Smell more attractive, Valentine

Illustration by Sarah Hansel

One Green Planet list of “The 5 Reasons People Go Vegan”—health, nutrition, environmental protection, social justice and logic—is missing a notable one: to impress a vegan dreamboat. Because sometimes the motivating factor is what’s in one’s chones, and that’s nothing new. So maybe the three-course Valentine’s Day dinner at Capitol Garage is the way to woo your vegan sweetheart, via their stomach. Share your choice of appetizers, entrees and desserts, including the spinach, blueberry and toasted pecan salad or the sweet-potato falafel bites with sweet Thai chili. Try the entree of barbecue baked tofu with caramelized onions, seared asparagus and Yukon mash; and for dessert, the red velvet vegan cake. Dinner is $25 per person on Tuesday, February 14, at 1500 K Street, and there are corpse-inclusive options, too, but remember, vegan men have higher levels of testosterone, a more attractive scent and less erectile dysfunction (see www.oneingredientchef.com/vegan-men). Welcome to the kind, sexy side, friends!