We are back in Micronesia and this time we visit Kiribati. Here we make vegan palusami, a classic dish popular across Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. The dish is made by stuffing taro leaves with coconut cream and different flavor elements before baking the palusami packets for an extended period. Read […]
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Welcome to Fiji, our latest stop on this vegan world tour. Here we steam some vegan vakalolo, a cassava-based dessert served in a rich caramel coconut sauce. Read on to learn more about Fijian cuisine or jump straight to the recipe. Fijian cuisine Fijian cuisine is a unique fusion of […]
For our first visit to Polynesia, we make a stop in Samoa to enjoy a Samoan vegan dessert: suafa’i. This banana and coconut soup or pudding gets a very special texture from tapioca pearls. Read on to learn a bit about Samoan cuisine or jump straight to the recipe. Yum […]
Our first stop in Melanesia finds us on Solomon Islands where we cook poi. Made from fermented taro, poi an important staple food all across the pacific islands, offering a simple to prepare, long shelf life product great for sea voyages. Read on to learn a bit more about Solomon […]
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]). […]
The first humans arrived in Australia some 50-65,000 years ago and lived largely as hunter-gatherers until the late 18th century when British colonists started arriving (after losing their American colonies). Today, this original Aboriginal Australian population has dwindled, mostly due to disease and conflict brought by the British, and the […]