December 2009
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Rethinking nacho cheese
Shmooed Food’s nacho cheese sauce changed my life. I had already been making it with cashews, but Vegan Lunch Box’s addition of corn starch took it to the next level.
Out of necessity, I swapped out the mild pimentos for jalapeños, cashews for pistachios, and lemon juice for lime. It. Was. DELICIOUS.
Blend the following, adding the water slowly:
• 1/4 cup pistachios • 1 phat...
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NEWSFLASH: Plant Cafe is open at 101 California!!
I know this is exciting news for nobody but me because our readers all have twee creative-class jobs like “writer” and “pop culture strategist” and work in airy Dogpatch lofts (or at home in their sweatpants and own filth), but for everyone who slogs to their depressing-ass desk job in the bizarro world that is the Financial District, PLANT CAFE IS NOW OPEN AT 101...
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Vegansaurus NYC: Brooklyn's Red Bamboo turns to...
The major downgrade of the week goes to Brooklyn’s Red Bamboo. It was reported on Friday that the vegetarian soul restaurant will close at the end of the month and re-open as “Poppa’s Place” with a menu chock-full of meat. (I’m already gagging). David Bukszpan, the restaurant’s publicist, claims they will still be serving their most successful vegetarian...
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Jay's Cheesesteak, Philly Perspective!
The comment section of my vegan hightop review has become a lot of talk about Philly and of course, Philly vegan cheesesteaks. Then tonight! I went to Waziema for a going-away party, felt awkward and decided to go outside so I could feel awkward outside. But then! I found myself standing outside Jay’s Cheesesteak on Divisadero. So I says to myself, “Self, let’s get a vegan...
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Ground beef of doom, domestic terrorism, emu...
• Beloved, beautiful vegan fashion company Vaute Couture has two holiday events happening for you lucky Chicago-area shoppers (I fucking hate you, buy me coats). The first is tomorrow!, Saturday Dec. 12 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Shops at North Bridge; the second is Thursday, Dec. 17 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Colori Eco-Paint Boutique, at 2243 W. North Ave. This one is a fancy event with...
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Vegan Hightops: You Know You Love Them!
In honor of my superfantastic new purple hightops from Keep (a Vegansaurus favorite), a vegan hightop round up! Yay! If you are looking for sneakers to “exercise” with, this is not for you. These are fashion sneaks all the way! And I guess I should warn you, for some reason, I seem to prefer my hightops in wackyass colors. I don’t know, they’re hightops! They’re already wacky! Might as well go all...
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156th Anniversary of New York Vegetarian Festival:...
So something that is absolutely wonderful, if you are a dork like me, is old newspapers. Who WOULDN’T want to read ads for bustles and “horse rub” and grisly bits about people getting killed with clubs, and what the fine was?* Seriously, it’s kind of a beautiful thing to discover that wit and sarcasm, as we know them, were alive and sneering in the 1800’s. And this...
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Today's easy, five-second activism for...
I’m pissed off. Earlier this week, I contracted swine flu (yes, H1N1) which really sucks and you don’t want it, not even a little for recreational purposes. I had been dwelling on how I went vegan to get away from this kind of shit, and it finally dawned on me when Maria sent along word of Farm Sanctuary’s No Downers Campaign.
Dragged, beaten, pushed with forklifts and shocked...
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Lisa Jervis customizes a recipe, just for you!
What’s more bad ass than a star in your honor or a key chain with your name on it? A customized recipe from Lisa Jervis, author of the delicious Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating and Bitch magazine’s founding editor and publisher, for the highest bidder in the WAM! Benefit Auction. Lisa will work with you to veganize your favorite recipe or help you a create a...
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Wall calendars are still hip, right? →
Forget the iPhone, iCal, iWhatever fancy technology you use to keep track of your wasted days and increasingly depressing age. There’s a quiet greatness in the art of the wall calendar, and Men and Cats nails it.
This calendar is the perfect holiday treat for my hetero days in 2010. What’s better than adorable men posing with their adorable, sassy cats? Nothing. Except maybe if they were...
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Viva Viva Vegan!
Vegan Chile Rellenos. That’s right, I said VEGAN CHILE RELLENOS.
I am talking, of course, about the new book from Terry Romero (co-author of Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World and the Veganomicon and Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar), Viva Vegan! Turns out it’s now available for pre-order (and it’s cheap! Under $13! Recession-friendly!)!
I have it on good authority that the...
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Vegan Rain Boot Roundup!
As I was trudging to my morning ritual of soy-latte-and-seasame-bagel-with-tofu-cream-cheese at Think Coffee, I was splashed on by an oncoming car speeding through a puddle. We’re talking big puddle. Pond, even. Never mind the fact that I was already soaked due to this incredible downpour we have goin’ on in the Village on this not-so-fine morning :( After yelling (a bunch of...
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Fraîche redux
Okay, first of all, you’re probably thinking, “why the HELL are you reviewing a FROZEN yogurt place in December? Haven’t you been outside lately? I’m already frozen enough.” But some of us are crazy. For some of us, a frozen treat on a freezing night is homeopathic, fighting the cold by embracing the cold. Or maybe it’s that a smooth dessert with infinite...
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Recipe Alert! Warmth in a Bowl: Baked Oatmeal!
It’s cold as a witch’s tit here in the Bay Area these days. So cold, in fact, that this hardened Canadian is wearing leg warmers OVER HER PANTS. That’s right; it’s chilly. I know it can be hard to drag one’s ass out of bed in the morning when it’s still dark and all you have to look forward to is a cold and maybe rainy slog to work (or whatever you do with your...
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Triple X-mas Sale at Food Fight Grocery!
Ladies and gentlemen, Portland vegan grocery Food Fight is offering a special online coupon: XXXMAS09 Enter that code at checkout through December 25th (Jesus’ Bday!) and you’ll receive 5 percent off your order of $30 or more.
I have a special place in my heart for Food Fight. I ordered a ton of shit from there when I was just a fledgling vegan. Yes, I had them ship stuff all the way to...
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Vegansaurus NYC: Babycakes Holiday Menu Is Up!
The first time I went to Babycakes a couple years ago, I was all “EW HEALTH FOOD CUPCAKE DEVIL.” Recently, though, I cut back on sugar and wheat, and one or both of these things has happened: my palate is more sensitive, OR Babycakes has gotten WAY WAY better.
Seriously, though, Babycakes is not for the junky-junk food lovers; it’s more for those (enviably restrained) people...
