Vegetarian list finds Eugene's fare tasty.Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard Eugene may not boast a vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. doughnut shop like its larger neighbor to the north, but the abundance of pure vegetarian pizzas helped propel the city to No. 2 behind Asheville, N.C., in a ranking of America's Best Vegetarian-Friendly Small Cities. Portland finished first in the ranking for large cities. "Eugene is very friendly to vegetarians," said Sandie Boggs, a vegan who has lived in Eugene for 46 years. "I hope there continue to be more and more options because people like to eat out." Isaiah Boise, an employee at the Pizza Research Institute, was not surprised to hear that Eugene scored high in the rankings. "(Eugene) seems like a healthy city," said Boise, whose family owns the vegetarian-friendly pizzeria. "It seems much healthier than most." In addition to Pizza Research, which offers two vegan pies made with no animal products and sometimes tops its pizzas with whole cobs of corn, Cozmic Pizza and Sam Bond's Garage were mentioned by name for their pizzas in the nationwide survey. The ranking was done by the Virginia-based animal rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. Along with vegetarian restaurants, the ranking looked at nonvegetarian restaurants with vegetarian options as well as available vegetarian and vegan products and retailers. Eugene scored high in all categories, PETA Quadrillion (10 to the 15th power). See space/time. spokeswoman Reannon Peterson said. The ranking was based on testimonials posted on the PETA vegetarian Web site, GoVeg.com, along with the personal experiences of traveling PETA staff members. "We have people doing demonstrations all over the country, and they're always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. great places to eat," Peterson said. Other Eugene eateries mentioned in the survey included the Lotus Garden, which offers vegetarian Asian fare, the college student favorite the Holy Cow Holy cow or sacred cow may refer to:
"I think it's a great honor, and I think it's well deserved," said Laughing Planet manager/co-owner Steve Mertz. Laughing Planet, which serves vegan soups, baked goods and a signature veggie bowl called the Soylent Green, with broccoli, chard chard: see artichoke; beet. chard or Swiss chard Edible-leaf beet (Beta vulgaris, variety cicla), a variety of beet in which the tender leaves and leafstalks have become greatly developed. and barley quinoa quinoa (kēnwä`), tall annual herb (Chenopodium quinoa) of the family Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot family), whose seeds have provided a staple food for peoples of the higher Andes since pre-Columbian times. pilaf, has continued to grow since it opened in 2004, Mertz said. He believes there's even more room for Eugene to expand its vegetarian food offerings. "We've just touched the tip of the iceberg tip of the iceberg n. pl. tips of the iceberg A small evident part or aspect of something largely hidden: afraid that these few reported cases of the disease might only be the tip of the iceberg. in terms of what people in the southern Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its want in terms of food choices," Mertz said. As for what would push Eugene into the No. 1 spot, Peterson suggested a vegan snack food place such as Portland's Voodoo Donuts. |
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