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🌱🍝 Get ready to spice up your kitchen with Chef Tara Punzone! 🍝🌱 - New Episode of Small Bites Radio!🎙️Presented by D & L Coffee Services Inc.

👩‍🍳 Meet the powerhouse behind Pura Vita, the first 100% plant-based Italian restaurant and wine bar in the USA! Chef Tara is serving up southern Italian soul — all vegan, all flavor, zero compromise.

🌿 Vegan for over 35 years, this Italian-American dynamo from New York has been perfecting the art of turning family classics into plant-based perfection since childhood. Now, with her debut national bestseller, Vegana Italiana, you can bring those same flavors home!

📖 Vegana Italiana features over 100 drool-worthy recipes — from ravioli and meatballs to tiramisu and lemon mint granita — all crafted to deliver that authentic Italian comfort, minus the animal products. ✨

Some fan favorites include:

🍆 Eggplant Parmigiana

🥖 Strawberry Almond Ricotta Crostini

🍝 Ravioli Pomodoro

🍰 Tiramisu (yes, vegan and just as dreamy!)

🎧 And now, Chef Tara joins us on Small Bites Radio! 🙌

She’s sharing her culinary journey, her love of Italian heritage, and a few fun stories (like serving Michael Imperioli — yes, Christopher from The Sopranos and Dominic from The White Lotus!). Plus, her dream dinner guest list? Howard Stern, Jesus, and Claudia Cardinale. We’re obsessed and want to know what the menu would be and what they talk about. 😂

👉 Click the link to listen — and find out how Chef Tara is proving Italian food can be totally vegan and totally delicious.

🎙️ [Listen here!]

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Again, in 2025, Small Bites with Donato Marino and Derek Timm of Bluejeanfood.com was blown away by winning the Best of the Best in the Philadelphia Region Arts & Entertainment category out of 80,000 votes tallied in total through Metro Philly’s Best of Philadelphia for 2025. Truly appreciate everyone who voted for us. We would be thrilled if you voted for us again in 2026.

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