Roll up. Roll up. Fat Gay Vegan is hitting the road this summer.
I am thrilled to announce my first ever Vegan Roadshow, a collaboration between musicians, activists, food providers, music venues and me.
The idea is simple.
Year: 2015
New vegan ice cream
Do you come here often?
If the answer is yes, you will be familiar with my recurring post category known as Vegan Ice Cream Wars. This is the part of my blog were I risk life and limb to bring you the very best from the frozen dessert frontline.
Put on your standard issue boots. We are going back into battle as stunning vegan ice cream The Nude Spoon launches in central London tomorrow.
New vegan cheese in UK!
Nothing gets a plant-based motor running quite like news of new vegan cheese.
Buckle up, kids. This is a good one.
Probably the food highlight of Vegfest Brighton, Tyne Chease is a product range that is long overdue in the UK. This brand new company selling handmade vegan cheese is set to explode on the food scene following their official launch in May.
Tyne Chease, as the name would suggest, originates in the northeast of England. Varieties sold at Vegfest included Garlic & Herb, Aged Cashew, Original, Mustard & Ale and Smoked Paprika. People all over the show were raving about these vegan cheeses.
See our Garlic & Herb cheese wheel below. We showed little restraint once this had the first wedge carved from it.
This is it
Stick a fork in London Vegan Potluck. It’s done.
There has never been a vegan community event like London Vegan Potluck and it will be a long time until we see the likes of it again, if ever. It stands unrivalled.
At its height, more than 100 people were filling our central London location with a wide range of plant-based dishes every month. We started with just 20 people back in May 2011 in Brixton and we are finishing with a bang in May 2015 in Holborn.
Vegan beer article
The brand new issue of Vegan Life magazine features an impressive story about vegan beer. As a lover of compassionate drinking, of course I pushed my snout into the article with my views on drinking kindly.
What is not fab is the more-than-unfortunate subheading for the story on the magazine cover. Drink up, lads? Really? I’m not going to try and explain why this is problematic. You get it, right?
The publishers have been grilled on social media about the blatant sexism and rightly so, with the author of the article even expressing his disappointment with the choice of words.
If you can get past that gruesome mistake, Oliver Coningham has compiled a nifty introduction to vegan beer and I want to thank him for including London Vegan Beer Fest in his article.
You can check out Vegan Life online.
Read more about London Vegan Beer Fest 2015 here.
Eat, drink and dance
Quick announcement.
If you come to London Vegan Drinks on Saturday April 4, 2015 you will be able to order from the following plant-based menu:
- Curry pasties
- Giant samosas
- Thali
- Fry’s Chicken-style burger
- Fry’s Traditional burger
- Moroccan tagine
- Patatas bravas
- Flat bread pizza
Of course we also have our 100% vegan bar all night and DJs Supa B and Swagatha Fistie keeping the crowd dancing until 2am.
Come early from 6pm for a table and food. Full details and directions here.
Vegan spotting
Last week found me working at the massive trade show known as IFE. This international exhibition for food and drink manufacturers showcased approximately 1500 stands and was spread across two giant halls at the ExCel centre in east London.
I took time out of working to have a sniff around the halls to discover some vegan products.
Check out the photos below. Anything take your fancy?
Tesco vegan label
This impressed me. Not the products themselves, rather the label.
A recent trip to Tesco was interrupted by a sighting of the word ‘vegan’ shouting at me from behind a closed freezer door. It appears not only are Tesco product developers smartening up to the demand for plant-based foods, they have also realised the ‘v’ word is a desirable thing to place front and centre of a packet.
Eco-Jet new vegan airline
Here is the biggest and most exciting story EVER posted on my blog.
Get ready to fly on the world’s first vegan airline!
Design your own pizza
Use your vegan voice to help shape the future of vegan pizza.
Brighton-based pizza restaurant Morelli Zorelli already serves vegan pizza but they want your help in expanding their plant-based range.
The sourdough base specialists have a full-time vegan pepperoni pizza on the menu and most vegetarian items can be veganised with Cheezly at no extra cost.
All of this is awesome, but it gets better.