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Breaking news: a new vegetarian restaurant has opened in Paris. Kitchen is from the same owner as Bob’s Juice Bar and has a lot in common. They are both easy-going veg breakfast and lunch places with interesting options for Vegans. Among cool décor and communal tables, you can enjoy the daily soup, a great green [...]

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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 [...]

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***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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Vegan Paris Dinner Club is for vegans to get together and meet other vegans and have a nice vegan meal. April 30th at 8 pm, we’ll be holding our next meeting, at La Victoire Supreme du Coeur. It’s a vegan restaurant which is centrally located at 27-31, rue du Bourg-Tibourg 75004 Paris (M° Hôtel-de-Ville) Tél. 01 [...]

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It’s always good to know where your nearest vegetarian restaurant is. So I put together this little map. Click on the ‘knife and fork’ symbols for restaurant details.

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For those who don’t believe that vegans can possibly be getting enough protein, one easy answer is hemp, which is 33% protein. Add to that the essential fatty acids and vitamin E and you have a very important food. Hemp seeds are nice eaten by the spoonful, generously sprinkled on salads, added to smoothies or [...]

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A green smoothie is a fruit smoothie with lots of fresh greens added to it. I think they are delicious and are a great way to add even more greens to your diet. There are loads of great recipe combinations available online and whole books written on the subject. My fave is a recipe my [...]

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A friend invited me to a vegetarian cooking class at her yoga school: Centre Sivananda de Yoga Vedanta. This 3-hour class (held in French) actually began with a one hour lecture on aryurvedic principles. The instructor ‘om’-ed and chanted beautifully and had a saint-like aura. I found her approach really interesting and often inspiring and [...]

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