B
Recipe

Baker Behind Award-Winning Vegan Carrot Cake Shares Her Recipe After 16 Years With VegNews Readers

In 2007, VegNews announced to the world that we had found the best vegan carrot cake. It wasn’t in Los Angeles or New York City—this humble slab of cake and frosting was developed and sold in a new vegan restaurant called Cafe Indigo in Concord, NH. This cake has emerged from the restaurant, expanding into the dessert cases of Whole Foods and other independent retailers nationwide.

jump to the recipe

The café and successful wholesale business have both closed in order for founder Patti Dann to focus on cookbook writing, but the recipe lives on. We’ve often wondered how she

…
W
Cooking

Watch Douglass Williams cook sustainably in ‘Tomorrow’s Menu’

FoodNews

Award-winning Boston chef Douglass Williams explores solutions to more sustainable food systems, from plant-based meats to shipping container farms, then cooks with them in “Tomorrow’s Menu.”

A still from the series "Tomorrow's Menu" with chef Douglass Williams, right.

The Museum of Science is launching a cooking series called “Tomorrow’s Menu,” which features chef Douglass Williams of MIDA and explores ways to make our food systems more sustainable. Courtesy of the Museum of Science

In the fight against climate change, how we get food and what we eat both exacerbates the problem and threatens what’s available to put on our tables, pushing scientists to urgently find sustainable solutions for our food systems.

…
F
Food Networks

Food Network Turns 30! Check Out These Throwback Photos of Its Original Stars

Celebrate the Food Network’s milestone anniversary with a look back at the OG chefs

<p/>Food Network / Courtesy Everett; Randall Benton/Sacramento Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty<p> Bobby Flay and Guy Fieri ” src=”https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/WcPvEaDJGwmt6L.vxBamZA–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA–/https://media.zenfs.com/en/people_218/91a30badc909cae740fc2103426b8648″/<img alt=Food Network / Courtesy Everett; Randall Benton/Sacramento Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty

Bobby Flay and Guy Fieri ” src=”https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/WcPvEaDJGwmt6L.vxBamZA–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA–/https://media.zenfs.com/en/people_218/91a30badc909cae740fc2103426b8648″ class=”caas-img”/

Food Network/Courtesy Everett; Randall Benton/Sacramento Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty

Bobby Flay and Guy Fieri

It’s been 30 years since a delicious television channel called the Food Network hit the airwaves.

In that time, it’s become the go-to for home cooks and couch critics alike, turning chefs

…
U
Food News

UK food delivery driver who bit customer’s thumb “clean” off over pizza dispute pleads guilty

An English woman who was filling in for a friend as a delivery driver in the UK has reportedly pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm more than a year after a customer said she bit off her finger during a dispute. CBS News’ partner BBC News reported that 35-year-old Jenniffer Rocha bit the customer’s finger “clean” off in December 2022.

According to the BBC, Rocha was acting as a “substitute” delivery driver for a friend through the Deliveroo service when the incident occurred, meaning she was performing the work under someone else’s account. During his shift on December 14, 2022,

…
B
Food Networks

Batavia woman on Food Network’s Christmas Cookie Challenge

Batavia resident Priscilla Sarmiento-Gupana, who is currently practicing pediatric medicine in Aurora, has found a way to relieve stress and unleash her artistic side by producing fabulously decorated cookies that have gotten her some national attention.

Not only has she wowed neighbors and friends with her creations, thanks to social media posts she found her way to the Food Network’s “Christmas Cookie Challenge” TV show back in 2021 and will be back on the show again at 8 pm Thursday in an episode featuring her and four other contestants.

Sarmiento-Gupana, 41, said she began developing a passion for baking as

…