Our vegan world tour has brought us to Cameroon in Central Africa. Here we cook vegan koki beans, a steamed packet of black-eyed peas, red palm oil, and scotch bonnet. Equally popular on the street as on the wedding feast, this meal is easy to prepare but takes a bit […]
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This week we are back in Western Europe for a stopover in Belgium. Here, we prepare a vegan toast cannibale, a sandwich covered in the Belgian version of steak tartare. So our first mission in creating this vegan recipe, is to make vegan steak tartare. Read on to learn a […]
Today we visit the Vatican on our vegan world tour and bake a vegan Ezekiel bread. The Vatican is a bit of a special place for the world tour so I had a hard time choosing a dish that could represent a country with such a unique demographic. In the […]
It is time to make some vegan pupusas from El Salvador! From our last stop in West Africa, a quick skip over the Atlantic Ocean brings us to Central America where we visit El Salvador. Pupusas are a very popular street food in both El Salvador, neighbouring countries and across […]
From our vacation in The Bahamas, we return to East Africa where we visit Burundi. For this visit, we are making a filling and simple dish of beans and bananas, a Burundi classic featuring two important Burundi ingredients. Read on to learn a little of Burundi cuisine and the dish […]
From our last stop in Serbia, we head southeast across the sea and find ourselves in Egypt. Today, we prepare ful medames (pronounced like fool), an ancient fava bean dish. While the dish has likely been made for thousands of years and is incredibly popular across Northern Africa, the Levant, […]
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, […]
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
Yum The turn has come to visit Canada, the country in which my wife and I have lived for the past 3 years. I chose to post Canada specifically today when we celebrate the National Indigenous Day across the country and I wanted to showcase this from the outside often […]
Madagascar, a large island country of the eastern coast of Africa, is maybe most famous for peculiar wildlife with lemurs and giant spiky forests [1]. This uniqueness stems from the island’s relative isolation – there has been very little migration of plants and animals from mainland Africa. Mirroring the low […]