![]() So sad! We’d been there just a few years before, in Buenos Aires, but all the best vegetarian restaurants had closed. Incredible vegetables, wonderful spices… we really ate well in Peru! And then… we went very very very very hungry in Argentina. Every meal was fresh and gorgeous and tasty. ![]() We were so surprised at the quality of vegetarian and vegan food in Peru. ![]() Recently, we took the kids to Peru and Argentina. ![]() Do you ever have difficulty finding veggie food when you’re abroad? What have been some of your most memorable meals? I try and make sure that the companies I use products from don’t test on animals and I look for make-up brushes that are not made with animal hair. I WON’T LET THEM!Īre you also cruelty free with your makeup and skincare choices? If so, tell us a bit about your beauty routine. I LOVE to cook for people and carnivores never leave hungry or unsatisfied. I make a killer vegan lasagna, an amazing tempeh veggie quinoa salad, yummy vegan Caesar… vegetables of all kinds. For kids, I go sweeter, for grown ups I go savory. I make a variety of different flavored tofu dishes and tempeh dishes it just depends on who I’m cooking for. What’s your go-to dinner party dish, one that pleases both vegetarians and carnivores? I think the easier list for me to make is what DON’T I like: mushrooms. I’m not a person who makes favorite lists so that’s a hard question to answer! I love a ton of food. The information we got when I was a kid – remember the old food triangle? – was completely upside-down! I hear you like to cook. Like most people who become veggie at a young age, I had to relearn how to eat. As the years passed it not only felt right emotionally but also politically and nutritionally. I was always an animal rights person but one day the fact that meat was flesh, that I was gnawing on bones and snapping veins and eating muscle – it just became real and I completely lost interest. I’m closing in on 40 years, actually! I became a vegetarian when I was a teenager. Here, in this exclusive interview, actress and activist Lisa Edelstein talks about women in Hollywood, clubbing in New York, starving in Argentina and more. She’s bubbly and funny and smart – in short, she’s exactly the kind of woman you’d want to hang out with! In real life, Edelstein is an animal loving (but mushroom hating) vegetarian who supports PETA and the Best Friends Animal Society, as well as a human rights advocate and passionate patron of the arts. She’s played a call girl, transgender woman, sports reporter, lesbian and risotto fanatic (on Seinfeld, if you’re wondering) – all the while playing against actual her friendly, bubbly and compassionate personality. Lisa Cuddy from the highly popular medical drama series House, nor does she have much in common with her hot mess character Abby McCarthy in Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. We all tend to believe actors have something in common with the characters they play on TV shows, but in the case of Lisa Edelstein, nothing could be further from the truth. Actress and activist Lisa Edelstein has done much more for animals and the planet than you could imagine!
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