Lunching at Live Organic Food Bar
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 10.23.06
High tech tomatoes, mysterious milk, supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff or is it going to eat us? - painted on bathroom wall at Live.
Pizza with a pressed buckwheat crust and red pepper hemp "cheese". "Sushi" made from soy. Pumpkin Gnocci. "Raw"violi. We had lunch at Toronto's Live Organic Food Bar, where most of the menu items are raw and all are vegan. The menu runs for pages; There are dozens of drinks and smoothies; the wine is organic. To top it off, the design of the place is clever, cheerful and bright. We had a tasting assortment of completely raw foods, including the pizza and sushi; it was wonderful. It is rated as one of the best restaurants of any kind in town, and we can see why- you don't have to be vegan to have a good time and a great meal here. read ::Now Magazine's review
"shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables, they probably get jet-lagged, just like people"- on the other bathroom wall at Live.
I can never understand why vegans would want to eat something that's not unlike cheese. I mean, if you're not going to eat an animal product, shouldn't you also not eat things that look like animal products?
And, no, it's not at all like a good cheese, so non-vegans aren't being fooled. It is very much, however, like those detestable Kraft singles.
"I mean, if you're not going to eat an animal product, shouldn't you also not eat things that look like animal products?"
I've heard that one before.
It depends: If you don't eat animal products because it disgusts you, then yeah, you probably don't eat substitutes..
But if you don't eat them for purely health/environmental/animal welfare reasons, but have nothing against the taste (like myself, f.ex.), then why couldn't you eat mock meat and soy cheese or whatever?