Sarma Melngailis became a national celebrity in 2015, but this time the headlines were about her stealing from the same, rather than her business or reputation as the queen of vegan cuisine.
After all, she drained her restaurant's funds for...
The morning of August 8, 2005, in Ceará, Brazil, marked the start of a lengthy investigation that would continue for several years. The authorities discovered that a bunch of robbers had robbed the Central Bank's vault of roughly $70...
In 2005, a spectacular bank robbery in Central Bank of Brazil netted the criminals over $70 million. When others began to target the money, many of the persons that the authorities suspected were involved met a dreadful fate.
'Great Robbery...
On August 8, 2005, what appeared to be an ordinary morning for staff at the Central Bank in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, turned out to be anything but. Authorities were able to figure out how a band of criminals pulled...
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives., directed by Chris Smith, is a four-part docuseries about Sarma Melngailis on Netflix, who for years ran one of New York's hottest restaurants, a raw-food vegan restaurant called Pure Food and Wine, but ended...
Pedal to Metal Season 2, renewed or cancelled?, Lets check out - Netflix's original action series 'Pedal to Metal' ('Dale Gas') stays true to the name and comes off as a slick, fast-paced dive into the world of illicit...
What set Pure Food and Wine distinct in the beginning was utterly unrelated to the food. The New York Times praised foie gras with cherry blossom marmalade and grilled dry-aged sirloin at Verbena, which used to be located at...
Sarma Melngailis, Anthony Strangis' ex-wife, is hardly the person to question if you want to discover what he does for a living. In Netflix's new four-part docuseries Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives, the former New York City restaurateur explains,...
Chris Smith's latest real crime docuseries, Bad Vegan: Fame, Fraud, and Fugitives., premiered on Netflix. Before Bad Vegan, Smith directed FYRE and worked on Tiger King as a producer. Despite his credentials, this may be his most bizarre case...
When Sarma Melngailis and Matthew Kenney co-founded Pure Food and Wine, they had something groundbreaking on their hands. Soon after it opened in 2004, the fine-dining vegan restaurant exploded in popularity.
However, after a decade in the industry, Sarma abruptly...