Our first stop in Northern Europe brings us to Latvia where we try a Latvian vegan recipe called rupjmaizes kārtojums, or Latvian ambrosia. Based on the ever-important Latvian dark rye bread, rupjmaize, this dessert greatly resembles the more familiar trifle but with two Latvian twists. Read on to learn a […]
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Rupjmaize is sweet and sour Latvian rye bread flavoured with caraway seeds and molasses. This vegan Latvian recipe makes a loaf of sourdough rupjmaize.
This week, we make our first stop in Southern Africa as we visit South Africa. We cook a South African vegan dish which is a real classic comfort food: samp and beans (isistambu in Zulu and umngqusho in Xhosa). Rich and creamy and seasoned with fried onion and curry powder, […]
It’s time to pay our first visit to Micronesia on our global, vegan adventure. We stop by Nauru and turn their national dish into a vegan Nauru recipe: coconut crusted cauliflower. Yum Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation (the world’s third smallest country, after the Vatican and Monaco [1]). […]
Why do you dip pretzels in high pH, corrosive lye before baking them? How is this related to brown onions and black garlic? What is the Maillard reaction and can we really hack it? Yum When making pretzels, a simple dough is shaped into the traditional pretzel knot and dipped […]
We have reached Guatemala on our vegan world tour and it is time to make chuchitos, a smaller version of Guatemalan tamales. In this delicious Guatemalan, vegan recipe, a sauce made from toasted sesame seeds and roasted vegetables is wrapped in corn dough and steamed to perfection. Yum Guatemalan cuisine […]
Today’s stop on our vegan world tour brings us to Turkey where we cook a delicious vegan Turkish recipe. Here I have veganized the popular lahmacun, a thin crust Turkish pizza or flatbread. In place of the traditional meat, I made a paste from lentils and bulgur inspired by the […]
In this post about vegan food science, you will learn about what makes water wet, why water keeps pushing oil out, and how you can use this to make mayonnaise and meringues.
This week on our vegan world tour, we return to West Africa and cook a Ghanaian vegan recipe for Red Red. Read on to learn a bit about Ghana's cuisine or jump straight to the recipe
Today on our vegan world food tour we make a stop in Afghanistan and make a delicious Afghan rice dish – Kabuli Palau, the country’s national dish. Read on to learn more about the Afghan kitchen and find a vegan Afghan recipe for Kabuli Palau. Yum Afghanistan lies in the […]