We've seen plenty of organizations a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081119/0404062885.shtml"react poorly/a and sue when someone creates a parody of what they do. Parody is protected under fair use rules, but that doesn't always stop lawsuits. And, some were apparently wondering if iCooking Mama/i, a popular a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_Mama"video game/a for Nintendo platforms would get offended and sue over a critical video from PETA. Cooking Mama is apparently a game where you simulate preparing a meal. The PETA version used artwork from the original game and created iCooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals/i, with the rather overt position. Some had thought that the company behind the game, Majesco, might sue. But, Jeff Leyser points out, the company took the high road, a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/87569-Cooking-Mama-Responds-To-PETA" target="_new"responding to the parody game/a and essentially said "thanks for the free publicity," while noting that the game has options for vegetarian meals. blockquotei "Food lover and culinary cutie Cooking Mama is a virtual chef who believes that good home cooked food, properly prepared from the best ingredients, can bring people together around the table and make the world a happier place. That's why Mama is taking a stand with oven mitts raised high against the latest PETA objection targeting her freshly released videogame, Cooking Mama World Kitchen, that shipped this week for Wii from Majesco Entertainment Company. Mama wants people to know that World Kitchen includes 51 recipes from around the world, ranging from vegetarian fare like miso soup and rice cakes to international delicacies like ginger pork and octopus dumplings." /i/blockquote See? It's not that difficult to respond without resorting to a lawsuit.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081120/1817312906.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081120/1817312906.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081120/1817312906op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7102b8b8b26eb6cc474d0bfd9dcd22acp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7102b8b8b26eb6cc474d0bfd9dcd22acp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=7102b8b8b26eb6cc474d0bfd9dcd22ac" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=CAk0n"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=CAk0n" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/461419296" height="1" width="1"/

In this site you will find a large collection of mostly South Indian Vegetarian Recipes (Kannada Style) and some of them are North Indian Recipes. I hope you enjoy these Selections.

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126505/veggiemama_qjpreviewth.png?359065" rel="lightbox[article126505]" title="Cooking 20Mama 3A 20Veggie 20Kitchen 3F 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126505/veggiemama.png 3F359065 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Cooking Mama: Veggie Kitchen? - Image 1" title="Cooking Mama: Veggie Kitchen? - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126505/veggiemama_qjpreviewth.png?359065" align="right" border="0"/aIn response to Mama's statement yesterday, Joel Bartlett, assistant director of marketing for a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/peta/7782" id="tag" title="People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals"PETA/a, sends Mama a letter of peace and love, even asking Mama to go with Cooking Mama: Vegetarian Kitchen. Even though they made a playable parody of Mama as a bloodthirsty butcher, PETA maintains that they still love Mama.brbrIn the letter, Bartlett was glad to report that thanks to the bloody span style="font-style: italic;"Cooking span style="font-style: italic;"Mama/span/span parody, tens of thousands of people watched the undercover footage from turkey farms that they have. They understand the game's concept, but they still urge Mama to "Pledge to be veg for 30 days."brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Based on your and Majesco's good-natured responses to PETA's game, I think you understand that although we made you into a demonic, knife-wielding maniac in Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, we still love you. While we had a good time roasting you, the real purpose of our game, of course, was to bring to light some of the horrific practices of the turkey industry. And we mean the animals who are actually mistreated not the virtual ones you cook up in your digital kitchen./pbrBartlett then points out that Mama could still have her wide variety of dishes with Indian, Thai, Japanese, and Middle Eastern cuisines, which have a lot of vegetarian and vegan options.brbrAfter all that in-game butchering, PETA just wants to play span style="font-style: italic;"Cooking Mama/span span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(a title="Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends on DS" href="http://ds.qj.net/category/Cooking-Mama-2-Cooking-with-Friends/cid/4295"DS/a, a title="Cooking Mama on Wii" href="http://wii.qj.net/category/Cooking-Mama/cid/2598"Wii/a)/span/span! But they can't, so they're asking Majesco to cook up a vegetarian kitchen for them. They'll even help promote the would-be game to over 2 million members and supporters.brbrWhat say you, Mama?brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"More on PETA vs. Cooking Mama:br/spanullia href="http://www.qj.net/-I-would-never-put-rat-in-my-Ratatouille-Cooking-Mama-responds-to-PETA/pg/49/aid/126446"span title="Cooking Mama responds to PETA" style="font-style: italic;""I would never put rat in my Ratatouille" - Cooking Mama responds to PETA/span/a/lilispan title="Cooking Mama responds to PETA" style="font-style: italic;"a title="PETA targets Mama" href="http://www.qj.net/Get-meaner-than-Mama-PETA-targets-Cooking-Mama-for-serving-meat-dishes/pg/49/aid/126356"Get meaner than Mama: PETA targets Cooking Mama for serving meat dishes/abr/span/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=CRexs7vS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=mt5JBIPi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=wHNzhmV2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/LnICPB9rGCQ" height="1" width="1"/

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Majesco kept it classy in its response to PETA's Cooking Mama parody. Taking the whole situation in stride, the publisher quoted the fictional Mama as saying, "I would never put rat in my Ratatouille. Like any accomplished cook, I create my recipes to appeal to a broad range of tastes and preferences. My only goal is to ensure you leave the table well fed."

Majesco went on to note that the company's latest entry in the franchise, Cooking Mama World Kitchen, features over 25 vegetarian-friendly recipes. It also states that Mama is not a vegetarian, but "fully supports" the humane treatment of animals, as her doggie "protégé" Max will make his debut in the latest game -- hopefully, not as an entrée. Kudos to Majesco for incorporating some flair into what would otherwise have been another boring press release about a game launch. And thanks to PETA for making the whole laugh possible.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/wii/" rel="tag"Nintendo Wii/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/simulations/" rel="tag"Simulations/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.majescoentertainment.com/news/display_news.php?id=349"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="176" border="1" align="top" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/cookingmama.jpg" //abr //div Majesco kept it classy in its a href="http://www.majescoentertainment.com/news/display_news.php?id=349"response/a to a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/17/peta-parody-grills-cooking-mama/"PETA's emCooking Mama/em parody/a. Taking the whole situation in stride, the publisher quoted the fictional Mama as saying, "I would never put rat in my Ratatouille. Like any accomplished cook, I create my recipes to appeal to a broad range of tastes and preferences. My only goal is to ensure you leave the table well fed."br /br /Majesco went on to note that the company's latest entry in the franchise, emCooking Mama World Kitchen/em, features over 25 vegetarian-friendly recipes. It also states that Mama is not a vegetarian, but "fully supports" the humane treatment of animals, as her doggie "proteacute;geacute;" Max will make his debut in the latest game -- hopefully, not as an entreacute;e. Kudos to Majesco for incorporating some flair into what would otherwise have been another boring press release about a game launch. And thanks to a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/peta"PETA/a for making the whole laugh possible.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/majesco-responds-to-petas-cooking-mama-parody/"Majesco responds to PETA's Cooking Mama parody/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.majescoentertainment.com/news/display_news.php?id=349Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/majesco-responds-to-petas-cooking-mama-parody/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1377966/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/20/majesco-responds-to-petas-cooking-mama-parody/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/VOHTEyOr8_3Pyp-S44JkU8EORgU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/VOHTEyOr8_3Pyp-S44JkU8EORgU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=u0td70J6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=u0td70J6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=fGBcKUwl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=fGBcKUwl" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/5OtDGAicDK0" height="1" width="1"/

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