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{Philadelphia: This is a long drive for dinner.}
Ever since I saw the Philadelphia’s Memphis Taproom on Diners, Drive-ins & Dives and learned it had a couple of vegan options, I’ve been wanting to go. The draw? Their vegan “bacon”. Not a packaged meat analog but coconut. Smoked coconut, smoked in a smoker. This ingenious creation is used in their vegan B.L.T. and graces the [...]
A bit of redemption
Last time I had a sandwich from Brooklyn Standard in Greenpoint I wound up devouring their French Dip sandwich only to realize too late I had eaten a substantial amount of real dairy Swiss cheese, breaking an almost decade and a half of diligent non-dairy eating. The error was quite appalling in more ways than [...]
Vegan Doughnuts (or donuts, whichever I feel like typing)
Vegan Treats makes some damn good doughnuts. Good, like, a decadent pillow of fried goodness, damn good donut. Not a circular airy cake but a cream-filled, ooey, gooey, cover-your-mouth-in-fantastic-film… needing to gargle with black coffee kind of damn good. A donut. Like I remember from my non-vegan days. After eating a few lifetimes worth of [...]
2010 So Far: Gluttony
There’s something about 1/1 that motivates change. Yes, I subscribe to that New Years philosophy of renewal and growth, mostly because I appreciate the year as a unit of measurement, appreciate a set span of time to classify with a numerical code, appreciate some kind of end-point. I remain awed by 2009, what I managed [...]
