On Sunday, February 24th, Wheeler’s Black Label Ice Cream will be holding an Oscar party at the Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn.  The event hosts will be dishing up several flavors of Wheeler’s Vegan Frozen Desserts, and Hannah Kaminsky, author of My Sweet Vegan, will be serving a selection of baked goods to accompany the ice cream selection.  DJ JT from Philadelphia will round out the bash, which is open to the vegan ice cream loving public.  The event details are as follows ...

... Though it didn’t greet me as I opened the package, the familiar scent of Captain Crunch Berry cereal emerged when I poured these flakes into my breakfast bowl.  True, I haven't even come within close range of Captain Crunch in decades (scarily true, decades), and even then I only tasted it a few times, but that scent is unmistakable. It instantly shocked my senses to attention. Luckily, this cereal tasted not a thing like that over-sugared candy, which is often confused with breakfast. The thick flakes packed a nice crunch that bought me a good amount of time, not allowing the almond milk to turn my breakfast to mush while I scrounged around for a spoon ... Read the full review

Europeans have long known the wonders of cheese-free pizza made with fresh and flavorful ingredients.  Yet, in the United States, deep dish pizzas loaded with piles of stringy cheese are more than the norm, they are practically the rule in many pizza parlors.  Nonetheless, as awareness of food allergies, intolerances, and health benefits emerge … and the rising cost of food nips at household budgets … the potential of cheese-less pizza is finally getting the attention it deserves.  But just in case you haven’t yet come over to the healthier side of pizza, or you would just like some more reasons and recipes to enjoy it, here is some cheese-free ammunition that you may find handy …

This month, two Go Dairy Free viewers will receive a $50 shopping spree courtesy of Namaste Foods.  Namaste Foods offers a great line of allergen-free baking mixes and pasta meals manufactured in a dedicated allergen-free facility.  Don't miss this chance to pick up the new Simple Pleasures Gluten Free Cookbook from Namaste Foods, which includes over 60 delicious recipes made with Namaste Foods products. Recipes like Cinnamon Espresso Coffee Cake, Hearty Minestrone Soup, Scalloped Say Cheez and Ham, and Lemon Poppy Seed Bread are just a few of the sensational variations you'll enjoy with this easy-to-use reference.  To enter to win ...

Hannah Kaminsky, Bittersweet and My Sweet Vegan ~ Talk about irony. A few short years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to get me to touch a block of white chocolate with a 10-foot pole, and now? Now it’s become an incredible luxury, a culinary diamond in my eyes, and I’ve become completely enamored with its simple existence. Simple indeed ... the white stuff has no actual cocoa solids, and thus remains pale as freshly fallen snow. Most manufacturers add dry milk powder, trans-fatty hydrogenated oils, and other undesirable elements to their white chips and chunks, to increase shelf stability and augment their supplies of pricey cocoa butter...