Compassionate Cuisine Quotes

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

I'm doing my bit to encourage people to try vegan by making vegan food affordable and accessible and absolutely delicious.

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

I was raised Southern, where every meal had meat on table, but I don't eat that way in life. I've been experimenting with a lot of vegetarian and vegan food.

Being vegetarian makes me feel healthy.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to.

There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

Some vegetarians and vegans may object to in vitro meat, because they don't see the need for meat at all. That's fine for them, and of course they are free to remain vegetarians and vegans and choose not to eat in vitro meat.

I have been cooking vegan recipes for a long time, long before the release of my first cookbook, because in the rubbish old days of scraping by on mismanaged, delayed and suspended benefits, meat and dairy products were often just too expensive, in contrast to their kinder counterparts.

What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

I'm a vegan and London's great for vegans.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

There's no such thing as a vegetarian.

My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

I try to eat mostly vegan.

Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.