Counts heavy eating as exercise

I have a friend who is opening a "traditional" cicchetti restaurant outside of Italy. Tradition is very important to him. Based on what what I have been researching about food in Venice, it seems nearly impossible for a vegan to find anything to eat in a cicchetti restaurant. As a result, there are currently no plans whatsoever for any vegan options in my friend's restaurant. I believe that it would be great to have some sort of food available that doesn't contain animal products so as to be inclusive of people who view animals and friends rather than ingredients. While not vegan myself, I know many vegans and I have learned much about how to cut out animal products in food while also presenting excellent flavor.

Is it possible for a cicchetti restaurant to offer vegan options while maintaining a deep respect for tradition?

I am NOT talking about chicken and mushrooms.

If you don't know what a chicken mushroom is, check out this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus and do not answer this question.

Looking for ideas and experience.

Macaroni and cheese is great. But I want to try mixing some other foods with cheese. What do you (besides noodles) like to mix with cheese?

Or perhaps could they have been genetically steered by humanity to become easier to work with? I mean, really, they do seem awfully convenient! Could the banana fruit have been, in the past, encased in a peel what was not so easy to remove? How might this astonishingly convenient delicacy have come about naturally?

Suppose there is no afterlife for you beyond the moment you die. Your being, consisting of organic materials and electrical energy, will degrade into dirt, air, and animal feces. Your end will be final, while every particle that ever was a part of you will be scattered to the universe for eternity, like the flakes of skin that currently gather as dust on your furniture.

Based on all evidence beyond authority and faith, this is the most likely scenario. The absence of afterlife.

That means that the only exposure to an afterlife you will have will be prior to it: in your ideas, in your dreams, in what you are told by others. Your entire experience of the afterlife will be while you are alive.

Even if you do not agree and have your own ideas about what your afterlife will contain, while you are alive your experience of your afterlife will be whatever you imagine it as. If there is actually nothing beyond that, that is all there is.

From your perspective, your afterlife is anything and whatever you define it to be, if it is nothing at all.

I'm looking to switch it up a little and if I could spend all day telling people what they want to hear, that would be great.

What is so offensive about it?

Rephrased: Supposing that you would be inclined to do so, who would you most like to throw a shoe at?

Suppose that once you die, you won't care what happens on earth because you will no longer exist. Because what happens in the infinite stretch of time beyond your death will not matter then, the time after your death should presumably not matter to you now. What would be the difference between the absence of yourself, and the absence of everything, from your perspective?

Naturally, he's pretty upset about it and it is seriously affecting his work. I don't want to get involved, however, with him getting into arguments over the phone while he should be working, and him having to leave work for her various reasons, I am finding the situation unsustainable. His chain is perpetually being yanked around and he perpetually seems to make poor personal decisions. The dissolution of his personal life is being mirrored by the dissolution of his professional integrity. I feel sorry for their young children. I am trying to figure out what, if anything, I should do.

I often check my voice mail, turn on a TV, or stare at the clouds overhead and search for patterns. I also blink a lot. I must look like an easy person to talk to ... ugh.

I think shortly before Christmas, but just before Valentine's Day is a really good time too. 'Tis the season to avoid an unnecessary expenditure.