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The latest cookbook by Mollie Katzen, author of vegetarian bibles The Moosewood Cookbookand The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, includes recipes for spinach lasagna and vegetable tofu stir fry with orange ginger glaze. It also includes a recipe for beef stew. No, not "beef" stew, in which some soy-based protein substitute is dressed and spiced to look (and sort of taste) like meat. Beef stew. With real beef. From a cow.
Just a silly article, drumming up some free PR, talking about a silly woman....anything for a buck (money, that is). Why people who eat meat are so obsessed with vegetarianism or simply "not eating meat" is just plain weird.
Who cares? Either you eat meat or you don't. Beyond that it's all about selling something - on everyone's part.
The latest cookbook by Mollie Katzen, author of vegetarian bibles The Moosewood Cookbookand The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, includes recipes for spinach lasagna and vegetable tofu stir fry with orange ginger glaze. It also includes a recipe for beef stew. No, not "beef" stew, in which some soy-based protein substitute is dressed and spiced to look (and sort of taste) like meat. Beef stew. With real beef. From a cow.
If there was no yellow star next to my name, I'd use much stronger language in this response, but I'll just say -- so what? Why is this "news"?
Katzen isn't a vegetarian and the cookbook isn't, either. Are you saying that someone who used to write vegetarian cookbooks can always write ONLY vegetarian cookbooks?
Pretty silly article, and I really don't see what the big deal is .....
Last edited by Green Irish Eyes; 01-05-2010 at 06:15 PM..
Who cares? I certainly don't. If I ate meat I wouldn't want to buy a meat-based cookbook written by a vegetarian (for the obvious reason that vegetarians don't eat meat, and I think cookbooks should be written by those who can taste what they're cooking...), but obviously Katzen isn't currently a vegetarian.
Where the article really gets it wrong is assuming that all vegetarians are vegetarians for the same reason. Even the ethical reasons for vegetarianism are varied.
It's also a strange article in that it seems to assume that all, or at least most, vegetarians are secretly eating meat on the side or have deep cravings for meat. I don't. If I did then I'd go ahead and eat it and just not be a vegetarian. There are plenty of people who eat mostly vegetarian diets but still eat some meat now and then. They're still free to write vegetarian cookbooks, and if they're good I'd buy them. And if a butcher who happens to also write an excellent vegetarian cookbook I'd buy that, too.
If Katzen was a former PETA spokesman or something this might be news. She wasn't, so the bulk of the article -- an outdated, weird, uninformed rant about former vegetarians who now eat meat -- doesn't have any relevance.
If I were to eat meat I'd go for the free-range, small-farm, local stuff, too.
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