Vegan living in Paris (and other fun places)
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Sunday Recipe: Cardamom Rose Coconut Date Delights
Raw sweets are often based on coconut, date and nuts for good reason: it’s a delicious combination. I’m crazy about cardamom and rose so I like to keep these around for a sweet treat and to accompany a nice cup of tea. They are best served nice and cold. I recommend Perl’Amande raw almond butter.…
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Vegan Paris Picnic Club – Sunday June 14 2009
***This picnic has already taken place*** Let’s get together for a vegan potluck picnic at le Jardin du Luxembourg [6ème] on June 14th at 12h00. Vegans and anyone who wants to bring a vegan dish are welcome to get together and celebrate the good weather. We’ll meet at the grassy area where you can actually…
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Kitchen: Vegetarian Restaurant and Juice Bar
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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Tasty, Affordable Edamame Located!
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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Vegan Paris Picnic Club – Sun. May 24 2009
***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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Vegan Eco tourism in Italy
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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Veggie Pride in Lyon, May 16
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: April 30
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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Map of Vegetarian Restaurants in Paris
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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French Hemp: Veganize It!
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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