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Jan 26, 2018

How a Meatless Town in California Made Turning 100 No Big Deal

Pastor Bill Elder turned 101 years old this month and is finally starting to take it easy -- though it wasn't exactly by choice.

Eat
Jan 26, 2018

The Vegan Race Wars: How the Mainstream Ignores Vegans of Color

Search the phrase "vegan person" on Shutterstock, and it will return 486 pages of results that would insinuate all vegans live a life among lavish spreads of ripe fruits and crisp vegetables, eating bowls of perfectly dressed salad, and basking their lithe bodies under an abundance of sunlight while donning perfectly bleached smiles.

Entertainment
Jan 26, 2018

Where Are All the Vegetarian TV Shows?

Not long after Michael Symon and his sous-chef lugged half a veal carcass across Kitchen Stadium and Cat Cora cleaved the head off a barracuda with two hands in Iron Chef America's title sequence, the Chairman unveiled the day's secret ingredient: broccoli.

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Jan 25, 2018

Is Lab-Grown Meat Vegetarian? A Philosophical Debate.

A future where meat is no longer murder -- but still, definitely, meat -- might be closer than most of us realize.

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Jan 24, 2018

The Secret Ways Scientists Are Altering Your Vegetables

All hail the Sunion, a sweet onion newly arriving at supermarkets in 2018 bearing an almost unfathomable promise: No matter how finely you chop it, no matter how stale the air is in your kitchen, no matter what names it calls you (kidding), it will never make you cry.

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Jan 23, 2018

Are Cantaloupe Burgers the Future of Meat?

The best way I've found to describe chef Will Horowitz's mystifying cantaloupe burger is by using a Star Wars analogy: Imagine you're at the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine and the barkeep informs you that it's binka burger night.

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Jan 22, 2018

Meatless Week: Exploring the Thriving, Misunderstood World of Animal-Free Eating

Over the years, we've been as guilty as any food-and-drink outlet of dispatching overzealous praise to the orthodoxy of meat.