The Vegan Thread

I don't feel any desire to eat that sort of thing, it's the long term health implications that are unknown with any "advance" in food science like this that concern me. Does lab grown meat fall into the same category as highly processed foods, for example?

Awaits the inevitable "lab meat sold as real dead animal meat" scandal.

I'm cool with them existing, not sure I'd go for them personally, maybe a nibble to test but I've always found meat to be weird idea. I don't mind a decent analogue in the right place, but I think I'd still feel a bit squeamish with this kind of thing.

If it was me and the lab grown meat stranded on a desert island, I would eat it to survive.

If it was me and the lab grown meat stranded on a desert island, I would eat it to survive.

Well yeah, but if it's me and a cow on a desert island, it's goodnight Ermintrude. What's slightly more of a quandary is if you're visiting someone who says, 'I've made something with that meatless meat so you can eat it as well', do you compromise then?

As long as I get to mention that I'm vegan more often, and then talk at length about the lab meat and mice who die in soy fields, I'm more than happy.

it's goodnight Ermintrude

As you tuck her into bed?

Tuck her into bed right?

had best meal of the year at the wonderful Cradle in Sudbury last Friday night. colleague recommended them saying that is was 'food made with love'. they were not wrong. sweet potato and walnut soup for starter was sublime.

went back the following morning for coffee and croissant. and will be back again.

If any of you are in the mood for some nice cereal bar / energy bar kinda things I can very much recommend these from Jamie Oliver:

PISTACHIO, APRICOT & DARK CHOCOLATE ENERGY BARS
With mixed seeds, oats & almond butter

..made them two times now; did not find the nice Medjool dates, so swapped for regular ones (but used twice as many - I suppose the Medjool ones really are worth it though).
When I made them the second time I used 90% chololate, and put more pistachios in as well (I wanted it all a bit less sweet and more like an "adult snack").

On the site it says "Have as a mid-morning snack for a boost of energy – delicious served with a cup of tea or coffee" - and I do agree 🙂

Has anyone got recommendations for vegan food (or other cool stuff) in Copenhagen? My partner and I are off in November I think. I've been a handful of times before but only on tour with bands so my experience is limited to a few crusty venues and whatever punk slop is on offer. (For the uninitiated, this is tinned tomatoes and whatever other vegetables and canned goods a promoter has to hand.) I'd like to eat some nice stuff there for a change.

Was there a few years ago, and didn't find it to be a vegan heaven - there were enough places where you could get a vegan pasta or burger, but surprisingly little variety given it's thought of as such a progressive city. Can't recall any dedicated vegan/veggie places. However, we were only there for a few days with a baby, so maybe couldn't do too much exploring.

Is lentil or yellow split pea bread classed as vegan food stuff or more of a gluten free thing.

Basically looking for recipes to try.

What do you mean? If it’s tasty and also vegan/gf then people who are vegan/gf will be all over it

In the absence of recommendations, just use Happy Cow. Four vegan places, curiously no vegetarian places, and only 'veg-options' otherwise.

This led me to wonder how many vegan places Happy Cow lists for London. I thought it would be a couple of dozen, but it actually lists 153, which surprised me.

“ I didn't know it was vegan until a number of years ago when it happened to turn vegan and now it wants to be known as gluten free," he said on the vegan thread.
"So I don't know - Is it vegan? Or is it gluten free?"

Well, considering general bread recipes are vegan, I'd say it's more of a GF thing.

We were there for a week last summer. Atlas bar was good, nice without being all fancy. I remember having (relatively) cheap pizza at Pow(?) and fancier pizza elsewhere. We also had a good lunch at one of the museums/galleries. I'll have a look for the names later.

was there in the summer visiting friends and had epic meal at Baka d' Busk (happycow link). veggie/vegan but vegan options on most things. was a tasting menu, paired with natural wines. was expensive (by my standards) but worth it.

non-eating the best thing we did was a Sauna Gus in one of the quays.

Ha, this is interesting (and something Happy Cow might want to fix)--when I looked earlier, I'd entered the name as København, and it only showed me four vegan places and none that were vegetarian. You entered it as Copenhagen, and it shows eighteen vegan places and fourteen vegetarian ones. Searching again, I now get fifteen København vegan places ... odd.

I'm sure my figures for London are correct, though, as I didn't enter it as Løndøn.

Looking for sources of recipes, as it is vegan/gf I thought I'd ask here.

Someone made a lentil loaf and it was awful, top half cooked and bottom have raw. Almost as if the top had risen and the bottom had not. So was looking for recipes that people had used to actually see what it should be like.

I'm not vegan nor gluten intolerant but like to try different foods. Also a bit of a feeder so like to be able to prepare things for people who are vegan/gluten intolerant.

I'm looking at expanding things I can make and like to eat.

I'm still trying to perfect a polenta bread/cake and cannot get it right. Had it once in la spezia and it was amazing just perfect with mozzarella and tomato.

Thanks for all the Copenhagen recommendations! We're just going for a few days so it sounds like there'll be plenty for us to eat.

I'm not sure how often people get to Reykjavik, but I think I just had the best meal of my life at Monkeys. Not a vegan place but decent vegan menu and very accommodating. Shared a 7 course tasting and monthly 5 course menu, deffo the most golf club thing I've ever eaten but was a birthday treat. Highly recommended if anyone is here and feeling flush.

Time for a tofu x golf club collab thread

Having been a few times, years ago, I liked the place. Sugar in most things, and having eaten puffin I wonder why people do. Along with that shark they bury and then dig up and eat.

Only tourists eat the shark thing