Guest guest Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 December 28, 2002 (Last Saturday of every month) Time: 6:00 p.m. Host: Winnie Site: Vanessa Restaurant 2042 University Ave (@ Shattuck) Berkeley, CA (510) 486-8328 Type: Veg and non-veg restaurant Cost: Prix Fixe vegan dinner ($12 per plate includes tax+tip) RSVP to [ *82 (925) 944-4743 ] by Tuesday, Dec 24. BAVRT is NOT a drop-in dinner event. If you have problems emailing me, please use http://veginfo.com/contact/general As always, you come under your own liability for all events. Pass the word to your friends. This is not an exclusive net-folks only event. This is not an activist group or singles event. Note that if you plan to attend this dinner, you can order only vegetarian dishes, even if the restaurant serves other stuff. If you have suggestions for future sites, please e-mail them to . If you want to volunteer host a BAVRT dinner, please let me know!! ===================================================================== Contents #1) What is in a word? #2) This month's trek #3) Last month's trek #4) Hosting #5) News Section #6) NON-BAVRT related stuff (feel free to skip) --- #1) What is in a word? Have you considered in the abstract, what is " safe " and what is " unsafe? " Granted these words are antonyms, but what else? This is not just an idle exercise in linguistics, but something of paramount importance. Consider the field of GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) or genetically modified food. Quite a lot rides on the difference between these words, safe and unsafe. Some folks seem to use risk analysis to determine whether GMO is safe, while others use pecautionary principles to determine what is unsafe. So which way do you lean? Do you believe (to paraphrase a common quote) " Safe, unless proven otherwise " [risk analysis?] or " Better be safe than sorry " [precaution?] Depending on your choice, you may come up with totally different interpretations of safe/unsafe. Do a search on Internet to see how scientists, PR folks, officials or even countries have differed sharply on this subject, if interested. [ If you are familiar with Godel's theorem, do you think it has any part to play in this? ] --- #2) This month's trek Winne graciously agreed to host a BAVRT dinner again! This time, Vanessa restaurant in Berkeley, is her choice of restaurant. She has arranged an all vegan dinner for us. Here is the menu for this month's dinner, all for an incredibly cheap and affordable price of $12 per plate (tax and tip included). All this without fake meat analogues :-) - Fried sweet potato appetizer - Thai salad with tofu - Lemon grass tofu - Mongolian tofu - Mixed Vegetables with soy sauce - Curry Potatoes - Garlic Eggplant - Brown rice - Agar Agar (vegan jello, made from plants) with coconut milk dessert It is great that Winnie was able to convince a veg/non-veg restaurant but vegetarian friendly, to come up with a totally vegan dinner! (hint, hint for future hosts). Make sure to RSVP early for this dinner. Have a fun vegan dinner with kindred souls and get ready to say goodbye to 2002 and welcome 2003. --- #3) Last month's trek http://www.veginfo.com/bavrt/restaurantlist.html Cheryl hosted last month's dinner at Star of Siam in Soquel. Though the restaurant was veg/non-veg, they have a veg menu and did not have any problem in making anything vegan (leave off the shrimp paste etc that is used even in veg dishes in most Thai restaurants). The food was very good. 15 people RSVPed and showed up - also there was one cancellation. It was a nice and cozy dinner. The restaurant looked really popular. --- #4) Hosting You may remember that Winnie, our host for this month, hosted the successful 100th BAVRT dinner. Cheryl, our host for last month also had hosted a very successful BAVRT dinner in the past. Why am I mentioning all this? Folks, BAVRT depends on hosts (read what you want into it). If interested in volunteering to host a BAVRT dinner, which can be fun, please step forward! :-) BAVRT - What is involved in hosting a dinner? http://www.veginfo.com/bavrt/hosting.html --- #5) News Section ( If you come across news items, veg or otherwise, in the mainstream media that may be of potential interest to BAVRT members, please forward me the URL. ) a) Iceland invents energy-from-water machine http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2352853.stm b) 'GM seed spread' warning http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2321443.stm c) Agribusiness goes organic http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/13/MN242010.DTL --- #6) NON-BAVRT related stuff (feel free to skip) a) McDonald's Is Warning Customers Away! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/ns/ftecontent.jsp?file=/news/mcdonalds/mcdo\ nalds.jsp b) Coffee May Lower Women's Gallstone Risk http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/nm/20021204/hl_nm/coffee_gallston\ es_dc_1 c) Corrupt audio discs, aka " Copy-Protected CDs " http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/quick/ ===================================================================== Das Devaraj email - -- Phone *82 (925) 944-4743 --- Are you on BAVRT (Bay Area Vegetarian Restaurant Trek) mailing list? 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