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August 31, 2016

Fare Well

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Located on NE H Street, Fare Well is the new “veggie-centric comfort food” diner, bakery and bar brought created by the founder of DC’s famous Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats, Doron Petersan.

Vegan Bowl Attack is the new cookbook by the founder of Vegan Yack Attack, Jackie Sobon and it is fantastic!

Thanks to Leinana Two Moons’ book, Baconish, vegans now have the perfect reply to anyone who says, “mmm, bacon” or “but bacon?!?”.

Ethan and I were approached by Sunwarrior to see if we would be interested in trying their Sunwarrior Protein Powder. While we don’t often use protein powders, we do occasionally like them. We like to use protein powders when we know we are going to have a long gap between meals, like before a road trip, and want to make sure we have a good store of protein and essential nutrients to keep us going until we can eat a meal.

If you are looking for an inexpensive city to visit with great vegan food, look no further than Mexico City.

When Michael and I heard about the new vegan egg by the amazing folks at Follow Your Heart, we simply had to get it. When I went vegan six years ago this week, my last non-vegan food hold-outs were cow’s milk in my coffee and chickens’ eggs. It’s been six years and I have to say, I haven’t really missed them at all. But when I tried the vegan egg, it brought back something I had long since given up. We decided to do it live this morning on Periscope (Twitter’s live video feed) and it was…. well, see for yourselves: Consider this: The average cost of a carton of 12 chickens’ eggs in the US is currently $1.87 and each egg has nearly 200 mg of cholesterol. The maximum recommended daily allowance for dietary cholesterol is a max of 300 mg per day. That means, in less than one and

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The Complete Guide to Even More Vegan Food Substitutions is the latest book by the team of Joni Marie Newman and Celine Steen. This book is a must have for anyone interested in cooking vegan food. Forget about store bought versions of vegan food substitutes, now you can make them all at home.

Vegan Ease, the new cookbook by Laura Theodore, shows how anyone can easily and economically create delectable vegan meals that will be enjoyed by omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans alike.

Julie and Jay Hasson created Julie’s Original Gluten Free baking mixes because they know how much time and money is involved in gluten-free baking, not to mention all of the trial and error, as well as tracking down dozens of specialty flours. They’ve done all the hard work for us! With these mixes we can do what Julie and Jay like to call “modern scratch baking.”

3 Brothers Vegan Cafe is Long Island’s first and only 100% vegan restaurant. This addition to the 3 Brother’s Pizza Cafe chain is run by the amazing vegan chef Jay Astafa. If you want great Italian food, that just happens to be vegan, you need to check it out. What really makes 3 Brothers Vegan Cafe extraordinary is that they make their vegan cheeses including fresh cashew mozzarella, cashew milk cheddar, cashew parmesan, macadamia feta, cashew tofu ricotta, and cashew bleu cheese. Having homemade vegan cheese really sets 3 Brothers apart from all other Italian restaurants that offer vegan options.