“Sugar Mama” Bakers Swap Over 1,500 Vegan Cookies!

Coooooooookies!!! If some of you are still in a sugar-induced coma following the  Sugar Mama Vegan Cookie Swap we won’t blame you. We asked entrants to bake 6 dozen vegan cookies each. There were a few entrants with less than 6 dozen and a few with more than 6 dozen, but with 24 entries, the [...]

December 19, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Events, Food Love, Misc, Vegetarian Recipes  No Comments

Show Your Veg Pride & Get a Freebie from Like No Udder, this Sunday at stART [Event]

This Sunday: Pick up a pro-veg button from the VegWorcester table at stART on the Street and get a free ice cream topping from Like No Udder. What a sweet deal! ‘ VegWorcester will have a table at stART on the Street this year. We’ll have the usual free leaflets and stickers, but there’s more! [...]

May 20, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Events, Food Love, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Like No Udder, Misc  No Comments

Bake Sales Now Legal in the City of Worcester

I’m excited to announce a (small) victory for sanity. This morning the director of the City of Worcester’s Health Department gave me a copy of their new guidelines for bake sales in the city of Worcester. The take-away message: bake sales in Worcester require no permit and require no fees. See the guidelines below for [...]

May 11, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Food Love, Misc  6 Comments

Sweet Avenger – Vegan Reality TV Show Comes to Animal Planet

Whale Wars must have gone over well, because Animal Planet is now producing a 12 episode reality TV show about Vegan Treats. The show is called Sweet Avenger and it follows the work of Danielle Konya, the 36-year-old founder and owner of Vegan Treats bakery in Pennsylvania. Danielle said in the Hollywood Reporter: “I want to show [...]

April 3, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Misc, News  No Comments

Terry Hope Romero Giving a Cooking Demo at Worcester VegFest

Terry Hope Romero will be joining Will Potter and Bruce Friedrich as one of the 4 presenters at the 2011 Worcester VegFest on April 17 (facebook event). You’ve probably seen her cookbooks and you’ve probably even eaten food made from recipes that she created. If you ever had a cupcake from Worcester’s own Barely Legal Treats, [...]

March 11, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Misc, Worcester VegFest 2011  One Comment

Where do you get a vegan wedding cake?

Are you a vegan who got married in Massachusetts? Where’d you get your cake? Ashley Lane from One Sweet Slice in Salt Lake City, UT recently wrote to VegWorcester to ask if we know where Massachusetts vegans get their wedding cakes. She is putting together a national resource for people looking for vegan wedding cakes.  [...]

August 19, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Misc  4 Comments

Valentine Treats For Your Vegan Sweetie [WoMag]

Definitely pick up a copy of this week’s Worcester Magazine. In it you’ll find the latest article in the Soy de Worcester column. The piece is online, but WoMag always looks better in print. Valentine Treats for your Vegan Sweetie Are you a long-time vegetarian, looking for something new to do this Valentine’s Day? Or maybe [...]

February 12, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Artichoke Food Cooperative, Buddha Hut, Corpse Cakes, Duck Yao, One Love Cafe, The Living Earth  No Comments

Photos & Quick Reportback from Today’s Vegan Donut Feed-in [Photos]

Today’s vegan donut feed-in went really well! We gave out about 100 donut samples and flyers about the campaign to get Dunkin Donuts to add vegan donuts. We were out there urging Dunkin Donuts to quit supporting animal cruelty at egg factory farms. We met some vegetarians and vegan who were excited to see us [...]

January 27, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Events, Misc, More Veg Options, Veg Advocacy  4 Comments

Why is VegWorcester giving away free vegan donuts this Wednesday? [Feed-in Event]

Start your Wednesday morning off right with a free vegan donut. This Wednesday morning at 9am, join VegWorcester and Compassion Over Killing for a vegan feed-in outside of one the Dunkin’ Donuts location in downtown Worcester, the corner of Main St & Pleasant St. From 9am to 10am we’ll be handing out free samples of [...]

January 26, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Activism, Events, Misc, Veg Advocacy  11 Comments

Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar [New Cookbook]

Isa Chadra Moskowitz, the woman who brought you Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Vegan with a Vengeance, the Veganomicon, Vegan Brunch, has just published a new cookbook. Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar has 100 original animal-product-free cookie recipes. The book is all finished, but has not yet been release. However, it is available [...]

October 16, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Barely Legal Treats, Misc, Vegetarian Recipes  One Comment