the bemused blog » food and drink http://bemused.org/blog can you get more random? Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:54:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Vegetarian Paris http://bemused.org/blog/2008/10/30/vegetarian-paris/ http://bemused.org/blog/2008/10/30/vegetarian-paris/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:05:59 +0000 gareth http://bemused.org/blog/?p=61 Being a vegetarian in France isn’t easy. I have a couple of hardcore (ex-)vegetarian friends who moved to France and have moved back to the dark side. Its more understandable when you realise the almost complete lack of understanding of vegetarianism amongst the local population. Asking for a vegetable salad “sans viande” will often result in a chicken salad, as apparently chicken isn’t meat in the french sense of the word. Vegetarian salad with bacon is another common dish, and when asking for the version ’sans bacon’ the salad will return with the bacon bits (mostly) picked out by hand.

So it’s good to know that there are more and more vegetarian restaurants appearing in Paris, here are a couple of vegetarian resources I’ve found recently:

I also discovered v3ggie.com, a vegetarian search engine which gives interesting results, and has a greate recipe search feature.

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]]> http://bemused.org/blog/2008/10/30/vegetarian-paris/feed/ 0 More great restaurants in Barcelona http://bemused.org/blog/2008/07/25/more-great-restaurants-in-barcelona/ http://bemused.org/blog/2008/07/25/more-great-restaurants-in-barcelona/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:48:11 +0000 gareth http://bemused.org/blog/?p=59 I’m back in Barcelona, and have been trying out some more restaurants. I’ve been told that catalonians don’t go in for tapas, and the tapas restaurants in Barcelona are only for tourists, but I’m still a fan. For a great tapas restaurant, try Flauta in eixample, an unpretentious, welcoming place, great for something to eat before going out for a drink in the area. Or for something a little more classy, my two discoveries this week are Botega Sepulveda and Los Caracoles

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]]> http://bemused.org/blog/2008/07/25/more-great-restaurants-in-barcelona/feed/ 0 Bacon Salt or why we are all doomed http://bemused.org/blog/2007/07/31/bacon-salt-or-why-humanity-is-doomed/ http://bemused.org/blog/2007/07/31/bacon-salt-or-why-humanity-is-doomed/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:39:18 +0000 gareth http://bemused.org/blog/?p=44 Bacon Salt is one of those things that makes you despair for humanity, but at the same time I’m finding it hard to resist buying some. What would vegetarian, kosher bacon taste like? must resist…

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