Stuff Every Vegetarian Should Know
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Ready to try a diet that’s greener, healthier, and better for the planet? Here’s an easy and approachable guide to the world of eating, cooking, and living meat-free. Featuring chapters on everything from choosing the right meat substitutes and building a complete protein to dining out and troubleshooting the “Help, I’m still hungry!” stage, this pocket-sized book’s tips and tutorials will take you from wannabe veggie to vegetarian extraordinaire. Plus sample shopping lists, health benefits of going meatless, and recipe ideas to keep you on track for a long—and healthy!—vegetarian life.
Topics include:
• How to Stock Your Shelves
• How to Make Recipes Vegetarian
• How to Make an Amazing Stir-Fry
• How to Cook Dried Beans
• 5 Great Bacon Substitutes
And more!
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Stuff Every Vegetarian Should Know - Katherine McGuire
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Introduction
Congratulations! You’ve decided to eat less meat. Whether you’re motivated by health, animal welfare, or environmental, social, or religious reasons, you’re in good company. There are hundreds of millions of happy vegetarians around the world. Welcome to the veg club!
Even though you’re in good company, you might feel a little overwhelmed. It’s hard at first to know how to cook, what to buy, or how to make your way through a culture that doesn’t always make your new dietary choice easy. For all those millions of vegetarians, you’re still outnumbered: more people eat meat than don’t.
But you’re going to gain a lot more than you’re giving up: peace of mind, new food options, health benefits, and much more. Great stuff is in store for you when you put plants on your plate.
This handy-dandy vegetarian primer will teach you how to stock your pantry, cook a few basics, and navigate social situations as a vegetarian in a meat-eating world. You’ll learn how to stay full and satisfy cravings. You’ll fall in love with unfamiliar ingredients and spices, you’ll take care of your health, and you’ll find a lot of satisfaction in living well and with compassion. Don’t worry so much about doing it right
at this point. Just focus on making good choices for yourself and your body. And trust me when I say that you’ll have fun in the process.
Let’s get this vegetarian adventure started!
Veggie Vocabulary
If you’re new to vegetarianism, chances are you’re learning about unfamiliar dishes, ingredients, and other lingo. Or you’ve heard these words, but you’re not sure what they mean. Here are some common vegetarian terms demystified.
Carnism: A term used first by social psychologist Melanie Joy, who wrote that attitudes about meat reflect unconscious social prejudice. The website Carnism.org defines it as the invisible belief system, or ideology, that conditions people to eat certain animals….Because carnism is invisible, people rarely realize that eating animals is a choice, rather than a given.
Flexitarian: A person who tries to eat vegetarian most of the time, but is flexible. This person is usually trying to reduce, but not eliminate, their meat consumption.
Freegan: Someone who won’t pay money for or otherwise financially incentivize the production of animal products, but will eat non-veg foods otherwise destined for the garbage stream. Typically, this is someone who foregrounds ecological concerns and strives for a low-waste lifestyle.
Lacto-ovo vegetarian: A person who eats dairy (lacto
), eggs (ovo
), and plants (vege
) but not animals.
Meatless Mondays: A global movement to reduce meat consumption by eating veg on Mondays. Many restaurants now offer Meatless Monday specials. Participating in this weekly practice is a great way to try delicious veggie dishes if you’re not ready to take the full plunge.
Miso: A sweet, tangy, salty, and savory fermented soybean paste. In Japan, its many varieties are appreciated like fine cheeses. Traditionally used as a soup base, it’s also great in sauces, marinades, and spreads.
Nutritional yeast: Savory, nutty, cheesy-tasting yellow flakes that you can find in the bulk aisle of natural foods stores. Some people call it nooch.
Enjoy it sprinkled onto popcorn or stirred into creamy sauces for a flavor and protein boost.
Omnivore: Someone who does not observe dietary restrictions (i.e., eats animals as well as plants). Biologically, all humans are omnivores because we’re physiologically able to obtain nutrition from animal and plant sources. Here, though, we’re talking about choice of food.
Pescatarian: Someone who does not eat land animals but consumes aquatic animals, like fish and shellfish.
Pulses: An umbrella term for a part of the legume family that includes beans, lentils, and peas. These terms refer to green peas, chickpeas, lentils…basically everything beanlike except for soybeans, which have a much higher fat content, and groundnuts (for example, peanuts).
Raw: In the context of food choices, this refers to eating only uncooked and minimally processed foods, typically for health reasons. People who eat this way aren’t necessarily vegetarians, and many consider it a fad diet. But raw restaurants usually serve lots of veg options.
Quinoa: Pronounced KEEN-wah.
A nutritious, light, and fluffy seed, originally from Peru, that cooks up like a grain. It is delicious in pilafs.
Seitan: Some people call this wheat meat.
It is the protein that holds bread dough together (aka gluten) that has been kneaded to knit the molecules together and has had the starch all washed out. As a beef stand-in, it’s savory, toothsome, and chewy—and delicious grilled, roasted, or even deep-fried.
Speciesism: An unconscious prejudice toward the rights of a particular species, most often humans, dogs, and cats. Because of this bias, we tend to think that certain animals should be protected from harms that are commonly inflicted on others. Horrified by the Yulin Dog Meat Festival but not by the thought of factory-farmed pigs being trucked to a slaughterhouse? This is speciesism at work.
Tempeh: A nutty-tasting, high-protein cultured soybean cake, pronounced TEM-pay.
Invented in Indonesia, it stars in regional dishes like gado-gado, pecel, or tahu tempe