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November 2, 2010

Vegan MoFo: 30 Days of Vegan Travel – Day Two – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Boy, I feel like I should have broken up my New York post into three parts or something. Phew. So, I’m living in Toronto now, it’s the biggest city in Canada, and all around a pretty swell location. First of all, Toronto has a well connected transit system (aka the...

November 2, 2010

Vegan MoFo: 30 Days of Vegan Travel – Day One: NY and NJ

So, I’m being ambitious here. I’d like to turn November into a month of fantasy travel. My worklife has limited my ability to run off and go wherever I want to, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t places I’d like to go… eventually. I’m going to save myself some time,...

October 24, 2010

Graaaaaiiiiiins – Toronto Zombie Walk and a prezombie meal of Root Vegetable Soup from Linux Cafe

Yesterday was a great day to be near Cristie Pits park. The streets were full of Zombies, and if I had the wherewithal to have planned ahead, I would have dressed up in my best vegan zombie gear and shuffled along the street in search for “graaaaaains”. Unfortunately I didn’t...

October 20, 2010

Vida Vegan Conference August 26-28 2011

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be speaking at the first ever Vida Vegan Bloggers Conference August 2011 in Portland, OR.  There are so many awesome people on the speakers list, I’m so excited to get the chance to meet the people behind blogs I’ve been reading for years! It will...

October 19, 2010

Vegan MoFo: Coming soon! And Stuffed Collard Green Rolls with Black Rice mmmm.

I’ve been trying to think of a theme for next month’s Vegan Month of Food (aka, VeganMoFo) and I’m having a hard time narrowing it down. But I think I’ve come up with something that I’m going to have a really fun time doing, and it fits in with one...

October 13, 2010

The Toronto Coffee Conspiracy: Slacking off, Sam James Espresso Bar , Dark Horse Espresso Bar, Blondies

Well, I’ve been slacking on my goal of getting a coffee from the TCC people on a daily basis, but I finally went to Sam James Espresso Bar (297 Harbord Street, get off at Christie Subway Station.) last week. I ordered a Soy Latte ($3.33) and it was yummy. Smooth...

October 11, 2010

Vegan Thanksgiving and a Trip to Nazareth Ethiopian Restaurant

Well, it’s that time of year again, it’s Thanksgiving (in Canada), and this time around, I’m all by myself. My family is back in Edmonton (celebrating with tofu steaks by the way) and work commitments made it difficult to leave town with friends. So while part of me thought, oh...

October 5, 2010

First visit to King’s Cafe

I finally went to King’s Cafe (192 Augusta Ave) today after multiple recommendations from other people. I was in the neighbourhood after grabbing a soy latte from Dark Horse Espresso Bar so it made sense to head over to Kensington Market to grab a bite to eat. I had sampled...

October 4, 2010

Toronto: 3rd Annual Totally Fabulous Vegan Bake-Off and Nuit Blanche!

Oh Toronto, what a day! A Vegan Bake-Off and Nuit Blanche all in one Saturday! Yesterday in early afternoon I went over to the Harbourfront Community Center for the 3rd Annual Totally Fabulous Vegan Bake-Off presented by the TVA. A group had already stated gathering outside the gymnasium doors, and...

September 28, 2010

It’s good to have friends.

My awesome amazing friends invited me over for dinner and made this delicious Seitan Piccata from Veganomicon. I’ve made no secret of my crazy love of olives, so having a dish with seitan, mashed potatoes covered with a tart delicious wine sauce, capers and olives was total heaven. The thing...