoba beads. Get yours online, or ask for them at your local natural foods store.
You can also win a Greenridge Herbals Prize Package simply by responding to the question below:
Who or what inspired you to go veg?
Email giveaway@vegnews.com with your answer, and we'll include it in the next newsletter. Don’t forget to include your name and address, and limit your response to 150 words.
Visit Greenridge Herbals NOW!
Did you have a sensational vegan wedding this year? If so, apply to be in our 7th annual Vegan Wedding Feature!
Every year, our editorial team selects eight very special weddings to be featured in the magazine. It has become are most popular issue of the year, and it inspires couples around the world to organize their own dream vegan wedding. Competition is stiff, but we're looking for all kinds of weddings. Whether you had an extravagant country club affair or an intimate beachfront ceremony, we're looking for weddings that are unique and memorable. The application deadline is September 15, and the feature will be published in our March+April 2007 issue.
Click here to download the 2007 Vegan Wedding Feature Application!
Don't miss the September edition of the VegNewsletter. News bits, product reviews, giveaways, recipes and more make this newsletter the most comprehensive of its kind, and we're offering it free every month.
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