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Native Foods
Opens 7th Café
Chef-owner Tanya Petrovna
marked the arrival of Native Foods
in Culver City with an opening
party. A large crowd came and
brimmed with enthusiasm.
The team of Jeff Nelson
(camera) and his twin-daughter
reporters, teens Nina and Randa,
attended to make a video that may
be viewed at www.VegSource.com.
Owners of renowned vegan-
eating guides based in the Los
Angeles area, www.quarrygirl.com,
and www.vegparadise.com, were Tanya Petrovna opens the
ecstatic! 7th location of Native Foods Café,
(Story on page 6) in Culver City western Los Angeles County California.
INSIDE:
ƔTipping Point? ƔDating Vegans ƔSwitzerland ƔOrganic Meat
ƔAnimal Experimentation ƔBecomingAmerican ƔRestaurant
Vegan Vegan Reviews 1
11—1, WINTER 2011
ƔNew Books ƔA Delicate Balance ƔLetters ƔNotices
THE EVENT THAT
CAN CHANGE
YOUR LIFE
OVE R FI F T Y I N FO R MATIVE & I N S PI R I N G S PE AK E R S
Caldwell Esselstyn Jr, MD Neal Barnard, MD Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Michael Greger, MD Melanie Joy, PhD, EdM T. Colin Campbell, PhD
Author of the groundbreaking President of Physicians Award winning author of Director of Public Health, Author of the thought- Author of the best-selling
book, Prevent and Reverse Committee for Responsible The Joy of Vegan Baking and Humane Society of the provoking book, Why We book, The China Study:
Heart Disease (based on his Medicine and author of the popular Vegan Table; U.S., and author of Carbophobia: Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Starting Implications for
20+ year study); inspired Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program and columnist for VegNews The Scary Truth About America’s Wear Cows; and Strategic Diet, Weight Loss & Long-
President Bill Clinton to adopt for Reversing Diabetes magazine Low-Carb Craze Action for Animals Term Health (based on the
a plant based diet (without drugs) famous study he directed)
July 5 – 9 Johnstown, PA
2011 VEGETARIAN
SUMMERFEST
37th Annual Conference of the North American Vegetarian Society
Gourmet Restaurant
The Academy of Culinary Arts
Atlantic Cape Community College
NATIVE FOODS
Opens 7th Café
“Vegan goes big time in this The first Native Foods opened For the holiday season, in ad-
trendy restaurant where everyone in Palm Springs in 1994 with a dition to hosting Thanksgiving
can enjoy comfort foods cranked staff of two. Tanya, at 34, had meals, Native Foods had been
up a few notches,” reports found her calling working in the busy preparing and shipping their
vegparadise.com, adding praise areas of health, saving animals, signature Native Wellington.
for “daily soup specials, plump the environment, and food ser- Tanya started the tradition 16
sandwiches, mountain high sal- vice—combined! A year later she years ago. It is a puff pastry filled
ads, veggie pizza, sweet potato opened a second venue in Palm with savory Native Seitan, or-
fries, creative starters, and the Desert, to be followed by Los ganic kale, sautéed portabella
best homemade seitan and tem- Angeles (Westward Village), and mushrooms, orange-glazed yams,
peh you'll ever taste.” Costa Mesa (13 miles from Dis- cranberry stuffing, and caramel-
neyland). At this point, ized onions. It’s served with shal-
in 2003, Tanya pub- lot-mushroom gravy, and serves
lished the Native Foods six to eight people. An estimated
Restaurant Cookbook to 7,000 were shipped in 2010,
share her recipes, cook- twice as many as in 2009. Indeed
ing knowledge and there has been a doubling of all
skills. The other south- sales.
ern California locations “McDonald’s has always in-
are Aliso Viejo, Tustin, spired me,” claims Tanya. Last
and as of November 15 year she took on new partners,
2010, Culver City. with a group of investors, to fur-
More are on the way ther Native Foods’ growth. An-
soon. Tanya’s success is drea McGinty, already a success-
due to the quality of her ful entrepreneur, explained how it
food and the excellent happened. “I met Tanya 10 years
staff she hires. ago. I’m from Chicago. I walked
The thought behind into her restaurant in Palm
the name Native Foods Springs, totally by accident. I did-
Located along restaurant row is “indigenous to the earth and n’t even know what a vegan res-
in the heart of cool Culver City, low on the food chain.” The taurant was. And I fell in love
this Native Foods Café glows. It menu is eclectic, multi-cultural. with the food. Over the years we
is bright, colorful and spacious, The natives depicted on a mural became really good friends and I
with warm wood, clean glass and are a jolly bunch of fruits and became a regular and introduced
gleaming tile. Customers order at vegetables ready to cavort with my family to it. Then two years
the counter, then take a number, other wholesome ingredients. ago, I said ‘Tanya, come on.
choose a table, and wait for the Tanya makes food a pleasure to Let’s go! Let’s build more of
food to be delivered. Since the eat. When not busy with the ca- these! Let’s be partners!’ and so
weather was nice, Quarrygirl and fés, she gives cooking demos and we joined up and we’re opening
friends sat at an outside table. classes, and school presentations. more restaurants. We’re really
Quarrygirl’s blog includes photos She supports and contributes to excited. And Culver City, we’re
of many menu items. events that benefit animals. just super excited about it.”
6 American Vegan 11—1, WINTER 2011
In June 2010, Ron Biskin, an Tanya her-
outside board member, left his self was on a
position as president of Wolfgang high, singing,
Puck to become the president and “ T h a n k
COO of Native Foods. Biskin ad- Heaven, I’ve
mired the Native Foods concept. gone to 7!”
“Once I tasted the food, I literally “Tonight it’s
fell in love with it. I realized this happening.
is absolutely the kind of food that It’s fun.
I want to be serving. This is tre- Culver City is
mendous and I’m really excited.” a great place
He has known Tanya for two to be. We
years. “She has great recipes, want to bring
great food, she’s a great chef, and a little fun
most importantly she has a great here, and it’s
heart. She’s a great person! And I working!”
just love working with her.” A Mom
Customers, many of whom said, “We’re at one of the
were regulars from other Native Native Foods about every single
Foods locations, described their week. We love it—all the kids are SPECIALS:
experience at the opening party vegan. It’s a great place because Mon: Classic Deli Reuben w side
as Amazing! Fabulous! Awe- they can order pizza, mac & of lemon dill potato salad
some! Sooo Good! And Tanya as “cheese”—like their friends usu- Tues: Taco Tuesday (tacos w
Inspiring! ally do at other places. We’re so side)
grateful to Tanya!”
See www.nativefoods.com for
Wed: Scorpion Burger
news, events, menus, and to place Thurs: Oklahoma Bacon Cheese
orders. Burger w side
At www.vegsource.com/video, Fri: Twister Wrap w side
Native Foods Vegan Restaurant Sat: Portobello Sausage Burger
Opens in Culver City! find out w side
which pigs Tanya likes and why.
Sun: Chicken Run Ranch
—Freya Dinshah, prepared from
various reports and sources (All ingredients totally vegan)
All photos supplied by Jeff Nelson.
Purchase Tanya’s
cookbook from AVS
on SALE: $12.95
while the current
supply lasts!
The NATIVE FOODS RESTAU-
RANT COOKBOOK: Fresh,
Fun, and Deliciously Vegan
Recipes That Will Entice and
Satisfy Vegetarians and Non-
Vegetarians Alike –Tanya
Petrovna. 2003, 328pp 7½x9”
$16.95. SALE $12.95.95.
FORKS OVER
plan that fails to address the root many of us have ever witnessed.
cause of the problem while main- Human health is at the root of
KNIVES
taining the financial position of everything: individual welfare,
those groups who profit from our economics, politics and the envi-
disease-care system. ronment. In the midst of an eco-
Fortunately, however, we live nomic recession, threats of terror- In theaters March 11 2011
in a society and in an age that ism, environmental degradation, This feature film exam-
makes the permanent suppression and political corruption, there is a ines the profound claim that
of truth impossible. And the truth strengthening ray of sunshine. most, if not all, of the so-
of health has taken flight and can The world is due some good called “diseases of affluence”
that afflict us can be con-
no longer be held hostage to the news. Fortunately, we know this trolled, or even reversed, by
powerful special interests that good news and now, more than rejecting our present menu
rule our country. We are at a tip- ever, we know we are on the right of animal-based and proc-
ping point and I believe change side of history. To all of you, I essed foods. The major
will happen far more quickly than urge you to go out and spread this storyline in the film traces
most people realize. While the news to anyone willing to listen. the personal journeys of a
opposition to plant-based nutri- I remember a few years ago feel- pair of pioneering yet under-
appreciated researchers, Dr.
tion is reaching a crescendo ing a little shy at times about my
T. Colin Campbell and Dr.
(which always happens when dietary practices, but I don’t feel Caldwell Esselstyn.
transformative change is immi- this way anymore, nor should
nent), the people and institutions you. It’s time we all join together www.ForksOverKnives.com
waging this battle are on the to bring a little sunshine into the
wrong side of history. world.
A couple of months ago, I at-
Author, Nelson Campbell,
tended a screening of a movie
that is slated for release in thea-
presently serves as Chairman of
PlantPure Holdings,
VEGAN
ters this spring. Forks Over
Knives chronicles my father’s ca-
www..plantpurefoods.com. HEALTH
reer and the inspiring stories of
others, to tell the story of plant-
In addition to developing
and selling plant-based food STUDY
based nutrition. The nearly 500 products, this company Participate in nutrition
people in attendance watched the recently completed the first research, investigating the
long-term effects of vegan
movie in rapt attention and, at the version of a short-segment diets, by any or all of these
end, jumped up in unison, turned video series summarizing Dr. ways:
toward my father seated in the Campbell’s arguments in support x Complete a questionnaire.
audience, and gave him a stand- of plant-based nutrition, posted x Provide blood and urine
ing ovation. It was a moving ex- under the “Healthy Living” section samples for lab testing—
perience, not just because of my of the website fee charged.
www.plantpurefoods.com/videos. x Donate tax-deductible
feelings for my father, but be-
funding.
cause of the enthusiasm I saw
within the audience for the em- Michael Klaper, MD, Director
Institute of Nutrition
powering message of plant-based Education & Research
nutrition. 1601 N Sepulveda Blvd #342
Manhattan Beach CA 90266
Human health is at the root of everything: individual www.veganhealthstudy.org
welfare, economics, politics, and the environment.
The metaphor of hidden exploitation echoes in farms, whose babies, freedom, lives, and inherent
eerie ways. UBS finances mountaintop removal coal purposes are systematically stolen by farmers who
mining in West Virginia, Novartis promotes the profit from providing foods of questionable benefit.
spread of toxic chemicals and GMO agriculture in The beckoning path to health, sustainability, com-
other countries, and Nestlé is well-known to be one passion for animals, and world peace is through per-
of the largest purveyors of junk food in the world. sistent grassroots vegan education and the conse-
Swiss companies do in other countries what they quent abolition of animal agriculture. Cruelty and
would never dare attempt in Switzerland. Addition- environmental damage is endemic to imprisoning
ally, while Switzerland produces expensive cheese animals for food, and global markets always under-
and meats that have the aura of being sustainable mine local efforts by providing mass-produced ani-
and "humane" for its wealthy class and for export, it mal foods to meet the demand for inexpensive meat
imports huge amounts of inexpensive factory- and dairy products. It should be more clear than
farmed meat from Germany, France, eastern ever: reducing demand for all animal-sourced
Europe, Africa, and South America. Because Swiss foods—whether small-scale or factory-farmed—is
animal foods are viewed as humanely produced the key to attaining environmental, social, physical,
(there are laws banning battery cages, for exam- and spiritual health.
ple), animal food consumption is among the high-
est in the world. And dairy in particular is sacro- Written by Will Tuttle, PhD, author of The World
sanct. There is not one vegan restaurant in the entire Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social
country. The inherent cruelty in the dairy/veal in- Harmony. A professional pianist, composer, and
dustry is well hidden, and rivers of blood and misery teacher, he resides in Healdsburg CA when not on
flow behind the clean curtain of Swiss tidiness. The the road. Visit www.worldpeacediet.org.
Swiss have, not surprisingly, among the highest
rates of osteoporosis, heart disease, and diabetes in Photos provided by author.
the world, and obesity rates are climbing quickly. Left page Will Tuttle by chalet.
Veganism is still in its infancy in Switzerland be-
What have these four men dis- the lives of gladiators, these war- based diet. I live on beans, leg-
covered that other men, riors are sometimes referred to as umes, vegetables, fruits.”
hordearii—literally, "barley men.” Steve Wynn, who operates
women, and children have yet
The starch barley provided the several Las Vegas hotels, made it
to learn? bulk of the nutrients for their re- mandatory over the summer of
The gladiator-like strength markably strong muscles and 2010 that every restaurant at his
gained by adopting a vegan diet. bones, and for their endurance to Vegas properties provides several
That’s right, extraordinary win the ultimate sport of life and vegan options. Although Mr.
strength from plant-food. The death. A Timewatch documentary Wynn has not declared that he
men who centuries ago risked is available to view. (Please note personally follows an animal-
their lives for entertainment in that the archeologists’ bias about product-free diet, his support has
public arenas of the Roman Em- starches “making people fat” lead resulted in an extensive vegan
pire were vegan. The remains of to the wrong conclusion that the menu at his restaurants.
60 Roman gladiators who fought gladiators’ diet of barley and John Mackey, founder of
and died more than 1,800 years beans made them obese]. Whole Foods Market®, began fol-
ago in Ephesus (what is now lowing a vegan diet six years ago.
The Four Food Warriors Two years ago he gave up the
Western Turkey) were recently
On September 21 2010, Wolf
found in a 200-square-foot plot olive oil and shed 20 pounds of
Blitzer of CNN asked Bill Clin-
along the road that led from the excess body fat. His efforts to
ton about his weight loss of 24
city center to the Temple of Arte- encourage customers to pass by
pounds. “How do you lose so
mis. Isotopic analysis of their the high-profit meats, dairy, and
much weight? What kind of diet
bones for calcium, strontium, and processed foods for whole plant
did you go on?” Our 42nd Presi-
zinc determined that the world’s foods has been accompanied by
dent answered, “The short answer
fiercest fighting men were ve- rising profits for the market and
is I went on essentially a plant-
gans. In the historical accounts of its stockholders.
16 American Vegan 11—1, WINTER 2011 Photo: Bill Clinton
Electrochris, Dreamstime
Once famous for biting off his The Pendulum Now Swings
opponent Evander Holyfield's toward the McDougall Diet
right ear during a fight in Las Ve- These four food warriors have
gas, Mike Tyson has changed to a announced the rebirth of dietary
vegan diet and lost 130 pounds sanity by their actions and words.
over the past year. In the seventies and eighties there
All of these powerful men was a trend for giving up meat
have made a dietary choice that and dairy products and eating
enhances their strength, personal more vegetables and fruits. At
appearance, and vitality. that time I had several books on
Power by Plants the national best selling lists (The
Making the change to a starch- McDougall Plan and The
based diet and forgoing animal- McDougall Program: Twelve
based foods, along with the other Days to Dynamic Health being
malnourishments found in the the top two). I was an important
Western diet, results in many im- author at Penguin Books USA
mediate changes: Inc. up until the early 1990s.
poultry, fish, and dairy, with Then there was a renewal of the
x Effortless loss of unattractive
plants cures BO and halitosis. Atkins Diet. I was approached by
body fat. Studies show over-
x Sexual vitality is enhanced by my book editor and told that it
weight people are less likely to
the renewed strength and en- was time for me to change my
succeed in business and other
durance gained from a vegan writing style. “Dr. McDougall,
areas of life.
diet. Circulation to the penis is your high carbohydrate books are
x Improvement in the circulation
improved encouraging erectile of the eighties. The new diets will
affecting the performance of
function. A trimmer, fitter body focus on meat and other high-
every organ and tissue in the
with a pleasant odor is noticea- protein foods. We would like you
body. Clearer thinking and en-
bly more attractive. to make this change in your fu-
hanced agility are easily recog-
x Respect from others follows. ture books.” My response was,
nizable benefits.
Most people know about the “You must be crazy. Essentially
x Endurance is improved by the
serious adverse health and en- all of the respected science to
same foods that power mara-
vironmental consequences of date says that a diet high in ani-
thon and triathlon winners
eating animal-derived foods. mal products will give you heart
(carbohydrates).
They are just too weak to make disease, cancer, diabetes, and
x Reduction in the risk of crip-
appropriate changes them- obesity. For the past seventy
pling diseases, like heart at-
selves, at least for right now. years researchers have clearly
tacks, strokes, and cancers.
Powerful men, women, and shown that a diet of starches,
Nothing zaps power like pa-
children “who do the right vegetables, and fruits is right for
ralysis or heart failure.
thing” gain the admiration of people.” “Besides,” I told my edi-
x Improvement in personal ap-
others. tor, “do you think I write these
pearance. After weight loss,
“better looks” are most appar- books just to make money?” As
ent from a person’s complex- John A. McDougall MD, offers
history shows, Penguin Books
ion, which turns from purplish- was right about the direction that
life-changing
gray to pink as the flow of live-in programs in diet books were headed at that
blood to the skin improves. Santa Rosa CA, time. But the pendulum is now
Dark-skinned people’s com-
and conducts edu- swinging back towards the truth
cational seminars. about the powers bestowed upon
plexions gain a similar glow. He is a nationally
x Pleasant body odor. Smell is an best-selling author.
those who follow a healthy vegan
important form of communica- diet.
tion. Replacing the repugnant o
substances that make up meat, www.drmcdougall.com
Chef Comments on Chef Alex Stratta of ALEX, a who live with their physical and men-
vastly popular, beautiful high-end tal well-being in mind.
Steve Wynn Mandate restaurant in the most sophisticated “Mr. Wynn has clearly commit-
hotel in Las Vegas, Wynn, was ted to exposing his audience to
asked how he felt about the directive healthier eating options. What makes
from hotelier Steve Wynn, that all it unique is that he has enlisted us to
the restaurants (about 20) in his ho- create dishes while still demonstrat-
tels, Wynn and Encore, should have ing our own cooking sensibilities
vegan options on the menu. and personalities. It is clear that
“The vegan movement is not to be more and more guests are looking
overlooked….Freshness and respect- for options and we have, naturally,
ing the seasons have always taken a adapted to their needs. It is clear to
major role in my cooking; it was just a me that the vegan revolution has
matter of adjusting my focus….Along come of age.”
with our shared marketing belief of Two of Alex Stratta’s recipes can
“give the customer what they want” it be found in Great Chefs Cook Vegan
is my belief that it is our responsibility by Linda Long, available through
Alex Stratta Photo: Linda Long to participate in an option for those AVS.
The Delicious TV crew has also produced “Totally Vegetarian”, a cooking show on nationwide public
television (PBS), and “VegEZ”, (www.delicioustv.libsyn.com )—a vegan recipe podcast closing in on four million
views. VegEZ and Totally Vegetarian are both hosted by self-taught chef and author, Toni Fiore (Totally Vegetarian:
Easy, Fast, Comforting Cooking for Every Kind of Vegetarian, DaCapo Press, 2008). The recipe podcast VegEZ is
featured on iTunes and can also be seen on YouTube. There are over 120 fabulous vegan recipes online, on the new
broadband TV, 75-recipe companion iPhone and iPad app, and on eBooks at www.delicioustv.com.
BIRTH
Like to Cook? Clint Merrick Dinshah was born
December 7 2010, in Vineland
NJ, weight 6 lb.15 oz., length
VEGAN 19½”. Clint’s mother, Anne,
COOKING CLASS wrote the Dating Vegans articles
appearing in American Vegan.
Listings Continue reading the series that
www.americanvegan.org led to her relationship with
Clint’s father.
Comic
DVD REVIEW: prominent experts. The film’s doc- international film festivals. Narra-
tors advocate a plant-food-centered tion, in a pleasant Australian accent,
approach to modern medicine as is by Dr. Ardrianna Scheibner.
they attest to diet’s role in overcom- In the tradition of A Diet for A
ing disease, and explain how animal New America, this film encourages a
consumption adversely affects the new generation to make the changes
whole body. needed to maintain the delicate bal-
Environmental damage from ance of our world, and their well-
animal-based agriculture begins with being. It deserves broad attention.
extensive deforestation that disrupts Now in distribution worldwide,
the water cycle, and culminates in the film’s trailer may be seen, and
concentrated manure outputs that the full-length film is available for
pollute air, water, and crops. Fishing online viewing 24/7. View it with
by large trawlers leaves ocean floors friends. Arrange a screening—
barren; raising carnivorous farmed following required procedure.
fish is not the answer. www.adelicatebalance.tv
A Delicate Balance is praised for A Delicate Balance is persuasive, A DELICATE BALANCE: The
examining factors neglected in Al although a little long for average Truth—Aaron Scheibner. Highly
Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. attention spans. Aaron Scheibner, regarded researchers disclose dan-
Intelligent decisions about per- the young Australian independent gers to health and the environment
sonal health would have good conse- film maker, is to be congratulated on from consuming animals. DVD
quences for the environment, say having the film accepted at several 2008, 84 minutes $24.95, 3/$50.00.
Order from AVS.
28 American Vegan 11—1, WINTER 2011
Book Review:
WHITEWASH:
The Disturbing Truth About
Cow’s Milk and Your Health
—Joseph Keon, PhD, 2010, 333pp 6x9¾” $19.95.
Dragonfly Neo-V
Vegan restaurant celebrated
its ten-year anniversary in June 2010.
Flanking Dragonfly on the opposite end of the building is its offspring, On the Fly, which opened in Novem-
ber 2008 to serve urban-minded people conveniently and economically. Columbus does not have many sim-
ple counters offering affordable, well-prepared, fresh-that-day, hand-held street-food. People come for great
empanadas, sandwiches, chili, or salad, not so much because it fills a vegan niche, but because it is good
food. Homemade bread, pita, falafel, and veggie dishes are popular with the professors and graduate stu-
dents. Whereas Dragonfly is a special occasion dining experience, On the Fly is perfect for everyday in to-
day’s economy, offering beer and a good sandwich.
See AVS’ website: www.americanvegan.org. Check for updates throughout the year.
Send to: American Vegan Society, PO Box 369, Malaga NJ 08328 Sign-up for E-Alerts online at
www.americanvegan.org
Ph : 856-694-2887 or Fax: 856-694-2288
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