Vegetarian Star

A bakery that won the challenge on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars is using its publicity to further expand its social efforts.

Papa Ganache was founded by Lisa Siroti, a social worker who also used the business to help children in need.

The increased business from her Cupcake Wars appearance has now allowed her to put more funds into the social service part of the bakery.

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Food Network Star has one contestant who may have just invented a new type of flexitarian eating.

Nikki Dinki has an interest in teaching people to cook in a manner she calls “semi-vegetarian,” and she’s branded this style with a catchphrase, “Meat on the Side.”

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Making the decision to go veg?

Sure you already know it’s easy to get protein and you probably have already figured out strong bones and all the benefits of dairy aren’t coming from a cow.

But when you grow tired of eating veggie take-out or delivery and ready to cook your own meals, do you know what to look for at the grocer?

The Food Network blog may have a few bits of advice for you to follow.

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So you’ve gobble up some brown rice and veggies and a side salad, both topped with the anything but mild flavored Sriracha. How about a hot and spicy donut for dessert seasoned with the same sauce?

Diggity Doughnuts, a food truck serving vegan donuts, carries a peanut butter and sriracha doughnut that is being eyed by producers of the Food Network show Heat Seekers.

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The Food Network has once again shown love to vegan chefs.

This Sunday, April 10th at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT the network will host its first ever donut making competition, Food Network Challenge: Donut Champions, that will feature a vegan donut bakery in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, Mighty-O.

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The Food Network’s sister channel, The Cooking Channel, will air a special show highlighting vegetarian and vegan culture across the United States on Thursday, December 9th at 9PM ET. The show, titled “The Veg Edge,” will examine veg eating in five major cities: New York, LA, Seattle, Austin and Portland. Host and vegan cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz will take the audience through local veg food carts, restaurants, chefs and food writers and grocery stores.

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Sugar Cupcakery, a cupcake bakery offering vegan and gluten-free varieties that competed on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars television series, is teaming up with a program that funds research and education on Parkinson’s Disease.

From now until September 12th, two organic cupcakes from the bakery will compete with each other in sales and 25% of sales from the winning cupcake will go towards The Sunflower Foundation, a collaboration between UC Health/ University Hospital Foundation, UC Neuroscience Institute and the Davis Phinney Foundation that has raised over 1.4 million dollars for Parkinson’s Disease.

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Why is our approval rating of the Food Network rising? Hmm..There’s this reason. And that one. And now, one more vegan friendly company, Xan Confections, will be showcased on the nationally televised show, Unwrapped, this weekend on July 17.

Unwrapped is a show that traces the origins of food from the very first speck of flour, and Xan Confections will detail how chocolate expert and director of research and development Tracey Downey created unique dairy and sometimes gluten-free sweets, such as the non-dairy ancho chili caramel, containing Alderwood smoked salt and ancho chili flavoring. There’s also six flavors of the signature vegan Jewel caramels–coconut pecan, espresso almond, butterscotch snickerdoodle and bananas foster.

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