It’s been two weeks…
Tenderly pals,
It’s Tenderly’s two-week birthday and we celebrated with vegan cheesecake made with Violife’s coconut-based feta and fresh raspberries. Since we last checked in, we’ve published over a dozen wonderful new stories. If you want to keep up on a daily basis, be sure to bookmark our homepage, and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram.
You can also email us (summer@tenderlymag.com) and let us know what you wish we were doing more of — which destinations would you like to see a Tenderly travel guide for? What childhood favorite recipe are you dying to make a vegan version of? Which vegan chefs, writers, and celebs are you most eager to hear from? Let us know!
For now, here are some of the best stories we published over these last few days — as always, check out our site for even more!
Behind the Scenes at the Best Little Tofu Factory in Chicago by Arabella Breck
Nguyen said in her experience tofu often receives more criticism on its nutritional value or GMO status than new plant-based protein options like the Impossible Burger, which is also soy-based and does contain genetically modified soybeans. “That is extremely hypocritical of the food media community,” Nguyen said. “There’s a certain, frankly, kind of racist quality about it. Why attack little tofu?”
My Mission To Bake The Perfect Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie by Maddie Shepherd
I set out on this mission to find the perfect vegan chocolate chip cookie after a first date. He mentioned his efforts to find his perfect (non-vegan) chocolate chip cookie recipe, a quest he’d been pursuing for years. He offered to bring me his latest iterations the next time we saw each other. I squirmed. How should I tell him that I’m vegan? Should I even tell him that I’m vegan?
Meet The Cows Who Have A Future by Nilina Mason-Campbell
Rescued animals like Bruno, Leo, Paolo, Max, Harry and Safran are seen as ambassadors for their species. Instead of meeting their fate at the slaughterhouse or being taken down by neglect and disease, just by continuing to exist they help to further convey that these animals are not just food, but unique individuals whose lives have value.
Meet a Vegan Tattoo Artist in Buenos Aires (en ingles y español) by Alicia Kennedy
Everything I do is influenced by veganism, so it’s not like it could be any other way. Sometimes I say that I live to tell people not to eat animals.
Honoring Her Ancestors, Without Eating Animals by Alisha McDarris
She forages instead of hunts. As she goes out to gather, she also lays a few leaves of tobacco at the gate, thanking the earth for her provision. She sets off into the field behind the ranch to a patch of pineapple weed she knows well. When she kneels to pick medicinal yarrow or dandelion for tea, she must respect the plant. She will neither take all of its leaves, stripping it bare, nor pull it up by the roots, killing the plant. She takes only what the plant can spare and nothing more, leaving the rest to the earth and its other inhabitants, just like her ancestors
Facebook Test Kitchen:“The Fudgiest Dairy-Free Brownie Pie” by Laura Vincent
Whatever our motives, these videos are being made at an astonishing volume. And because Facebook’s algorithm knows me better than anyone else, my timeline is absolutely stacked with the vegan genre of these particular videos. All promising that their fleeting recipe is the most delicious, the most genius, the most can’t-believe-it’s-vegan. So I’ve decided to start testing these recipes, and in turn, these bold claims. I will be doing my best to stick exactly to the recipe as it’s presented without making any variations whatsoever to judge it on its own terms, and will be assessing the results with cool-headed diplomacy.
How to Grow Gorgeous Mushrooms by Jetti Allen
Not all mushrooms grow at the same pace. The mushrooms I saw only spend five to ten days in the grow room and need to be harvested twice a day, seven days a week. Sometimes one block can produce two or three flushes before it’s done.
Wow! So much good stuff, and if you visit Tenderly you’ll also find new travel guides to D.C. and Hong Kong, find out what Delicious Bradley has been up to, and see our recommendations for the cutest vegan shoes.
Hope you enjoy and have a wonderful week,
