Only 99 Cents!
This is one of the reasons I love living in Lincoln Heights. The 99 Cents Only Store on Broadway never fails to surprise me with a whole mess of vegan food and treats. I could pretty much get away with doing all of my food shopping there, save some proteins and fresh green veggies... Of course, this isn't a new concept. These guys did it once before, and did it more creatively than I do. They did this in blog form first, but then... as seems to be the fashion lately, looks like they turned the popular blog into a book.
I'm not much of a cook, so I'm all about the easy eats. If I don't have to do much more than boil water and open a package or two, I'm happy!
Speaking of bad cooking, this afternoon I Tivoed an episode of Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares that takes place in a little vegetarian restaurant that I visted in 1999, Piccolo Teatro. The place has changed hands and had a facelift, but according to this episode, itwas still struggling to make good food.
Eating vegan in Paris was tough... tougher than anywhere else I've ever traveled. Parisians like their meat. I ended up going to 4 or 5 different places during my stay there, and only really liked one or two of them. This place kinda blew because after a full interrogation about the presence of dairy in my dish, there was still some in the gravy that was poured all over my seitan steak. I spent most of that evening in the tiny little French bathroom in the tiny little French apartment we were shacked up in for the stay.
I guess Gordon Ramsey wasn't able to bail them out in the end. The place is closed and for sale. Maybe I should move there, buy the place and show them how it's done. For lunch I'll serve Malt O'Meal knockoff cereal and soymilk, apples with peanut butter, and on weekends, fried ramen. Dinner will be a little fancier.... maybe some rice stick noodles in vietnamese sweet and sour soup paste with a spoonful of garlic siracha, novelty pasta with sauce out of the jar, a Gatorade sangria, and for dessert, these AMAZING maple cookies that are 100% artificial, and taste 99% like very un-vegan glazed donuts.
Let me know when you're ready for seconds!
posted by gr at
10:42 PM
if you think eating vegan in paris was tough, oh dear. wait until you try copenhagen. one day, you'll have to ask adriana about that. : )
when we would go down to paris for the weekend, we would encounter a vegan's paradise compared to the cold sunny north.
in 2008, things have gotten better, but there are very few venues - perhaps two or three restaurants in the entire city - that understand the idea of cooking without animal products.
you heard it from a dane.
It's weird to me that in a place with so many white people there wouldn't be more vegan or veggie joints. I'm disappointed in the Western world....
-Michelle
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