events
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Seefood Night
August 30, 2024Au Lac - 710 W 1st St, Los Angeles, CA 90012Join Chef Lauren Toyota of hot for food for a fun night of food and activism! Enjoy a scrumptious flight of plant-based “seefood” delights created by Chef Lauren. For $14 you’ll get hot for food’s Crispy Crabless Cake with Horseradish Dill Aioli and a bowl of Seefood Chowder. In addition, a la carte items and beverages from the Au Lac menu will also be available for order. We’ll be screening the documentary Seaspiracy at 7:30 pm sharp! Please RSVP HERE
Parking is available in the plaza underground for $12 (cash only) and there's metered street parking around the venue as well.
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The Vegan Women Summit
May 10, 2024Pacific Design CenterLauren Toyota will be hosting a book signing as part of the Creator Corner at The Vegan Women Summit on May 10, 2024 at 1 pm at the Pacific Design Center. Bring your well-worn copies of hot for food all day and Vegan Comfort Classics to get personally signed or purchase both books at the event. Credit card and cash will be accepted and each book will be priced at $25 each.
The Vegan Women Summit Hollywood is the premiere global event of the year, featuring the world’s leading CEOs, celebrities, investors, creators, and sustainability-minded consumers. You are invited to experience a 360-degree view of the future of food, fashion, beauty, and sustainability and to network with over 1,000 like-minded professionals from around the world. All genders welcome! Purchase tickets using this link and 15% off will be automatically applied.
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Live With Purpose Bali 2022 with The Getaway Co.
October 19 to 29, 2022Surya Kembar Villas in Ubud, BaliFollowing the overwhelming success of Live With Purpose Bali 2019, we’re bringing it back for another round! Co-hosted by the incredible Lauren Toyota from hot for food, all of the elements of the getaway, from the vegan food, to the personal connections, to the excursions, to the meditation program, are designed to help participants live life with compassion and purpose. Led by the expert Natalie Matias, participants will also have the opportunity to engage in the Live With Purpose Meditation Program which was custom designed for the getaway and coincides with the various activities planned over the 10-day journey. Some getaway highlights include:
Ubud Day: We will visit a rice terrace, enjoy lunch at a well-known Ubud vegan restaurant and get to know our new home.
Culture Day: We will visit a stunning waterfall, have lunch at an organic farm and visit the famous Ulun Danu Temple.
Sunrise Volcano Hike: We will depart at 2am, drive north for an hour and embark on a life-changing sunrise hike up to the top of Mt. Batur.
Beach Day: We will visit a beautiful sand beach in Nusa Dua, head to a beach club in Uluwatu and then finish the day at Uluwatu temple watching a traditional fire dance with the sunset as our backdrop. -
Live With Purpose Portugal with The Getaway Co.
October 2 to 9, 2021Cascais, PortugalDo you love to explore the world and indulge in delicious vegan food? Well so do I and I'm teaming up with The Getaway Co. once again to bring you another life-changing vegan travel experience – this time in culture-rich Portugal!
This 7-day trip will include shockingly beautiful sunsets, a city trip to Lisbon, tile-painting, wine-tasting, a hike through the village of Sintra and mouth-watering vegan Pastel de Nata! And that's just a few of the awesome highlights we’ll enjoy on this adventure. As always, our menu will be the perfect mix of delicious hot for food highlights and local cuisine. Learn more about the planned itinerary and highlights here.
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Pasta La Vista: A Vegan Escape
August 8 to 15, 2021Villa Medici di Lilliano - Tuscany, ItalyThis getaway is set in beautiful Tuscany at the stunning Villa Medici di Lilliano Wine Estate. We’re thrilled to be joined by the uber-talented and always hilarious Richard Makin of School Night Vegan as well as the vegan queen herself, Lauren Toyota from hot for food! Richard will lead us through a fantastic cheese-making workshop and then be joined by Lauren for a second collaborative workshop where they’ll dazzle us with recipes from both of their repertoires! Having not one but TWO fantastic vegan experts with us in beautiful Italy is a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience.
In addition to a full menu of mouth-watering vegan food, we’ll embark on a day of vegan wine tastings, traverse the hills of Cinque Terre and wind down with a relaxing day at a luxurious wellness center.
Italy is an amazing destination to discover, but can be challenging when it comes to finding plant-based food. So join us and be wined and dined in a beautiful villa on the Tuscan countryside!
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Indie Book Store Event
March 30, 2021onlineLauren Toyota and Timothy Pakron in conversation with Pay Chen on March 30, 2021 at 8 pm EST.
In order to attend this event you will need to order a copy of hot for food all day from a participating indie book store here. Then register with proof of purchase to receive your ticket.
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Now Serving
March 20, 2021onlineLauren Toyota, bestselling author, blogger and YouTube guru, in conversation with Nisha Vora for hot for food all day: easy recipes to level up your vegan meals. This author talk is FREE, but you can support it by purchasing a SIGNED copy of the book here. Now Serving ships internationally too!
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Indigo & Chatelaine present: Lauren Toyota
March 18, 2021crowdcast (online)Join bestselling author and vegan YouTube guru, Lauren Toyota as she discusses her new cookbook hot for food all day. Filled with more than 100 utterly delicious vegan dishes from choose-your-own-adventure recipes for mac 'n' cheese to Stuffed Breakfast Danishes to Tokyo Street Fries, Lauren proves once again that vegans can eat whatever they want!
Maureen Halushak is the editor-in-chief of Chatelaine, an iconic media brand that has been publishing award-winning journalism on all the issues that matter to Canadian women for more than 90 years. Outside of work, she can usually be found in the kitchen or walking her two dogs in Toronto's High Park.
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Book Larder online event
March 25, 2021onlineWe are thrilled to host Lauren Toyota to discuss her newest cookbook, hot for food all day. She'll be demo'ing a recipe from the book and be joined in conversation with host, Chef Susur Lee.
How this works: This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registering will provide you with a unique access link in an email. At the event time, click that link to watch the talk. During the event, feel free to ask questions using the Q/A or chat feature.
This author talk is FREE, but you can support it by purchasing a copy of the book here.
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hot for food all day digital launch event
March 16, 2021online (link TBD)Do you want to be part of the fun on launch day when the new cookbook, hot for food all day, is released into the world?! The only way to gain access to the exclusive invite-only event is to pre-order hot for food all day from any retailer and use your proof of purchase/receipt to claim your FREE gift. You have to do this before March 15 at 11:59 pm EST. Doing this will put you on the email list to receive the invite to the digital launch event.
There will be 2 events on March 16, 2021 to accommodate as many time zones around the world. You'll choose one of them! Precise details about what we'll be doing and how to gain access to these digital events will follow in an email, but for now mark your calendars!
Event #1 - set aside 1 hour at 3 pm EST
Event #2 - set aside 1 hour at 7 pm EST
Friends of hot for food will be making cameo appearances!
Timothy Pakron (@mississippivegan)
Natalie Matias (@natalie.matias)
Dustin Harder (@theveganroadie)
Jackie Sobon (@veganyackattack)
Erin Ireland (@erinireland)
The girls of The Vegan View: Hannah Hagler (@hannahhagler), Nisha Balsara (@nishabalsara) & Nicole Vranjican (@nikkivegan)
AND THERE'LL BE GREAT PRIZES TO BE WON!