Archive for the ‘Belmont Veg’ Category

PETA names Worcester seventh most veg-friendly small city

by Mike Benedetti
WE BEAT PROVIDENCE
PETA recently ranked US cities with less than 300,000 people in terms of veg-friendly places to eat, and placed Worcester seventh. Last year they highlighted the meatball soup at Buddha Hut on Chandler Street, so this isn’t a big surprise.
I’ve lived in Worcester for eight years now, and been vegan for [...]

July 20, 2010   Posted in: Belmont Veg, Buddha Hut, Restaurants & Businesses  No Comments

Announcing the Winners of 2010 Mac Daddy Competition [Bling]

The 2010 Mac Daddy Competition was a tremendous success, with over 15 entries and a packed room of vegan mac & cheese lovers. We raised around $150 for the 2010 Worcester VegFest! Let’s cut to the chase, who won? The fancy, mock-meat filled, cheesy casserole from Mr Gregory Lee Opperman won him the belt. His [...]

February 4, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Belmont Veg, Events, Misc, Worcester VegFest 2010  One Comment

Worcester Mag Hypes Vegan Mac Daddy Comp [Event]

Awesome! This week’s issue of WoMag mentions VegWorcester’s Mac Daddy Competition, the vegan mac & cheese cook off/taste off.
Check it out from Worcester Magazine:
The 2010 Mac Daddy Competition proves you don’t have to include dairy in a killer Mac & Cheese dish on Jan 30 at 6p.m. This vegan mac & cheese cook-off/taste-off is $5 [...]

January 28, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Belmont Veg, Events, Worcester VegFest 2010  No Comments

VegWorcester Meets Fireworks, Vegetarian Band from Detroit (Leafleting at the Palladium + DCU center)

On Saturday, a couple of VegWorcester volunteers handed out over 250 copies of our Spring 2009 vegetarian dining guide to Worcester at events downtown. We went down to the Four Year Strong show (Worcester hardcore band) and also gave out leaflets at the Danskin Expo.
Fireworks at the Palladium
Lots of the kids in line at the [...]

July 26, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: 2009 Vegetarian Dining Guide, Activism, Belmont Veg, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Tortilla Sam's, Veg Advocacy  No Comments