Subject: Vegetarianism

• Another Healthy Chief Makes Headlines

  January 29, 2008

• Best Vegetarian Sushi

  October 19, 2000

• Healthy Cheating

  January 11, 2001

• Color Full

  March 22, 2001

• Best Lunch Buffet

  October 18, 2001

• Best Surprisingly Vegetarian-Friendly Restaurant

  October 18, 2001

• Best Place to Take a Strict Vegan

  October 18, 2001

• Running Diary: Check Please

  So I decided to keep a running diary of KCPT's new show Check, Please! Here's what happened over the 23-minute show.7:31: Drinking a beer, sitting in front of the television -- now this is the life. The theme music is a little too elevator but it's over soon enough and here's the show. Damn, it's not in hi-definition. I actually wonder if this is on purpose. As any anybody who's ever watched Lou Dobbs on CNN HD knows, the extra detail can be frightening. Food is hard enough to film, so it's prob

  January 16, 2009

• Best Vegetarian Dining

  October 18, 2001

• The Choy Luck Club

  September 19, 2002

• Best Place for a Vegan to Take a Meat-Loving Date

  October 17, 2002

• Best Vegan Bar Food

  October 17, 2002

• Best Vegetarian "Meat" Market

  October 17, 2002

• Best Vegetarian Dish

  October 7, 2004

• Best Vegetarian Meal Not on the Menu

  October 7, 2004

• Now Open: Pizza Fusion

  Organic pizza has finally arrived in Leawood. Pizza Fusion is a chain that's semi-big on the coasts and really big into organic food and green thinking. It opened Monday at 4800 West 135th, in the same shopping center as Mandarinism.Owner Ted Kramm says he and his wife were "looking for something environmentally friendly" and found it with Pizza Fusion. The Florida-based chain claims its menu is 75 percent organic and its been voted as one of the top 10 pizzeria chains by PETA. All of its energy

  March 4, 2009

• Veggie Stew

  March 10, 2005

• Today's the day to stop eating meat

  Today is the Great American Meatout.Developed and promoted by the Farm Animal Rights Movement, the meatout celebrates its 25th year by encouraging people to go vegetarian for environmental and ethical reasons. Activities around the country include dinners, feed-ins, food samplings and information tables -- but none are happening in Kansas City. The only activities I could find were on the KU Campus in Lawrence, where the members of Animal Outreach of Kansas plan to hand out fliers.It doesn't rea

  March 20, 2009

• At Café Seed, Ericka Mingo can make converts out of carnivores

  April 9, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 4/9

  Apparently in Russia, Passover is a time of matzoh crackers in pillow cases. [Kansas City with a Russian Accent]Midtown has lost several businesses in the past year but losing Midtown Miscreant hurts the most. Fortunately, he's just moving, not totally leaving town. [Midtown Miscreant]Some teenage vegetarians are really not vegetarians but just using it as an excuse to hide eating disorders. [Time]Bringing home the bacon has much older connotations than referring to money. [Scientific Blogging]

  April 9, 2009

• Your Goose, Cooked

  December 25, 2008

• Dinner at the Blue Koi

  August 28, 2008

• Cheese Nuts

  When you leave Kansas City and marry a former child star 16 years your junior, there’s only one thing that can save you.

  April 26, 2007

• Hit the Deck

  This weekend, escape to Zoo York city.

  August 11, 2005

• Ask the Expert

  Bryan Kest comes in peace.

  March 10, 2005

• East of Eden

  The critic has a mild conversion in the basement of Unity Temple.

  September 30, 2004

• Where's the Beef?

  Rancher-turned-vegan Howard Lyman urges barbecue-loving Kansas Citians to stop "stuffin' it" down their throats.

  February 27, 2003

• True Dat

  A Run-act play starring the Simmons brothers, Russell and the Rev.

  October 24, 2002

• Vegan Heaven

  Udipi Café may be a vegetarian paradise, but its server could be a little more godly.

  September 19, 2002

• Could It Be ... Seitan?

  Chef Richard Ng spices up bland meat substitutes.

  June 6, 2002

• Viva Lost Vegans!

  The Bluebird Bistro sends veggies and carnies into the heights of ecstasy.

  July 12, 2001

• Throw Food, Not Bombs

  Food Not Bombs peacefully feeds the hungry, then lets loose with the leftovers.

  November 23, 2000

• Pizza Fusion celebrates Earth Week

  Pizza Fusion's motto is "saving the Earth one pizza at a time," which the environmentally conscious chain is trying to accomplish by opening all over the Earth. There are even locations in the less-than-eco-friendly Saudi Arabia. (I suggest they stay away from Dubai all together.) Back in the good ol' green USA, the paint is barely dry on its Leawood location at 4800 West 135th Street. But that's not preventing it from going all out for Earth Week, with five full days of festivities and prizes l

  April 17, 2009

• Claire Askew for Generation V

  When Claire Askew was a freshman in high school, she made a decision that's had a profound affect on the rest of her life -- she decided to give up meat. Six months after her initial decision she went further and became a vegan, a transition she describes as a "natural step." Askew, who just graduated from Shawnee Mission South High School, said that at first many parts of the diet were difficult, especially for a person her age. So being a writer, she turned her experiences into Generation V: T

  June 15, 2009

• Falling off the vegetarian wagon

  ​Attached to the debate over concentrated animal feeding operations and conditions at slaughterhouses is the growing trend of reduced-meat or meat-free diets. We've once again reach the point in the cycle where a vegetarian diet is being advocated from a moral viewpoint about sustainability and doing as little harm as possible to the environment and our fellow creatures. Beth Mendenhall, a senior at Kansas State University, makes that point in a recent editorial in the K-State Collegian: Bacon

  September 3, 2009