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Natural Products Expo West 2026 has come and gone, and after three days walking the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center, I have a lot of thoughts. My full product coverage post covers everything I spotted brand by brand, but this post is different. This is about the bigger picture […]
If you follow food trends online, chances are you’ve seen the viral photos: a $20 smoothie, a $15 jar of vegan yogurt, or even a single strawberry selling for nearly $19. All of them came from one place: Erewhon Market, an upscale California grocery chain. It has become a social-media […]
Here’s a question that may sound simple but is a bit nuanced. Should a brand put “vegan” on their label? If you spend any time reading labels and ingredient panels in grocery store aisles (basically my part time job), you probably have strong feelings about this. And it turns out […]
Earth Balance, Miyoko’s, Trader Joe’s and the Return to DIY Vegan Butter If you’re a vegan baker, you may have noticed something lately and no, it’s not just you. The vegan butter sticks and blocks that many of us relied on for years have quietly disappeared from shelves. Not the […]
Asheville, North Carolina has been one of our most-loved destinations for well over a decade. We’ve visited nearly once a year, experiencing it in just about every season from busy fall weekends to lively summers and the holidays. Somehow though, January had always been the one month we skipped. This […]
Trader Joe’s just dropped something I genuinely never thought I’d see in the freezer section: vegan onion flowers. As far as I can tell, these are the first frozen, fully vegan blooming-onion–style product widely available in U.S. grocery stores and yes, that alone makes them worth talking about. They’re brand […]