Vegetarians

[Annette Curtain]

DaveR talking out of his saddle sore ar5e again

>in Italy you won't find any 'vegetarian options'<

Verdura

Vegetables Italian Style

Vianna La Place

Mc Millan books

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/Verdura-Vegetables-Italian-Style-Place-Viana/4817582977/bd

385 pages on Italian vegetable dishes. Quite the book on "you guessed it" Italian vegetable dishes.

[DaveR]

An English language recipe book, published by Macmillan [1996], written by a vegetarian born and raised in San Francisco, is of course the definitive reference work on traditional Italian cooking.

[Jeremy]

Cheese seems to be the biggest grey area. Most vegetarians I know will happily eat cheese - even though the majority of it, of course, is not vegetarian. Only the stricter veggies I've met insist on rennet-free.

[Otta]

If the wife (veggie) and I go out to eat in ED and don't fancy a curry, she is quite likely to go for Hizar, which I love, as I love grilled lamb. However, despite being known as a meaty feast, it has loads of lovely veggie stuff.

Think Buddah Jazz up by Denmark Hill would probably please veggies, and Ganapatti always used to do a load of veggie dishes (not been for ages, but suspect they still do).

[Otta]

PS. Nout wrong with a goat's cheese tart!

[Applespider]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Last night I ate at Bruno Loubet's new place The

> Grain Store in Kings X

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Ooooh... I hadn't realised it had opened. For some reason I thought it was next week. Must go!

[uncleglen]

The George Bernard Shaw Vegetarian Cookbook by Alice Laden is very good because it is 'ordinary'

[Marmora Man]

What is the % of vegetarians in the population? 3% - maybe 5%?

If you are a business do you cater for the 97% / 95% or for the specialist 3% - 5%. Easy option is to go after the mass market. Those that chase the niche market must either hike prices to cover the low volumes or site themselves in an area where the niche interest is more mainstream or, more usually, both.

Not many people buy bespoke tailoring but Saville Row is full of bespoke tailors, not many people buy handbags at ?1,000 a pop, but Regent St and Harrods have a number of high price handbag outlets. What you don't get is H&M or M&S catering for these markets - it's easier and simpler for them to go for the mass market.

Same with vegetarian food - why go to the trouble of devising dishes, specialist preparation techniques and time consuming processes to satisfy a very small proportion of the market - when by offering bloody good steak and chips you can reach, and satisfy, 97% of your potential customers.

[Jeremy]

I believe that around 10% of the population is vegetarian. Easily enough to sustain a number of vegetarian restaurants in London, and ensure that almost every restaurant has at least one vegetarian option. But, I suspect, not enough to warrant a large range of veggie food in most mainstream restaurants.

[Annette Curtain]

Applespider Wrote:

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> Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> > Last night I ate at Bruno Loubet's new place

> The

> > Grain Store in Kings X

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>

> Ooooh... I hadn't realised it had opened. For

> some reason I thought it was next week. Must go!

Soft this week, opens proper next week.

Good service too.

[the-e-dealer]

Vegetarians tend to have higher incomes and live longer. They are a better long term bet for custom.

[numbers]

the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> Vegetarians tend to have higher incomes and live

> longer. They are a better long term bet for

> custom.

What? That's preposterous t-e-d, is it not. Why would being veggie predispose you to having a higher income?

What about those people who spend only a certain percentage of their life as a veggie?

What about the ones that go on holiday to Italy and eat "veggie" risotto despite a nagging suspicion that the stock is made from veal/chicken? I need to know.

[the-e-dealer]

They don't get bowel cancer and you need a higher income to give you the extra time to adapt your diet. Also exposure to vegetarianism come through university - A Degree means often a better job. I'm saying a higher income gives you more time to change diets.

[the-e-dealer]

Percentage of Various Groups Who Never Eat Meat (Rounded to Whole Numbers):

7% Total Adults

5% Male

9% Female

9% 45- to 54-year-olds

5% 18- to 24-year-olds

8% North East

6% North Central

6% South

7% West

6% White (excluding Hispanic)

7% Black (excluding Hispanic)

8% Hispanic

4% High School Not Completed

6% High School Graduate

8% College Graduate

See the original poll results here:

http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2006issue4/vj2006issue4poll.htm

By the way...

A recent survey showed that 1 in 200 kids (under 18) are vegetarian.

[Jeremy]

That's quite clearly an American survey.

As for the comment that "they are a better long term bet for custom", I can only assume it was some sort of joke, given the percentage of veggies.

[the-e-dealer]

My Point is Veggies live longer!

This may be American too but I believe we are simlar to Americans in our biology.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/763435_2

[the-e-dealer]

And ofcourse Veggies have a much better sexual performance.

[KidKruger]

What the blokes or the girls ?!

Whenever I have a veggie day I never noticed any difference.

[the-e-dealer]

I hope you didn't use a pigs bladder condom!

[Annette Curtain]

the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> My Point is Veggies live longer!

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> This may be American too but I believe we are

> simlar to Americans in our biology.

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> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/763435_2

But not longer than this Meat & Veg eating group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet