Let’s talk about sugar, ok? I get a lot of emails with questions about the abundance of sweeteners found today in the markets. Today I am going to concentrate on granulated (dry) sweeteners. The first question to answer is this one: What is vegan sugar? To manufacture table sugar from sugarcane, sugarcane stalks are crushed […]
Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti
A few days ago I had a soy milk cappuccino at ITIT cafe in Florence. This excellent nondairy cappuccino was begging for my Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti, although here they are also called cantucci. I have found this cookie in every shop during my Vegano Italiano trip but all of them have been made with eggs. My recipe is […]
Vegan Gluten-Free Brownie Bites
You don’t need to be gluten-free to love these fudgy, deeply chocolate Gluten-Free Brownie Bites. None of my tasters or testers could tell the difference between these and fudge brownies made with wheat. The Gluten-Free Brownie Bites taste best to me after a half-hour in the refrigerator, but you might like them better at room […]
California Fun and Yum
I was super excited with invitations to do Vegan Chocolate book events at two of Google’s California offices. The first was as a Zagat’s Guest Chef at YouTube Google Headquarters in San Bruno, CA, to be followed the following week by an Authors@Google chocolate dessert demo at Google-LA. What I didn’t know at the time was how much more […]
