This Valentine’s day, we’ve gone buck-rogers with a racy show about aphrodesiacs! For the occasion we’ve concocted a pulse-punding chocolate sauce chock-full of sensuous spices like maca, cayenne, and cinnamon to get you in the mood for love. Treat your sweetie, (or yourself!) and use it to ...

This episode we take you on a quick and dirty (and occasionally bloody) history of Valentine’s Day. The story of this holiday and its patron saint is still a bit of a mystery. From Roman pagan festivals Lupercalia, to saintly love letters sent from the joint, the ...

Happy Lunar New Year! February 7, 2008 begins the year of the Rat, the first year of the Chinese zodiac, a time of activity and renewal. Today we’ll take you on a quick tour of lunar new year basics, factoids, and food traditions. It is said ...

This recipe was inspired by Anthony, aka the Raw Model, and his nifty list of 5 things to eat every day for health and beauty. It was a well-intentioned soup, simple and unassuming, comprised of some of my very favorite things to eat, all in one convenient bowl. What ...

A quick tour and history of this surprisingly young fruit.

This episode would probably be better titled “Sage-Pistachio Pesto”, but the allure and onomatopoeia possibilities of the word squash were too many to avoid. This recipe is another winner. We originally shot this episode before we left on our cross-country train trip, but we had the dish again ...

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This is an event that will one day reach great renown… the first Christmas Special in online media history. Well, the first to our knowledge at any rate. This is day one of three action-packed days of Freshtopian Christmas cheer, featuring food, fun, green gift ideas, ...

This is an event that will one day reach great renown… the first Christmas Special in online media history. Well, the first to our knowledge at any rate. This is day one of three action-packed days of Freshtopian Christmas cheer, featuring food, fun, green gift ideas, holiday stress ...

This episode we bring you a dish that we made for last week’s dinner party with Ryanne, Jay and Eddie. The dish is Celery Root Soup, and it’s the perfect comfort-food compliment to a cold Autumn day.

Celery Root, also known as Celeriac, is an often underappreciated vegetable. It ...

Welcome to the first video installment of our new “Dinner And A…” series. In this episode, we get a visit from Ryanne Hodson of RyanIsHungry, Jay Dedman of Momentshowing, and Eddie Codel of Geek Entertainment TV.

As this was our first attempt at capturing a dinner event in ...

We drove to LA to present our hand-crafted awards at The Winnies. If you’re not familiar, think the Oscars meet Santa’s secret workshop. The event was organised by Irina Slutsky (Geek Entertainment TV), Lan Bui and Bonnie Pierzina (NoodleScar), and Vu Bui (Vu Goes Vegan), ...

We’re headed to L.A. this weekend for The Winnies, the secret-santa party for the vloggywood community. Tanja Andrews makes our trophy in the Vitamix 3600, and pieces together a tidy little outfit for the awards ceremony; economical, compostable, and imminently edible.

Why is it that when raw-food health gurus go on national television, talking about all the wonderful soups, rich entrees, and magical desserts you can have on a raw food diet, so often they end up handing over to the excited and anticipating host a glass full of green glop? ...

Fresh, ripe figs are the best. Sensuous, decadent and so delicious it almost seems wrong. So good, in fact, that it’s perhaps a little crazy to do anything to them except enjoy their sweet flavorful perfection. However, there are those times when madness and the presence of figs in ...

Never doubt our commitment to sparkle motion!

Our house had a problem; we all loved sparkling water, but hated the wasteful plastic packaging and crazy cost. Americans drink more than 55 billion liters of soda and seltzer every year, which means over 3 billion cubic feet of packaging ends up in ...

Living a fresh and healthy lifestyle? Missing things like decadent candy? Here’s a recipe that will make you forget all about those high-fructose corn syrup-laden bars in their tacky plastic packaging. We’ve taken candy to a whole other place with the addition of powerful superfoods like maca, he shou wu, ...

Today’s recipe is absolutely divine! We’re making Mexican mole fresh-style! In this rich yet nutritious sauce, the delicious heat of chilies and the rich flavor of chocolate caper across the palate. Treat yourself to a dish that’s fit for Aztec royalty, and so sexy, you won’t believe that ...

We’re having a slightly off day here. Sometimes the best-laid plans of mice and Freshtopians go slightly awry. Thankfully we’ve got a recipe that’s about as simple as it gets. Quick pickles are a great way to use all those cucumbers that are so very in season ...

It could be the heat, or perhaps I’m having a blonde moment. Maybe I’m just dizzy with summer excitement, but I’m attempting to recreate, fresh-style, a dish that is quite possibly the opposite of raw vegan uncookery.

I’m talking about Barbeque! It’s so crazy it just might work… or is it ...

Great Tomato Caper Update:

Oh man. All I wanted was to make home-grown, organic, sun-dried tomatoes…. I just didn’t know what I was in for. This tomato caper business is making us all a little crazy here at Freshtopia HQ. Growing your own tomatoes simply isn’t for the faint of heart. ...

We recently heard of an interesting food challenge that we just couldn’t pass up. The blog, Gluten Free by the Bay, created a blogging festival to collect recipes for a friend in need. Karina, a.k.a. The Gluten Free Goddess, recently found she has a bevy of allergies in ...

We’re busting you into the Fort Knox of flavor!

With summer’s bounty rolling in on all sides, I wanted to do an easy rendition of a summer staple with a twist. You may have had gazpacho before, but did it shine? The many heirloom and unusual varieties of ingredients, like lemon ...

Today I can’t concentrate, because the BOT house is under a massive attack by six-legged flying invaders. So, in order to go to a happy place, I’m hitting the couch to talk about cats. Lolcats may be so two months ago, but I’m not quite sick of it yet, ...

I’m delving into an unfortunate part of my food history here: My brief love affair with store-bought poppy seed dressing. Maybe I just fell for the wrong one, but the romance came to an abrupt end when I came to my senses and read the label. Hydrogenated soybean oil?