Category Archives: VVC

Austin Cocktail Round-Up
booze / Buddha's Brew / cocktails / Come Scone with Me / Curra's / Daily Juice CAFE / drinks / field trip / Fiesta / friends / happy hour / kombucha / La Condesa / margarita / margarita salt / photo essay / photography / soda / Spiderhouse / SUNNY DAYS / Team VVC / tequila / Texas / travel / vegan / Vida Vegan HQ / VVC

Austin Cocktail Round-Up

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Tales of the Texas VegFest (starring jaw-dropping vegan funnel cakes, tacos, Capital City goodies, Ethiopian stews and more) this past weekend are still rocking the vegan internet, so consider me crazy jealous – and in taco withdrawal. That’s certainly another long-delayed photo essay in the making for another long-delayed day, because I’m a little busy … Continue reading »

Same City Field Trip: Portland’s Better Living Show & Vegan Village
Better Living Show / bitters / booze / cacao nibs / Chef Al and Donna / chocolate / coconut / coconut bacon / Division Street Pho Chay / DIY / events / field trip / Frontier Co-op / liqueur / local / Mama Chia / mixology / Northwest Veg / Pho / Pho Chay / photo essay / portland / Portland vegan / Portlandia / Portlanding / Portlanding on Get Sconed! / rum / samples / Sisters Legume / tradeshow / vegan / vegan food / Vegan Village / vietnamese / VVC

Same City Field Trip: Portland’s Better Living Show & Vegan Village

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What better time to start putting together a recap about a visit to the Better Living Home and Garden Show than a Boltbus with shaky but semi-reliant WiFi out-of-town? I’m now back home and just last night, started a batch of chocolate liqueur using the organic Frontier Co-op cacao nibs I picked up at the show (yeah, samples!). … Continue reading »

booze / coffee / margarita / photo essay / pickle chips / seattle / soylatte / Teapot Vegetarian House / travel / Victrola Coffee / VVC

31 Hours and Three Lattes: A Seattle Photo Essay

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Last month, team VVC took a quick trip to Seattle.  It basically went like this: Soy lattes were sipped. Pickle chips were consumed. Vegan treats were sought out. Locations were visited. It was business as usual. One of my first stops: a mug of house Caffé Vita & the vegan chocolate cupcake at Cupcake Royale What clearly, … Continue reading »

Bleeding Heart Bakery / Chicago / Chicago Diner / coffee / coffeeshops / friends / Intelligentsia / Native Foods / Quesadilla La Reyna del Sur / Team VVC / travel / Upton's Naturals / vegan milkshakes / vegan pizza / VVC / Whole Foods

Three Days, Five Things, Chicago

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Back in January, the busy month that was, I went with team VVC to scout Chicago as a potential location for Spring 2013’s conference. Did we want the conference to take a leap east to a bigger city? Or did we want one more year of celebrating the vegan grandeur of our own home turf? … Continue reading »