Just came across an interesting book "No Animal Food" by Rupert H. Wheldon.

This is your standard this is why you shouldn't use animal products and here are some recipes type of thing. Lots of number on agricultural production, how animals are treated, the increase in disease with the increase in meat consumption, nutrition advice and the like. Also ( Read more... )

So other than catching up with friends, laughing at sock puppets, singing along to smutty songs and watching some creepy theatre in a Masonic Lodge I managed to check out a couple of the fine eateries of Edinburgh recently...

The Baked Potato Shop (56 Cockburn Street, just off the Royal Mail)
Baked spuds are a UK staple and on more than one occasion ( Read more... )

For those who aren't aware, I currently live in the area of Greenwich (South-East London). You may have heard about it from Greenwich Mean Time and the home of the Prime Meridian. It's also home to Greenwich Park which is home to lots of lovely waterfowl, squirrels, deer, the Observatory and the Planetarium. There is also numerous other things to ( Read more... )

I spent a good proportion of yesterday covered in acrylic wool, glue and paint ( Read more... )

Dear Govinda's Hare Krishna Restaraunt in Northbridge ( Read more... )

So it was prolificdiarist  's birthday yesterday. To honor the fact she has lived yet another glorious year she organised a vegan cake crawl with C and myself. It's a bit like a pub crawl but instead of going to different pubs and drinking, you go to different places to eat vegan cake...

The afternoon started at Beatroot in Soho. Beatroot are a small cafe that ( Read more... )

The great thing about the London veg scene is that due to numbers and support you can have all those quirky little niche things that you wouldn't get elsewhere. So there is a lesbian vegetarian cafe, a vegan restaurant on a bus, a big rocking festival, pubs that serve vegan society approved beer on tap, a veg cyclist group (that has been meeting ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the London Vegan Festival. It was a busy, crowded, insane day filled with friends, laughter, food and fun ( Read more... )

Under normal circumstances I would have to say that I do not like bus transportation. For long distance travel trains will do nicely, thank you very much.

But tonight I wasn't going anywhere- other than to dinner. This ment going on a bus. An old route master from 1967 to be precise. You know one of those old, red double decker buses you can just ( Read more... )

I spent four nights in Berlin recently, two before IVU and two afterwards. This gave me an excuse to check out four different vegan places to eat for dinner...

Yo-yo Foodworld (Gärtnerstraße 27)
A friend of
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