What’s that, you say? Vegan soul food??? Doth my ears deceive me? Alas, they do not! Willowbeez SoulVeg operates much the same way the recently exploding hot chicken takeover does: they run pop up shops wherever they can or wherever makes sense to bring you a rarity in the culinary world, a near oxymoron — mostly vegan, if not, then vegetarian soul food. They operated out of 400 W Rich for a time and are calling the near east side cooperative market home on a regular basis these days. If you can track them down, I’d advise you to partake. There’s a bit of a Caribbean flavor with items like curried cabbage and brown stew on the menu. The spice is right too, the dishes pack a lot of flavor. And vegan cornbread is a godsend. If that wasn’t enough, Willoughby himself is known to host workshops to teach you to do it yourself. Give a man a vegan chili dawg, he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to cook a vegan chili dawg, he’ll eat them all day. I would anyway. A++ will try again. Apparently Facebook web sites aren’t valid, even if that’s their only site. So here it is