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World Cup…cakes
I kind of caught World Cup fever. It was hard not to with television, newspapers, chalkboard signs at bars and men at the bagel store hyping the rivalries and sensationalizing the sensation. Heck, even the supermarket was prepared with soccer cupcake liners! They were the last piece of a cupcake plan that had taken shape [...]
Vegan Cupcakes For Haiti
With a generous contribution of ingredient mula from J. “Whoa Whoa Whoa” Roth and a pint of midnight oil, I whipped up 2 batches of vegan cupcakes (VCTOTW‘s basic vanilla with chocolate ganache and basic chocolate with buttercream) for Vegan Drinks‘ Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti. Said cupcakes were made after a full day of [...]
✩ ✩ Buy Nothing Day: Friday, 11/27/09 ✩ ✩
1. Break a comfort zone. For the most part, we exist safely in the parameters of our comfort zones. By design, they don’t challenge us. Year after passing year, growing boundaries can keep us comfortable– but should that be the goal of our time here? Today I’ll have a meaningful conversation with a stranger, parallel [...]
Giving Thanks, Part II: Food Not Bombs
I am thankful for the ability to put my ideals in action. This past weekend I had the chance to partake in a very special event hosted by Long Island Food Not Bombs. I helped share thousands of pounds of packaged foods, hot, prepared vegan dishes, fruits, vegetables, clothing and books with the people in [...]
Giving Thanks, Part I
I am thankful for friends who value food. Holidays, like Johnny Dangerously, are just another excuse to gather the gang and to eat… and eat well. The hiatus-ed FoodSparrow and her dapper gent hosted a wonderful vegan Thanksgiving potluck over the weekend in their gorgeous Park Slope apartment and we all managed to knock each [...]
Irrational Love of the Beet
Dear Beets, I like the way you stay on my hands for hours, how peeling your earthened skin reveals the most vibrant purple-red. I think you invented purple-red. If I were born a root in the ground I, too, would grow the most vivid innards, like yours. I’d let my color bleed and ooze in [...]
Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island / VeganMoFo #5: Karen Zucchini Muffins
/ I often feel I was born in the wrong era. Though I have taken to the 00′s I suppose, I pine for old time aesthetics. I love the smack of a type writer, tintype photography, cloche hats, Ada Jones. From the satisfying scratch of a phonograph, to the grainy temperament of a Super-8, the [...]
VeganMoFo #1: Okay. I’m In!
About 3 seconds ago I decided I couldn’t sit out on VeganMofo this year like I had originally planned. Fearing the commitment and being a bit pressed for time, I thought “meh”. But now that my Google Reader is filled with VeganMofo entries, I am inspired and ready to wrap the mofo round my ring [...]
White Trash Dinner Party: The Food
Me and my vegan Twinkies… and stained spouse-sweeper, Confederate-inspired belt buckle and undersized jeans.Plenty of cheap beer was a necessity. Here is an extra large “Danish Lager Beer”Southern fried tofu from FoodSparrow with a veganaise aioli.CandyPenny chomping on my Red Lobster bunTator tots and smart dog on picks! To the right, “real” pigs in a [...]
W.hiskey T.ango
Tapping into my inner low-brow for a White Trash Dinner extravaganza, I kicked up the zing on some vegan Twinkies by piping them with Southern Comfort-infused buttercream! My oh my, how I love me a themed dinner party. With friends busting out the denim cut-offs and mesh hats, crafting appropriate playlists and locating buckets for [...]
I Left My ღ in Chicago
In Chicago again for the Pitchfork Music Festival I realizedI kinda, like, love Chicago.ღ But moving onward to food, something far more translatable to the written word… I took the opportunity to squeeze in some vegan eats in before, between and after musical acts. As was the case last year, the festival itself provided me [...]
Bust Out The Oak Tag, It’s the…
This Sunday, May 17, is NYC’s Veggie Pride Parade. Click here for event details!
