BETHLEHEM, Pa. – At ArtsQuest in Bethlehem, it was a vegan mac’n cheese lover’s dream as the annual S’mac Down returned.<\/p>\n
“We landed here in 2018 and we’re really excited that even post-pandemic we’re able to bring it back,” said Hilari Stahler, executive director of Lehigh Valley Vegan.<\/p>\n
The event featured different kinds of mac’n cheese from seven different restaurants in the area.<\/p>\n
Stahler started the cheesy event in the basement of a church in 2017.<\/p>\n
“It was all home chefs and 600 people showed up,” said Stahler.<\/p>\n
The event continues to grow featuring restaurants like Jannica Covington’s Momma Nicca’s Homemade Things.<\/p>\n
“So, I’m serving a vegan soul mac’n cheese,” said Covington.<\/p>\n
It is a dish her grandmother would make that she’s sharing with everyone.<\/p>\n
“Some people even from this, I’ve catered some of their events or you know they’ve come to some of my pop-ups and stuff like that, so it’s pretty cool,” said Covington.<\/p>\n
“It’s awesome. It’s a really, really cool community here,” said Joey Kobushefski with Paranormal Pizza.<\/p>\n
The business served mac’n cheese with a little bit of a kick with jalapeno.<\/p>\n
“Right now, we have a southwest style mac’n cheese. It’s got our cheese sauce mixed with some adobo in it, elbow noodles,” said Kobushefski.<\/p>\n
Taste testers voted on who will win bragging rights this year.<\/p>\n
“Everybody’s having a good time and it’s just good fun,” said Kobushefski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – At ArtsQuest in Bethlehem, it was a vegan mac’n cheese lover’s dream as the annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-36124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-bethlehem-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}