Welcome to the Vegan Physicist blog!
My name is Henrik. I am vegan and I am a physicist. Hence the blog name. Simple really.
I was born and raised in Sweden and currently live in Vancouver, Canada, with my wife. I enjoy cooking, exploring different cuisines and talking about food from different countries with people. This whole project started when we moved to Toronto a few years ago. Back when we lived in Toronto, we encountered many (to us) new cuisines, dishes, and ingredients. Toronto is truly a haven for meetings between different cultures – out of the 6 million people in the greater metropolitan area, half were born outside of Canada! Going to the normal grocery store is an adventure and we often see vegetables and other ingredients we had never heard of before our move (let alone would be able to find anywhere in Sweden).
The multitude of cuisines and ingredients is very inspiring and has led us to try many new dishes. However, very often the dishes we encounter are not vegan so in order to try them, we have to make them ourselves. This is sometimes challenging but always very interesting.
In this blog, I will push myself into actively seeking out new dishes, rather than stumbling across them. In order to do this somewhat systematically – a semi-scientific approach – I decided to ‘simply’ cook one dish from every single country on the planet. This is the main goal of this blog. I also very much enjoy science and especially the physics, chemistry, and biology involved in cooking. I won’t be able to resist writing a bit about the science of some different cooking methods and ingredients.
If you have any suggestions for a dish or two from a particular country or region, let me know.
