The Tasty and Meatless Pop-Up was an interactive booth at ShareFest Honolulu, a free community festival based on the principles of the sharing economy.  The booth was organized by volunteers from Positive Media Hawai’i, Imagine A Vegan World, and the Oahu Vegan Meetup to share the vegan lifestyle, health and happiness with festival attendees. It...

This month the Tasty and Meatless Vegan Foodies Cooking Club of Hawaii had its first event.  It was a potluck style dinner with the theme: “Your Favorite Childhood Dishes – Upgraded and Veganized.” One member remembered her mother often pulling out the fondue pot on Friday nights in the 1970s and the fun her family...

Mention the word “vegetarian” and people used to envision skinny hippies and zealous animal rights activists. But the image of vegetarians is becoming less extreme and more mainstream, perhaps due in part to the weekly TV series “Tasty and Meatless” produced by local media maven Joy Waters for Time Warner Cable. Research shows vegetarians have...

Avoid the V words, producer Joy Waters says. Vegetarian – that’s scary. Vegan – even scarier. “I think the term ‘vegetarian’ is still very alternative, all these stereotypes of skinny people eating sprouts,“ Waters says. She prefers the word “meatless,” which is how she refers her own lifestyle of flesh-less eating. It’s also the term...

Many people wish they could eat healthier but don’t really know where or how to start. They might not have the money to hire a nutritionist to explain healthy alternatives and may not even realize the options that are available to them. Joy Waters, Executive Producer of “Tasty and Meatless”, realized this and decided to...

Originally published in Hawaii’s main newspaper, The Honolulu Advertiser on August 4, 2004, by Food Editor Wanda Adams. On the set of the local cable TV show, “Tasty and Meatless,” one word is verboten. And it’s not what you think. It’s the “v” word — vegetarian. This prohibition is rooted in producer Joy Waters’ reasons...