Zen Palate is Back at Union Square & Champs Vegan Bakery Is Open in Williamsburg!

[Champs Vegan Bakery in Williamsburg (Credit: Abigail Bean)] Zen Palate is back at Union Square! On Monday they opened in their new location, on 18th Street between Park Avenue South and Irving Place. They’ll have a party and private room available for large groups and, for a limited time, they are offering a special grand opening menu available only for delivery and carry-out, with all menu items under $10. In other restaurant opening news, vegan bakery Champs has been added to the SuperVegan directory , so start leaving your reviews. Current menu offerings include cakes, cupcakes, cookies, scones, whoopie pies, and mini-cookies, including gluten-free pignoli cookies. They will be open seven days a week from 8am to 10pm, but call ahead during the first few weeks as the hours may change. P.S. Don’t forget to bring a pocket full of cash–Champs is cash only. [ Comments (0) | Add Your Comment ]

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Aborted baby was rejected for cleft palate

The Italian media are reporting that the baby who survived for 24 hours after an abortion was unwanted by his mother because he had a cleft lip and palate , a condition which can be corrected by surgery.

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Impressive Simplicity in an Avocado Watercress Salad with Green Beans

Sometimes I get into trouble with you my gentle readers because I don’t always do “wow” recipes. What I mean is– seared scallops can knock it out of the park and many people are cruising the blogs looking for those iconic images to satisfy their tastiest food fantasies. So in my heart, I know today’s Avocado Watercress Salad with Green Beans will surely be a disappointment for those of you looking for truly inspired, gastro-molecular–gravity-defying-stacks of food. But my wallet (and my blood sugar) can’t afford to enjoy these treats on a daily basis. I also know that several of you nice folks are gonna leave me sweet messages saying how you think all my recipes are “wow” .

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Where Malbec Comes From: Tasting the Wines of Cahors

One of my greatest pleasures as a wine lover (OK wine geek) is learning about a wine region by tasting a lot of wines. While I prefer to taste on location, there’s just no way I can possibly get to all the different places I’d like to learn about until I become independently wealthy or permanently retired (and wealthy). Which really means there are a lot of wine regions I’ll never get the chance to visit. Luckily a lot of smaller wine regions are realizing that one way to improve the market for their wines internationally is the “wine roadshow” where a bunch of producers heads off to major target markets and with the help of a PR firm, puts on a tasting for the trade and media in a big city. I find such events incredibly interesting, and valuable in the education of my palate. So when I got the invitation to a recent such tasting focused on the wines of Cahors, I jumped at the chance to go. Having only had maybe three or four wines from Cahors in my entire life, I was excited to clearly establish in my own mind “what Cahors…

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El Dorado Winery Association Tasting: March 20, San Francisco

One of the trends in the wine industry I’m happiest about involves the increasing initiative that wine regions are taking in making themselves visible to the public. Such activities by individual AVAs, or American Viticultural Areas, produce two important results: increased awareness of the individual region, and increased awareness of the difference between regions for consumers. I’m in full support. Public tasting events are one of the chief ways such wine regions are producing this visibility. These events are not only a lot of fun to go to, they are a wonderful education. While visiting the region is the best way to understand the wines, not everyone has the time, the energy, or the means to visit many of California’s wine regions. Even those who do can’t visit more than five or six wineries in a day’s tasting. But at these large tastings, the curious consumer can taste the efforts of twenty, fifty, or a hundred different wineries, and very quickly get a read on a specific region. Which brings me to the little tasting going on in about a week at Postrio Restaurant here in San Francisco. Twenty-four wineries from El …

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Porcini & Crimini Mushroom Orzo "Risotto" Recipe

When the husband’s away the wife will…eat mushrooms. As I explained in a previous post, my husband detests mushrooms, but made a significant culinary sacrifice to impress me on our first date. Out of respect for my husband’s fungus-phobic palate, I rarely cook with mushrooms while he is at home. The only good thing about his business trips, besides being able to sprawl my body across the bed

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American Curry: Fusion Food for the Vegetarian Palate

The book has 35 vegetarian recipes from an Indian kitchen in America. The collection of recipes listed here are for dishes that have evolved over two decades of experiments in trying healthier or easier versions of standard Indian vegetarian food. The recipes have been measured to serve four adults.

About the Author

Gita Iyer is a freelance journalist and e-book author. She lives in California, USA and Chennai,India. She has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, and a master’s degree in Computer Engineering. When she is not cooking, entertaining, or writing, she is at work in the high-tech industry.

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Chevrolet sponsors LA cupcake bakery tour via Best Of Tours

Twitter background of Best Of Tours Recently, members of the Los Angeles Cupcake Meetup Group , organized by Tara of When Tara Met Blog got to take part in a cupcake tour of four cupcake bakeries in Los Angeles (Crumbs Bake Shop, Sprinkles Cupcakes, SusieCakes and Vanilla Bake Shop) courtesy of Chevrolet. Various bloggers have posted this, but you can see photos and a wrapup by Pleasure Palate . The event was organized by Best Of Tours , which describes themselves on Twitter as: Best Of Tours powered by Chevrolet brings drivers the best of cupcakes, burgers, you name it in their city. Hop on our next tour or follow our tweets Photos below via Pleasure Palate Crumbs cupcake Sprinkles cupcakes SusieCakes cupcake Vanilla Bake Shop cupcakes

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Silver Palate Cookbook 25th Anniversary Edition

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First published in 1982, The Silver Palate Cookbook was an instant smash. It offered 350 stylish but easy recipes that reflected and helped cement America’s burgeoning interest in quality cooking. It acquainted cooks with “gourmet” ingredients, just beginning to appear in our markets. And it helped many a host to shine. The collection, whose recipes range from hors d’oeuvres to sweets, now arrives in a 25th-anniversary edition, which reproduces the original text and adds color photos throughout, often dropped into the text pages. All the old favorites, including Marinated Eggplant Livia, Chicken Marbella, Blanquette de Vaeu, and Blackberry Mousse are present, along with information about ingredients, menus, quotes…
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Thanksgiving Wine Guide: Don’t Pick A Turkey!

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