Serving Up: Essays on food, identity and culture
By Zoe Adjonyoh
A new and vital food-inspired anthology examining the politics behind what we eat.
Thursday, 10 February 2022
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Title: 'Was Anthony Bourdain wrong about vegan food?'
Synopsis:"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn." Bourdain famously dismissed non-meat-eaters for being killjoys with weak immune systems, and being rude and unwelcome dinner guests. "You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you. Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent,” he said. But my grandmother was a Chinese-Vietnamese Buddhist vegetarian - the first person I knew to not eat meat. And in Sydney, vegan food scene is incredibly culturally diverse nature and inspiring, drawing on the owners' culinary heritages to offer fascinating menus: there's *one street alone* that has a vegan Palestinian cafe, a vegan souvlaki joint, several Vietnamese vegan eateries, a Naples-approved vegan pizzeria, a vegan sushi eatery that also makes amazing allergy-friendly Japanese sourdough doughnuts from rice flour that they grind on-site. Beyond this, there's also an Egyptian vegan street food eatery (inspired by Egypt's national dish – koshari – which happens to be vegan) and a vegan soul food business that shows how American soul food has more plant-based origins than you'd think. It's the very opposite of the joyless food Bourdain envisioned, and instead of being a rude imposition, Sydney's vegan food scene is very inclusive, fascinating, wide-ranging (and delicious)! Your grandmother might even approve.
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