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Vegetarian Baby and Child Magazine 

Jan/Feb 2003 issue

"Being Vegan Just Got Easier!"

Our tester says, " As an aspiring vegan, I've been struggling to find a cheese alternative that doesn't contain casein and melts. Well, here it is: Follow Your Heart's Vegan Gourmet Cheese Alternative. Our family tried the caraway jack, nacho cheese, and mozzarella flavors. Mom's favorite is the caraway jack. It's great on a grilled 'cheese' sandwich or just plain. The nacho cheese has quite a kick to it, so we put it on burritos and nachos. The mozzarella is simple and works well on pizza. All of them taste great crumbled on salads or mixed with fruit. You can use them just as you would 'the real thing." The texture was a bit different, but the flavors are terrific. It helps to keep it in a moist environment to help it melt, but even unmelted it tastes great. Order from their website at www.imEarthKind.bigstep.com 

 

Christina Cooks Magazine 

Review By Gail Davis

Autumn 2002 issue

It Melts Just Like Real Cheese, 

Honestly, It Does!

"It was worth the wait--finally, a totally dairy-free cheese alternative to cheese that not only tastes unbelievable, but melts when you heat it! From now on, your meals are only limited by your imagination. Follow Your Heart's Vegan Gourmet Cheese Alternative in Caraway Jack, Spicy Nacho, and Mozzarella varieties lets you create all of your favorite cheese dishes. Imagine indulging your appetite for grilled cheese and Reuben sandwiches, nachos, quesadillas, enchiladas, lasagna, stuffed shells, and even pizza without all the lactose, saturated fat and cholesterol found in dairy cheeses. Until now, it was impossible to find a dairy-free cheese alternative that tasted great and melted too because most so-called "dairy-free" cheeses aren't really dairy free. The contain casein, a highly allergenic milk protein. But, Follow Your Heart's Vegan Gourmet Cheese Alternative is giving health conscious consumers a reason to cheer. These casein-free cheeses slice, crumble, shred, and melt easily, making them ideal for all of your favorite recipes. But don't take my word for it, try it yourself and be amazed. Read what other have to say by visiting www.imEarthKind.com 

 

Vegetarian Resource Group's Vegetarian Journal

Issue 3 2002

New Products on the Shelves

..."If you're on the west coast and are looking for a really tasty vegan cheese, try Follow Your Heart's Vegan Gourmet Cheese Alternative! It's about time there was a flavorful cheese to top pizzas, burritos, nachos, and lasagna. Available in Nacho and Mozzarella styles, look for this product at your local natural foods store..."

 

 

 

VegNews (July/August 2002 issue)

email or call for a subscription - subscriptions@vegnews.com

(415)665-NEWS

VegNews Picks - Hot new veg products on the market

 

vegan cheese ..... that melts!

As soon as Follow Your Heart's sampler box of vegan "meltable" cheese arrived at the VegNews offices, the staff immediately began testing their claims. Imagine our sheer delight when we opened the oven to find our pizza oozing with gooey, melted mozzarella cheese. For lunch the next day, we made grilled cheese sandwiches with the Nacho and Caraway Jack varieties, and, again, the melted cheese was dripping down the sides of the toasted bread. If there is a vegan heaven, taking a bite of this warm, melted cheese is the ticket in. It even tastes great right out of the package, especially when served with crackers and fresh fruit. Vegan Gourmet Cheese Alternatives can be purchased at select natural food stores or ordered online (they'll ship directly to your home). Now there's no more excuses for not going dairy free!

 

April 2002 -  VegSource.com (Click here to read the full article)


Best of show!
Not the girl -- the pizza! What are you thinking!

Seriously, Angel's vegan mozzarella is astounding and,
as you can see from the photo, it melts.
It tastes as authentic as it looks -- but with no nasty
dairy side effects. The cheese shreds beautifully as well.


These angels love Angel's mozzarella pizza!


Guess what -- you can buy this
ONLINE right now!

Check out Angel's website and place an order.
We had this pizza for lunch today (just like
yesterday and the day before!).

April 2002 VegNews

"Natural Foods and Jack LaLanne" by Stan King

".......Cutting edge products and technology were also evident. We were pleasantly surprised by the incredibly good vegan cheese (served melted on a pizza) introduced by Follow Your Heart, a Los Angeles health food store and restaurant."

 

 

March 2002 - Review by Erin Pavlina

from VegFamily.com VegFamily.com

Angel McNall's parents named her well...she's an Angel! Why? Because she developed a line of vegan cheeses that tastes good AND melts! Currently she's got two flavors on the market, a spicy nacho cheese and a caraway jack. They come in bricks and shred or slice very easily. This is a moist cheese.

I shredded some nacho cheese and made a quesadilla with it. It melted so fast, I had to keep it from oozing onto the pan. Steve loved this cheese, and although I liked the consistency, it was too spicy for my taste. This one comes packed with jalapenos and probably isn't suitable for children. But if you like spice, you're going to love this cheese.

Next, I made quesadillas with the caraway jack. It also shredded easily and melted quickly. This one was more to my liking as it didn't bite back. I know, caraway jack isn't often found in a quesadilla, but vegan cheese isn't often found, well, anywhere, so allowances need to be made.

Angel invited me to lunch to try one of her new flavors, mozzarella. Follow Your Heart made us a pizza with this cheese and I can tell you this is going to be the most fantastic vegan cheese on the market. I cannot wait until it's available for me to buy off the shelf. I plan to make cheese pizza quite frequently. A recent survey conducted here at VegFamily showed that most vegans don't even bother with vegan cheese because they taste bad. That's all about to change.

I discussed the jalapeno situation with Angel and she told me she is working on a mild yellow cheese. That's going to be wonderful for the kids. Right now you can buy this cheese online and at a few, very select stores. Visit the Vegan Gourmet website for more information, recipes, and the location nearest you. And look for that Mozzarella to be out soon! I'm expecting wonderful things from Angel...

 

 

 

 

 

Los Angeles Times

Tuesday, March 18

In the "Living" Section 

 The Main Course and Cause: Veggies

By Emily Green, Times staff writer

".....There is sprouted hummus from Venus of Venice, meatless beef stroganoff from Native Foods, chicken-less sweet and sour from Vegan Express, and so on. The star of the evening is a pizza made with a milk-less mozzarella that melts like real cheese."

 

December 2002 - The Not Milk Man's Daily Column 

by Robert Cohen, the "Not Milk Man"

"What do you call cheese that doesn't belong to you?"
    Sarah's face was quite serious, showing no indication that I was being set up for a really bad

joke, so I gave it a few moments of thought before noticing the tiniest wise-guyish
smile forming in the corner of her mouth, the kind of tell that only a poker player or father
could detect. I braced myself for the worst as I responded to my 15-year-old daughter,

"Okay, I'll bite. What do you call cheese that doesn't belong to you, Sarah?"
    In her best New York Latino accent, she nailed me and said: "Nacho cheese." (Groan)
    Yesterday, I received a sample of vegan nacho cheese, made by California-based Earth Kind,
and I am elated to announce: IT MELTS! http://www.imearthkind.com/
    Vegan cheeses don't contain cow's milk protein, casein, that gooey meltable malo mucous

maker. Most vegan cheeses just kind of lay there, making poor substitutes for the hormone-laced

"real thing." Until now, that is.
    A review of Earth Kind's ingredients reveals these secret components: agar agar, lecitithin,
carob bean gum, and xanthan gum. All natural ingredients.
    Earth Kind's brilliant food scientist, Angel, has turned leaden ingredients into golden soy-cheese,

and it's a winner. I spoke to Angel, and she told me that a great mozzarella is on the way. If it's

anything like the nacho cheese, the dairy industry had better pack up and go home right now.

What to do with all those cows that will be put out to pasture? Send 'em to Farm Sanctuary. There's

plenty of room: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/
Don't delay. Ask the produce manager of your supermarket to stock this product. Let he or
she know that you'll shop at the store carrying this wonderful cheese alternative. Let your health

food stores know too.
    For distribution information contact Earth Kind: (818) 347-9946 or write:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/post?protectID=210071047007146132072133175148249187015102166215209171188199
    We're in the middle of a soy revolution, and you can become a player in the cheese battle
of the millennium. Be a good hobbit and defeat the evil cheese-loving orcs. There is now
a delicious alternative. Vegans of the world, unite!

NUTRITION FACTS
Vegan gourmet nacho cheese contains 3 grams of fat per one ounce (30 gram) serving,
zero cholesterol, and 40 calories. Compare that to cow's milk cheddar cheese which has more
than triple the calories (121), more than triple the fat (10 grams), and 32 artery-clogging milligrams
of cholesterol. Most importantly, nacho cheese is delicious!
    Sarah made bean burritos for dinner, shredding liberal amounts of nacho cheese on shredded
lettuce, salsa, and guacamole. When asked to comment about the cheese, Sarah said:
"That's my cheese!"
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com/