Julie Hasson and Native Bowl food truck in Portland.
Cooking Channel special The Veg Edge shows vegetarians and vegans — food truck owners, chefs and restaurateurs — as adventurous, flavor-loving food people rather then the rabbit food-gnawing, red paint-on-fur-throwing, protein-deficient activists some people consider them to be.
When we first announced the show on our Facebook page, a pretty healthy debate was sparked about the merits of a meat-free lifestyle (and a cooking show dedicated to it). Here are some highlights:
Jesse Lynne: I seriously can’t wait, I’m going on 3 years of being a veg-head and i was wishing for a cooking show just for vegetarians! THANK YOU!!!!!
Nickolas A Gavalas II: Thus far the show has been very informative … not that I would completely go to a vegetarian diet, but by just adding more vegetables and some vegetarian meals to my diet has helped with blood sugar control and maintaining a healthy weight. And that’s good.
Raymond Torres: What a waste. A whole series of shows revolving around a useless endeavor. Thank God for progressive chefs like Anthony Bourdain.
Lisa Buenaventura Rice: It’s about time! I am a big fan of the Food Network and now the Cooking Channel, but get SO frustrated that the vegan/vegetarian chefs are not represented at all. PLEASE ad some vegan cooking shows! There are so many great chefs out there!
So passionate are these veggie-lovers, that one viewer wrote an open letter to Cooking Channel asking for more meatless programming.
The special is re-airing tonight at 9pm ET/ 8pm CT, and again at 1am ET.
Where do you stand on the debate? Is vegetarianism a lifestyle you choose, or are you more of a Meatless Monday fan? What about veganism — the ultimate health choice or too extreme? Should there be more cooking shows dedicated to special diets?
Chloe Coscarelli's vegan Chocolate Mousse Cups in Los Angeles.
More veg from around the web:
- Recipes from tonight’s episode: The Veg Edge
- Cooking Channel’s top vegetarian recipes
- Vegan Diet 101, from Food Network
- Meatless Mondays on Food2
- Food Network’s best healthy vegetarian recipes
- National Meatless Monday campaign
Vegetarian and vegan blogs:
- 101 Cookbooks: Heidi Swanson’s blog focused on whole, always-vegetarian-sometimes-vegan foods
- Herbivoracious: Michael Natkin’s vegetarian recipes
- Vegan Yum Yum: as implied, delish vegan vittles
- Bok Choy Bohemia: always vegetarian, always kosher, sometimes vegan
- Bitter Sweet: vegan recipes, mostly desserts
- Vegan Dad: father, blogger, vegan
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