#furiousvulvas

[lagustasluscious]

@tee.fall — a truly outstanding member of our community — took this photo with some of the food we’ve been making for Ulster County Project Resilience. This project pays (🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼) local restaurants to make food for people who need it right now. 💖If you need food assistance, google them and sign up! 💖The rest of this white space is a caption I wrote for @lagustasluscious but it’s relevant here too so: I have never ever thought about this job as an essential service, but the government having designated it and @llcommissary as such, and having to pivot the businesses to a strange new way of operating has really done a number on all of our heads. We are not health care professionals. We are not doing the unbelievable work of keeping people alive. But independent businesses, particularly food businesses with their so-slim margins, are, to me, what I love about the world. Strange shops that exist solely / excruciatingly for the pleasure of people who “get it.” We contain too many multitudes for most. The world likes a tag line and “innovative and delicious vegan chocolate made mostly by queers, non-binary humans, and women with ethics built into its supply chain in wildly deep/inefficient ways and a loud-mouthed commitment to Chomskian praxis + Eileen Myles-esque patter [WE WISH] - also #furiousvulvas” doesn’t fit into an Instagram ad real well. But we’ve found you, you’ve found us, and we survive because of it. Coming to work is hard right now for our crew. We suit up. When we walk in the place stinks like bleach solution, not chocolate. When we leave we wipe everything down with bleach solution again. We go through boxes of disposable gloves every day. We are working in two-person crews, damn near 24 hours a day. We are taking all precautions and no chances and it’s lonely and emotions are high and sometimes the lingering bleach gives you a headache. It’s nice to see all the stories and posts of everyone enjoying what we made, eating chocolate under the billions of stars and the waning super moon and everyone on this earth suffering the same but also dreaming the same dreams, as if we weren’t always: going outside. Feeling safe. A little treat sometimes. (at New Paltz, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7BoxfDBTs/?igshid=1tznv34ds8jba

[shoedaydreams]

Love Is Dead... Happy Valentine’s Day! This Lagusta's Luscious 66% semi-hollow skull, flocked with charcoal cocoa butter and filled with five superstar bonbons: the cinnamon caramel, the violet caramel, the anatomical heart, the furious vulva, and the chocolate caramel. Comes in a box with a “LOVE IS DEAD” tag, wrapped with black compostable ribbon. (I have to call out the Furious Vulva chocolate - Solid dark chocolate. Pink peppercorns. Pink salt.) The Valentine’s Bark is designed with chocolate plus dried raspberries plus candied citrus plus white chocolate hearts plus “lovingly adorned” rose sugar. The box of hearts!!! Inspired by Victorian sweets, it holds Chocolate Caramels, Cherry Black Pepper Almond hearts, Violet Caramels with chocolate pendant adornments, Pear Riesling Cream hearts and Cinnamon caramels. The Cherry Black Pepper Almond hearts are made with cocoa butter for max shine, swiped with all-natural red coloring, backfilled with white chocolate, cast with dark chocolate, and filled with handmade almond paste, cherries, black pepper. The SUPER SEXY PEAR HEARTS! Per LL, this confection is hard to make unless pears are super ripe, and pear season in our town is very short (@jlorchards pears). Lots of @whitecliffvineyard riesling infused into a white chocolate cream base with a thin dark chocolate shell. #LLSkull #furiousvulvas #lagustasluscious #veganfood #chocolates #whatveganseat #valentines #skull #darkchocolate #ethical #valentinesday2020 @lovepop #thechild #babyyoda https://www.instagram.com/p/B8jEA-hpwh9/?igshid=1i1zck55z9hgh

[lagustasluscious]

7 PM tonight !! at @bluestockingsnyc I will be chatting about the book (#sweetxsaltybook!), ethical chocolate, literally whatever you want. Anarchism? Feminism? How to make vegan caramel? Come with questions. Come hungry ‘cause best restaurant on the planet @superiorityburger is making 〰️saturated〰️party〰️subs for this thing and also there will be free chocolate. We packed mostly sweets from the book to nosh on but also #furiousvulvas because when you speak at a feminist bookstore you should bring your X-rated feminist chocolate, no? // also thank you @jennvaron and @c.a.gaspar for this kewl ‘rang #content Xoxox https://www.instagram.com/p/B26TS06DOyo/?igshid=4sitf05mgcxw

[lagustasluscious]

First of all **we’re closed Monday** for new window installation! Woooo double pane windows yay!!! //// Second of all I’ve got some C😎😎L ramen plans for Tuesday and was feeling kinda overwhelmed with weekend wildness this afternoon so I went on a mulberry-foraging walk for #rammissary, as one does, and overheard a family lovingly debating where to put their box of #furiousvulvas so it wouldn’t melt in their car. Emerging from a tree laden with mulberries to hear “but where are we going to put the vulvas” ~~~whatta town, this town. // See you Tuesday, let me make you a bowl of soup. —lagusta (at New Paltz, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzEuUoFgTgj/?igshid=evsmoiw2orpm

[lagustasluscious]

I’m going to be on @sagittarianmatters with @nicolejgeorges (who is celebrating her 22-year vegan anniversary this year), answering your questions about food / cooking / food politics / etc— send me what you’ve got and my 25-year-vegan brain that is surprisingly still functioning thanks to chewable vitamin B and omega 3 gummies and never eating any protein ever except #beansarequeens and Nicole and I will give our very opinionated opinion on what you should be eating and cooking. @winniewow took this great photo (hi #furiousvulvas) for @goodcompanyzine! (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsQ-r3hDDqh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xo39ajh618zx

[lagustasluscious]

For two years I’ve been trying to fix one of our big beautiful chocolate tempering machines, a @selmi_chocolate_machinery. For two years my business has been hobbled by not having the full equipment we need to do our jobs. For two years I’ve been bugging the distributor, any contractor/handyperson/mechanic/etc in the land for any tips. I’ve worked with 3 Selmi specialists. I’ve crated up the machine and sent it to the distributor for repairs twice. I’ve had their repair person come to me to try to fix it. For two years I’ve had at the top of my to-do list “YOUR NUMBER ONE JOB IS TO FIX SELMI.” Underneath that were tasks I dutifully crossed off in between various spurts of teaching myself how to be a mechanic on very expensive chocolate machinery: write a book, hire many people—my entire life has, actually, changed completely in the last two years but my maddeningly over-crystallizing tempering machine marched on, my North Star, stubbornly refusing to stay temper. Every chocolatier on earth wants one thing: a Selmi. I had two of them, and the debt to prove it. Grrrr. Today our pal Jason, who fixes our dishwasher and basically whatever else we need, was around, investigating a weird noise the robot coupe was making, when I got another set of troubleshooting instructions from my Selmi contacts, shadowy figures who, after much emailing and FaceTiming, periodically send me sets of numbers to enter into Selmi’s brain. I’d tried all the numbers. We’ve replaced every part on this machine. But today Jason and I took apart Selmi’s brain and looked inside and there we found—a. loose. wire. THE loose wire. And today, for the first time in two years, I have two working tempering machines, just in time for the busy season. I molded this ridiculous novelty mold to test the temper (reminder here that not all women have #furiousvulvas & that’s cool too!) and then threw it back into the sea of 65% to retemper tomorrow, triumphant, then went to cross off the most important item on my to do list. —lagusta (ps: notes on photos in comments) (at Lagusta's Luscious) https://www.instagram.com/p/Boz3q0ag3Sc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iuk6oywgpd4v

[lagustasluscious]

A good point from @stephaniefishes that we make these very timely chocolate salty #furiousvulvas & I wish they weren’t so timely and ugh you know, this week, this political climate yadda yadda what’s gonna happen in November will we ever not be filled with rage & if you’re local we have a crucial race in our 🙄🙄gerrymandered🙄🙄 district because we have to get Faso OUT so: @delgadoforcongress @delgadoforcongress @delgadoforcongress —lagusta https://www.instagram.com/p/Bofh4QjnMcW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hlie8nwixlhi

[lagustasluscious]

we’ve got some sick Confectionery! merch coming soon (PG & everything, wow), but in the meantime, #furiousvulvas are always in style. (at Confectionery)