Diet and Nutrition

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Vegan Nutballs, Meat Sales Down, and Timeless Coffee Brings Vegan Goodness to Oakland

​ Happy day after Christmas! As is the tradition, once again my mom made my favorite Christmas cookies veganized. You too can make my favorite vegan cookies veganized with this recipe! They are called "nut balls." Shut up, that's what they're called. See Also: - Vegan Sofganiyot, Eggnog Cupcak ... More >>

Vegansaurus Just Launched a Sassy App for Bay Area Vegan Eating

Vegansaurus, the popular vegan lifestyle blog run by (full disclosure) SFoodie contributors Laura Beck and Megan Rascal and SF Weekly's fabulous copy editor, Meave, has teamed up with Escape Apps to produce a pocket guide to the best vegan food in the Bay Area. The new app offers detailed reviews of ... More >>

There's Arsenic in Your Rice, The Foie Gras Ban Stands, and Starbucks Says, "Screw You, Soy Lovers!"

​A vegan bakery has been on the horizon for a while now; Picnic Bakery is planning on opening a shop in Upper Haight. Excitement abounds! Laura and Meave at Vegansaurus got a chance to sample some of their desserts and they are totally in a tizzy about them on Vegansaurus. Apparently, you can star ... More >>

Usher Eats Vegan, Mickey D's Opens Veg Location, and Tater Tot Casserole Looks Lovely and Amazing!

​Guys, guys, guys--biggest news ever! R&B superstar Usher is eating vegan! And he wants the Biebs to go vegan too! I effing love Usher like whoa so I'm super pleased. Hopefully he will make the whole leap once he gets a little further into veganhood. And then JB will go vegan and make a line of ve ... More >>

3-D Meat, Cookies and Cream Pops, and Lady Gaga Only Wears the Expensive Animals!

​ OK, guys, let's just dive in. Lady Gaga has been running around in fur coats lately even though she once said she'd never touch the stuff. I only half care, because like she says herself, it's not much different than the crocodile and lamb she wears otherwise. BUT THEN! She said this: I have t ... More >>

Meat Week, Creamsicles, and Vegan Pizza Day, Hurrah!

​ OMG VEGAN PIZZA DAY IS TOMORROW! Get excited, guys. Here's the lowdown from my beloved Laura at Vegansaurus: 1. Beretta: Deal of the Vegan Pizza Day=broccolini, onion, ginger, olives, capers, and tomatoes, delightful vegan cheese. Plus, COCKTAILS. Love, love, love! 2. Patxi's: Buy one, get one ... More >>

Patxi's Pizza Locations Go Vegan For a Day

Signs and menus at Patxi's Pizza have a helpful pronunciation guide, "say pah-cheese," but all locations of the Bay Area parlor will participate in a statewide Vegan Pizza Day on June 30. To mark the dairy-free occasion, Patxi's offers a buy one 14-inch vegan pizza, get one 14-inch extra thin vegan ... More >>

Shrimp is Killing Everything, Babycakes is Coming to San Francisco, & Vegan Caramel Invades the Oscars

​ •Let's lead with the most important news: I'm totally at the Oscars! Actually, it's even better than the Oscars because that's just some wack-ass, rigged, masturbatory television program. I'm at the Oscar Swag Bag Lounge, where celebrities come to get hella free shit for being rich. I know, it ... More >>

A Nutritious Cookie That Is Actually Awesome

​The "health" corner of the cookie market is dominated by offerings that make better paperweights than desserts. Your voracious Cook E. Monster has wasted unconscionable amounts of pocket change finding out this fact in a vain quest for guilt- (and gluten-) free sweets, but the research has finall ... More >>

New Obesity Prevention Tactic: Take Two Chard Leaves and Call Me in the Morning

​According to an article this morning in the Bay Citizen, a group of pediatricians at Oakland's Highland Hospital have begun testing out a new tactic for reducing the risk of obesity and diabetes in children: writing prescriptions for fruits and vegetables. It's just one of a number of pilot progr ... More >>

Souley Vegan Frozen Meals, Meat-Eating Environmentalists, & Etsy on Foie Gras

​• PCRM has some whack attack billboard up equating cheese with big luscious thighs and it almost makes this vegan pick up a hunk of gouda and go to town. JOKE I WILL NEVER EAT ABUSED ANIMAL MUCUS but really, knock it the fuck off, PCRM. This campaign makes vegans look like the human-hating idio ... More >>

Boozy New Year's Recipes, Shit Vegans Say, and Vegans are No Longer Freaky Freaks!

​• Make these puffy pillow pancakes for me on New Year's morning. It'll help you get over the (sexy?) shock of waking up and seeing me in your bed. How did I get in? Hide your kids! • According to U.S. News and World Report, veganism is mainstreaming and we're no longer freaky freaks! Hooray! ... More >>

Work at Google, Millions of Mashed Potato Recipes, and Party with Some Non-Human Turkeys!

​• Harvest Home Sanctuary's Toast to the Turkeys is THIS Saturday! It's not too late to come eat and drink tons, cuddle animals, and watch turkeys eat cranberries, which is totally what turkeys do best. That, and be cranky and awesome. We've got a lot in common! • So, you want to work at Goog ... More >>

McRib is McNasty, Lots of Weekend Fun, and Silk Nog is Baaaack!

​• Vegan R.D. Virginia Messina, put together a list of ten easy steps to help you go vegan. Read it in conjunction with Megan Rascal's 11 Tips for New Vegans, and you'll be vegan, or hate all vegans, in no time. And if you hate all vegans, screw you! And Happy Holidays! • Ecoterre has some cu ... More >>

Bacon Girl Comes Out With Her First Calendar

Ray Bussolari/Bacon GirlBacon Medusa, aka Miss November.​Two years ago, Bigi -- as she calls herself when engaging in Bacon Girl activities -- somehow ended up at the Cochon 555 event as the guest of a friend, despite the fact that she'd been a strict vegetarian for 13 years. "She told me it was a ... More >>

Q&A: Chef Karl Wilder Talks About Living on Food Stamps

​Karl Wilder is not your typical chef. He doesn't spend his days cooking up fantastic gourmet food -- he has taken the food stamps challenge, which means for the past month and a half, Wilder has limited himself to a budget of $1.33 per meal and struggles daily to balance nutrition and calorie ... More >>

America Keeps Getting Fatter, but We're Now Eating Less Sugar

​We hear it so often that the fact has become white noise: Close to one third of all Americans are obese, and the percentage keeps rising. Is the culprit high-fructose corn syrup? Happy Meals? Coca-Cola? Nintendo 3? According to the LA Times, Americans may be cutting down on one of those culprits ... More >>

Can't Lose Weight? It Might Be Your Plate

Precise Portions​ It's never easy to stay motivated when it comes to eating healthily, but when your dinner plate is a constant reminder, it's harder to feign ignorance or forgetfulness. Ann-Marie Stephens has just created a set of dinnerware, Precise Portions, designed to help people keep ... More >>

Top 10 Fattiest Chain Breakfasts

​Go to any breakfast chain out there and you'll probably find a meal with more fat in it than you're supposed to eat all day. You can't just order eggs anymore; your meal also comes with pancakes, hash browns, ham, sausage, bacon, and is topped off with cheese and gravy. Before each chain ca ... More >>

Undercover Animal Activists are Endangered, Shakira and Other Wolves Are Screwed

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Let's start this off with something delicious! ME! The very smart, funny, and delightful Jesse Hirsch interviewed me as part of a series profiling SFoodie bloggers. Read it, and learn all of my innermost secret ... More >>

Martha Stewart Thinks Beef Is Gross, Silk Thinks You Should Lay Off the Cow Teet

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Vegansaurus' Megan Rascal went to the live taping of Martha Stewart's vegan show. She sat front row like the baller she is, and watched Twitter cofounder, Biz Stone, and rich-bitch vegan (mean this in best way ... More >>

Obama Writes a Book, Macarons Are Trending (Again), Paula Deen Explains All

​​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The First Lady gets a book deal. According to the Washington Post, Michelle Obama just signed a contract to write a book about the White House garden and healthy eating ― an ... More >>

Cupcakes for Choice, Drinks for Dogs, and Gumbo for Mardi Gras!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Pissed about Congress-approved federal funding cuts for Planned Parenthood? I am because it's total bullshit. In response, we're doing some culinary activism in the form of a delicious bake sale at this Sunday' ... More >>

Standing Up for Bullies, Taking the Rest of the Beef Out of 'Taco Meat'

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Uh, did you know that if you live in S.F., you can get a free spay or neuter at the SFSPCA for your dog or cat during the month of February? TRUE FACT. So if any of you are running around with companion animals ... More >>

Nog-ocado, Natalie's Footwear, and Piling onto Noah's Ark

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. Over on the PPK, vegan goddess Isa Chandra Moskowitz posted a recipe for a vegan nog that includes avocado. I don't know 'bout all that but the lady is super talented so it's probably the tastiest. Try it and repo ... More >>

Non-Turkey Turkey Day, Mad Men's Pussycat, Shark Fin Creepiness

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • For 28 days concluding in November 2010, an HSUS investigator worked inside a Cal-Maine factory egg farm in Texas, and documented a bunch of scary-ass abuses. The vast majority of eggs that Americans eat come f ... More >>

Café Oliveto's Whole-Grain Pizza

John BirdsallCafe Oliveto's Napoletana, $15, with a crust made from authentic whole-wheat flour.​Thursday, November 18, 2010 Oliveto chef Paul Canales has been playing around with whole-wheat flours lately, in collaboration with Certified Foods. That's the stone mill in Woodland, northwest of ... More >>

Vegan Fashion Show Coming to San Francisco

Lady Gaga will not be in attendance​Anyone who watched the recent MTV Music Awards could be forgiven for thinking that the practice of wearing garments constructed from animal remains -- juicy-looking red meat, in the case of Lady Gaga -- is coming into style.But for those who don't like their blo ... More >>

High-Fructose Corn Syrup Seeks New Name: 'Corn Sugar'

Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Ever since Fast Food Nation went bathroom-reading bestseller, high-fructose corn syrup has left a sour taste with shoppers at or above the level of Safeway basic. Today, reports the Associated Press, the Corn Refiners Association is seeking to change that, not ... More >>

Mayor's Soft Drink Ban Isn't Really About Calories

The Upstairs Room/FlickrWouldn't you rather have a can of guava nectar?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At SFoodie's sister news blog, The Snitch, editor Joe Eskenazi ticks off the reasons Mayor Newsom's ban on sodas in vending machines on city property doesn't make sense. Newsom unleas ... More >>

Chai Cola Light, a Svelte Choice from Taylor's Tonics

​Born in Santa Cruz and now based in San Francisco, Taylor's Tonics is a company with theatrical flair and original flavor. We've previously praised the original version of Taylor's Chai Cola, loving its notes of cardamom and clove. And while "diet" drinks admittedly aren't a typical favorite ... More >>

Gracias Madre has all of the vegetables and none of the cant of its parent

Tastes So Good Straight From the Hood: Bay Area Rap Energy Drinks Pt. 1 (the Mac Dre Battle)

There is vibrant life beyond Red Bull in the energy drink market, and the Bay Area rap music scene in particular has inspired several of these beverages. In fact, two local brands offer cans inspired by the same beloved rapper, the late Mac Dre of Vallejo, whose life was tragically cut short in a ... More >>

Borneo Under a Bad Sign: Is Island Paradise Doomed to be Slashed and Burned?

Whole Foods Opens Potrero Hill "Lifestyle Store": Shopping Will Never Be The Same

Whole Foods Opens Potrero Hill "Lifestyle Store": Shopping Will Never Be The Same

SFoodie: Attention Low-Carb Freaks - Chicken Caesar Springrolls

SFoodie: Attention Low-Carb Freaks - Chicken Caesar Springrolls

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Drug Story (Part II)

Discovered by brain researchers in the early '60s and resurrected by bodybuilders in the late '80s, the semi-illict compound GHB is now marketed on the club and smart-drug circuits as a sexy wonder drug. But beware GHB's knockout punch.