Edamame are young soybeans, best eaten warm and still in the pod and often served as a bar snack in Japan. I picked up a taste for edamame in the izakaya bars of Tokyo but I haven’t found them as easy to find here in Paris… until today at the friendly local Picard. They are [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Tasty, Affordable Edamame Located!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Vegan Paris Picnic Club – Sun. May 24 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Picnic on May 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
***This picnic has already taken place!*** Vegan Paris Picnic Club is for vegans to get together and meet other vegans and have a nice vegan picnic. This month we’ll be having a potluck picnic! What’s a potluck? A communal meal to which people bring food to share. Vegan Potluck Sun. May 24 Noon Ile de [...]
Vegan Eco tourism in Italy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Holiday, Italian, Organic on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Over the Easter vacation I gave eco tourism a try in Italy with some friends at a vegetarian/vegan organic farm not far from Parma that I located with some internet detective work. Il Paradiso dei Gatti is a small, cute farm up a mountain overlooking the Taro valley surrounded by great hiking trails and full [...]
Veggie Pride in Lyon, May 16
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Everyday life on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The annual VeggiePride march will take place in Lyon on May 16. Based on their site and the materials available there, it will be a fairly militant affair with a message of animal solidarity and animal rights. Their manifesto is a quite useful summary in French of good reasons to be vegetarian/dairy-free vegetarian [although they [...]
