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Baba's Vegan Cafe Pop-Up (Leimert Park Art Walk)

10/25/2015

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Happy Sunday! Sending Loving Kindness, gratitude, and abundance to you and your(our) networks.

We will be hosting our Pop Up Cafe at Leimert Park's Artwalk, Today, from 3pm to 7pm. Stop by the booth(near the drum circle), and grab a bite or two to eat. Check out our Menu below to see what's cooking in Baba's pot. 

Vegan Veggie Patties:
Curry Potato
Spinach/Kale
Beefy
Apple pie


Vegan Specialty Dishes:
Vegan Chili
Vegan Mac n' Cheese
Afrikan Style Greens
Coconut Yams
Black Eyed Peas
Seasoned Brown Basmati Rice

Everything is Vegan!  
Feel free to email us or call us (323-Vegan-93) if you have any questions, want to place an order or would like us to come to your special event. 
We look forward to feeding you again. 

In Gratitude, 

Yogi Lauren & Chef Wo'se Kofi
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Baba's Vegan Cafe Customers

10/23/2015

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We love coming out to Leimert Park every Sunday for our Pop-Up Vegan Cafe. The community appreciates our dedication in providing affordable vegan healthy meal options in South LA. Brotha Husayn and family stops by when ever they can for the vegan chili cheese fritos and veggie patties. 

Pre -Order and pick up (323) Vegan 93                www.babasvegancafe.com
Join us each and every Sunday from 1 :00PM until dusk and experience the Leimert Park Drum Circle
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Shafiq Husayn
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Los Angeles, California

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Shafiq Husayn carries the hip‐hop torch by importing and exporting sounds and genres into an otherworldly whole but always...  more
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Baba’s Vegan Cafe feeds Oasis House Community Workers

10/23/2015

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Good work continues by: Yogi Lauren Wolley 

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Before I teamed up with Chef Wo’se Kofi, I was a case worker at SCHARP Oasis House, located on the corner of 52nd st and Vermont in historic South Central LA. Oasis House has been around since the 90’s and it is like a well known underground safehouse for those of us dealing with life’s roughest conditions.

Oasis House is a community based mental health center offering an array of social services including, case management, mental health services, workshops, meals, clothing, and resources for navigating social/government funded systems. Oasis House has a diverse staff of 30 and serves up to 150 lives a day.This micro village in mental health is a gem and their staff exceeds its abilities in working with vulnerable populations. Unfortunately, the area around Oasis House, has nothing but fast food restaurants, liquor stores and the El Super Grocery store, but luckily we at Baba’s Vegan Cafe are ready to level out this injustice by offering our organic plant based cuisine.

The Weekly Salad Lunch service, usually includes patties, salads, and or chilli, but is based around our delicious gourmet salads, with over 6 different toppings and homemade Apple Cider Vinegar Honey dressing. We  make our salads affordable and loaded with vitamins and nutrients.  
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(323) Vegan 93
​Babasvegancafe.com
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Why Serving Social Services offices are important?

Oasis House community workers and all those in the social service field, serve as role models for the community on how to enhance our lives rather through health, housing, choices we make or resources we can tap into. These community workers, along with our community members need to have access to healthy food, so they in turn can be healthy and impactful to those they work with. Many community workers spend time: emotional, spiritual, physical and mental energy tapping into solutions for solving problems and crisis. Sometimes(most of the time) it creates additional stress, and workers become tired from the emotional/mental heaviness of working in social services. Now you add stress to a fast food based diet, and your immune system is compromised, and you end up doing more harm than good, while trying to do good for others. This is a “sick” cycle, that actually keeps our community workers just as sick as our vulnerable populations.

Hence, the importance of continually bringing awareness to healthy food deserts in urban communities, offering healthy food to both workers and members of the community and lastly adopting a plant based diet that supports optimum wellness.
Coming Full Circle
My Oasis house stay was a 5 year residency, working with a multitude of clients, on finding solutions to everyday barriers, programming of community events for members and staff, healthy living workshops covering meditation, exercise, diet, holistic nutrition, positive esteem, communication skills and yoga.

Ultimately, it was Oasis house where I learned the realities of the social service system and manifested a new identity in my relationship to social services and how to execute my goal of creating access to holistic services through food, yoga,herbal healing, meditation and resources for the global village.

Being able to serve Oasis House as a vegan culinary artivist, rather a case worker but still maintaining the alignment of serving good to others allows me to see how everything comes full circle. The weekly salad lunch service has assisted us in boosting sales, and expanding the business to reach other community workers and organizations, plus, being able to still stay connected to familiar faces. With everything in alignment, we give thanks to the Oasis House Village, for all the work they do, and for supporting local small justice based business, like ourselves. Ashe!
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Baba’s Vegan Cafe Caters Black Women For Wellness

10/20/2015

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Baba’s Vegan Cafe Caters Black Women For Wellness

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Yogi Lauren, Brittany Green, and Office Manager for BWW.

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Brittany Green, aquarius, ucla alumni, actress, teacher, and programming coordinator for Sisters in Motion,(Urban Chefs Academy) of Black Women for Wellness, was out attending the monthly Banana’s event, hosted at Kaos (3rd Tuesday of the month), when her boyfriend delicately convinced her to suffice her appetite with a delectable spinach/kale patty. By surprise, she was enamoured with a sense of fulfillment. Flavors captivated her and created a sense of awe that she ate something healthy, vegan, in South LA and late at night. She later reached out to Baba’s Vegan Cafe, requesting an order for her organization Black Women for Wellness, located in Leimert Park, CA.

Black Women for Wellness’ mission is committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls through health education, empowerment and advocacy. They do this by offering, holistic and western healing services and resources, that affirm the best outcomes for black women and children. In addition they serve as a resource center and advocacy group influencing public policies that directly affect black women and girls.

They have such events like Sisters @ Eight, a community forum which brings hot topics and major health and wellness issues to the forefront of public conversation held on the 2nd Friday of each month and Kitchen divas where they facilitate live workshops focusing on a plant based diet.
You can learn more about their organization, events, and programs at http://www.bwwla.org/

So we created a special menu, offering a full vegan meal( chilli, brown basmati rice, organic gourmet salad, and veggie patties). Once arriving at their Leimert Park office, we were blessed to encounter familiar faces, we have once known from moments long ago. Brittany and I went to undergrad together, and worked at the Community Programs office doing retention, holistic, peer counseling and advocacy work for black students. Chef Wo’se used to live across the street from one of their other programmers in the office. If this wasn’t the universe speaking then I don’t know what was. When you align with the highest, the wellness, the divine in you, you in turn  are aligned with that outside of you. With these recycled connections it is in our destiny to only prosper. Our Nubian wellness community is larger than we can imagine, we just have to align and open our eyes.

Serving healing food to an organization like Black Women for Wellness, who in turns serves our community through health awareness, knowledge, life skills, advocacy and resources, is the work we feel motivated by, the work that keeps us going, and affirms our role in the larger mission of Maat. We give thanks to Brittany Green and Black Women for Wellness for inviting us to be a part of their mission and we look forward to catering for you again. Love and Light. ​
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http://www.bwwla.org/

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Support Baba's Vegan Cafe 

10/8/2015

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Support Baba's Vegan Cafe

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You probably remember when I started out with just a basket walking around Leimert Park with Vegan Veggie wraps and carrot cake. Now is the time to open a space and we are so close. We have came up with more than half of the money needed and with your help we will be open in no time. 

Evolving Wo’se’s Vegan Gourmet into Baba's Vegan Cafe  in South Los Angeles where you have daily access to great vegan options and mingle with Leimert Park legends and locals. By Café I mean, the “Patties” spot, for everyone who has been waiting for the brick and mortar to come into manifestation- well now is the time. We would love to be able to provide you with all of the items you love by us.
Patties, The Vegan Mac N’ Chili, Veggie Wraps, Ethnic Soups, Salads
And more…
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In Baba's Kitchen : Vegan Miso Soup 

10/3/2015

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Miso Soup- Chopped ginger, garlic, baby spinach, lemon leaf, mushrooms ..baba style #pattyman #7dayveganchallenge

Miso Soup is a traditional Japanese soup consisting of a stock called "dashi" into which softened miso paste is mixed. Many ingredients are added depending on regional and seasonal recipes, and personal preference.

The choice of miso paste for the miso soup defines a great deal of its character and flavor. Miso pastes (a traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, known in Japanese as kōjikin (麹菌?), and sometimes rice, barley, or other ingredients) can be categorized into red (akamiso), white (shiromiso), or mixed (awase). There are many variations within these themes, including regional variations, such as Shinshū miso or Sendai miso.

A miso paste that has been fermented for a longer period of time, such as a red miso, gives the miso soup a stronger, deeper flavor. A miso paste that has been fermented for a shorter period of time, such as a white miso, provides a lighter, sweeter flavor.

More than 80% of Japan's total annual production of miso goes into miso soup, and 75% of all Japanese consume miso soup at least once a day.


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Be Creative with your Patties!

10/1/2015

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CUSTOMER APPRECIATION TO: 
​Issa Yusef Heru

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Creative ways to enjoy your veggie patties. 

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Is not a game! Just got another dozen ‪#‎veganpatties‬ delivered from @BaBasCafe..‪#‎purplecabbagesalad‬ was just waiting to be served up. Salad recipe from the little homie from the bay.. ‪#‎blackvegans‬ ‪#‎lavegans‬ ‪#‎pattyman‬ ‪#‎hahk2healthy‬

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