Guest guest Posted April 12, 2002 Report Share Posted April 12, 2002 April 27, 2002 (Last Saturday of every month) Time: 6:00 p.m. Host: Ann Site: The BayLeaf Café 520 Ramona Street Palo Alto, CA (650) 321 7466 Type: vegetarian (almost all vegan) restaurant Cost: Preset vegan menu $15 per person (including tax+tip) - 24 people max RSVP to [ *82 (925) 944-4743 ] by Tuesday, Apr 23. BAVRT is NOT a drop-in dinner event. 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) EarthDay #2) This month's trek #3) Hosting a BAVRT dinner #4) Last month's trek #5) News Section #6) NON-BAVRT related stuff (feel free to skip) --- #1) EarthDay http://www.earthday.org/ For many vegetarians and vegans, environment and its conservation is a big issue. Earthday that falls on Apr 22, is the day that all people pay homage to our mother, the earth. This year, the biggest earthday celebration in Northern California that is normally held in Concord, will not be happen. Apparently lack of funds is the main issue. Look out out for other events in the bay area and in other places at the above website. --- #2) This month's trek Ann agreed to host this month's restaurant trek. We are headed to the all vegetarian Bayleaf Café in Palo Alto. In fact, it is supposed to be all vegan, except for the diary ice cream stuff, according to the owner. This is a brand new restaurant and it is very nice that we get to go there right in their start-up stage. The preset vegan menu for our group is given below. Appetizer - one potato puff Soup - small curried carrot or spicy spinach soup Salad - half baby green salad with lemon tahini dressing Entree - one slice of zucchini bruschetta - half mighty carrot roll The restaurant's web site ( http://www.thebayleafcafe.com/ ) describes in detail these items. In some cases, there are even photos of the items on their website. That is a very nice touch! The cost for this dinner will be $15 per person ($12 plus tax and tip). If you order other things above and beyond the above preset menu (like drinks, desserts etc), it will be extra. The size of the restaurant limits the number of RSVPs this month to 24. Please remember to RSVP early. --- #3) Hosting a BAVRT dinner Folks, BAVRT is looking for volunteers all around the bay area. See " What is involved in hosting a dinner? " at http://www.veginfo.com/bavrt/hosting.html for details. I have started putting pictures of some previous hosts (with their permission) at http://www.veginfo.com/bavrt/hosts.html If you hosted a BAVRT dinner and want to have your picture along with these illustrious BAVRT members, contact me. If you never hosted a BAVRT dinner, what are you waiting for? ;-) --- #4) Last month's trek http://www.veginfo.com/bavrt/restaurantlist.html Joyce, our host for last month arranged the monthly BAVRT dinner at Sawa restaurant in San Francisco. Was it popular or what? At one point, we had something like 27 people on the waiting list! To start off, received more than 20 RSVPs within 10 hours of the mailing, essentially filling all available spots. The rest of folks were put on a waiting list and allocated spots on a first-in, first-out basis, if any cancellation happened. One person decided to be a no-show :-( This not only prevented somebody from the waiting list who could have attended, but also caused everybody to pay more as last month was a prix fix dinner. Thank goodness for the super majority of BAVRT members who thoughtfully take time to cancel, if they cannot attend a dinner. Things got off to a slightly rocky start as we found that the restaurant had " specially " made all food using butter :-( Since this was clearly not acceptable, they set aside all that food and made new food from the scratch. This meant that we had to wait for a while to get our food. Most people gave very high marks for the food when it arrived. After dinner, we sauntered over to the new Herbivore restaurant for desserts, which was only a few doors away. Turned out to be yet another fun BAVRT dinner. [ Coming back to my car after desserts, found that somebody had smashed the passenger side window of my car :-( Nothing was stolen from the car. It was parked on Fell street, less than half a block from Divisadero. Checked with other folks who attended and nobody reported any acts of vandalism against their cars. I tried to call-in and report this act of vandalism to SF police [they have a special number for that]. After being on hold for more than half-hour on multiple days, gave up this attempt. I mentioned this to the owner and he said his car was broken into three times (different parts of SF) in the last two months. There must be a lot of vandalism in SF these days. ] --- #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) Lion Defies Nature by Adopting Oryx - Again http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/nm/20020401/od_nm/lion_dc_2 " A lioness who has already defied nature twice this year by adopting a baby oryx -- an antelope that Africa's top predator usually likes to eat -- has done it again, adopting a third oryx. " [ The first step to be a vegan lion? :-) ] b) Navy wants to use deadly whale sonar http://search.newschoice.com/ArchiveDisplay.asp?story=d:\index\newsarchives\ang\\ angtr\fpg\20020409\1451684_t1as509.txt & source=www%2Eoaklandtribune%2Ecom & puid=55\ 7 & paper=Oakland+Tribune+Online c) Human Version of 'Mad Cow' on Rise http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28712-2002Mar27.html " The number of British cases of the rare and fatal human equivalent of " mad cow disease " is doubling every three years, " d) Disease of deer and elk spreads http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%7E495711,00.html " The nightmare scenario feared by state officials came true Friday with news that a fatal brain disease of deer and elk has jumped the Continental Divide to the game-rich Western Slope. " e) Burger King Introduces a Veggie Burger http://money.cnn.com/2002/03/14/news/companies/burgerking_veggie/index.htm f) " Terminate Terminator, " Farmers Groups Demand http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & cid=655 & ncid=655 & e=3 & u=/oneworld/200\ 20409/wl_oneworld/1032_1018360443 g) Group Makes Cheap Plastic Solar Energy Cells http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & cid=585 & u=/nm/20020328/sc_nm/science\ _solar_dc_2 " Cheap, plastic solar cells that can be painted onto just about any surface could provide power for a range of portable and even wearable electronic devices, scientists said " h) Government Study: Alaska Drilling Harmful http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & cid=585 & u=/nm/20020329/sc_nm/energy_\ alaska_dc_5 " Opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling could harm caribou, snow geese and other wildlife, a new U.S. government study said on Friday, despite the Bush administration's assurances that oil exploration would have little impact. " i) Global Warming Shatters Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & cid=585 & u=/nm/20020319/sc_nm/environ\ ment_britain_antarctica_dc_4 " An Antarctic ice shelf the size of a small country has disintegrated under the impact of global warming, scientists said Tuesday. " j) Navy report shows polar cap is shrinking fast http://www.adn.com/front/story/780638p-832316c.html " The polar ice cap has been shrinking so fast that regular ships may be steaming through the Northwest Passage each summer by 2015, and along northern Russia even sooner, according to a new U.S. Navy report. " --- #6) NON-BAVRT related stuff (feel free to skip) a) The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act http://www.PetitionOnline.com/AHSPA3/petition.html [ Sent to me by a BAVRT member. ] In case you think this is an urban legend, see http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.3781: b) Implantable Spy Chip Gets Green Light from U.S. http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & cid=75 & ncid=738 & e=8 & u=/nf/20020405/t\ c_nf/17127 " A Florida company Thursday said that it will begin marketing and selling a microchip that can be implanted under the skin, after receiving the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). " [ One day, we will surf the web just by thinking about it! ] c) I'm having my wings done http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4371759,00.html " It's the stuff of science fantasy, but a respected American surgeon says that, within five years, he will be able to graft wings and tails on to human beings. " d) Monsanto vs Schmeiser http://www.percyschmeiser.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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