Nan’s top 5

• Candle 79
• the Guggenheim
• Central Park
• Strand Bookstore
• the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA)

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Babycakes

babycakes!, Originally uploaded by youngtillidie

Did I mention NY has vegan cupcakes?

Babycakes is all vegan all the time, in fact caters to all kinds of dietary peculiarities, and is at 248 Broome Street between Orchard & Ludlow on the Lower East Side. NY vegans love them. You can buy an icing shot for $1 (oh America, you are crazy).

See also cute video footage, and the following gratuitous cupcake pictures:

NY also has conceptual art featuring vegan cupcakes, though it’s not necessarily appreciated by the locals.

Other likely-looking sources for vegan cupcakes while travelling: Boneshakers in Brooklyn, ‘sNice in the West Village or Park Slope, Brooklyn, Penny Licks in Brooklyn, Sacred Chow in Greenwich Village. Further reference material: The Urban Housewife’s NYC vegan dessert reviews: part one & two.

Auckland has vegan cupcakes too, it’s true, but it’s important to know I will be fed in foreign lands.

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Feminist chocolate treats

wild truffles, Originally uploaded by digiyesica

Not in NYC itself, but nearby in upstate New York, Lagusta Yearwood lives, cooks vegetarian delivery meals, blogs & makes vegan chocolate truffles that sound and look amazing (as above). She’s just launched Bluestocking Bonbons, little boxes of ethically-solid artisan chocolates, named after feminist superheros.

Must find some way to try while in NY: Raspberries de Pizan (actually, they all sound amazing).

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[qualified] The girl who will eat everything [/qualified]

OK, so she will be looking for the Vegan. But thereafter, she’s not restricted. Some of us are vegetarian. Others are meat inclined (well, one is). See here except that, really, I do not see how you can fudge the vegan and vegetarian line. Why would you? And why would you eat mock meats? It is beyond belief because the ersatz flavour is surely like teal thing and, again, WWY? Surely vegetrian food cannot involve a lot of deep frying (see the comments) – does not augur well for NY if that is so. Please reassure us. Please, please, please.

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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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