{"id":1446,"date":"2013-02-28T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T22:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2013-02-28T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T22:11:25","slug":"things-i-love-thursday-recipe-for-change-new-york-vegetarian-food-festival-and-so-many-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/things-i-love-thursday-recipe-for-change-new-york-vegetarian-food-festival-and-so-many-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Love Thursday &#8211; Recipe for Change, New York Vegetarian Food Festival, and so many things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursdays are giving me a lot of fodder for TILT lately. Tonight is <a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/food-shares-recipe-for-change-2013-coming-up-soon\/\">Recipe for Change<\/a>, and I&#8217;m excited to have the opportunity to eat great vegan food, drink my fill of coffee and lemonade (and maybe some wine&#8230;), all while supporting a great cause. As usual, I&#8217;m also really looking forward to taking pictures of everything. It&#8217;s a great opportunity to talk to chefs and other food people interested in food literacy, who in many cases, are also interested in ethical food procurement and production.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1462 alignleft\" alt=\"NYC Vegetarian Food Festival\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/312403_550764178290478_1643607103_n-300x187.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/312403_550764178290478_1643607103_n-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/312403_550764178290478_1643607103_n.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As if Recipe for Change wasn&#8217;t an exciting enough addition for the week, earlier this week I\u00a0received\u00a0an email from JC. It said &#8211; &#8220;Do you want to go to New York for the <a href=\"http:\/\/nycvegfoodfest.com\/\">Vegetarian Food Festival<\/a>?&#8221; As if that&#8217;s even a question &#8211; of course! So, we&#8217;re heading over for the weekend, to eat and visit the festival and hopefully check out some of the sights around Chelsea while we&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chili for Charity by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8517127638\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Chili for Charity\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8527\/8517127638_fbecb7e75f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week there was a delicious Chili-for-charity event for the <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyranch.ca\/\">Ruby Ranch Pig Sanctuary<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadiesdiner.com\/\">Sadie&#8217;s Diner<\/a>. I love how Sadie&#8217;s Diner puts these things on on a pretty regular basis. It seems like a great way to build community while also supporting great local causes related to animal welfare and rescue.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lump of Dough by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8516019359\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lump of Dough\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8249\/8516019359_283516356f_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"challah by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8517128644\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"challah\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8374\/8517128644_a37b72dfff_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Challah by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8516053529\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Challah\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8529\/8516053529_5a800a078a_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo other than fantastic fundraiser and great organizations, I also really love playing with dough. Last night I made a challah. I love that moment when the dough just feels perfect, you&#8217;re kneading it, and it&#8217;s just exactly the way it should feel. Make a few loaves of bread, and you start to get to know that feeling, and when it&#8217;s good &#8211; it&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"Live coming soon in Liberty Village - April 2\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8517\/8516014177_9f7096cb49.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I discovered the initial signs of a new vegan restaurant near our neighbourhood. Well, it&#8217;s more of a new location for an existing restaurant, but still pretty exciting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livefoodbar.com\/\">Live Food Bar<\/a> is coming to Liberty Village, and replacing what was once upon a mattress store. It&#8217;s right on King &amp; Atlantic Street. As long a things go as planned, they&#8217;re aiming to open April 2. The original location is up at Dupont &amp; Spadina and serves gluten-free vegan and raw food.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;re having a great week. Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursdays are giving me a lot of fodder for TILT lately. Tonight is Recipe for Change, and I&#8217;m excited to have the opportunity to eat great vegan food, drink my fill of coffee and lemonade (and maybe some wine&#8230;), all while supporting a great cause. As usual, I&#8217;m also really&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,356],"tags":[1421,1392],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tilt","category-toronto-2","tag-tilt","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}