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February 1, 2012
Vegetarians, Vegans, and Pescatarians Rejoice! You'll Find Lots to Eat at Family Recipe
For this week's review, I headed to the Lower East Side to check out Family Recipe, a cute little spot run by Akiko Thurnauer that dishes up home-style Japanese fare. What makes this eatery worth a trip is that it offers a (relatively) large number of both vegan and vegetarian dishes, a rarity in ou ... More >>
Dining
January 11, 2012
Taste of India and Thali (Food) Court Jersey City
There's hope for your tongue at Newport Centre Mall
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October 11, 2011
Champs Bakery in Williamsburg Now a Vegan Diner
Despite the tattooed, fixed-gear-bike crowd that inhabits Williamsburg, there is a curious dearth of vegan options aside from Foodswings and Bliss Café. Champs, a small bakery tucked away on residential Ainslie Street, is changing all of that by transforming itself into a full-service vegan d ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Kick Off Vegetarian Awareness Month By Hugging a Vegetarian
October is officially Vegetarian Awareness Month, meaning for the next 31 days you should be aware that vegetarians exist. Also, try eating a little less meat. PETA is backing off its usual controversial tactics to advocate something a little more adorable -- hugging vegetarians. So, where should yo ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Dish No. 31: Westville East's Veggie Burger
Rebecca Marx Westville East is our go-to for unassuming yet often very well-prepared comfort food. This is in part because of the restaurant's veggie burger, which is as idiosyncratic as it is delicious.
Blogs
July 28, 2011
Cheap and Filling Veggie Fare at Aussie-Inspired Tuck Shop
This Aussie-inspired mini-chain is best known for its cheap and filling meat pies, hearty things perfect for a quick meal before or after a night of drinking in the East Village. Its vegetarian options are no less tasty (or cheap). Take the vegetarian chili. At only $6, it has a flavor and c ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali of Takashi on Meeting at the Roxy, Falling in Love, and Celebrating Cow Intestine
Photo courtesy Takashi Inoue Beefy love: Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali Mixing business and pleasure is a challenge for most people, but it wasn't for Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali, who are both partners and business partners, running the West Village Japanese temple to all things beef, Takashi ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Hamburger America's George Motz Talks Burger Hype, Burger DNA
photo courtesy of George MotzGeorge Motz amid his beloved beef.George Motz was just a documentarian when he came out with his seminal burger film, Hamburger America. But considering he had to eat thousands of burgers in establishments around the country for years as he researched the film, th ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
In a Salute to Eater's Burger Week 2011, Fork in the Road Offers 5 Off-the-Wall Burgers
The #1 Veggie Burger at Elevation Burger is all orange and ricey. We've snuck peeks at Eater's week-long burger coverage somewhat enviously, but our peeking has also made us want to get into the act. Accordingly, here are some of the more perverse burgers we've encountered over the last few ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Veggie Mag Uses Meaty Models; Daniel Boulud Plans Montreal Resto
A food blog has introduced a food-cart walking tour, charging $40 to take participants to some of the city's most talked-about mobile vendors. [NY Post] Underground food markets are cropping up around the country, allowing vendors to avoid hefty fees for health permits and insurance. [NY Tim ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2011
'Jazz Night'
A food blog has introduced a food-cart walking tour, charging $40 to take participants to some of the city's most talked-about mobile vendors. [NY Post] Underground food markets are cropping up around the country, allowing vendors to avoid hefty fees for health permits and insurance. [NY Tim ... More >>
Dining
March 30, 2011
NYC Tofu Guide: A Springy Food for Spring
Isn’t bean curd the blandest substance on earth? Not on your life!
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011
MIGHTY MEAT
Break us off a piece of that
Blogs
October 26, 2010
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: The Meatball Shop's Veggie Meatballs
Although the Meatball Shop makes its carnivorous allegiances abundantly clear, the restaurant shows a surprising amount of love for the vegetarians.
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Posts of the Week
Hello, Friday afternoon. And hello, highlights of the past week: Sarah DiGregorio ranked her 10 Favorite Brooklyn Restaurants. Schmaltz Brewing Company's Jeremy Cowan talked Geektoberfest, Jewish celebration, and how sour is the new bitter. Battle of the Prawn Cocktail Crisps: Walkers v. Skips.
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July 22, 2010
Chatting With Veggie Burgers Every Which Way's Lukas Volger About Reinventing the Bête Noire of Vegetarian Dining
Veggie Burger MadnessLukas Volger displays one of his creations.Even though it's generally accepted that vegetarian food has evolved by leaps and bounds over the past several years, veggie burgers by and large remain stuck in the herbivore ghetto. There's the Morningstar-Boca Burger contingen ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Success! Realistic Fake Chicken Has Arrived, But Will Vegetarians Rejoice?
All the flavor; none of the flesh.Apparently, vegetarians who have been enjoying their soy-based meatless chicken are about to get a flavor and texture wake-up call. Researchers have only now cracked the code to realistic tasting fake chicken with the first soy product that acts like fowl fle ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Oops: Dos Toros' No-Meat Burrito Isn't Actually Vegetarian
Sarah DiGregorioDos Toros' steak taco contains no rice. But it does contain steak.When Sarah DiGregorio first checked out Dos Toros, she liked the Mission-style burritos but advised skipping the rice in favor of the beans and guacamole. It turns out that vegetarians would do well to take her ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
Sexiest Vegetarian Mere Tip of Sexy 'Tarian Iceberg
Sexy, yes. But not as sexy as a libertarian.Someone at PETA feels that making the cause sexy is the best way to promote the cause. And that person might not be wrong. A little sexy on our soy burger is always welcome. But their latest effort, a search for "The Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door," ( ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
PETA Holds Sexiest Vegetarian Alive Contest for Mere Plebians
Hot, bothered, and compostable.If we've learned anything from PETA, it's this: if you're trying to promote a cause, the most effective, if not subtle, way to get your message across is to use boobies, or some other means of conveying that someone, somewhere, is getting laid. Hence the organiz ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Melissa Febos--Former Dominatrix--Talks Food Fetishes, Sexy Vegetarianism, and the Allure of a Tube of Cookie Dough
Melissa Febos knows from sexy vegetarians. Melissa Febos hosts the Mixer reading series at the Cakeshop on the Lower East Side, a delightfully low-key and hip night of live music and literature where one might see Jonathan Lethem read his latest work or witness Pulitzer-prize winning poet Pau ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
New York to Get Its (and America's?) First Vegan Food Truck
Say it with tofu: Cinnamon Snail launches this V-Day.What better way to say "I love you" this Sunday that with a plateful of tofu? Adam Sobel, owner of what may be the only vegetarian catering company in New Jersey, is gearing up to debut a new vegan food truck in Hoboken this Valentine's Day ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Josh Ozersky on His Upcoming Wedding Feast, the Demise of the Feedbag and (Food) World Domination
Jason Perlow/Hamburger AmericaJosh Ozersky and friend. Last Friday morning on the windswept tundra that was Soho, one half expected to encounter a pack of wolves trundling down Spring Street. Instead, a larger, equally hungry apparition materialized in the mercifully insulated confines of Bal ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
Vegetarian (and Vegan) Delights of NYC: Karisik Meze Tabagi at Village Kebab in Brighton Beach
The karisik meze tabagi is a wild farrago of short dishes and bread dips, and everything is vegan except for the garlic-flavored yogurt and cucumber in the upper righthand corner. There are certain types of restaurants where you can depend on getting a spectacular vegetarian meal, including ... More >>
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December 31, 2009
Vegetarian (and Vegan) Delights of NYC: Samosas at Curry in a Hurry
One of the great cheap vegetarian meals of the city is a pair of potato samosas--it would be vegan, too, if you ignored the green sauce on the upper left. The samosa is one of India's great culinary achievements. Though it has antecedents in Turkey and Central Asia, the little hand-held pie ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Mushroom Sandwich at Northern Spy Food Co.
When the Northern Spy Food Co. opened in early November, it brought a helping of San Francisco name recognition (chefs Christophe Hill and Nathan Foot cooked at A16 and Myth, respectively) and promises of rustic, market-driven grub to the former Old Devil Moon space. While a sizable percenta ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
Updated: Vegetarian (and Vegan) Delights of NYC: Smoked Tofu Sandwich at Birdbath Bakery
Vegans and vegetarians: No longer is it necessary to resort to meat substitutes. The smoked tofu in Birdbath Bakery's smoked tofu sandwich is every bit as good as the best smoked bacon. I know, because I also eat bacon.
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December 11, 2009
Chatting With Sarma Melngailis of Pure Food and Wine: Raw Food, Criticism From Vegan Purists, and Global Expansion
At Pure Food & Wine, the Gramercy restaurant that serves gourmet renditions of organic, vegan, raw food (nothing is heated above 116 degrees), there's a glow coming from the candles being lit in preparation for dinner service on this dark winter afternoon. Dressed in jeans, black sneakers, an ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Western Tofu Sandwich at Black Shack
Black Shack may be a carnivore's playground, but that doesn't mean that the newly opened Midtown burger joint doesn't have any love to show for herbivores coerced there by meat-loving friends or would-be tormentors. For them, the Shack's Jeff Maslanka has concocted what he described ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
The New Vegetarianism
A delicious bunch of purple mustard greens from the New Amsterdam Market, grown in Queens. In the past, vegetarians have extolled their dining habits with evangelistic fervor. They were often prone to wrinkle up their noses, and even make snide and pious comments, when others were scarfing ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
This Year's Chefs Congress Will Eat Its Greens
Dirt CandyThe Star Chefs International Chefs Congress, which will hold its fourth annual gathering next week, is a fairly big deal among food industry types, replete as it is with big-name panel discussions, demonstrations, and its Rising Stars awards. New York, as always, is well-represented ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
Sausage-y Sweets--Old Candy Shop Poses as Meat Market
Modern Mechanix unearths this 1929 story of a meat-themed candy shop. And TreeHugger, ever the crusader, recommends it as a way to go vegetarian undercover. [Modern Mechanix via TreeHugger]
Blogs
June 22, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC--Sauteed Squash and Bamboo Pith at East Harbor
Sunset Park is thriving with new Hong Kong-style Cantonese restaurants, many of amazing size and sophistication. And, yes, the fish are alive in the tanks. At newcomer East Harbor, some of the more interesting dishes fall in the Vegetable category, though beware strict vegetarians that some rec ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC--Noona Vankaya Pulusu
Noona vankaya pulusu at Southern Spice (click to distend) Sometimes a vegetarian dish is so good it slaps you across the face, leaving a tingling on your cheeks and a slight burn in your mouth. Such is the case with the noona vankaya pulusu (it's even fun to say!) at Southern Spice, a new resta ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
Many Young Veggies are Anorexic
A study conducted in Minnesota suggests that many young people who claim to be vegetarians actually suffer from eating disorders. Researchers advise parents to talk to their teens about vegetarianism. [LA Times] Ben & Jerry of ice cream fame have launched a food-tracking campaign. Since the FDA ok ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC -- Bolanee Kadu
Jack-O-Lantern fritters are crunchy and sweet (click to engorge) The meatiness of Afghan cuisine can be a turn-off to vegetarians, and the smell of lamb grilling over charcoal is a feature of most of the city's kebab houses. But dig deeper at Balkh Shish Kabab House and find that strictly v ... More >>
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January 15, 2009
Ethiopian Coming to Fort Greene
Brooklyn's Fort Greene will soon be getting an Ethiopian restaurant of its very own. Bati (747 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) is aiming for a soft opening this weekend. Co-owner Hibist Legesse says they'll be open just for dinner at first but then add lunch in the coming weeks.The menu will feature tradit ... More >>
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September 24, 2008
All Tomorrow's Parties: Now In List Form!
Brooklyn's Fort Greene will soon be getting an Ethiopian restaurant of its very own. Bati (747 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) is aiming for a soft opening this weekend. Co-owner Hibist Legesse says they'll be open just for dinner at first but then add lunch in the coming weeks.The menu will feature tradit ... More >>
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May 9, 2008
The Early Word: Ghenet Brooklyn
Brooklyn's Fort Greene will soon be getting an Ethiopian restaurant of its very own. Bati (747 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) is aiming for a soft opening this weekend. Co-owner Hibist Legesse says they'll be open just for dinner at first but then add lunch in the coming weeks.The menu will feature tradit ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2007
Confirmed: Gwyneth Not Worthy of Spain
Brooklyn's Fort Greene will soon be getting an Ethiopian restaurant of its very own. Bati (747 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) is aiming for a soft opening this weekend. Co-owner Hibist Legesse says they'll be open just for dinner at first but then add lunch in the coming weeks.The menu will feature tradit ... More >>
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May 9, 2007
Our Man Sietsema: 'Maybe Mayor Bloomberg has Declared SoHa a Fat-Free Zone'
Brooklyn's Fort Greene will soon be getting an Ethiopian restaurant of its very own. Bati (747 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) is aiming for a soft opening this weekend. Co-owner Hibist Legesse says they'll be open just for dinner at first but then add lunch in the coming weeks.The menu will feature tradit ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2007
Local Bounty at Third Eco Eatery Tour
Brooklyn's Fort Greene will soon be getting an Ethiopian restaurant of its very own. Bati (747 Fulton Street, Brooklyn) is aiming for a soft opening this weekend. Co-owner Hibist Legesse says they'll be open just for dinner at first but then add lunch in the coming weeks.The menu will feature tradit ... More >>
Books
January 30, 2007
Meat Puppets
Eat your greens: chewing over the history and politics of vegetarianism
Dining
June 7, 2005
Green Day
Vegetarian delights often include TVP at East Village eatery
Specials
May 24, 2005
Letters
Vegetarian delights often include TVP at East Village eatery
News
May 17, 2005
Where's the Beef?
The author might have forgotten why she's a vegetarian—but don't ask her to quit now
Dining
September 14, 2004
Egg Lover's Paradise
Exploring the mysterious dish chicken 65 on Curry Hill
Dining
December 12, 2000
The Specials
Exploring the mysterious dish chicken 65 on Curry Hill
News
June 27, 2000
Eat It Raw!
Blenders, Sprouters, and Mashers Process Food in the East Village
Long Island Voice
November 16, 1999
Bean there, done that
Blenders, Sprouters, and Mashers Process Food in the East Village
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