UPDATE: it appears that zpizza is not selling vegan pizza at every store, even though that’s how they advertised it on twitter. PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL STORE TO CHECK.

as of friday evening, both the weho and chatsworth locations were clueless about the promotion. however, santa clarita is totally legit. let’s hope they get this ironed out soon. we want slices!

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hey everyone, another weekend full of awesome vegan events is comin’ atcha!

vegan ice cream at worldfest

i’m gonna go a little bit out of order and say the one thing you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO check out this weekend is worldfest which takes place on sunday may 16th from 10:30am to 7pm at woodley park. there is gonna be music, vegan food galore, bands, beer, and celebrity speakers. it costs $7 to get in for adults, $5 for seniors, and kids under 12 are free. for more info check out the worldfest website, and be sure to read my review from last year.

the food alone is seriously worth the admission price. vegan ice cream, corndogs, funnel cakes, and lots of new products you haven’t had before. see ya there…

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we already blogged about how awesome chicago soy dairy’s new stretchy teese is, but you shouldn’t take our word for it.

for the next week, vegan essentials is having a buy one, get one free sale that is not to be missed. here are the details…

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hey vegans, clear your calendars for the weekend, because there are a few delicious activities that you should definitely attend.

here’s your weekend in vegan food….

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searching for something tasty to do this weekend? well, look no further!

here’s a list of vegan food events you won’t wanna miss…

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just a quick update on the “vegan brands being pulled from whole foods drama“:

as of now, select vegan brands like kookie karma, rawk-n-roll, tomberlies, and lydia’s organics appear to be under new distribution and are back on the shelves at whole foods! brands such as a taste of life, rahel’s, euphoria loves rawvolution, and cru are still missing.

let’s hope whole foods starts stocking these other brands ASAP. oh, and be sure to check out the back story here.

these nachos are the ultimate indulgence, and you seriously don’t have to be raw or even vegan to enjoy them.

we’ve been toying around with raw foods for a few weeks now, and this has to be the richest most extravagant meal we’ve made at home. i suggest you give it at try—it puts most cooked vegan nachos to shame!

here’s how you make ’em…

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hey everyone! with coachella just one week away, it’s time to do a post about some of the great vegan food you can find inside and around the festival. here is a look at some vendors we know are gonna be there for sure.

vegan tofu naanwich from cowboys and turbans. $7

quarrygirl favorite cowboys and turbans will have a booth on coachella grounds, and they will be serving up their delicious indian/mexican fusion with a plethora of vegan offerings. we’ve had their food before at the festival, and it was excellent. according to their head chef, they’ll be serving up food between the outdoor stage and the gobi tent. be sure to check this place out, it’s our #1 pick.

cowboys and turbans

our first sweet-tooth choice at coachella would of course be luscious organic desserts…

luscious organic desserts espresso cupcake

the company wowed us last year with their high quality vegan cupcakes, and we are happy to report that they’ll be back in 2010 in both the main section AND the VIP area.

luscious organic desserts

even if you are doing the raw thing, there will be food for you at coachella. check out the booth by 118 degrees…

raw pizza and pasta salad from jenny's raw and organic

last year we had their raw pizza, pasta salad, and tacos. i’m pretty sure they will be in the main section and VIP area this year, and they will be either under the name “118 degrees” or “jenny’s raw & organic.”

jenny's raw organic

here are some more places that have been inside the festival in the past, and i’m hoping they’ll be back this year….

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UPDATE 4/18/10: i recently received the following email from vegan traders w/ their side of the story. according to them, there was no health department recall. check it out:

Thank you for your notice about our wonderful vegan foods that were removed from the shelves at Whole Foods. As the owner of Vegan Traders, I must correct one important point that you made in your article. It is easy to see why this mistake was made, since customers have heard from Whole Foods staff that the food was removed due to a Health Dept. recall. In fact it was Whole Foods who decided to remove our food from the shelves, NOT the Health Dept. In our conversations with LA County Dept. of Public Health chiefs Terrance Powell and Angelo Bellomo, they deny any kind of recall or conversation with Whole Foods at that point. They later notified Whole Foods that their investigation of Vegan Traders was completed and we were clear to do business. The recall by Whole Foods was actually an internal decision triggered by a letter I sent to all stores explaining that we were being audited and therefore would not deliver that day (March 26).

Please note that all these foods are still available through all our other customer stores. As the sole distributor of these products in Southern California, I hope your readers will seek the products at the numerous independent stores who respect and appreciate our services, and continue to happily sell all the products Whole Foods was carrying and more.

Although Vegan Traders was approved by Whole Foods as a distributor and brought these companies to the shelves, one buyer, one store, one item at a time, over almost two years, Whole Foods insists that now Vegan Traders has no standing. Thus far all the companies remain loyal to Vegan Traders in the hopes that through public pressure and further negotiation with Whole Foods, the decision will be reversed. This decision by Whole Foods to eliminate Vegan Traders and our partner companies from its stores is a puzzling one for everyone.

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due to some health inspection dramz, and a fundamentally flawed system, it appears as though loads of our favorite packaged vegan and raw foods are now missing from whole foods.

apparently, several brands have been distributed to whole foods by a company called vegan traders, which has recently been cited with a health violation. now although these companies never cooked food out of the vegan traders kitchen, nor did they have anything to do with the violation, they are being thrown off the shelves of all whole foods! THIS IS AWFUL! just to name a few—lydia’s organics, michelle’s naturally, rawk-n-roll cuisne, euphoria loves rawvolution, kookie karma, rahel vegan ethiopian, cru, and tomberlies have all been affected.

we received the following from an anonymous source:

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we aren’t really the type to celebrate religious holidays here at quarrygirl.com, but it’s really hard not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding them. so here are our picks of the top 3 things to do this easter that don’t involve jesus or animal products:

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UPDATE 04/07/10: the winners have been chosen! the tickets go to crustypop with “The Boy with a Thorn in his Side,” Martha with “Rusholme Ruffians,” and Schramm with “Ganglord!” now for those of you who didn’t win, SERIOUSLY go buy tickets. it’s gonna be an awesome show!

ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for another giveaway!

if you love the smiths, and you love morrissey, you are also gonna love sweet and tender hooligans. the tribute band headed by front man jose maldonado is so damn convincing, that if you’d squint your eyes, you’d think they were the real thing.

image from sweetandtenderhooligans.com

to celebrate morrissey’s upcoming 51st birthday on may 22nd, sweet and tender hooligans are playing a special “unhappy birthday” concert at the house of blues in anaheim on may 23rd…and i have 3 pairs of tickets to give away.

what does this have to do with vegan food, you ask? not much. but we do celebrate moz’s birthday every year on the blog, and in 2009 we even posted a pic from the sweet and tender hooligans unhappy birthday show. this year, we want the readers (at least 6 of you) to celebrate the birth of morrissey as well. so please go rock out and represent the vegans for us on may 23rd in the OC.

here is how to win:

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UPDATED 2/6/10: hey everyone, earth cafe was generous to let us pick two winners!! chosen at random, the winners were sean with who’s your daddy cheesecake…and lauren with banana cream. enjoy your winnings, kids! thanks to everyone who entered; now go buy some earth cafe cheesecake!

hi everyone, i’m super excited to announce that the wonderful raw/vegan/amazing company earth cafe has offered to give away an entire cheesecake to one lucky quarrygirl reader!

who's your daddy pie: rich creamy carob Mousse cheesecake

as you probably already know, we are HUGE FANS of earth cafe’s products. they make some of the best cheesecake i’ve ever tasted—and it just happens to be completely raw, vegan, and gluten-free, with no refined sugars or hydrogenated oils. these cakes are rich, decadent, and luscious beyond belief, even omnivores go crazy for them! so be sure to enter to win!

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i know it may sound crazy coming from us, lovers of all things pizza and baked goods, but we have decided to give raw food a try….at least for the next week.

what does that mean? well it means that we are gonna be eating nothing but uncooked, unprocessed, and mostly organic food for the next 7 days. i know to a lot of you readers this is pretty normal, but to us it’s fucking astrophysics. so please, if you have any tips/advice/knowledge, please leave it in the comments section.

otherwise, keep checking the blog for tasty vegan adventures—we have lots of posts stored up for this week! <3

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today is a great day, because i get to announce that earth cafe (one of my favorite vegan dessert companies ever) is introducing a new pie to their already delicious line of cheesecakes!

life is sweet potato pie. by earth cafe. 🙂

earth cafe’s “life is sweet potato” pie is definitely one of their best creations to date. it’s thick and rich with a smooth velvety texture and packed with sweet complex flavors. the pie itself is moist and fluffy, and the crust has just the right amount of crunch. it’s seriously the perfect indulgence, because it tastes amazing, yet isn’t full of bad ingredients. everything made by earth cafe is completely raw, vegan, and gluten free with no refined sugars or hydrogenated oils.

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i don’t know if you’ve noticed recently at whole foods…but the store has been rolling out a new initiative called health starts here, which promotes plant-based, low-fat, nutrient-dense cuisine. all the way from the bakery to the deli case, you can find pre-packaged meals to go, branded with the health starts here label. not all of it is vegan, but plenty of it is, so this just means our options at whole foods got a whole lot better.

health starts here baked plantains and black bean meal. $5.99

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as i mentioned in my re-cap post of expo west, one of the most exciting companies present at the convention was vbites. already huge in the uk, the company produces some of the best vegan meats and cheeses in the world, and makes everything ranging from deli slices and burgers to fish fingers and frozen dinners. there’s even an entire vbites restaurant in brighton, and it’s pretty much my definition of heaven on earth…so imagine how stoked i was when i heard these amazing products were finally coming to america!!

animal rights campaigner and owner of vbites, heather mills, was serving up pizzas and spreading excitement about her new products at the booth all weekend.

the new vbites food i tried at expo west was so fantastic, i decided it needed its very own post. just have a look at what the company has in store for the united states…

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