Teetotal Vegetarianism - Day 25 May 29th 2009

“The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?” – Jack Handy

Today I’ve been reading about vegetarian shoes; a growing trend for those who won’t just stop at not eating meat but they also won’t wear leather or other animal skins.

Are your shoes vegetarian?

Robin Webb, creator of Vegetarian-shoes.co.uk talks about the concept;

‘’We have come a long way since Veggie Shoes first started in 1990. When I started the business back then I made all the shoes by hand. In fact, originally I only made one style - a basic lace up shoe.

I had started to teach myself to make shoes four years earlier after leaving Art College. I was inspired to hear that in parts of Africa, car tyres were recycled into soles. This got me thinking and soon I was making shoes out of anything I could lay my hands on, but being veggie I didn't want to use leather.

Then I made an exciting discovery, -a synthetic Microfibre material used for yachting upholstery. It looked and felt like supple leather, but was 'breathable', unlike other plastics. After some experimenting, I realised that this was what I had been looking for, and Vegetarian Shoes was born.’’

And Vegetarian Shoes will be at Glastonbury this year if you want to pop along. Sadly I won’t be there; I’ll be eating meat in a pub wearing my suede jacket and leather shoes!

Vegetarian Dish of the Day;

Grown for Pleasure Seeds of Change Jalfrezi Medium Hot Organic Indian Sauce

Box Blurb: This sauce meets the Soil Association's standard for Organic Food and Farming. This Jalfrzi takes you firmly into spicy territory. Deliciously piquant, it brings together crisp red and green peppers in a feisty combination of authentic spices and herbs. Let your taste buds sizzle.Seeds of Change donates 1% of sales to the research and promotion of biodiversity and suistainable organic practises. All of the ingredients grown for this product are 100% organic. No Artificial Additives or Preservatives

Possibly the most limp wristed curry sauce in the world. It gets bothered about how the soil is. But boy is it tasty. So tasty I wrote a song about it;

I folow the Moskva

Down to Gorky Park

Eating the seeds of change

An August summer night

Soldiers passing by

Eating the seeds of change

The world is closing in

Did you ever think

That we could be so close, like brothers

The future's in the air

I can feel it everywhere

Cooking with the seeds of change

Take me to the magic of the moment

On a glory night

Where the children of tomorrow dream away

With the seeds of change

Cooked it up with Quorn Chicken pieces and it was extremely edible. I’m getting better at stomaching Quorn. I cleared my plate!