yes vegan!

"Well ... the world needs crazy ideas to change things, because the conventional way of thinking is not working anymore."

from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15friedman.html -

an op-ed piece about a 2,100 mile journey in a plug-in electric car w/ rooftop solar panels.

let's innovate folks, and dare ourselves to be crazy enough to think we can change the world!

yes vegan!

ny times reports: "natural contaminants” in our food = bugs, mold, rodent hairs and maggots...

along w/ "insect filth,” “rodent filth” (both hair and excreta pellets), “mammalian excreta,” “rot,” “insect larvae and insect eggs...”

order a tomato juice cocktail and u get an additional: “10 or more fly eggs per 100 grams [the equivalent of a small juice glass] or five or more fly eggs and one or more maggots.” cheers! spread some tomato paste w a half a cup of pizza sauce onto toasted italian bread. sounds good so far. sure! why not! it provides 4 an even denser infestation — 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams or 15 or more fly eggs and one or more maggots per 100 grams. but dont stop there, open up some canned mushrooms and throw 'em on the sandwich w/ “over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid” or “five or more maggots two millimeters or longer per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid” or an “average of 75 mites” before provoking action by the F.D.A..wow, now u got one super high protein hero! mama mia!

rest a little. okay time to eat again. here's a little sauerkraut on your hot dog, and if ur really lucky u'll get up to 50 thrips. and when ur washing down those tiny, slender, dirty, winged bugs with a sip of ur beer, you might consider that just 10 grams of hops could have as many as 2,500 plant lice. i know that's the taste u've always loved! skål, la chaim, nostrovia, salud!

here's a new meaning to spicing up ur food, curry powder is allowed 100 or more bug bits per 25 grams; ground thyme up to 925 insect fragments per 10 grams; ground pepper up to 475 insect parts per 50 grams. one small shake of cinnamon might give u more than 20 rodent hairs before being considered defective. shake it up baby!

peanut butter — that culinary cause célèbre — may contain approximately 145 bug parts for an 18-ounce jar; or five or more rodent hairs for that same jar; or more than 125 milligrams of grit.

i know u wanna know, so here u go: you’re probably ingesting one to two pounds of flies, maggots, mites, insect filth and rodent hair each year without even realizing it!

gimme a couple rat hairs-peanut butter sandwiches to go please! yo buddy, dont forget to throw in the bug parts and rodent filth too!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html

come hither from yonder

nighttime,

the lights are off,

it's almost completely dark;

above the japanese shoji screen,

a quarter of the window shows,

illuminations shadowing through from the street onto the wall,

come hither from yonder.

it's mostly quiet,

wah, wah, wah, tv noise from somewhere,

shuffling feet, chair legs moving across a floor, heat pipes knocking about,

a car honking in the distance,
huxley is still awake,

he's talking out loud to himself:

ewww, the heart monsters,

they came from bloody island, ewww,

they live inside a shell from the biggest

to the ugliest, ewww...

the sweet, mellifluous sound of his "little boy" voice;

calming tonic, come hither from yonder.

פורים - come crank the gragger!

a purim, פורים, gragger, also called "ra'ashan", a noisemaker, is twirled, spun and cranked when the evil haman's name is mentioned during the reading of the megilla, as tradition dictates, 2 blot out the name of evil.

come crank up the noise at sacred chow's purim party, tuesday, march 10, 2009 , 14 adar, 5749. let's shout, laugh, hoot, holler, and shake the gragger 2 blot out evil 2gether.

the festival of purim celebrates the salvation of the jewish people in persia from evil haman's plot 2 destroy all of persia's jews in a single day.
the events of purim extended over a period of several years, culminating in the joyous victory celebrations of adar 14-15 of 356 b.c.e., now known as purim.

purim observances include:
a) reading of the megillah/book of esther. (esther was the great jewish queen, who despite the risk of certain death, convinced her king 2 save the persian jews from annihilation. the megillah recounts the story of this purim miracle).
b) giving 2 less fortunate folks. (gifts of money should be given 2 at least 2 people).
c) sending gifts of food to a friend. (at least two ready-to-eat foods to a minimum of one friend).
d) the purim feast @ sacred chow. (eat, drink, make music, elocute poetry and the story of esther).
e) reciting the al hanissim prayer, an invocation of miracles. a reverent petition of grace after meals on purim 2 thankfully and fortunately acknowledge the manifestation of divine intervention.

customs include dressing up in disguising costumes and eating traditional jewish-persian purim food. the well-known hamantashen, shaped like haman's hat, and mohntaschen, is always consumed, and the gragger is incessantly cranked at high speed. come crank the gragger!
the word tashen is derived from the german word taschen (pockets). mohntaschen is german for "poppy seed pockets" and was a popular jewish-german pastry. hamantaschen means "haman's pockets" and became a popular purim pastry. it was rumored that the evil haman's pockets were filled with bribe money. however, the most popular explantion of why jews eat this three cornered pastry on purim is that haman wore a three-cornered hat. eating an image of haman's hat is a delicious way to symbolically destroy his memory.

yum, yum, eat 'em up!

stuffing myself with vegan food

February 9, 2009 at 10:36 am

I spent about 10 hours on Saturday sitting on my ass. Seven hours were spent in a computer lab at the Fashion Insititute of Technology with Melea, my Social Networking guru who’s played a big part in the viral Facebook request ‘Can We Find 200,000 by Feb. 12th to Wish Darwin a Happy 200th Birthday?’, learning about web marketing, and the remaining hours were spent with a friend at Sacred Chow on Sullivan St. stuffing myself with vegan food (that gluten-free chocolate cake was awesome!).

http://fishingforsoul.wordpress.com/

the servers are so super nice.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

We went to Sacred Chow two mornings in a row for breakfast. This place is great and the servers are so super nice. I fell off the gluten wagon here with a biscuit breakfast sandwich. http://justtheonions.blogspot.com/

loved every morsel

New York, NY 2/7/2009

look, i am not a vegetarian. but sacred chow makes me crave veg/vegan food...it's a cool casual joint with some good healthy grub. i have been a few times... and loved every morsel that i shoveled into my carnivorous mouth. and the sake comes in a huge mug.... so extra star for that. Nik N.

Kyle was most attentive

My name is David I just relocated to NYC with a dance company and left my position as manager of Sage's Cafe in Salt Lake City, UT. Sage's is a locally owned, awesomely organic, vegan restaurant that has been open for over 9 years. I have the luxury of very cheap rent and am not looking for a lot of money right away. Right now I am working at a restaurant in mid-town that is sucking the life out of me. I would love any opportunity to work with you at Sacred Chow. I have experience cooking waiting etc.... I am also a visual artist, cellist and have an active role in our dance company as a performer and creative mind. I am willing to do anything to be out of the environment I am in now, and even if it is dishes for the next year I love working as long as it is for a good cause. I am not afraid of even the dirtiest of deeds.
I dined at Sacred Chow on Tuesday and was delighted. The space is perfectly relaxing, my spinach and shitake salad was amazing and Kyle was most attentive and professional.
Yours, happily
David

favorite spots...you're one of them!

Dear Sacred Chow:

NFT is pleased to announce that we've created a brand-new page on our website specifically dedicated to businesses in the Washington Square / NYU / NoHo / SoHo area. Here's the link: http://notfortourists.com/Hood.aspx/NewYork/WashingtonSquareNYUNoHoSoHo. These pages highlight our favorite spots in the Washington Square / NYU / NoHo / SoHo area, and you're one of them!

Best regards,
Lea Garrett

Not For Tourists

NotForTourists.com

favorite places to eat

Vegan_Noodle said...
I"ve only been to NYC once, but here's what I liked...-stayed in Chelsea hotel, great location and lots of history at that place-favorite places to eat were: blossom cafe, red bamboo, atlas (for the desserts), sacred chow, candle cafe & 79, babycakes (hit up mooshoes, teany, and economy candy while you're there), and pure food & wine.
January 26, 2009 12:53 PM