The arrival of my Vegan Cuts Beauty Box is always a treat. I always open the package with eager anticipation, as if it were a birthday gift. The Vegan Cuts Beauty Box is a subscription beauty box service. Each box is full of 4 to 7 cruelty-free cosmetics and skin care samples and is sent to your […]
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Six Frustrating Vegan Stereotypes
It’s so much easier when vegans are stupid, isn’t it? When they are annoying, loud, smelly and weird. How good life for a meat-eater must be, when vegans come along that live up to the biggest stereotypes? When a vegan comes along wearing a PETA t-shirt, being severely underweight, with bags under their eyes, holding […]
Book Review and Giveaway: Superfood Juices and Smoothies
I’m sure you’ve heard of foods such as camu cumu, yacon, and lucuma, and maybe you’ve even seen them in Whole Foods or your local health foods, and wondered what exactly they are and what to do with them. In Superfood Juices and Smoothies, author Tina Leigh explains what these foods are, what their health […]
Chocolate Olive Oil Glaze for Everything
Shiny chocolate-dipped fruit, cookies, confections, and snacks like pretzels and potato chips look gorgeous, but most of the time, when dipped in melted chocolate alone, the final result is dull or speckled with white spots. Tempered chocolate, however, yields a glossy, speckle-free appearance. Directions for seed-tempering chocolate are found in my book Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious […]
Film Review: Cowspiracy
If you haven’t heard, there is a new documentary taking the vegan world by storm. Cowspiracy, a controversial film that almost didn’t come to fruition, is being compared to the successful documentary Blackfish. Many are predicting that Cowspiracy will do what Blackfish did to sea world: reveal what nobody wants to talk about — how […]