BBQs, Burgers, and Backyard Bites
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2007
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about what it's like to be a vegetarian at a non-vegetarian BBQ, tell you a little story about when I was on the Food Network, and share some specific ideas about what to serve at a BBQ: ideas for the grill (including vegetable skewers, marinated eggplant, polenta with pesto, portabello mushrooms, corn on the cob, BBQ tempeh, and fruit), recipes for salads (such as Thai slaw, spinach salad, pasta salad), and, of course, dessert. I also talk briefly about why the safest way to avoid the carcinogenic compounds that form on cooked meat is to not eat it. Heterocyclic amines, the cancer-causing compounds found on meat (including "beef," "pork," "chicken," or "fish") cooked at high temperatures (whether grilled, BBQd, or pan-fried) do not form on plant foods. Just one more reason to leave animals off our plates.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks, which I founded to empower people to make informed food choices |
| 0:25.9 | and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:30.0 | You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:33.6 | Compassionate cooks.com. Thank you to all of you who subscribe to the |
| 0:39.2 | podcast. We've had some weird hiccups on iTunes in the last week or so and it was only showing a few episodes from 2006 or something |
| 0:49.0 | and now my subscription numbers are all messed up so see if you're still subscribed if you use iTunes |
| 0:54.2 | to subscribe and perhaps resubscribe if you got bumped off somehow. I apologize for that. |
| 0:59.6 | And thank you for all of your emails and your stories. I'm often reluctant to read these |
| 1:05.2 | emails on air because I don't want to sound self-congratulatory but I feel so |
| 1:09.8 | compelled to share them with you because they're just so incredible. So if you don't mind, I'd like to read a few emails that have a similar theme. I just got kind of recently. They're from moms who found the podcast because they were doing research to make sure |
| 1:24.8 | their newly vegetarian teenagers were getting the nutrients they need, etc. |
| 1:29.4 | And so here are a few excerpts from a few recent emails. |
| 1:33.0 | They're just absolutely incredible. |
| 1:35.3 | This one's from Sherry in California. |
| 1:38.4 | She wrote, I have to say that I have recently |
| 1:41.0 | subscribed to your podcast and cannot get enough of it. |
| 1:44.0 | Here it is 3 a.m. and I'm still wanting to stay up and keep listening. |
| 1:48.0 | I searched out information on the Vegetarian lifestyle because my 15 year old daughter has expressed her choice to be |
| 1:54.1 | vegetarian. I at first was skeptical and a little hesitant because I wasn't sure how to feed |
| 1:59.3 | her if she wasn't eating meat and I also wasn't sure if this was just a passing phase or not. I will say that I have |
| 2:06.5 | always taught her to stand by her convictions and live her truth with no |
| 2:10.4 | apologies. She's made it abundantly clear that being vegetarian is not a passing |
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