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Vegan Doughnuts Done Well
I first noticed Dun-Well‘s doughnuts popping up at Bone Shakers in my neighborhood in Brooklyn quite some time ago. Since the dapper vegan doughnut duo have raised their fundraising goal on Indiegogo & opened their very own space on Montrose avenue in East Williamsburg. It took me several weeks to check the place out even though I’ve since [...]
Banana Banana
Born a fruit lover, my first word was banana. Maybe because I hadn’t tried this bread yet.
True Thai Food: Sripraphai
Sripraphai in Woodside, Queens could be the best Thai food in New York City. And I’ve eaten a lot of Thai food through the years. At Sri Pra Phai, named after the owner, you’ll find Thais dining in, as well as countless other ethnicities within the melting pot that hugs Roosevelt avenue. You’ll find a huge menu [...]
Vegan in Toronto, Part 2: Hibiscus Sweet & Savory Crepes and Heavenly Bunners
Last minute low-ball bidding on Priceline is a skill I can add to my resume. Being V.I.V.B. (very important vegan bloggers), we needed a safe haven to recuperate from a long day of eating. Luckily, the boutique Indigo Hotel gave us a $100 room for about $50 bucks. After some restful sleep, an invigorating session in [...]
Vegan in Toronto, Part 1: One Love, Holy Hogtown & the King of Carrot Flowers
Quick! Name as many starches as you can in this dish from the all-vegan One Love in Toronto, Canada. I’ll help you. 1) Green banana, steamed… 2) sweet potato… 3) yucca… 4) yellow yam… 5) plantain, as well as cooked greens and some fresh avocado slices. As the darling name implies, One Love is a Caribbean [...]
Lowbrow and Highbrow Brilliant
The East Village’s Cowgirl’s Bakery makes deep-fried Kool Aid balls. A sucker for kitsch, nostalgia and an all-vegan bakery, I had to partake… once. I chose orange, the preferred artificial flavor of my youth. They also had the flavor of “red” and the flavor of “purple.” Though I’d prefer deep-fried Tang, my orange zeppole, my little mainline [...]
Vegan on the Jersey Shore, Part 2: Bashful Banana
Over the 5 years I have been blogging I have only reported on vegan eats in the Garden state twice: Sweet Avenue Bake Shop, barely outside of the Lincoln Tunnel in Rutherford, in 2008 and Medieval Times in Lyndhurst, NJ in 2010. That is it! I think I dismissed New Jersey prematurely, assuming anything it had the Empire [...]
Thai Desserts in New York City
Remember, faithful reader, my obsession with Kow Dom Mat, the local dessert I lived off of for two months in Thailand? Save for Sookk on Manhattan’s West Side, I have basked in memories of the street delicacy since then. Surface perusal of Asian bakeries in and about New York’s Chinatown were fruitless and, well, geared towards [...]
Sookk
If I blogged even 1/4 of the times I’ve eaten Thai, my blog would explode. I eat it at least twice a week. So much do I love Thai food that I am often half-way through a dish before realizing my camera is right there next to me. That I could have captured the glistening [...]
Summer Cake, Simple Lunch
Sacrificing virgin coconut oil. With my apartment’s thin windows chilling the kitchen, my coconut oil was in the solid phase. To utilize it for a summer-inspired Bahama cake, I let her toast ‘er bottom on my stovetop, very briefly. Anyone who’s ever had a bowl of pyrex [or multiple glass kettles] explode on the burner [...]
Visions of Sugar Plums
Snowflake time. Christmas morning and Santa came! Making quick use of the Electrician‘s new waffle maker and Williams Sonoma waffle tongs. Christmas sugar cookies. All dressed up. Banana everything cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar Santa came again at my folks’. Pancake in her festive collar.
