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Tanya Flink is an Orange County journalist willing to run for vegan food. She’s written for several plant-based publications, including VegNews, Organic Authority, EcoSalon, and LIVEKINDLY. She currently serves as the Content Manager for Switch4Good.
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Food & Drink
13 Flavored Nut and Seed Butters You Need to Try
If pressed, we could probably survive off nut and seed butter and never get bored. The market has innovated beyond the basic and created a delicious library of inventive and addictive flavors—from French Toast Pecan to Walnut Black Pepper. Check out this comprehensive collection of everyday staples to gourmet finds.
Food & Drink
These Cannabis-Infused Vegan Fruit Leathers Are The Perfect Way to Chill Out This Summer
Remember those chewy, slightly sticky dehydrated fruit leathers your parents packed you for lunch? They’re not just for kids—especially when they come from Fruit Slabs. This plant-based edibles company is making fruit snacks infused with THC and CBD.
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Food & Drink
This 12-Minute Risotto Makes the Perfect Quick and Easy Healthy Dinner
Say buongiorno to creamy (and dairy-free!) risotto!
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Food & Drink
The 11 Best Vegan Bakeries in America
Long gone are the days of seeking out stray vegan options at non-vegan cafés. Today, animal-free bakeries are common all over the country—from Los Angeles to New York City and quite a few places in between. You all voted for the best vegan bakeries in the nation during our 2021 VegOut Awards, and these eleven sweet shops reigned supreme for their divine cupcakes, pastries, and other sugary confections.
Food & Drink
Interviews
Hot for Food: An Interview with Lauren Toyota
Warning: Do not read if you’re hungry. Media personality, cookbook author, and YouTuber Lauren Toyota will make you hot for food (the title of her plant-based blog). This vegan Canadian cooking maven is one to follow for her guiltless vegan photos and captivating authenticity. As the woman behind the popular hot for food brand, she’s not afraid to pose with a stray noodle protruding from her mouth or send cooking utensils accidentally flying in a video. Lauren is one hundred percent real, and her recipes are one hundred percent delicious (and easily replicated at home). She carved out time from promoting her new cookbook—hot for food all day— to chat with us.
Interviews
Vegan Pro Skater Micky Papa on Skateboarding, the Olympics, and His Nonna’s Cooking
2020 was the year skateboarding would debut at the Olympics, but unfortunately for Olympic hopefuls like Micky Papa, they’ll have to wait another year to show off their skills on the world stage. Micky isn’t too phased by the postponement, though. He just wants to skate. The vegan professional skateboarder allowed us into his world, demonstrating that the skater lifestyle is far more complex than people in backwards hats fooling around skate parks. Micky takes the extremely difficult sport seriously, both for its physical challenges and its mental demands (it takes a very specific mindset to hurl yourself into the air knowing you could land face-first on concrete). Micky shares his thoughts on the art of skating, how veganism is integrated into the sport, and how his Italian Nonna’s cooking influenced his diet and his perspective on life.
Interviews
News
Drake Invests in Plant-Based Chicken Brand Daring Foods
Entertainer and Canadian rapper, Drake, just became an investor of the up-and-coming vegan chicken brand, Daring Foods. As part of the Series B round of funding, Drake’s investment will allow the company to expand its retail reach to 4,500 US stores by the end of the year. Currently, Daring can be found in select Sprouts, Kroger, and Costco locations.
News
Sweet Earth Launches Jumbo Vegan Hot Dog
Vegetarian and vegan-friendly convenience food company, Sweet Earth, just announced several new vegan meat products in time for summer grilling season. The lineup includes a recipe revamp of the Sweet Earth Awesome Burger 2.0 and Vegan Jumbo Hot Dogs.
News
Vegan Cinnamon Roll Shop, Cinnaholic, Opens New Location in Long Beach
Cinnaholic—the create-your-own-cinnamon-roll shop—is opening its fourth Southern California location on Friday, May 21. The sweet shop is making its debut in Long Beach on the bustling stretch of 2nd Street in Belmont Shore.
News
Los Angeles
Soy Concha Bakery to Ship Vegan Pan Dulce Nationwide
Southern California’s first vegan panaderia, Soy Concha Bakery, is launching nationwide shipping. Formerly Vegan by Victoria’s, the business launched in 2018 at Orange County’s SoCal Vegfest and quickly took over a brick-and-mortar in a small Santa Ana strip mall. Since its founding, owner Earvin Lopez has expanded his offerings from Oreo-topped tres leches and crunchy puerquitos to colorful conchas, vegan gansitos (“vegansitos”), jalapeño-stuffed bolillos, and other classic panaderia goods.
News
Los Angeles
Things To Do
4 Vegan Juneteenth Events Happening This Friday in Los Angeles
Juneteenth is a holiday that is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, events across Los Angeles will be held to honor Black voices and equality for all. Here are four vegan-friendly Juneteenth events to check out this Friday.
Things To Do
Los Angeles
Vegan Things to Do in L.A. This Weekend: March 13-15
We search the web for the best vegan things to do in the city, so you don’t have to. Here’s what’s happening this weekend.
Things To Do
Los Angeles
Vegan Things to Do in L.A. This Weekend: March 6-8
We search the web for the best vegan things to do in the city, so you don’t have to. Here’s what’s happening this weekend.
Things To Do
Los Angeles
25 Awesome Vegan Things to Do in L.A. This March
From Pi Day to St. Patrick’s Day, we’re indulging in all the foodie holidays this March.
Things To Do
Los Angeles
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