
The first picture that comes up on Martha Stewart’s website may be a turkey, but look a little further and you’ll see a swarm of VEG-friendliness. On Thursday, November 19, Martha dedicated her whole show to “Vegetarian Thanksgiving.”
The show offered, “a fresh approach to Thanksgiving cooking with meat-free recipes for side dishes and ’stuffing’ the whole family will love from Ubuntu chef Jeremy Fox. Plus, tips for turbo-charging your health — and helping the planet — through dietary choices from [Eating Animals] author Jonathan Safran Foer, and a look at the commercial food industry with Food Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner.”
Foer told Vegan.com:
“I was on Martha Stewart today, along with the director of Food, Inc., a veg chef, and a family farmer. I couldn’t possibly have been more impressed by how Martha handled things. Firstly, to devote an entire show to the horrors of the meat industry without feeling a need to offer the industry a voice. Secondly, she came right out and said the meat industry is bad. She didn’t mince her words. She wasn’t cagey or indirect. She spoke plainly and openly about the secrecy, about how they went after Oprah, about how they torture animals (her words), about how she’s going to have a vegetarian Thanksgiving. She told her audience, “You’ll probably agree with just about all of the conclusions in Jonathan’s book.” Frankly, she came off as further down the spectrum than I did.”
You can watch a preview online, and find a recipe for Fox’s celery root stuffing and Brussels sprout side dish, and Foer’s vegetable orzo casserole. Yum!



November 23rd, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Bravo Martha!
I heard her on the Howard Stern Show last year. She was so down-to-Earth and honest and funny.
I will definitely have to YouTube this. For now though? Bedtime…
November 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Hah! I asked her about vegetarian dishes for Thanksgiving on Twitter. Maybe she’ll send me a copy of her book.
November 24th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I just hope there is no dairy at all in any of the dishes.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Thank you Martha!! A very Happy Vegan Thanksgiving to you… Indeed by choosing the compassionate Vegan diet, we not only reduce the climate change but also the number of health-related diseases, especially Heart Disease which causes a death of 250,000 Americans every year.
~Please Save our Planet. Be Veg, Go Green.