Project Juice Bar San Francisco
A new juice bar has opened on Valencia Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. Juice bars are not new, but I’d heard their set up was a little different so I thought I’d check it out. Valencia is a very gentrified area of The Mission. Think lots of independent furniture design stores, clothing stores awash…
Yeah Dawg. Delicious Street Food In NYC. HOT DOGS!!
I once thought that being vegan, gluten free and healthy meant forgoing street food. That notion has since been proven wrong by a host of gourmet food trucks I’ve visited on my travels. I did think though that it definitely meant no hot dogs consumed al fresco. WRONG! My recent trip to New York had…
Surely A ‘Must Do’ When In New York. Go Visit A Chocolate Factory
Not all chocolates are created equal. Not all raw chocolates cut the mustard so to speak. Fine & Raw does. Tell you about Fine & Raw? OK. “FINE & RAW was started in a notorious Williamsburg, Brooklyn artist loft by Daniel Sklaar. A nonsensical obsession with chocolate inspired Daniel to begin making small chocolate batches….
What’s Better Than a Potato Crisp, Guilt Free And A Delicious Superfood?…. Kale Chips [with short video interview]
Once you’ve popped a crispy, crunch, chewy kale chip in your mouth..you will be hooked. A warning and a promise! I was at the Mind Body & Spirit Festival 2013 in London in June. We interview Dominik Schnell from inSpiral Foods A mainly raw food company with a great little cafe/lounge bar in Camden Town and…
Healthy Elixir Kombucha, The New Alternative To Alcohol? Equinox Kombucha Is Launched In The UK [with video].
I was at the Mind Body Spirit filming my debut with Extraordinaire Digital Media, when spotted the colourful sign and I muscled my way in through a lines of hungry expo goers, to grab a taste of the drink that quenches my thirst on a daily basis in America. I was keeping my fingers crossed it would be…
Beyond Eggs - Science and Passion Is Set To Crack The Egg..And Replace It….With Plants!
Are the egg’s days numbered? There is a company that may very well be set to totally revolutionise the food manufacturing industry: come to the aid of the environment and improve our health. I met with the founder of Hampton Creek Foods, Josh Tetrick at his start-up company in the Soma district of San Francisco. He looks far younger…
A day with Vegan Iron Chef SF 2013 - Lisa Books-Williams [with short video]
A woman transformed! As you know, I am currently in San Francisco working on some interesting projects and finding out what is new and exciting in the vegan world. I covered the 2013 Vegan Iron Chef and was so inspired by the winning menu. It consisted of some very innovative and enticing looking raw…
Cooking With Tea - A Class With Philip Gelb of In The Mood For Food - [with short video]
Those of you that follow A Vegan Obsession regulary will know that I recently had the opportunity to attend Vegan Iron Chef San Francisco 2013. So much fun. Well the fun kind of mushroomed. I was so excited to then be invited by the chef who gained 2nd place, Philip Gelb, to his ‘Cooking With Tea’ workshop….
Eating Vegan In Buenos Aires - Interview Series. Algaia Cocina [with video clip]
My time in Buenos Aires was nearing its end. Knowledge of Argentinas capital had proliferated questions of its food scene. Why was I so encouraged and hungry to find a restaurants marked with the big V? It is 5000 miles from home. But what is home anyway? Maybe a view, narrowed by a town or…
Eating Vegan In Buenos Aires - Interview Series - Delivery Kitchen - Cocina Verde
Gourmet food - delivered to my door! Comida gloriosa comida…. Three weeks deep into my stay in Buenos Aires, I was coming to see that healthful plant based eating was actually really easy to source. All the stereotypical foodie fads were catered for, some not always that well. Puerto cerradas, gluten free, raw live…
Eating Vegan in Buenos Aires - Interview Series. Arevalito [with video clip]
Arevalito - Arévalo 1478, Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, ArgentinaThe first thing that struck me about Carmen Paz, one of the band of three that owns Arevalito, nestled in the hip barrio of Palermo Hollywood - Buenos Aires, was her accessibility. Many restauranteurs barakade themselves behind their kitchen walls and are rarely glimpsed. Not so with Carmen….
VEGAN COOK OFF - The Great Moshi Vegan Challenge - 2012
Life is rather good when you get invited to come along and judge a vegan cook-off. I’m making that sound grander than it is. I was 1 of 100 judges (diners) nevertheless, I took my assignmentVERY seriously! Down in the ‘oh so famous’ Brighton Lanes lies a hugely successful and innovative Japanese restaurant called Moshi Moshi….
