There’s a food trend simmering, but if you want to give it a try, you’ll have to revise your grocery list. Meat, poultry, fish? Out. Milk, cheese, eggs, dairy of any kind? Gone. Oh yes, and that bear-shaped container of honey in your cabinet? History.
Instead, you’ll be stocking up on fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, nuts and soy products, all mainstays of a vegan diet. But forget the things you’ve heard about this type of cooking being boring and tasteless. Vegan gourmet is in, and that’s no tofu baloney.
Vegan cookbooks, replete with glossy, gastro-glam pictures and sassy attitude, are sprouting like wheatgrass.
BabyCakes, a high-profile vegan bakery in New York, and other upscale vegan confection shops have propelled the vegan baking movement into the mainstream.
Ecorazzi.com, a “green” gossip Web site, just named Ellen DeGeneres, Ginnifer Goodwin, Alicia Silverstone, John Salley and Emily Deschanel the “top vegan celebrities” of 2009.