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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Kitchen: Vegetarian Restaurant and Juice Bar
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 3ème, American, Chocolate, Juice, Organic, Raw, Restaurant, Review, Soup on June 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Tasty, Affordable Edamame Located!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vegan Paris Dinner Club: April 30
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Map of Vegetarian Restaurants in Paris
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Map on April 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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.
French Hemp: Veganize It!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 4ème, Groceries, Organic, Raw, Recipe on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Sunday Recipe: Mint Green Smoothie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Raw, Recipe, Sunday on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Ayurvedic Vegetarian Cooking Class
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 10ème, Cooking class, Indian, Organic on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
