{"id":4076,"date":"2017-10-29T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T05:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2017-10-29T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T05:57:19","slug":"vegetables-are-what-food-eats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/vegetables-are-what-food-eats\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetables are What Food Eats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So my wife and I were talking about restaurants, and since I’m a foodie, two of my favorite restaurants in the Bay Area happen to be fine dining:\u00a0 Alexander’s in Cupertino<\/a> – steakhouse – and Millennium in Oakland<\/a> – vegan. Both are a bit pricey, but, as a vegan, my wife has experience with only one of these.<\/p>\n

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For a carnivore married to a vegan, it’s quite useful to acquire a love of vegan food, so we go to vegan restaurants like Millennium and Happy Hooligans<\/a> a lot<\/em>. But by the time the two of us have done drinks, alcohol, three apps, a dinner entree and their dessert assortment, Millennium is, um, pricey<\/em>, and my wife wondered whether it was the most expensive place that I ate at.<\/p>\n

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“Um, no,” I admitted. “Alexander’s is way<\/em> pricier.” (And it is. Some entrees at Alexander’s, like the Alexander’s Trio of different kinds of Wagyu beef<\/a>, are more expensive than our entire meal for two at Millennium).<\/p>\n

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After a beat, my wife said, “Well, it had better be that expensive, because the animals you eat at Alexander’s get fed the kind of food we eat at Millennium.”<\/p>\n

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After a moment, we laughed and agreed that this was probably true – and that we should call up an old carnivorous friend who once told the story of one of his friends who refused to eat vegetables because “that’s what food eats.”<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n

Pictured: Appetizers, entree and dessert trio at Millennium, teh yums; Alexander’s Trio and a mother-bleeping four-and-a-half-pound<\/em> wagyu tomahawk chop, which is the largest steak I’ve heard of at Alexander’s, the\u00a0 second largest steak I’ve ever<\/em> heard of and a full third bigger than the biggest steak I’ve ever eaten (and at least twice as big as the largest steak I’ve eaten without regret). 72 ounces?<\/em> Even I<\/em> can’t eat that much … and anyway, I prefer the savory taste of regular beef over the super-richness of wagyu. Actually, just after even writing that, I feel like posting more vegan food to balance it out … here’s a vegan burger and vegan fish and chips at Happy Hooligans:<\/p>\n

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You’re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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