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French Vegan Cookbook – 1934 – A Source Of The Hitler Rumor

A wonderful vegan recipe book tainted by an old story. Un merveilleux livre de recettes vegan entachée par une vieille histoire. A source of the annoying – ‘Hitler was a vegetarian’ rumor – countered by Rynn Berry – see below. Ernest Bell Library item – Maïa Charpentier. – La Bonne Cuisine végétalienne. 500 recettes pratiques. Préface de Prosper Montagné. Editions La Caravelle & Imprimerie d’Art “Le Croquis”, 6, rue Bezout,…

August 4, 2015 (Last Updated: October 10, 2016) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Common Sense & Reducing “Historical Amnesia”

Reading the news yesterday about actor Aamir Khan going vegan, triggered some debate / discussion in our Ernest Bell Library. Kiran Rao & Aamir Khan – photo source A Google search for aamir khan vegan this morning gives an impressive number of results, in many languages. ~ His wife Kiran Rao who’s been a vegan herself for the past few years, brought the video to his notice a couple of months…

March 12, 2015 (Last Updated: October 21, 2015) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Vegetarian Groups That Changed The World – Rynn Berry

Photo Credit – we will add as soon as someone claims it! Rynn Berry left us a year ago – January 9, 2014. Rynn was a great friend. He always enthusiastically answered our historical questions. He always gave us great support for our library / research projects – we exchanged material freely & often. Please enjoy 63 minutes of ‘classic Rynn’ – sharing his research & educating people. Non-violent eating!…

January 9, 2015 (Last Updated: July 24, 2016) By John Edmundson

Celebrity Interviews/ vegan history/ Veganism/ vegetarian history

American Vegetarian Society 1850 & Remembering Rynn Berry – by Martin Rowe

Daily Evening Transcript ~ Boston, Massachusetts ~ Monday, May 20, 1850 The editorial is a journalist’s ‘take’ on the inaugural meeting of The American Vegetarian Society of Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th May 1850! Quite a cutting / sarcastic piece of journalism! ……but we are are very glad that it was written. Prior to today, this has appeared nowhere else on the Internet. This is the last item which we were…

January 19, 2014 (Last Updated: November 11, 2019) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Rynn Berry left us a few hours ago – a loveable vegan historian & a great friend.

Rynn’s close friend, Martin Rowe, posted this news on Facebook today – Jan 9 2014. “I’ve been to the hospital, and I’m sorry to confirm that Rynn Berry passed away today at 12:30 p.m. His family was with him. I can give no further details, since I am not a next-of-kin, but I was told that he had gone into cardiac arrest in ProspectPark. When I saw him yesterday, he…

January 9, 2014 (Last Updated: October 21, 2015) By John Edmundson

General

Answers About the Vegan Lifestyle in New York

Rynn Berry is in the New York Post today / tomorrow – http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/answers-about-the-vegan-lifestyle-in-new-york/ See the related / linked pages also. Excerpt – Can you give us a summary of the history of veganism within the general context of the history of the vegetarian movement? Thank you. — Posted by Marc L. In Leicester England in 1944, Donald Watson and his wife Dorothy coined the term vegan, which they formed from…

August 7, 2008 By John Edmundson