ABOUT THIS BLOG

hipsterfood is a vegan food blog which aims to prove to all nay-sayers that veganism is awesome. 

—->all the food here is made with love by sewindie and hooah

—->this blog is named ‘hipsterfood’ because we thought it was sort of laughable that people call vegan food ‘hipster’, the same way that if you wear too much eyeliner you’re called ‘emo.’ it’s very silly, so we thought we’d go along with it. we plan to make stereotypically hipster food in the future, but the majority of our posts are just regular, awesome food.

—->we are not trained in cooking at all, these are just recipes we make up as we go. in most of our posts we link to specific recipes for things that we have no idea how to make on our own without a recipe. (pizza dough, macarons, etc.)

—->we are not necessarily a health food blog, or an all-cupcakes-all-the-time blog. we simply post vegan food, some of which happens to be healthy, and other times extra decadent.

—->everything is vegan & made from scratch, some recipes our own and some not

—->we buy 95% cheap, easy-to-find food, and 5% sort-of-pricey, specialty food. everything should be available at your local farmer’s market, natural foods store, or wegman’s ;)

since starting this blog…

• we’ve gained almost 40,000 followers
• we’ve been featured on blogs all over the internet, and we’re a part of the “who to follow” section on tumblr, in the food category
• we started a quarterly vegan publication, chickpea magazine, to support the vegan community. there are no ads, just quality vegan content from submissions all around the world. it’s free online and print copies are sold at our shop.

HIPSTERFOOD FAQ

these are questions we get in our ask box nearly all the time. read these first before asking us something, you’ll get a better answer! (meaning, we won’t answer a question that’s already been asked here!)

what’s up with the “hipster” term?

it’s a joke, end of story. (check the sidebar, we explain it in that little blurb.) for fellow vegans who are concerned that we’re turning veganism into a fad, don’t worry about it. we’re helping a lot of people realize that vegan food is awesome.

will you follow me back?

this isn’t either of our main blogs, so no, hipsterfood cannot follow you back. if one of us likes your blog enough, we’ll follow it, but we get this question a LOT, and we can’t follow every single one. she likes artist blogs, he likes political blogs, and either of us likes any blog that spams sailor moon gifs - so if you’re in one of those categories, you’re in luck.

will you promote my blog/website?

we have a list of blogs we love and want to recommend to our readers at our links & resources page. we’ll certainly check out your blog, and if we are nuts about it, we’ll put it on that list. otherwise, we don’t want to clog our followers’ dashboards will recommendation posts - that’s not what this blog is about.

what are some restaurants you guys love?

contrary to our about page, we’re not from new york city, we’re from rochester, ny. if you’re looking for NYC suggestions, check out this post. here’s a short list of vegan-and-vegetarian-(and omnivore, for your friends) friendly restaurants in rochester that we looooove: dogtown, the owl house, the gate house cafe, california rollin, sticky lips, balsam bagels, aladdin’s, yummy garden, SEA vietnamese

what camera do you use?

for this blog, i use a nikon d5000 with a 50mm f/1.4 lens and a 28-105mm zoom lens. i plan to get a couple of new lenses this year. 

why don’t you guys eat organic food or use unbleached  flour??

whenever we use a food term in our posts, it’s kept general to fit diets and budgets of all types. some of the produce we eat is organic, almost all of our food is local, and we don’t use bleached flour or sugar. but everyone’s situation is different, and we don’t want to make our recipes seem out of reach. if it’s important (like unvegan bone-char sugar), we’ll usually say “you should use this kind of food instead because …”

could you put nutritional information in your posts?

we haven’t found a good enough interface (ie. website) to calculate that in an efficient way yet. to us, the amount of time it takes isn’t worth it. (we live in a way where we eat a varied, whole foods diet, and that’s enough to keep us healthy. we personally don’t have any specific dietary needs that warrant keeping track of nutrients.) if you want to, send us a link to a good website to calculate nutritional info, and we’ll consider it.

why do you guys have ads?

the main writer of this blog recently quit her job to work more heavily on hipsterfood and start her own business. until we make enough money to make ends meet, the ads help us buy enough food to fill up the week.

we hemmed and hawed for a long time about keeping them on here. in the end, we feel like we make high enough quality posts to justify them. we spend SO much time on this blog, both publicly and behind the scenes, that we feel like it’s worth it for us.

since we’re a tumblr, most of our followers never even visit our blog page, and they don’t have to see them at all. for those of you who don’t want to see them, we suggest an ad-block extension for your browser.

VEGAN FAQ

i’m a college student who wants to go vegetarian, do you have any tips?

we’ve got this one covered, in a general way. check out our ‘how to go vegan’ page, specifically under the heading ‘tips for students.’ we’ve also answered this question here and here. we’ll also have links to other blogs’ answers at our resourcespage. if you have a SPECIFIC question about eating in college (like how to manage in a cramped, shared kitchen or something), feel free to ask.

I WILL MISS CHEESE SO MUCH IF I GO VEGAN. what can i dooo?

check out our how to go vegan page, and this post.

what are some good vegan/vegetarian recipe blogs to follow?

that’s on our resources page.

for more questions people ask us, go to our questions tag!