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luggage, Originally uploaded by Digiart2001 | jason.kuffer

For G: Where in NY to find cheap luggage on yelp (also, reviews of luggage stores).

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Connecting

Farmers Market @ Union Square, NYC, Originally uploaded by Hardcore Shutterbug

B says my farmers’ market reminds her of New York. She’s thinking of Union Square, where she found real people in the big city, and gluten-free things to eat.

This morning, the strawberry people were back at the market, for the first time since last summer. The raw vegan chocolate woman was having a week off. I bought purple carrots and fennel root and normal vegetables like broccoli. The girl at the café, who remembered what kind of coffee I always drink, was wearing an I (heart) NY t-shirt.

More about Union Square: list of what’s for sale, some history (the market’s older than me!), Wikipedia on Union Square. More pictures: peaches & sunflowers, negotiation, corn, bright flowers,harvest season, the crowd.

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Vegan Walking Tour

Herbivore #14, the travel issue, includes a vegan walking tour of NYC by Rich Bebenroth, full of commentary and recommendations for making the most of a single vegan day in New York. The instructions included going with a friend and ordering less than one thing at each eating establishment so as to sample the most food. The following places (and other highlights that don’t have websites; buy the magazine) are all within a square mile section of the vegan-est city on earth:

• Babycakes: a vegan, gluten-free cupcake bakery.
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum: featuring an interesting gift shop.
• Economy Candy: Bloom’s kosher candy is vegan.
• TeaNY: vegetarian tea house.
• Moo Shoes: aforementioned cute vegan shoes.
• Bluestockings: radical bookstore and vegan, fair trade café.
• Tiengarden: vegan Chinese.
• Yonah Schimmel’s Knish Bakery: mostly vegan. See Wikipedia for Knishes.
• Kate’s Joint: vegan greasy diner and bar. Appears not to have a website besides MySpace.
• Life Café: as seen in Rent.
• Crif Dogs: again with the MySpace. Hotdog place that makes vegan hotdogs.
• Whole Earth Bakery: all vegan, online reviews complain of it being too healthy.
• A row of vintage toy shops!
• Atlas Café and Bakery: to quote supervegan.com, “The vegan soft serve ice cream… and the vegan crêpes also make this a popular destination.”. I can believe it.
• May Wah Healthy Vegetarian Food: mock meat emporium, if you were needing one. Vegetarian Kidney? (“No”).
• Vegetarian Dim Sum House: more veg Chinese.
• Peanut Butter & Co: link is to their “White Chocolate Wonderful” peanut butter, which is SO AMERICAN and somehow vegan.
• Sacred Chow: kosher-vegan bistro. Just downloaded their menu in PDF and can’t get past the weekend brunch menu, it all sounds amazing. Advice from the vegan eating tour: “Try to save room for a brownie sundae.” Okay.
• the Dosa Man in Washington Square Park: street vendor of dosas.
• Red Bamboo: they mark the things on their menu that aren’t vegan. Lots of fake meat, but lots of vegetables too.

I may need to start dieting tomorrow to save space for all the desserts.

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Start spreading the news…

I’m vegan today! And this is sure to be the first of many excited posts about potential vegan-friendly shopping and eating experiences in the Big Apple.

so: Moo Shoes is an all-vegan shoe shop, advertising fashion with compassion. Now, in recent travels to Melbourne I visited a vegan shoe shop. This was all very well – everything looked well made, the ethics were good, but the shoes themselves were not so attractive.

If Moo Shoes’ site is anything to go by, styles are wide-ranging and often cute! Check out: Novacas heels and more heels and slightly more sensible heels and everything else they make, red boots from Vegetarian Shoes, Queenbee bags.

Also the Vegan Guide to NYC! I can see great shopping in my future.

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