Alaska & Hawaii: The Best Organic Food Stores, Farmers' Markets & Vegetarian Restaurants

By James Bernard Frost

"This is the resource book for vegetarian travelers." -- Healing Retreats. "This is a terrific and much-needed guidebook that makes traveling easy and worry-free for vegetarians. It lists and rates vegetarian restaurants and also reports on the best place

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hunter Publishing
• Release date: Jan 6, 2009
• ISBN: 9781588438874

James Bernard Frost

JAMES BERNARD FROST received his MFA in fiction from the University of San Francisco. He worked as a journalist for Wired magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon. World Leader Pretend is his first novel.

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Introduction

Living in San Francisco, my girlfriend Kimberly and I are amazed at the excellent quality of vegetarian restaurants in our city. However, we wanted to see what else was out there in this great nation of ours, so we took a trip to our local Barnes & Noble hoping to find a guide to the pleasures of vegetarian dining throughout the United States. We were disappointed that such a travel book did not exist, and thus an idea was formed.

Shortly afterwards, I took on the task of producing a guidebook that would help readers find alternative dining options in the United States. After nearly two years of labor, the book in your hands is that guide. Not just a guide to restaurants, natural foods stores and farmers' markets, the book also contains facts and tidbits that health-minded and environmentally conscious individuals will find appealing.

In an effort to make this book useful to the wide range of people who are vegan, vegetarian, struggling to become vegetarian, or simply appreciate meatless cooking, I have included a wide range of restaurants, stores and markets in this guide. You'll find everything from hamburger joints with a garden burger option to gourmet raw foods restaurants that adhere to strict vegan standards and espouse the consumption of easily digestible uncooked foods. I have also given special consideration to budget travelers trying to stretch their dollars. All listings have an eye toward value.

What Does It Mean To Be A Vegetarian?

The precise and correct usage of the term vegetarian is disputed by various groups within the vegetarian movement. For the purposes of this book, the term vegetarian refers specifically to those who abstain from consuming the flesh of animals (beef, poultry and seafood), but who might eat various animal by-products such as eggs, milk, cheese, etc. The term vegan is used here when referring to those who eschew both. Macrobiotic is used loosely herein to describe an Eastern philosophy of vegetarian dining that emphasizes a balance in diet.

This guide does not