a veg life

(posted by Emily)  Saturday 27 September  After lunch, we decided to check out the Portland Art Museum , as a part of Free Museum Day .  a Keith Haring in the basement The museum has one Monet--probably the highlight of the museum for us a Degas ballerina some modern art--I like the colors Rick walking through the modern art  this reminded me of an ink blot test modern art is weird This is something I could see in my house this was a vase, sitting on top of a tv screen, that was playing a video loop. It was a very cool effect things like this always make me think I could be a modern artist.  Usually, we are both fans of Impressionism and modern art, but to be honest, we weren't all that impressed with the museum's collection. The modern art was just strange and unimpressive, and other than the Monet, there wasn't much art of note.  We had dinner reservations on Saturday ev...

(posted by Emily) Saturday 27 September We knew our Saturday in Portland would be a busy day--with great events like VegFest and free museum day , we had a lot of things we wanted to do. We started out morning by wandering through the Portland Saturday Market  (no pictures, sorry!), which was on our way to the Oregon Convention Center, where VegFest was located.  When we got to the convention center, we were glad to get in the ticket line early. It literally doubled in length by the time we had our tickets in hand! We were most excited to get into the exhibit hall, where all of the samples, vendors, and products were located.  inside the exhibit hall lots of people already here! In addition to business showing off their new products, there was a mini food court. We spotted Veggie Grill , and even Homegrown Smoker! It was so much fun to wander the booths and try all of the food samples and see the variety of offerings. One of our...

(posted by Emily) Based on some feedback from the R in E&R, I decided to split up these posts. Don't want to overwhelm anyone with too much content! Hopefully this makes things easier to read, and more manageable :)   We took the bus up to the Mississippi Ave, and the  Mississippi/Williams district  for lunch. There are a number of food carts here as well, and one of our must-hit food spots was located among them.  man on a mission I have been following  Homegrown Smoker  on  Instagram  for a few months and their food fascinates me. There is something pretty amazing about barbecue, and it is hard to replicate in a vegan way. Well, they have great reviews and we had to give it a try.  HGS does burritos and sandwiches, but I came with a plan--if I'm coming for barbecue, I want it to look and taste like barbecue. I ordered the combo platter, with tempeh ribs, smoked soy curls, mac no cheese, baked beans,...