{"id":6421,"date":"2012-03-11T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2012\/02\/28\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:07:35","slug":"the-sexy-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=6421","title":{"rendered":"The Sexy….Vegan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been particularly lucky I guess when it comes to vegans. Generally you hear what I can only presume are stereotypes of horror stories of interactions with vegans; that they’re preachy, that they make it impossible for you to feed them or take them out to a restaurant, that they’ll spend all their time and energy trying to “convert” you. I’ve hung out with two different vegans in my adult life, once involving a wedding weekend, and I had none of those experiences. Both vegans accepted that the world around them was filled with those who ate meat and made no fuss about it, the one that was part of the wedding weekend ate two meals out that I was there for and skillfully navigated the menus causing no drama for the restaurant or her fellow diners, and both were a lot of fun to be around and in no way let being vegan be the thing that defined them. I liked them both a lot, (I shouldn’t use the past tense, it’s not like they’re dead or something. I like them both a lot, we should totally hang out sometime.) and I find myself liking Brian Patton too.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There’s really a lot for me to like. Patton is the author of “The Sexy Vegan Cookbook: Extraordinary Food from an Ordinary Dude”. In the introduction he chronicles how he kind of stumbled into becoming a cook and then sort of tripped into becoming vegan. It’s a story that I think most of us, or at least certainly I, could empathize with. Although now a vegan, Patton never gets preachy or lays on a big sales pitch for the vegan life style. Part of that may be because if you’re holding a book called “The Sexy Vegan Cookbook” a presumption is made, but regardless, as a non-vegan, I appreciated not being given the full on Bermuda time share sales pitch. But much like my vegan friends I discussed at the introduction to this article, what I like best about Patton is that the fact that he, and his cookbook, is that vegan is not what defines them.<\/p>\n

So if Patton, aka The Sexy Vegan, isn’t just a vegan, what the heck is there? Well, he’s very funny, obviously a geek, prone to swearing, loves food, is a fan of Sailor Jerry rum…..honestly, if the guy could just cook me a steak from time to time my marriage could have been in trouble. I mean he has a recipe, Sailor’s Oatmeal with Glazed Walnuts. This is oatmeal featuring a syrup made from Sailor Jerry rum. Oatmeal with rum! Rum in a breakfast food. ARE YOU LISTENING PEOPLE! Cough, cough, ahem….where was I?<\/p>\n

“The Sexy Vegan Cookbook” is loaded with laugh out loud recipe titles and\/or notes. How about the salad recipe called, The Girlfriend’s Favorite Salad that She Constantly Asks Me to Make and Won’t Shut the Hell Up About? Or the notes for his recipe for Minestrone are “This is my favorite soup on the planet. The key to this one is the cabbage. You may be like, ‘Waahhh, waahhh, waahhh, I don’t like cabbage! I’m a big baby! Waaaahhhh!’ Well, I don’t give a shit! You’ll use it, and you’ll like it.”?<\/p>\n

I mean, they asked him to do a book trailer and this is what he came up with……<\/p>\n