VeggieDag Thursday: Quick links for January

VeggieDag is an occasional Thursday post on an animal-free diet and its issues.

Quick links:

• How No Bull Burger, a small, Charlottesville, Virginia-based, veggie-burger company is handling growth. Via Washington Post Business.
  
  
• The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations states that animal agriculture responsible for 20% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. Via WAMU.
  
  
• Is non-animal protein enough? Concern that vegetarians go short of protein is misplaced. Via Vegetarian Society.
  
  
• Perfect mashed potatoes. Don't boil, don't use animal products. Do use olive oil. Via Post Punk Kitchen.
  
  
• How to wash vegetables with baking soda and vinegar. Via Happy Herbivore.
  
  
• Nutritional powerhouses in need of better public relations: cabbage, cauliflower, and rutabaga. Recipes via Washington Post Food.
  
  
• Study by Institute of Food Technologists suggests that eating asparagus may alleviate alcohol hangover and protect liver cells against toxins. Via Science Daily.
  
  
• Four recipes for Vegetable Paté. Via Washington Post Food.
  
  
• The 7,500-year old remnants of a cheese-making 'facility' are found in Poland. Via Reuters.
  
  
  Mushroom Strudel at Mad Fox Brewing Company
  
• The violent and psychotropic history of nutmeg. And a recipe for spinach/nutmeg puree. Via NPR.
  
  
• From Deb Perelman of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Cole slaw without the cream.
  
  
• New study says eating meat (and cooking) was evolutionary advantage for human brain development. Via Live Science.
  
  
• Say it ain't so. Twinkie-maker, Hostess, may go out of business. Via Dallas Morning News.

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VeggieDag is an occasional Thursday post on vegetarian and ecological issues. Why the name? Here.

Suggestions and submissions from chefs and homecooks welcomed: Here.