Ode to Meatless Mondays, Spokane Vegans cook up a few November events.

Even if you are not a vegan, you can still join these great events hosted by Spokane Vegans at One World Cafe. You will find great inspiration at these dinners to refresh your menu ideas. After all, even if you do consume animal products, it is unnecessary to consume animals for every meal—challenge your taste-buds and go vegan once a week.

November 6, 2009 5:30-8PM at One World Spokane, Guest Chef Stephanie Smith will prepare an entirely vegan meal.

Here is the official word from the Spokane Vegans’ web site.

An Evening in the Garden of Vegan with Sarah Kramer

A Benefit for One World Spokane and Spokane Vegans

Join us Monday November 16th for a seasonal four course vegan meal lovingly prepared for you by the Spokane Vegans in partnership with One World Spokane. Best-selling cookbook author and vegan extraordinaire, Sarah Kramer will be our guest of honor and will be sharing some thoughts on veganism and celebrating the 10 year anniversary How it All Vegan.

This dinner is a benefit for One World Spokane, a unique organic community kitchen, and your friendly neighborhood vegans, us "“ the Spokane Vegans.

Doors open at 5:30pm, dinner will be served at 6pm

Tickets:

pre-order $20 adults and $15 children 10 & under

$30 at the door

Space is limited, so order your tickets now by following the links below.

Sarah Kramer's books and 2010 wall calendar will be available for purchase at the event.

(Watch this space for more information, such as the evening's planned menu.)

There was quite a bit of interest as well as a few questions about the meat brackets we mentioned a couple of days ago, so here are the official 7vs7: “Eat Your Meat” rules!

The Players

The players—and let us know if you’re interested in doing this—will, to the best of their abilities, eat their way through the bracket, and come up with a set of individual winners. If they already have eaten any of the types of meat, they do not have to re-eat it. Along the way, they can post blog posts (or comments, or whatever) about where to find the best quality and best deals for some of the meats. It’s a tough challenge, but somebody has to try it, for the sake of science.

The Spectators

Those who choose to not participate (at least officially—feel free to play along if you so like on an “unofficial” basis) can fill out brackets based on what meat they think will win. Haven’t eaten all? Or are you a vegetarian that has at some point eaten meat? Use your best judgment, this is bracketology after all. (I mean, had any of you watched Akron play before NCAA this year?) The one who gets most hits correctly might even win something.

The Brackets

And don’t worry—we will provide brackets that can be filled out online, instead of silly PDFs. It’s that Spokane Food Blog service mentality!

When will this go down?

If you’re a spectator the brackets will be up on Wednesday, April 8th. If you’re a player, well, you can start playing now, but the brackets will be up on the 8th for you too. Then the competition will go for two weeks, until April 22nd. The winner of the competition will be the one who has tasted the most meat from the bracket. (Honors system applies!)

And vegan and vegetarian brackets? We will do those when/if EatSpokane’s Veg Week happens this summer.

Let the great experiment begin!