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September 2006—Issue #34
Vegetarian News, Food & More!
Brought to you by VegNews Magazine
**Inside the September+October Fabulous Food Edition
**VegNews on MySpace
**Recipe this Month: Vegan Chocolate Mousse
**Fall Vegetarian Events
**Get Your Calcium
**Your Say: One Fateful Encounter
**Win it: Essence of Ahurani Body Spa Basket
We thank you for your interest in VegNews, America's premier vegetarian lifestyle magazine. The popular VegNewsletter arrives in your e-mailbox just once a month and is filled with vegetarian news, tidbits, recipes, products, activist alerts, reviews and more. It's the perfect accompaniment to a VegNews subscription.
Our SEPT+OCT FABULOUS FOOD ISSUE is available on our website and newsstands everywhere, and you will eat it right up. Here's a peek inside:
Everyday Dining:
20 casual restaurants that won’t break the bank
The Scoop on Sugar:
Bone up on the sweet stuff
Tips from the Top:
Veg chefs dish their delicious home-cooking secrets
Taste Test
Chocolate soymilk
Culture
Def Leopard's Phil Collen
VegEscapes
Montreal, the “Paris of North America”
... All the goods you're used to, including the latest vegetarian news, reviews, new products, health advice, hard-hitting features, celebrity buzz, and so much more. You know what they say: you are what you read.
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Hot damn are we amazed by the amount of friends we've accrued since joining MySpace, the most visited website on the Internet. Since we put up our page back in March, we've added more than 2,000 friends. Find tons of progressive groups and people (including a slew of vegan and vegetarian pages) on this social networking phenomenon.
We just redesigned our page, so stop by and drop us a message!
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Smooth and velvety silken tofu stands in perfectly for dairy products in desserts. Try Maribeth Abram's recipe below, excerpted from her newly released cookbook Tofu-1-2-3.
For kids, it’s simply pudding, but for adults, it’s exquisite mousse—especially when spiked with almond liqueur.
Serves 6
1 (12-ounce) package firm or extra-firm silken tofu (1-1/2 cups)
1 cup dairy-free chocolate chips, melted
1/3 cup pure maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon almond liqueur or 1/4 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
1. Melt chocolate chips in a double-boiler, stirring constantly to prevent burning, or in the microwave oven on the defrost setting for approximately 3 minutes, stopping to stir at least once.
2. Put the tofu in a food processor and blend until completely smooth, about 2 minutes. Add the melted chocolate chips, maple syrup, vanilla, and almond liqueur or extract, if using. Blend until smooth.
3. Transfer to six serving bowls or glasses, cover the top of each with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.
Per Serving: 0mg cholesterol, 234 calories, 10g fat, 30g carbohydrate, 5g protein
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VegNews is sponsoring several shows this Fall and will be at the events to promote the magazine. We'd love to meet you, so do stop by the VegNews' booth to say hello. We'll even be giving away free tote bags with every subscription!
World Vegetarian Day (San Francisco)
September 30 + October 1
Charlottesville VegFest (Charlottesville)
September 30
Strength of Many (Los Angeles)
October 6–8
Green Festival (DC)
October 14–15
Boston Food Festival (Boston)
October 21
Green Festival (San Francisco)
November 10–12
Here are a few of our other favorite Fall happenings:
For those up North, EarthSave Canada is organizing A Taste of Health in Vancouver come September 30 and October 1. A spacious exhibition hall in the lovely Croation Cultural Center will host 50 exhibition tables and 24 non-profit tables. The main focus will be eating lower on the food chain and making other informed choices.
Observe World Farm Animals Day, which takes place on Gandhi's birthday, October 2. You can visit Farm Animal Reform Movement's events directory to find out if anything's shaking in your area.
So you've quit the dairy, and you don't know quite where to turn for your calcium.. No worries—you aren't alone. We are told so often that we can only get this vital nutrient from milk and other animal-derived products, that we can easily forget all the other, better ways of stocking up. The following plant-based (and delicious) foods have more than 100 milligrams of calcium per serving:
Collards
Dried Figs
Fortified Orange Juice
Fortified Soymilk
Mustard Greens
Navy Beans
Tofu
Turnip Greens
White Beans
But you didn't really need another excuse to eat lots of yummy vegan food, now did you?
Last month, we asked, "Who or what inspired you to go veg?" We received an overwhelming number of thoughtful responses, and thank you all for contributing them. Our winner, Heather Galaxy, took the prize with her compelling story. She'll receive a Greenridge Herbals Prize Package, brimming with luxurious lotions and potions. Here's what Heather had to say.
"Ten years ago, I was traveling from Chicago to Fargo, ND, to visit a friend. At the Chicago depot, I briefly made eye contact with a girl getting on another bus. Hours later, in Minneapolis, there was a layover. I was sitting there waiting when suddenly that same girl sat down next to me. Our paths had crisscrossed with the buses. I found out she was a 16-year-old vegan running away from her abusive father to live with her aunt in northern Minnesota. I had been vegetarian for five years and had thought about switching, but I worried it might be too hard. But I thought to myself, "If this girl who has been through so much can do it, I have no excuse." I don't remember her name or face, but she changed my life and I want to thank her. It's been ten years since I went vegan, and I can't imagine living any other way."
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One lucky winner will receive an Essence of Ahurani Body Spa Basket, which includes bath tea, a salt scrub and soy lotion! Simply tell us the following:
 What's the best way to convince others that vegetarianism will change their lives for the better?
Email giveaway@vegnews.com with your answer by October 10, and we'll include it in the next VegNewsletter. Don't forget to include your name and address, and please limit your response to 150 words.
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