DC Vegan

Join PCRM in Welcoming Rory Freedman to DC!

PJ Murphy — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:47:44 +0000

Join author Rory Freedman and PCRM director of government affairs Elizabeth Kucinich as they celebrate the launch of Freedman’s Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals. This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required. Books will be for sale that evening.

When: Friday, May 3 at 6 p.m.

Where: Books-A-Million , 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, DC 20036

Contact: 202-319-1374

Free Cupcakes!

Amber McDonald — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:50:59 +0000

How better to celebrate Earth Day (or any day) and the kick-off of US VegWeek than…FREE CUPCAKES! Head to Red Velvet Cupcakery any time today for a free, vegan cupcake. Can’t make it? Then swing by Sprinkles for a buy-one, get-one special all this week.

Wondering how else to celebrate US VegWeek? Check out events and specials all over town, including tonight’s mix & mingle party at B Spot Juice Bar and tomorrow’s vegan Taco Tuesday at Casa Oaxaca (5 vegan tacos for $15)!

Whole Foods Tenley Gets Into the Vegan Swing of Things

Amber McDonald — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:17:57 +0000

Following the lead of its Foggy Bottom Store, Whole Foods Market Tenley is offering an all vegan Brews & Bites this Thursday, April 18th, from 5:30 – 7:30pm. $5.00 gets you a reusable tasting mug, plus four samples of beer and four vegan food pairings. The menu will feature:

~Grilled Vegetable Gazpacho + Estrella Damm Pale Lager

~Spicy Peanut Satay Vegetable Sticks + Cisco Whales Tale Pale Ale

~Cashew-crusted Tofu + Goose Island Nut Brown Ale

~Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Popcorn + No-Li Brewery Crystal Bitter

Cheers!

Whole Foods Foggy Bottom Offers Slew of Veg Events

Amber McDonald — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:01:35 +0000

Since its opening, Whole Foods Foggy Bottom has been my vegan port in the storm that is the West End. And they keep finding new ways to impress me. The latest? A nearly constant stream of awesome in-store veg happenings.

This Saturday from 3-5pm, Whole Foods Foggy Bottom will host a kale-themed “Brews and Bites.” Attendees will enjoy 5 beers and 5 food pairings for just $5. The menu includes vegan items like garlicky kale salad, kale soup, and kale pesto pasta. Also on offer will be a vegetarian kale and artichoke dip, and a vegetarian strudel.

During US VegWeek, Whole Foods Foggy Bottom will host even more veg-friendly events, including a vegan cooking class and another all-vegan edition of “Wine Down Wednesday.” Don’t miss out!

Saturday, April 13 — 3-5pm, $5, kale-themed Brew & Bites

Monday, April 22 — 6-7pm, Free, Vegan cooking class (R.S.V.P. to rachel.morris@wholefoods.com)

Wednesday, April 24 — 5-7pm, $5, all-vegan Wine Down Wednesday (5 wines and 5 vegan bites!)

Friday, April 26 — 6-8pm, $5, coconut-themed Brew and Bites with vegan coconut rice, vegan coconut chicken, vegan coconut fruit salad, and vegetarian macaroons

Saturday, April 27 — 3-5pm, Free, Store-wide sampling of favorite vegan products

Take the VegPledge, win awesome stuff

Amber McDonald — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:28:03 +0000

Sure, most of you are probably already vegan, but did you know you can also be a vegan who wins prizes? Compassion Over Killing and its US VegWeek is making it happen for you.

Now in its fifth year, US VegWeek (April 22-28) is a fun way to promote veg foods and enjoy the benefits of vegetarian and vegan eating! Compassion Over Killing launched VegWeek in 2009 in Takoma Park, Maryland.

You can sign up to join thousands of people taking the 7-day VegPledge during VegWeek and get daily emails all week, sharing COK’s favorite recipes and tips. And — super kickass bonus alert — if you sign up by tomorrow and choose to receive a free starter pack loaded with coupons, you could also win one of hundreds of prizes! The only rule is: if you win that lunchbox, you have to give it to me.

Elizabeth’s Offers Spring Raw Happy Hour

Amber McDonald — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:11:47 +0000

Following the success of their Meat-Free Week Happy Hour, Elizabeth’s Gone Raw invites you to join them for a Spring Raw Happy Hour on Thursday, March 21, beginning at 5:30 pm. Indulge in a selection of small plates by Chef Jonathan Seningen, as well as drink specials, organic wines and ales.

Please R.S.V.P. to Facebook.

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Also, be sure to check out Elizabeth’s on Sunday March 24, for a brunch with “Dave the Raw Food Trucker.” Using a raw food diet, Dave rid himself of 230 lbs, stage 1 cancer, diabetes, acid reflux, and more. Your $60 per person will entitle you to a meet & greet with Dave and Elizabeth, passed hors d’ oeuvres, a 3-course raw brunch, and a keynote presentation by Dave, with time for Q&A.

To join brunch, please R.S.V.P. to Emilie Jackson at 202-347-8349.

Brunch with Chef Todd Gray and and Author Kim O’Donnel

Amber McDonald — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:43:47 +0000

Chef Todd Gray and Kim O’Donnel, author of The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook and The Meat Lover’s Meatless Celebrations, are cooking up a vegan brunch buffet at his Muse Cafe at the Corcoran, featuring dishes from Kim’s latest book. Signed copies of both Kim’s and Todd’s book (co-authored with his wife Ellen) , New Jewish Table, will be available.

The menu will feature raw kale salad, broiled grapefruit rounds with massaged frisee, long noodles with salted black beans and bok choy, West Indian-style curried chickpeas, brown rice-pistachio pilaf, chocolate-chile pudding and Creole-style bread pudding. Eat to your heart’s content for $25.

Sunday, March 3
11:00am – 1:00pm
Call 202-639-1786 for reservations.

Closing Party for Meat-Free Week Art Show

Amber McDonald — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:51:45 +0000

You are invited to join the closing party of artist Dana Ellyn’s show on Friday, March 1, from 6pm-8pm, at 410 GooDBuddY, located at 410 Florida Ave, NW. In addition to feasting their eyes on Ellyn’s works, guests of the closing party will be treated to Georgetown Cupcake’s newly debuted vegan cupcakes, wines by Vegan Vine Wines, house-made salsas by Sticky Fingers, and sample tonics by Goûter. The first 50 attendees will also receive a complimentary tote bag, designed by OlsenHaus Pure Vegan, with gifts including a voucher for $20 off a first ride with Uber.

Meat-filled images formed the nightmares of Ellyn’s childhood. Today, separated by the distance of years and a vegetarian diet, Ellyn’s paintings lend a darkly humorous twist to the subject of our consumption and use of animals. In a series of paintings inspired by DC Meat-Free Week, Ellyn invites viewers to reconsider the every day. Pieces give a new meaning to ubiquitous phrases, lending a comically sinister meaning to “baby back ribs” and turning “pig in a blanket” on its head. Ellyn has also specially created a series of small paintings for the closing event. These pieces, which she has dubbed “small plates,” ask the viewer to “Look Me In the Eye and Tell Me I’m Delicious.”

Ellyn is donating 15% of sales from the March 1 closing to benefit The Kindness Collective, a DC-based not-for-profit organization that works at the intersection of human and animal welfare. The Kindness Collective is currently working to change the emergency shelter system to house survivors of domestic violence with their pets. Up to 40% of domestic violence victims report that they are unable to escape their abusers because they are afraid of what will happen to their pets when they leave, and pets left behind are often abused or killed.

Use of 410 GooDBuddY is made possible through support by Wiebenson & Dorman Architects PC. Refreshments and gift bags are made possible through the generosity of Georgetown Cupcakes, Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats, Goûter, Vegan Vine Wines, OlsenHaus Pure Vegan, Uber, Paintbox Soapworks, and The Kindness Collective.

410 GooDBuddY
410 Florida Ave, NW
Friday, March 1
6pm-8pm
Please RSVP here.

Tonight’s Wine Down Wednesday Goes Veg Again

Amber McDonald — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:44:24 +0000

After its first all-vegan Wine Down Wednesday was met with unparalleled success, Whole Foods Foggy Bottom is again taking us on a veg adventure. At tonight’s Wine Down Wednesday — for just $5 — you’ll be treated to 1 vegetarian and 4 vegan food samples, each paired with a wine sample. And the glass is yours to keep!

Tonight has an Asian theme, and the menu will feature vegan miso soup, vegan Asian noodle salad, vegetable “egg” rolls, General Tso’s vegan chicken, and a vegetarian green tea cake.

Whole Foods Foggy Bottom
2201 Eye Street NW
5pm – 7pm

ASPCA Invites You to “Paws for Love”

Amber McDonald — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:05:23 +0000