Category: France
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Vegan Kids at Paris Schools
Sending vegan children to French school, whether private or public, does present some difficulties. To give you an idea of how complicated it can be, here is a summary of my experiences in the three different schools my children have attended. Firstly, they were at the Steiner/Waldorf school just outside Paris. Part of the Steiner/Waldorf…
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Vegan Paris Dinner Club: March 31
Vegan Paris Dinner Club is for vegans to get together and meet other vegans and have a nice vegan meal. March 31st at 7 pm, we’ll be holding our first meeting, at Le Potager du Marais. It’s an organic vegetarian restaurant that is very vegan-friendly. It is centrally located at 22, Rue Rambuteau, 75003 Paris, France…
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Vivre Autrement Expo
This Friday through Monday, the Vivre Autrement expo will be taking place in the Parc Floral de Paris. The entrance fee is 7€, which includes access to all of the workshops. The workshops this year include: how to sprout, making “caviar” from sprouted grains, argan oil recipes, gardening, essential oils in cuisine, baby massage, toy making…
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Blue Elephant
Finding truly vegetarian Thai food is something of an art due to their beloved and ubiquitous nam pla fish sauce: I had never eaten Thai in Paris until a couple of nights ago when a tip-off led me to Blue Elephant down by Bastille. It didn’t work out… You certainly can’t accuse them of underdoing…
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Vegan Paris Dinner Club
A couple of people have mentioned to me that they wish there was a group for vegans to get together and eat. I haven’t come across a group like this, so I was thinking it might be fun to start one up! I always love eating with a fellow vegan… but frankly it hasn’t happened…
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Vegan Baking in Paris
France is famous for its baked goods, as am I! But they do things a bit differently here than back in the USA, particularly their very precise flour classification system. Here are some key things I have learned about shopping for your baking supplies. Wheat flour is numbered based on how much of the original…
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A Vegan’s Guide to Lebanese Restaurants in Paris
I have seen frustrated vegetarians online who wish that they could come to Paris and enjoy real Parisian food and not ethnic food. I think there is one ethnic food in particular which may not be French but which is very Parisian, and that is Lebanese. For over twenty years, after the fall of the…
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ChocoLatitudes
There are some French food experiences that a vegan is never going to have, but there are some that we can really enjoy and one of them is drinking a delicious chocolat chaud. This week I went to a place that does a vegan hot chocolate that’s also organic and really, really good: the shop…
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Biscru: Raw Crackers Made in France
Until this week I hadn’t found any raw food products that were “Fabriqué en France”, but at the Vivez Nature expo I came across Biscru. Biscru are truly raw, organic, living crackers. Buckwheat and flaxseed based, these salty or sweet crackers are dehydrated at low temperatures (40ºC). Biscru has an environmentally friendly approach: for example, their…
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Organic Expo: Vivez Nature Paris
It’s organic expo time again! Starting tomorrow Feb. 6 – 9 at the Grande Halle de la Villette, Parc de la Villette is the Vivez Nature Paris. Entry fee is 5€ or free with an invitation that you can print off their website. The list of exhibitors is long and I’m sure there will be some…
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