PETA’s Proggy Awards, 2007 ed. have been announced and they make little to no sense. These things are all over the map, from Arnold Schwarzenegger to mall-food-of-my-youth Red Robin to Coldstone Creamery. Yeah, Coldstone Creamery won best nondairy ice cream for their sorbet. My thoughts on this are: 1. Sorbet is not ice cream, 2. What??

Personal favorite, though, is the best new cookbook category, which went to the Post Punk Kitchen‘s Isa Chandra Moskowitz — not for last fall’s transcendently beautiful Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World (co-authored with PPKer Terry Hope Romero) but for the awesome Vegan with a Vengeance. Which came out in 2005. That is not progress, PETA, that is… regress. It’s 2007 and we love our timely cupcakes, dammit.

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   Comment by

   Nightowl

   on January 14, 2007 at 11:27 pm #

   Hey Susie, thank you for writing exactly what I was thinking. The Proggys this year seem like something that some overwhelmed, overworked intern and Peta threw together. Of course, most folks at Peta ARE overwhelmed and overworked, but still…

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   Comment by

   Nightowl

   on January 14, 2007 at 11:29 pm #

   Oops: meant to say overwhelmed, overworked intern AT Peta…