11/09/2026
You saw the dishes. Here are some of the people behind them 💚
Our Lehigh Valley Vegan Chef Challenge thank-you list deserves a menu of its own!
First up: Fresh Tofu Inc. and Sato Salon + Spa Organics, whose sponsorship helped us turn our appreciation for participating restaurants into something they could unwrap:
🔪 A Japanese chef’s knife
👩🍳 A beautiful Hedley & Bennett apron
🏆 A commemorative plaque
🪵 Engraved cutting boards
🖼️ Certificates and quality frames for every participating restaurant
🌱 Butler Soy Curls
🎁 Two $75 Butterhead Kitchen gift cards
We wanted the celebration to extend beyond the last bite of September. Your support gave us ways to recognize our restaurants’ creativity, with awards to display proudly and tools and ingredients for whatever they dream up next!
ArtsQuest and Lehigh Valley Vegan , thank you for giving our randomly selected Super Voter winner another delicious outing: two VIP tickets to the Vegan s’MAC Down! What better thank you for an enthusiastic diner than more vegan food?
Vegan Outreach, thank you for the guidance, resources, and ongoing support that helped us bring this challenge to our corner of Pennsylvania. We’re grateful to share this work with you!
And now, the names we wish we could put on a marquee:
Allison Gerstenberg • Amylyn Mortimer • Keri Ellington Mueller • Rachael Snyder • Sean Harrison • Tara Reddington
A HUGE thank you to our volunteers! Each of you carried a piece of this challenge. Some contributions took hours; others were the small, timely things that kept everything moving. All of them mattered. You gave your time to something you believed in, and our community got to enjoy what we built together.
For a volunteer run nonprofit like ours, these names belong in the story right alongside the food.
To everyone who cooked, sponsored, volunteered, ordered, voted, or brought a friend: you helped give compassionate eating a bigger place at the table in the Lehigh Valley. With all our heart, thank you! ❤️
