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Vegetables Rock!: A Complete Guide for Teenage Vegetarians: A Cookbook - Softcover

Pierson, Stephanie

 
9780553379242: Vegetables Rock!: A Complete Guide for Teenage Vegetarians: A Cookbook
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0553379240 ISBN 13: 9780553379242
Verlag: Bantam, 1999

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If you're confused about going veggie, here is the perfect resource for basic nutrition information, great tips, a helpful Q&A, and recipes for vegetarian meals even nonvegetarians will love!

Vegetarianism can help the environment, raise your consciousness, and make a cow very happy.  But for teenage vegetarians--and perplexed parents--there seem to be more questions than answers: What can I eat? How do I know I'm getting enough protein and vitamins? What's a lacto-ovo? Does all veggie food taste like cardboard? Vegetables Rock! answers these questions and more on what going vegetarian is really all about, including--

How vegetarians help save the planet
A primer on the history and values of vegetarianism, from veganism to macrobiotics
The lowdown on foods containing hidden animal products
Tips for braving the perils of cafeteria dining
What to say to meat eaters who give you a hard time
Survival strategies from successful vegetarian teens
What to eat in restaurants, diners, and fast-food places
Lists of veggie-friendly colleges, restaurants, websites, and mail-order sources
60 delicious recipes--all made with ingredients from your local supermarket!

Choosing vegetarianism is the first big step.  Vegetables Rock! is the next.

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Stephanie Pierson is a fashion and beauty journalist and author. She is the author of What to Do When No One Has a Clue, The Brisket Book, and Males, Nails, Sample Sales. She has written magazine articles for lifestyle, design, and food for the New York Times, New York magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Metropolitan Home, and more.

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If you're confused about going veggie, here is the perfect resource for basic nutrition information, great tips, a helpful Q&A, and recipes for vegetarian meals even nonvegetarians will love!

Vegetarianism can help the environment, raise your consciousness, and make a cow very happy.  But for teenage vegetarians--and perplexed parents--there seem to be more questions than answers: What can I eat? How do I know I'm getting enough protein and vitamins? What's a lacto-ovo? Does all veggie food taste like cardboard? Vegetables Rock! answers these questions and more on what going vegetarian is really all about, including--

How vegetarians help save the planet
A primer on the history and values of vegetarianism, from veganism to macrobiotics
The lowdown on foods containing hidden animal products
Tips for braving the perils of cafeteria dining
What to say to meat eaters who give you a hard time
Survival strategies from successful vegetarian teens
What to eat in restaurants, diners, and fast-food places
Lists of veggie-friendly colleges, restaurants, websites, and mail-order sources
60 delicious recipes--all made with ingredients from your local supermarket!

Choosing vegetarianism is the first big step.  Vegetables Rock! is the next.

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To be a successful vegetarian in this somewhat schizophrenic world, you're going to have to wrestle with a couple of inconsistencies and puzzles.  One: if it's clear beyond a shadow of a doubt how much healthier you'll be if you eat lots of fruits and vegetables and pretty much stay away from meat, how come so many people still choose to eat meat? How come there are approximately six thousand steak houses in America today? And what's with the poll commissioned by the National Cancer Institute in 1991 that showed only 8 percent of Americans thought vegetables were important? (Once you figure that out, maybe you can figure out why my husband still smokes.)

Two: if you've decided not to eat meat and you don't want to compensate by eating lots of junk food, how come everyone seems to make it so hard to do this? Ever try to find hummus or tabouli or whole wheat pita or a really fresh fruit salad at the neighborhood deli? Ever go to a Major League Baseball or National Basketball Association game and ask the guy selling red hots if he has tofu dogs instead? Ever try to find anything nonfried, let alone nonmeat at the food court in a mall?

And one more thing: if foods that are filled with fat are so bad for you, how come they taste so good? "I jog, I watch what I eat, I meditate," says a California dietician.  "And when I go to the movies I always get a big tub of popcorn, the kind that was popped in that awful coconut oil and I eat the whole thing." A nutritionist told me about the time Dr.  Nathan Pritikin, the guru of low-fat, went to a university nutrition conference and proudly offered everyone his newest find: a nonchocolate, nonfat, nondairy chocolate cake that had fewer calories than a small grapefruit.  While everyone else politely nibbled this tasteless wonder, one lone dietician politely declined.  When asked why, she explained that she would rather have one gorgeous, rich, gooey, incredibly decadent piece of real chocolate cake once a year than have to settle for a perfectly engineered, perfectly awful mutation you could eat all the time.  Even the dieticians can't stay on their diets!

To make it all work, you need to be realistic, you need to be flexible, you need to be creative, you need to be tolerant, you need to be well-informed, you need to read labels, and you need to believe that you can survive in vegetarian-challenged places like ballparks, rib joints, airplanes, fast-food courts, and school cafeterias, even in New Hampshire.

Dilemma of a Hungry, Health-Conscious Vegan

"I can't eat the cookies I like, even though they're all natural because 'natural' means they have eggs and milk and butter in them.  But, as a vegan, I can eat the cookies made with chemicals and additives and preservatives and artificial ingredients and fake colorings.  What's wrong with this picture?"
--Phoebe Connell


Some survival tips.  First, school cafeterias.  The good news is that junior high schools, high schools, and colleges are trying harder than ever.  They know there's a lot of you, and they are offering vegetarian options.  Colleges are better than high schools.  Nine out of ten offer a complete vegetarian menu; and many offer vegan alternatives, sometimes with interesting results.  According to Karen Dougherty, executive dietician at Yale, "We have definitely noticed students are eating down the food chain--meat-eaters eat vegetarian a couple of times per week and vegetarians regularly eat the vegan option." Colleen Reid, at Brown University, offers one reason why.  "I've found that many people who would normally eat meat, don't at college, because dining hall food is just not very good, especially the meat.  This causes some people to become vegetarians and others to only eat meat at home or when going out to dinner."

Some Tips for Making It Easier

--A seventeen-year-old vegan who occasionally misses meat and who is not all that crazy about vegetables, likes to sprinkle A.1. sauce on his steamed broccoli, carrots, etc.

--To make grapefruit taste a little sweeter, vegetarian chef Ken Haedrich spreads raspberry preserves on a grapefruit half.

--Make one monthly trip to a food co-op or health food store and stock up.  Mail-order stuff.

--If the vegetarian entrée in your college cafeteria is unacceptable, make nachos.  Just put cheese on chips, microwave, and add salsa (from Saisha Uma-Michelle Grayson).

--In a pinch? Get plain rice in the cafeteria and sprinkle on tamari sauce (from Saisha Uma-Michelle Grayson).

--Freeze green grapes.  They taste sweet and icy.

--Peanut butter turns an apple or banana from a boring fruit to a surprisingly delicious snack.

--Puree cottage cheese in a food processor.  Add some herbs, then use as a spread on toasted bagels.


The bad news for many younger vegetarian teens, who have no time to eat and zero interest in following the Food Pyramid ("let's see .  .  .  let me get my two daily servings of legumes .  .  ."), vegetarian food is most likely to be a bagel or French fries or slice of pizza.  By college, the food is likely to be better, and their diet is likely to be, also.  According to a survey done by the Vegetarian Journal, many schools are actively looking to add more nonmeat options.  Some universities are on the verge of creating vegetarian dining halls.  And in some remarkably enlightened colleges, more than half the student body is vegetarian, which makes for some great vegetarian food and some unusual complaints.  "The only prejudice I've found," writes a Sarah Lawrence freshman where half the student body is vegetarian, "comes from the carnivores who feel we've dominated food services.  For example, our school serves very little red meat and will have meals once in a while with no meat options." A sophomore at an Ivy League college says, "It's actually easier to be a vegetarian at school than at home.  Here there's always tofu and beans and rice and baked potatoes and salads."

Most Popular Dishes in College Cafeterias

1.  Pasta with meatless sauces
2.  Vegetarian lasagna
3.  Pizza
4.  Mexican specialties
5.  Vegetable stir-fries

--From a National Restaurant Association survey


Some schools get rave reviews.  "Some of the best vegetarian food I've ever had was at college," says a Tufts University alumna, who explains that because of the enormous influence of the health and nutrition center at Tufts, an inordinate amount of energy and resources have been spent on creating healthy and delicious meals for undergraduate and graduate students.  And some schools make you work a little harder.  A vegan freshman at Columbia University says that putting together a good lunch in the cafeteria is like everything else at a large university--you have to learn the drill.  "After a few months," she says, "I learned you get vegetables from the grill, go over to the salad bar and get the rice, go back to the vegetarian table and add the tofu, then take it all back to the grill guys and ask them to sauté it."

Of course, one of the best ways to find out whether a college is sympathetic to a vegetarian lifestyle and dedicated to presenting an appealing vegetarian cuisine is word of mouth.  Ask your friends who go there.  And don't expect that because a college is in a...

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Verlag
Bantam
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0553379240
ISBN 13 
9780553379242
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Buchpark GmbH
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