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Veggin' with Alicia

by Caroline Ryder
March 31, 2007 3:03 PM

 

I interviewed Alicia Silverstone yesterday at Real Food Daily, a vegan organic restaurant in West Hollywood. What a great lass. It was for a cover story for a new mag called WNWN (I wrote their cover story on Heather Graham last issue). Alicia was wearing a cute floaty little blue dress. I asked her where she got it. "Oh, my grandmother gave to my mother, who gave it to me," she said. Alicia told me she doesn't really care too much about fashion, and thinks society is far too consumerist for its own good. And it's not just lip-service - she was totally psyched when describing the clothes line and pegs her husband Chris Jarecki (singer with local band Little Wolverines) gave her for her 30th birthday last October. "My sheets feel so soft!" she enthused.

She warned me early on that she's no good at small talk, so we stuck to pleasantly non-superficial topics, like animal rights activism and veganism. She recommended I check out the punk rock PETA website, Peta2.com, and told me she would totally love to have a MySpace page to help her spread the word about veganism - except she's not great with computers.

We munched delicious organic vegan seitan and shared a chocolate mousse as she gave me hints on how to be a healthier human.

"But I get windy from beans," I said.

"Don't worry, that goes away after a while," she said. "It's just your body expelling bad stuff."

We chatted for nearly two hours. On her way out she said a quick hi to a heavily-bearded Steve Jones who was enjoying a meal at the counter.

I stepped out shortly after, breathed in the fumes on La Cienega, feeling inexplicably healthy.

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