Why does one of the richest men in the world--Bill Gates love to eat fast-food burgers? Bill Gates has frugal tastes. Asked to name his luxuries, he lists DVDs, books and takeaway burgers. This is great promotion to fast-food outlets serving takeaway burgers.
During a long list of engagements beginning well before dawn, Bill Gates consumes nothing but cans of diet cola, according to the article, "Bill Gates: 'I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed.’"
Did you ever wonder why in some circles it has been said that the richer the man, the more they consumer fast-food type burgers and cans of cola? But the richer the woman, the more she's likely to become a vegan? Check out the articles (regarding Oprah Winfrey), "How Did I Let This Happen Again?" and Oprah's Weight Loss Confession. See the video, "Oprah's Weight Gain Confession."
Are very successful, wealthy people often addicted to fattening food, junk food, or comfort foods that may not be the healthiest for them, even in stressful times? (Or sometimes they go to the opposite extreme with not eating enough?)
Vegan is the new rich, but are women included in the news stories about how powerful vegans are in wealth and business? Are more women in Sacramento becoming vegan or partially vegan after reading the popular Business Week article, "The Rise of the Power Vegans"? If you've heard the phrase, it's news when man bites dog not when dog bites man.
Well, it's news when powerful CEO male goes permanently vegan, since it's common to think of some women as vegans, but powerful women in the news are not often portrayed in the media as vegans, why not? They're there. And they're not always protestors carrying signs for veganism.
Some even meet mates at vegan associations. But popular business magazines are portraying the wealthiest and most powerful vegan CEOs, and the ones in the news are all male this time around.
With Sacramento stores such as the Sacramento Natural Food Co-op, Whole Food Markets, and the new Fresh 'N Easy stores coming to the corner of Watt & El Camino to compete with Walmart's produce aisles across the street, vegans are starting to flaunt more power in Sacramento, possible because in part from all those studies on the health benefits of plant extracts and antioxidants being done at University of California, Davis. A decade ago even UC Davis did a study on vegan diets. See,Vegan and Meat-Eating Women Sought for Diet - UC Davis News.
Now vegan is the new powerful rich, at least for some reported in popular mainstream media, but what about the power of vegan women in business? Not as many stories on all those wealthy vegan women as there are on the CEO males. Actually, a growing number of America's most powerful bosses have become vegan.
There are some rich and powerful vegan men. For example, Steve Wynn, Mort Zuckerman, Russell Simmons, and Bill Clinton are now using tempeh to assert their superiority...all males in the news. What are these men's wives eating--vegan also? What about the world's most powerful women--vegan? How many and why? See, Bill Clinton declares vegan victory - USA Today.com.
Vegan also are Ford Executive Chairman of the Board, Bill Ford (F), Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, venture capitalist Joi Ito, Whole Foods Market (WFMI) Chief Executive Officer John Mackey, and Mike Tyson all now vegan. Alec Baldwin, according to the Business article, also is vegan.
Could it be because of the new University of San Francisco study on eggs (actually the arachidonic acid in eggs) having a link to possibly increasing prostate cancer risk? Could it be the news about the health benefits of plant extracts from studies at UC Davis?
Why is it surprising that so many male CEOs are shunning meat, dairy, and eggs? Being vegan is special as an exclusive club. Only 1 percent of the U.S. population is vegan, partly because veganism isn't cheap. The cost comes from the value of organic specialty products made by specialty companies with names such as tofurkey, as you can read about further in the Business Week article.
Vegans also have to be powerful enough to even know what veganism is. Why is it that women in power are not portrayed in the news as turning vegan to rise through the glass ceiling? After all billionaires such as Martha Stewart don't have all vegan cooking programs like the Veria TV channel offers showing cooking with no dairy, no-eggs, and no meats in some of the cooking shows.
People follow CEOs because they're perceived as not only smart but also vegan. And CEO's, the richest of them are flaunting their vegan ways. Check out the organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The new rich is vegan. More restaurants are becoming vegan-friendly to top CEOs, and the CEOs with all their wealth are not ordering only steak and martinis any more.
More CEOs are giving up meat, eggs, and dairy, for example, people mentioned in the Business Week article. Not only meat, dairy, and eggs, but some vegan CEOs also are giving up oils as well. Why oils--if the human body was made to digest fat and protein? It's about how a particular oil or fat affects an individual's metabolic and genetic response.
Watch the documentary, Eating, in which director Mike Anderson explains his strict meat- and oil-free diet. Can going vegan make CEOs and their employees healthier? What type of persuasion is coaxing senior management to go vegan? More restaurants catering to CEOs of top corporations are offering vegan-friendly entrees.
A lot of vegans are tasting seitan, which is wheat-meat, not realizing how constipating this gluten food can be once you eat it. Try tempeh (fermented soybeans caked and cut to look like slices of meat) if you can't tolerate wheat gluten. Now the trend is to vote for a vegan Presidential candidate if you can find a vegan candidate who's actually running.
For example, the Ohio representative Kucinich's vegan diet has become known and is growing in popularity, especially among wealthy and powerful CEOs. According to the Business Week article, Representative Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.), the head of the Committee on House Administration, includes vegan options in the congressional cafeteria.
The media has shown a documentary featuring Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Bill Clinton, among others. The documentary is titled, "The Last Heart Attack" featuring the current vegan diet of Bill Clinton. And Clinton emphasized how much weight he lost on a vegan diet. See, Watch it Here: The Last Heart Attack CNN Heart Disease.
Is this diet for women in power as well? You might check out Kucinich's own diet book when the publisher finally settles on a title. There are numerous vegan clubs in Sacramento that women go to for vegan socializing. Some people even look for a vegan mate when they search for making the greatest decision they'll make in their life....Make that two decisions. First to go vegan and second to find a mate who also is vegan. Also see, What's the Healthiest Diet of All? - NYTimes.com. But why are there so few women vegans (other than some athletes) portrayed in the news as powerful, rich, and healthy at least in the mainstream media?
SacramentoVegan Clubs
· Vegan Meetups near Sacramento, California - Vegan Meetups
· Vegan Family Holiday Potluck dinner club - SACRAMENTO VEGAN
· Vegetarian Societies and Vegetarian Organizations for vegetarian
· Raw foods and vegetarian club meetings in Sacramento
· Sacramento vegetarian society
· Sacramento Vegan and Vegan Friendly Restaurants - Metro Area
· Davis Food Co-op Club Vegan | Facebook
· Sugar Plum Vegan Bakery & Cafe - Vegan Club Sandwish - Sacramento, CA
Valentine's Day Desserts
Certainly there are dozens of Valentines Day recipes for desserts online for the most traditional items such as pumpkin pie or sweet potato desserts, apple cranberry pie, or mince meat recipes. But what about recipes for the luscious cheesecakes you find in most Sacramento supermarkets and discount stores?
The average price of a cheesecake in Sacramento stores is almost $17. You can make a cheesecake or other dessert cake for less if you want to skip the familiar pumpkin pie or apple pie. Also at low cost to make is the traditional apple-cranberry pie. Or you can buy one for around $10 or $11.
Those recipes are online, also. One example might be red velvet cheesecake. But instead of the red food coloring the recipe suggests, you could use beet juice or coloring from other red vegetables or fruits.
Where can you find the recipes online for the best and richest cheese cake recipe varieties? Start with red velvet cheesecake. An excellent recipe is at the My Recipes site.
Another rich dessert recipe is for tiramisu, an espresso and coffee liqueur-soaked sponge cake layered with mascarpone cheese filling and dusted with cocoa powder. You can find a recipe for preparing this cake from scratch at the site, Tiramisu Layer Cake Recipe - Allrecipes.com.
There are lots of tiramisu cake recipes online. For example, check out for starters the many sites, including video demonstrations of how to make this cake, such as the following: tiramisu cake | smitten kitchen, Tiramisu Cake, classic tiramisu cake recipe - step by step recipe for the classic, Tiramisu Cake Recipe - Moms Who Think, Cooks.com - Recipes - Tiramisu Cake, Tiramisu Cake Recipes - Tiramisu: Heaven In Your Mouth, Tiramisu Cake Recipe - Group Recipes - And check out the video recipe, Step-by-step Video Recipe for Tiramisu - SimpleBaker.com - YouTube.
Another mouth-watering dessert is the apple pie where the apples are mixed with tart cranberries, a hint of orange and nuts blended with spices. Bake this pie with a lattice crust. Try the recipes online for Cranberry-Apple Crumble Pie Recipe at Epicurious.com.
There are more apple-cranberry pie recipes online at: Apple Cranberry Pie Recipe | Simply Recipes, Apple-cranberry Pie Recipe - Allrecipes.com, Double-Crusted Apple-Cranberry Pie Recipe - The Apple Tree, Apple-Cranberry Pie - Whole Living Eat Well, Apple-cranberry Pie Recipe | Taste of Home Recipes, and Tracey's Culinary Adventures: Apple-Cranberry Pie.
All of these types of cheesecakes or pies you can buy in stores. But it's more fun and less costly to make the pies at home. For example, the average price of a ready-made cheesecake bought in some stores range from $10 to $17. Certainly the ingredients needed to make a cheese cake or apple-cranberry pie don't amount to the $16 dollar range or so, give or take a few dollars.
What ingredients do you need to make a cheesecake compared to a pie? Also see more recipes for apple-cranberry pie at the sites, Apple-Cranberry Pie - Cooks Illustrated, and Apple-Cranberry Pie « A Blissful Bite. And there are more recipe sites online for this type of pie.You can find the details of the recipe for the pie below at: Cranberry-Apple Crumble Pie Recipe .Epicurious.com.
- flour
- unsalted butter
- vegetable shortening (trans-fat-free)
- teaspoon salt
- ice water
For crumble topping:
- all-purpose flour
- light brown sugar
- cinnamon
- salt
- unsalted butter
- pecans
For fruit filling:
- Gala apples
- cranberries
- packed light brown sugar
- all-purpose flour
- cinnamon
- salt
- fresh lemon juice
- unsalted butter
Now compare the ingredients you need for a red velvet cheesecake: Find the recipe with the details of what proportions of these ingredients you'll need at the site, Red Velvet Cheesecake Recipe | MyRecipes.com.
Ingredients
- chocolate graham cracker crumbs
- butter
- granulated sugar
- cream cheese,
- eggs
- unsweetened cocoa
- sour cream
- whole buttermilk
- vanilla extract
- distilled white vinegar
- red food coloring
- cream cheese,
- powdered sugar
- vanilla extract
As you can see it's more expensive to buy all the different ingredients you'll need to make a red velvet cheesecake from scratch. You can use red food color or beet juice or any other red juice to color the batter red if you don't use food commercial coloring. That choice is up to you. The recipe at the site calls for red food coloring to color the cheesecake red. Use what you would like.
Also, check out all the other red velvet cheesecake online. There's also blueberry cheese cake recipes. You can color a cheesecake most any color by coloring the cream cheese or the batter. So check out what you'd spend on ingredients compared to what you'd spend buying a ready-made pie or cheesecake.
Baking from scratch allows you more choices as to what to put into the cheesecake or pie, according to what you want. For example, spinach or kale juice colors batter green. Beet juice colors batter red, and turmeric colors a cake bright yellow. It's your choice.
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