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I think a related myth is that all us vegetarians like to eat is frightening health food, like lentil "meatloaf" or soy-cheese sandwiches. I'm working hard to dispell this myth over at Herbivoracious.com. Vegetarian food can be just as beautiful, delicious, satisfyingly healthy or pleasingly unhealthy as the formerly-walking/flying/swimming varieties.

That's hilarious! I just finished reading The Nasty Bits by him last week. The notes at the end, where he admits that he's a tool sometimes make it go down a lot easier :)!

Here is another way to do it with a double crispy crust, based partly on a different book - The Improvisational Cook by Sally Schneider .

I freaking love sesame seeds.

Seattle, baby! Farmer's Markets, Big John's, PCC, Whole Foods, all manner of great specialty shops, bakeries, you name it. Great eating town.

Michael Natkin
The Herbivoracious Blog

There's a recipe for homemade ice cream stabilized with gelatin at this link:

http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/homemade.html

I've also read that you can use guar gum, xanthan gum, and other similar thickeners/stabilizers.. they'll all help to absorb excess water in the mixes and keep them from forming crystals and help the ice cream last a lot longer in the freezer without getting too hard and losing texture or flavor

Good tips!! I made the mistake of only freezing my bowl for 6 hours and not chilling by ice cream mix and it never froze...I just ended up making chocolate mousse with it instead.

As many know, it's not that meat doesn't taste good, it's that it's FLESH. Some people are not into eating FLESH, considering it a revolting practice. Human flesh is supposedly divine when it's roasted up, why aren't we eating that? It's just exactly the same thing. Tastebuds are very easily entertained by flavor - all junk food being a case in point. And how then, can vegetarians not judge meat-eaters? Respect and unconditional love over-rides judgement among the educated.

sloppy, unfortunately the *sshole comments are not abnormal. This is actually a very civilized discussion here with a lot of respect.

And Gordon Ramsey is well known for his disdain of vegetarians (as is Bourdain) and has taken great pleasure in tricking vegetarians into consuming animal products. What I don't get is he donates money for the domestic abuse as his mother was battered but doesn't understand how disrespectful, controlling, deceptive and abusive his own actions are.

But GR is hardly the only one. There's tales all over the net of meat eaters taking glee over having put one over on vegetarians. And then there are the ones who write into advice columns for help on how to turn their girlfriends to meat and ideas on how to sneak meat in so she'll find out how much she really does like it.

Other advice column questions regard how selfish brides are who would even consider not serving meat for their guests and the evil vegan bosses who will be throwing an office party that won't have meat in the spread which can possibly be anything but a nightmare and are they still obligated to go...?

Heck, there was even the Miss Manners question from the couple who were so upset to find out via the church gossip the couple whose company they so enjoyed a few weeks prior were ::whisper, whisper:: VEGANS! Which meant they'd been tricked into eating vegan cake and they don't like soy!

Excellent article and, as someone who has never eaten meat, I agree with pretty much everything in it except that I don't know bacon tastes good, only that it smells good. I love the closing paragraph too. Classic.

Hopefully the couple of *sshole comments that were made on this thread were in jest. If not, they go a long way in proving his point (if wunami is serious he/she must be absolutely insufferable as I can only imagine the other ways that selfishness and spite could manifest itself).