SF Examiner interview with veg author Patti Breitman

[Guest guest]

Author makes vegetarian eating easy

By: JULIANA BUNIM

July 10, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO — Patti Breitman, the co-author of " How to Eat Like a Vegetarian,

Even If You Never Want to Be One " will give a cooking demo Aug. 4 at the San

Francisco Public Library.

 

What's an easy way for people to incorporate more vegetables into their diets?

Even when you're eating in a restaurant, you can ask for your pasta

primavera-style, and it will come with all kinds of veggies in the sauce. Or,

order a side of veggies or a small salad and top your baked potato with them.

 

Do people always need to follow recipes to cook a satisfying vegetarian meal?

Always? More often it's never! Any grain, potato or pasta can be the center of a

meal. Top them with steamed veggies and any sauce — even just soy sauce or

seasoned rice vinegar — and there's a fast, delicious and health-promoting meal.

 

What is your favorite recipe in the book? The Life Saving, Time Saving, No

Recipe Dinner Formula. It's a chart and you can pick anything from columns one,

two and three to create a scrumptious meal.

 

What vegetarian meal do you recommend if cooking for a nonvegetarian? Probably

vegan lasagna. Most of the people I know who are not vegetarian love this one

and ask for the recipe.

 

What prompted you to write the book? I wanted to debunk the myth that it's hard

work to eat well. The book shares the shortcuts, secrets, recipes and no-recipe

methods of longtime vegetarians.

 

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Aug. 4 event details at http://www.sfvs.org/events.php