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Vegan Foodies Club - Sushi Style Rolls and Wraps

Vegan Foodies Club – Sushi Style Rolls and Wraps

It was a lively gathering at the Vegan Foodies Club in September. The theme was: Vegan Sushi-Style Rolls and our club members had come prepared to impress. What followed was a delightful and diverse presentation of six different vegan interpretations of eating stuffed tubes.
Tasty and Meatless PopUp Brings Vegan Presence to ShareFest Honolulu

Tasty and Meatless PopUp Brings Vegan Presence to ShareFest Honolulu

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...
Tasty and Meatless Foodies Club - Favorite Childhood Meals Made Vegan

Tasty and Meatless Foodies Club – Favorite Childhood Meals Made Vegan

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...
Hawaii Producer Joy Waters Leads the Trend Towards Veganism

Hawaii Producer Joy Waters Leads the Trend Towards Veganism

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...
New TV Show Explores Life WIthout Meat

New TV Show Explores Life WIthout Meat

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...
The Path to a Healthy Lifestyle Begins on Tasty and Meatless TV

The Path to a Healthy Lifestyle Begins on Tasty and Meatless TV

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...
Healthy Success for Tasty and Meatless TV Viewers

Healthy Success for Tasty and Meatless TV Viewers

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...