A Binder on Vegan Matters

This evening two friends and I are seeing a DVD of the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait because as a birthday treat for one of them, we went to Filoli, where some scenes were filmed.  (I just looked it up, and it seems that outdoor scenes were filmed at the Pendleton Mansion.)

I'm taking a vegan moussaka, which I hope is good today.  I made it in advance except for the baking part, which I'll do an hour before leaving.  My lovely friend was trying to accommodate me (rather than the animals in factory farms or the environment), and said she would make two versions of a semolina cake--one with eggs and one without.  For the vegan one, she said she'd use yogurt as an egg substitute.  Then she realized that yogurt might fall into the same category as eggs--an animal product.  I looked up vegan semolina and found this on the website ONE ARAB VEGAN:

http://www.onearabvegan.com/2012/08/vegan-basbousa-semolina-cake/

I'm not trying to be difficult.  I just believe that vegan dishes--even cakes--can be just as good as ones with animal products, and because I think they're much kinder to animals and the environment, I no longer say, "Oh, don't worry about me."  I encourage friends and restaurants to try vegan.

This evening I have a book on how to tie scarves, something my friend really wants, and I have a bag full of scarves to try out the "recipes."  But I'd better have what she really wants at the bottom of the bag so the vegan-related items won't be cast aside.

I'm lending her Anna Lappe's Diet for a Hot Planet.

I'm also taking her a binder of articles, and this is a good incentive for getting it in order!

The most recent addition is an article in the Style section of the San Francisco Chronicle on Sakara Life and its founders Daielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle.  They started a plant-based diet for beauty's sake and saw such good results that they made it a business venture in New York four years ago.  Now they're expanding their vegan-meal deliverying service to the Bay Area.

Another new-to-me venture is one reported back in February, "Restaurateur Ravi De Rossi to Give a Vegan Makeover to His 15 Restaurants & Bars."

https://www.clearlyveg.com/blog/2016/02/11/restaurateur-ravi-derossi-give-vegan-makeover-his-15-restaurants-bars

Others:

Vegetables take center stage from the Spring 2016 issue of VIA.

Bill Gates' 2013 article "Future of Food."

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Future-of-Food

Truth of Drought's "Save Water, Eat Plants!  Join the Movement" (for restaurant owners)

"Is your cheese killing the planet?" by Lisa Hymans

Jerry Brown saying "If you ask me, I think you should be eating veggie burgers:  June 9, 2015.

"What exactly does 'cage free' mean:' by Tara Duggan April 27, 2016

"More People Want Vegan Food in Restaurants" by Kathy Freston, September 17, 2015

"Is anything safe to eat?"  Tara Duggan, December 27, 2015  (Names seafood, meat and dairy & even some nuts, grains, legumes, and fruit).  The good news she reports  is that the UN has designated 2016 the International Year of Pulses:  lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans and black-eyed peas, which the U.N. wants to promote as good for human health, global food security, and the environment.

http://www.fao.org/resources/infographics/infographics-details/en/c/414726/

I'd better stop now so I can arrive on time with this wealth of food stuff--not to mention the scarves.