Back in October, my dear friend, Kris and I decided to head up to Portland for a short week. It all started back in the summer when Kris and I went to a local tattoo parlor here in the Verde Valley for our Vegan ‘V’ matching tattoos. The parlor used all vegan products...
Let the Prescott Adventure Begin! My Arizona adopted Mom, Cynthia, and I love to take shopping jaunts, coupled with lunch. On a warm summer day, we decided to go to slightly higher elevation to find a dash of cooler air. So, down to Prescott we ventured. On the way...
In addition to being a vegan food snob, I am also an avid live theater enthusiast. While a sucker for a great musical, I also very much enjoy all sorts of live theater, including concerts of most musical genres (sans country western), plays, etc. As a season ticket...
How The Vegan Gals of Sedona Do Dinner and a Movie ... One of my greatest joys is creating community and gathering people together for connection, fun, and great vegan food. What better way to do that than to gather a bunch of amazing women for a Girls Vegan Night Out...
It All Started With Shoes ... Last week, my friend, Judith, and I had the pleasure of driving down to the Valley (as in the Phoenix metropolitan area) and spend a couple of days traipsing about. While we did some major scoring on the shoe front, we also spent much of...
A Night Out on the Town in Sedona Sound Bites Grill, Sedona, AZ On January 14, my friend Judith and I went to a local supper club, Sound Bites Grill. The entertainment for the evening was a delightful gypsy jazz group. As is typical with so many restaurants, they...
Let's Get Hip! Every now and again, I am ‘wowed’ by a veg restaurant. Those of you who know me, know that I am far too often disappointed by the mediocre-at-best food that is served at veg restaurants outside the big city haunts. So, when I went back East for my...
Besides not seeing my family and Jersey girl(friends) as often as I did when I lived in New Jersey, top on my list of what I miss are the wonderful vegan dining experiences so readily available in Manhattan and Philadelphia. I know what you might be thinking, that...
Here’s where Manhattan really stands out. So many amazing vegan dessert choices, so little time. For me, two really stand out from our recent vacation.The Pennsy, which is a food court adjacent to The Garden (as in Madison Square Garden) was closed for remodeling, so...
Summer vacation arrived for Richard and I on June 20. This was not going to be any ordinary vacation. We had several destinations on tap, starting with Manhattan, then to Woodstock (where The Aquarian Exposition, aka Woodstock, did not actually take place), then to...
Walking up and down Duval Street, live music abounds, pouring out of restaurants, clubs, and dives onto the streets. The joint that we seemed most drawn to, however, was Willie T’s. It was an open-air, outdoor patio with some of the tables under an overhang. The genre...
We awoke one morning, ravenous and deciding that we wanted to forego the vacation-standard, go-to, made in the room, smoothie. What to eat became the question. It was the only rainy day, at least it started out as such, so we decided to take a trek over to the Mel...
Recently, my partner Richard and I had the exquisite joy of traipsing about Key West for a glorious nine days of fun and sun (and eating). In between, amongst other things, snorkeling, lots of walking about coupled with some entertaining people watching, we visited...
One of my favorite sandwiches EVER is a Reuben. Having been vegetarian since 1983 and before becoming vegan in 2007, the version I would order at the diner (Heck, I’m from Jersey, so you know that I know all about diners and diner food J) would be a meatless Reuben. I...
May 4, 2017 was a beautiful and balmy evening in Old Towne Cottonwood, Arizona (just a stone’s through from Sedona). After a couple months of planning, the evening finally arrived. Veganification and Verde Valley Vegans, the Meetup Group that I sponsor/organize,...
I had the opportunity to pop into Pomegranate Café last week for brunch. I’ve eaten there many times, and was especially excited that morning because I had a plan. I was starting my meal with a dessert as my appetizer as I wanted to make sure there was room in my...
Back in October, my dear friend, Kris and I decided to head up to Portland for a short week. It all started back in the summer when Kris and I went to a local tattoo parlor here in the Verde Valley for our Vegan ‘V’ matching tattoos. The parlor used all vegan products...
Let the Prescott Adventure Begin! My Arizona adopted Mom, Cynthia, and I love to take shopping jaunts, coupled with lunch. On a warm summer day, we decided to go to slightly higher elevation to find a dash of cooler air. So, down to Prescott we ventured. On the way...
In addition to being a vegan food snob, I am also an avid live theater enthusiast. While a sucker for a great musical, I also very much enjoy all sorts of live theater, including concerts of most musical genres (sans country western), plays, etc. As a season ticket...
How The Vegan Gals of Sedona Do Dinner and a Movie ... One of my greatest joys is creating community and gathering people together for connection, fun, and great vegan food. What better way to do that than to gather a bunch of amazing women for a Girls Vegan Night Out...
It All Started With Shoes ... Last week, my friend, Judith, and I had the pleasure of driving down to the Valley (as in the Phoenix metropolitan area) and spend a couple of days traipsing about. While we did some major scoring on the shoe front, we also spent much of...
A Night Out on the Town in Sedona Sound Bites Grill, Sedona, AZ On January 14, my friend Judith and I went to a local supper club, Sound Bites Grill. The entertainment for the evening was a delightful gypsy jazz group. As is typical with so many restaurants, they...
Let's Get Hip! Every now and again, I am ‘wowed’ by a veg restaurant. Those of you who know me, know that I am far too often disappointed by the mediocre-at-best food that is served at veg restaurants outside the big city haunts. So, when I went back East for my...
Besides not seeing my family and Jersey girl(friends) as often as I did when I lived in New Jersey, top on my list of what I miss are the wonderful vegan dining experiences so readily available in Manhattan and Philadelphia. I know what you might be thinking, that...
Here’s where Manhattan really stands out. So many amazing vegan dessert choices, so little time. For me, two really stand out from our recent vacation.The Pennsy, which is a food court adjacent to The Garden (as in Madison Square Garden) was closed for remodeling, so...
Summer vacation arrived for Richard and I on June 20. This was not going to be any ordinary vacation. We had several destinations on tap, starting with Manhattan, then to Woodstock (where The Aquarian Exposition, aka Woodstock, did not actually take place), then to...