Archive for March, 2008

Tomorrow: Buddha Hut Grand Opening

Don’t forget! Tomorrow is the last day of the Grand Opening at Buddha Hut, Worcester’s newest all-vegan Chinese restaurant. You’ll get 10% off your order and some free pound cake. I’ll be going there with a bunch of people for dinner at 7. See you there! Check out the Facebook event.

March 30, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Buddha Hut, Restaurants & Businesses  No Comments

Spring Worcester Vegan Challenge

Mike just posted a challenge to all the vegetarians in Worcester: Hand out at least one leaflet about factory-farming to a student before the end of the spring semester. I’m in. Are you in? Just last fall semester, Mike Benedetti, Duck Osborne and I gave out a kilo-leaflet (that’s 1,000 leaflets) at 5 of the [...]

March 28, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach  One Comment

Vegan Strip Bar in Portland Oregon For Sale

In the style section of today’s New York Times there’s an article on Casa Diablo, a vegan strip club in Portland, Oregon: The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore. FYI there aren’t any nudie-pictures in the article but there are on their myspace page. From the New York Times: TWO things that you can find a lot [...]

March 27, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Misc, News, Restaurants & Businesses  29 Comments

Potlucks as Moral Support for Vegetarians

The Colombian–a paper in Washington state–published an interesting article about vegetarian potlucks: Potlucks supply moral support for local vegetarians. There are vegan potlucks in Worcester pretty regularly. (In fact, there was one today that I missed!) But for people who aren’t yet confident cooks, there’s also a monthly vegan meet-up that brings new vegetarians, veg [...]

March 27, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Events, Misc, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

Soba Noodle Stir Fry [Video]

My friend Eileen is applying for a job teaching vegan cooking lessons in New York City as a part of the Cancer Project. As part of her application she recorded this video of herself making some soba noodle stir fry. The ingredients and a recipe are below. In Worcester you can definitely find all of [...]

March 25, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Restaurants & Businesses, The Living Earth, Vegetarian Recipes  One Comment

Buddha Hut 10% Discount All Week

I recently posted a long-winded review of Buddha Hut, the new all-vegan Chinese restaurant in Worcester. I mentioned that there’ll be 10% taken off your order during the Grand Opening on Monday, March 31. But rumor has it that all of this week Buddha Hut is offering 10% off your order and some free pound [...]

March 24, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Buddha Hut, Restaurants & Businesses  No Comments

Stone Soup Pizza Taste Off

Yesterday was a blast! The Stone Soup community center on 4 King Street had a Pizza Taste-Off fund raiser. There were dozens of pizzas from local pizzerias and people from the community. I even entered a couple of pizzas myself. Each person got a couple of tickets to use as votes for the best pizza. [...]

March 23, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Events  One Comment

New All-Veg Chinese Restaurant Opens on Chandler Street

Woah! There’s a new vegan Chinese restaurant opening in Worcester! Buddha Hut has great food, a quaint atmosphere, it’s inexpensive, and it’s in a pretty good location. Definitely worth a visit! Buddha Hut 415 Chandler Street phone: 508-459-0367 Monday-Thursday: 11am – 9pm Friday-Saturday: 11am-10pm Closed Sundays My Review With vegetarian mock-meat entrГ©es like kung pao [...]

March 22, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Buddha Hut, More Veg Options, Restaurants & Businesses  9 Comments

Dunkin’ Donuts to Start Offering Soymilk?

SuperVegan just blogged about a Dunkin’ Donuts down in NYC adding soymilk. I only recently started drinking coffee, but this is exciting! Looks like they might be testing the market before they launch it nationally. Andrea from SuperVegan says that Dunkin’ Donuts CEO Jon Luther has offered to add soymilk to some locations based on [...]

March 20, 2008   Posted in: More Veg Options, Restaurants & Businesses  No Comments

Vegan Cooking on Snow Ghost Community Show

Have you seen the Snow Ghost Community Show? It’s totally weird. Nothing compares to it. The episode that aired this past weekend featured two vegans sharing some homemade dishes and vegan cooking. Rachel (of Unapologetic Optimist fame) and Allison brought along some some tasty-looking vegan goodies and talked about vegan cooking with hosts Mike Benedetti [...]

March 18, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Veg Advocacy, Vegetarian Recipes  One Comment