In this article, I share my conversation with Becky Morris, founder of Celebrated vegan bakery. Becky Morris believes in indulging in delicious, cruelty-free desserts as a way to bring more joy to life. Regardless of who we are, where we come from, or what our dietary restrictions may be, Becky thinks that tasting phenomenal treats can be a way to celebrate each individual. Her philosophy on food combined with her passion for baking to inspire Becky to found an operate Celebr

This recipe is for Vegan Sweet Cherry Molasses Scones, one of my favorite breakfast treats to make. I knew my boyfriend was the one when he ordered a pastry with his mocha on our first date. I swooned when he offered to buy me something sweet to go with my chai latte (not coffee because my heart would have pounded out of my chest). I sheepishly told him no, making some excuse about having to eat French macarons that night – which wasn’t a lie. I was carrying a baguette and a

Each family has their eccentricities, and mine has many. After moving away from home, I have grown to accept the things that I will never be fond of (my father’s socks with sandals, my mother’s not-so-subtle attempts to marry me off, the hours it takes for my brother to tie his shoes) and appreciate many of the things that make us unique – the pedestrian 13 mile-runs that we used to complete on Sunday mornings when I was a teen, the fact that Europe was my version of Disney W

How do sweets and mindful eating connect? All too often eating mindfully may bring to mind images of raw carrot sticks chomped in silence. Yet it becomes challenging to build enthusiasm for a phrase that conjures up visions bugs bunny in time out. Personally, I’d rather not live in a state of deprivation. I’ve been there, done that, and it wasn’t fulfilling nor sustaining. Baby steps may be much more effective than making all-or-nothing changes in our attitudes toward food. T

The story behind the baking The rich smell of chocolate decadence arose from the oven, the timer sounded, and I opened the door to a smiling tray of darkened aphrodisiac gems. Serving the warm magic, the corners of my lips grew higher upward as I watched the break from the slightly crunchy corners to the soft inside to the gooey, melted centerpiece that dripped into itself with slow separation. My heart fluttered wildly to see the change of expression on a customer’s face, fr

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi The barriers to self-love and self-care in Yangon are countless, or so I have found. Thus far, I have greeted the morning to meet a rather large lizard in my cereal box; I have been chased by a deceptive pack of sleeping dogs twice; I have been eternally cursed by a taxi driver in an altercation over a price disagreement of 37 cents; I have curled up