About us

Tequila Tanya and Gitana are two Type A 20-somethings exploring their hippie tendencies together through maintaining a vegan diet, attempting greener living, and struggling to figure out their lives in the wake of huge life changes.

This terrifically fastidious yet prone to lolly-gagging and slow living pair of procrastinators met in Paris and spent a year supposedly studying, but largely eating savory and sweet crepes, drinking cheap wine with twist off caps, buying train and plane tickets around Western Europe, and getting piercings in out-of-the-way Barcelona shops.

In the eight years following, their friendship and love for food strengthened and adapted as they each relocated around the US and the world, never living in the same city again until 2008. It was during that brief geographic overlap that in March 2009 Gitana made her first steps from vegetarian to vegan based on health, allergies, and ethics (yes, in that order.) Independently, Tequila Tanya made the same choice around the same time. Together they set out to explore the vegan treasures of New York City, like Red Bamboo, Lula's Sweet Apothecary, Zen Palate, and Blossom.

Health benefits followed: Skin brightened. Stubborn weight dropped. Energy picked up. Bellies were full and hearts were happy. New lifestyles emerged.

There have been temptations, slip-ups, and complications. But Tequila Tanya and Gitana remain faithful to the goal of 100% dietary veganism.

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Gitana, a freelance journalist, now lives in Peru, where old vegan staples like Morningstar Farms products, and vegan versions of nearly everything, do not exist. But there is tofu.


Meanwhile Tequila Tanya left corporate tech America and spent eight months traveling from the US to Asia, back through the Middle East, and finally regrouping in the Philadelphia area to start T's Sweet [Vegan] Treats.