On Saturday, June 16th, Lydia and I attended The Seed: A Vegan Experience at 82 Mercer in the hopping Soho district of NYC. Instead of your typical vegetarian food festival, Erin Red, et al., made sure this gorgeous loft was teaming with vegan companies! In addition to companies peddling their wares, we were treated to speakers on two different […]
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This past weekend was the much awaited grand opening of Brad’s Raw Foods Chip Factory. An all raw/vegan business that’s growing and expanding into a health and wellness resource for the community is a really big deal for our little corner of suburban PA. I’ve been buying Brad’s awesome chips (the naked kale is my favorite) […]
I know the timing of this post isn’t the best, but, hopefully, it will give you some food for thought for next year and what to do with all those delicious tomatoes. Look at all these lovely tomato varieties I got this year from our market share, produced by one of our many local, organic-on-a-handshake, […]
If you are ever in Washington, DC you need to stop in Sticky Fingers Bakery. They are now taking holiday orders from December 18th to New Years Day. You can order Lasagna with marinara sauce, spinach, tofu ricotta and Daiya mozzarella; White Bean and Escarole Soup; and a Chocolate Cream Pie for $15.00. In addition, you can […]
We last visited Jim’s parents in North Carolina about a year and a half ago. It was during the summer and the perfect time to be at the beach. When we decided to go for the holidays this year, the first thing I thought of was to search for great vegan food, since we weren’t […]
We spent the November 7th and 8th weekend in New York City, where we got to go to a few different places — this is one of a few posts about this trip, so keep an eye out for them. Every year, Bryant Park organizes what they call their “Winter Village“, a collection of merchant stands of all […]
We are excited to announce that Grape Cat has a new vegan clothing store popup until January 9th! Come visit Grape Cat to check out their full inventory of handbags, sweatshirts, coats, wallets, and much more. We have items from companies such as Matt & Nat, Herbivore, Compassion Co., Vaute Couture, Gunas, and our newest Grape Cat […]
If you’re a regular here at From A to Vegan, you’ll have noticed that videos and interviews feature Chris and I, or one or the other. To make it all possible James and Mauro, our behind the scenes crew, are busy fumbling with cameras, tripods, wires and mics. Thanks guys! We appreciate everything you do!
You would think that wine would be vegan. I mean, it is only fermented grapes right? Unfortunately, this is not the case; wines can contain blood and marrow, casein, shells, egg white albumin, fish oil, gelatin, or isinglass and they do not need to be put the ingredients on the label. These ingredients are used to remove protein, yeast cloudiness, […]
New England is one of my favorite parts of this country. I love the cool fall weather, the great beaches, the people, and the food. It’s where I spent my college years and where I have many great memories. Recently, James and I decided to take a weekend trip up to New England to visit […]