Vegan living in Paris (and other fun places)
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Sunday Recipe: Mint Green Smoothie
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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Ayurvedic Vegetarian Cooking Class
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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Krishna-Bhavan Vegetarian Tamil Cuisine
Although it is no London, there are plenty of Indian restaurants in Paris. My favorite has to be Krishna Bhavan, located in the Little Jaffna neighborhood between Gare du Nord and La Chapelle which is home to the city’s Tamil population. It is said that Tamils consider serving food as a service to humanity, and…
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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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Sunday Recipe: Raw Ranch
If you are thinking about eating more raw veggies, dipping crudités is a great place to start. But of course some of the most popular dipping delights are creamy and cow-milk based. A great alternative for almost any creamy sauce can be made from nuts and seeds: like today’s recipe which is based on cashew nuts, which are a…
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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 Morocco
I just had a short vacation in Morocco, visiting Marrakesh and Essaouira, and I found it very accommodating for the vegan traveller. I even think eating raw here would be quite easy. I didn’t try though, as I wanted to satisfy my lifelong desire to eat couscous in Maroc… and satisfy it I did! I…
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