Here is the menu for my Neapolitan vegan food supper club on 20 July 2017 to benefit Baraka Community Partnerships. Click here for all details
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Don’t Lower Your Standards
It has been a while since I was active in my wee cottage industry of responding to self-absorbed speciesist articles in the press. I was getting my hopes up that perhaps they were done for. I needn’t have. The Guardian returns to form and showcases the new fad of reducetarianism, telling us that vegans are…
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Supper Club: Napoli Soul Food
Come along to my very first supper club on 20 July 2017 and support a good cause! I will prepare some of my favourite, classic Neapolitan dishes for this four-course vegan supper – starter, main, side salad and dessert. Think fragrant orange blossoms and sunshine and you will know my inspiration. All home made. If you…
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Zambia: Meds, Schools and Kids
Our recent trip to Zambia had been overdue. We went for a variety of reasons, including to help a volunteer medical mission, to see schools, meet students we had been supporting for a number of years and run a life skills workshop for young people. Although it took us 30 hours door to door to arrive…
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Vegan in Zambia
As our friend Andrew T. said at the end of our three weeks in Zambia, “you’ve discovered that most of the traditional Zambian foods are vegan!” And that pretty much sums it up. There is a vibrant variety and availability of vegetables, tubers, pulses, grains, nuts (mostly groundnuts, aka peanuts) and fruits and that’s just in the…
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Just Whatever
First published on Ecorazzi on 30 April 2017. I do not know what cows have done to Josh Tetrick, CEO of Hampton Creek, but it must be something egregious for him to exact revenge by using them in his company’s products. Yes, the darling of all vegans, the plant-based company originally established to replace eggs…
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My Vegan Experiment aka My Experiment In Missing The Point Entirely
First published in Ecorazzi on 21 March 2017 Lately, The Guardian is becoming a platform for self-absorbed and outlandish perspectives on veganism. The paper has yet to feature the only coherent and unambiguous case for veganism: that it is a matter of simple fairness and justice we owe to the animals. In its most recent…
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