Join award winning vegan chef Jason Wyrick of The Vegan Culinary Experience, the world’s only vegan culinary magazine, for a special class on vegan Indian cuisine. This class will present an overview of some of the most popular Indian dishes, vegan style! The complimentary cooking class will be held at Proper Eats in Portland, Oregon this Friday (August 29th, 2008) at 12:30 p.m. If you would like to attend the class, please RSVP via phone at (623) 680-7468. Class details are as follows:

Minneapolis, MN ~ FrenchMeadow.com is now live with a new online presence that embodies the bakery’s 20-year-history, as well as its innovative, progressive new products and vision.  After months of research and planning, French Meadow Bakery™ (FMB) has re-launched their online presence to include an informative community of consumers and professionals, an education bank, and an entirely new, thorough online store for a deliciously simple shopping experience. Located at http://www.frenchmeadow.com/, the website hosts a plethora of resources:

Along with the addition of some new organic super food products (chia seed, goji berries, cacao powder, maca powder, and jungle peanuts), Foods Alive Flax Oils will soon be available to more stores. In combination with Garden Spot distributors, Foods Alive will bring their certified organic gourmet golden flax oils to store shelves across the Northeast portion of the United States.  States in this area include VA, MD, PA, WV, DC, DE, NJ, RI, CT, NH, MA , NY, and OH. In addition, Garden Spot serves many other customers via UPS or commercial trucking. If you do not see their products on the shelf, you can request them from your local natural food grocer.

The Go Dairy Free free e-newsletter will hit inboxes in mid-September, and viewers will have the chance to win the latest Food Allergy Cookbook, “What Else is to Eat? The Dairy-, Egg-, and Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook,” by Linda Marienhoff Coss.  This cookbook will help ease your way back into the school year with 115 original recipes that are all easy to prepare, and use everyday pantry items.  Linda Coss is the author of two other popular books for the food allergy market (“What’s to Eat? The Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook” and “How To Manage Your Child’s Life-Threatening Food Allergies: Practical Tips For Everyday Life”), the parent of a teenage boy with multiple life-threatening food allergies, and the founder and leader emeritus (after 13 years at the helm) of a local food allergy support group. Sign up for the free Go Dairy Free e-newsletter for the opportunity to win one of three autographed copies in September. 

New York City, NY - You've been asking and it's finally here: the first Worry-Free Dinners KIDS event. Come hungry and sign up quickly, this event will sell out FAST! The WFD luncheon is all-you-can-eat at Blue Smoke. The menu will be Gluten-Free, Peanut-Free, Tree Nut-Free & Fish-Free. Dairy-Free upon request. The event is sponsored by Cherrybrook Kitchen: the Sweet Solution for Food Allergies. Diners will receive an assortment of Cherrybrook Kitchen products and a representative will be on hand to meet and greet!  Attendees can expect to receive the following:

LAKE FOREST, CALIFORNIA - Book contains 115 original recipes that are all free of milk, egg, tree nut, and peanut ingredients - With today’s fast-paced lifestyles, most people find planning healthy, tasty, and easy-to-prepare meals a constant challenge. But for the growing number of families who must contend with severe and often potentially fatal food allergies, meal planning can be daunting – and the popular “shortcuts” (frozen dinners, prepared foods from the grocery store, or take-out food) may not be an option. Food allergy sufferers will be excited to learn that Linda Marienhoff Coss’ new cookbook, “What Else is to Eat? The Dairy-, Egg-, and Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook,” is now available. This book, written in response to numerous customer requests, is a sequel to Ms. Coss’ popular “What’s to Eat?” food allergy cookbook, which has sold over 15,000 copies to date...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO - Aug. 14, 2008 - Further to a communication issued August 8, 2008, Health Canada is advising Canadians with milk allergies of two additional acidophilus-containing health products labelled as "non-dairy" that have been found to contain trace amounts of milk protein from dairy ingredients used in the production process. The products are:

Alisa Fleming, www.GoDairyFree.org ~ The voting has begun for the VegNews 2008 VeggieAwards and there are so many reasons to get over there and vote. For starters, it is a chace to cast your ballot for your favorite people, places, and products.  The nominees are scattered among a wide range of categories, including "Favorite Non-Dairy Ice Cream," "Favorite Cookbook Author," and "Favorite Vegan Blog."  The winners will be announced in the November+December "Best of Vegetarian" holiday edition of VegNews. But if that isn't enough to motivate you, then perhaps a prize drawing is.  Yes, just for voting, you will be entered into their Grand Prize Drawing for fabulous prizes including: