Benicassim is a festival of endurance. It’s held in Spain, on the East coast, about an hour away from Valencia by coach, and goes on during mid-July. It is HOT. Really hot. Ridiculously hot. They have sun there. Every day. And very few clouds. Thus, HEAT. Water is pretty much the most important resource...
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Roughly a year ago, a heap of factors came together which made me reconsider my steak-loving, cheese and tuna toastie inhaling, un-consequence considering eating habits. I was seeing a vegetarian and eating bog-standard veggie food on the weekends while vaguely discussing animal death. I had a phone call from Friends of the Earth informing...
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There are two Viva La Vida’s in Madrid & I came across the smaller one, hidden away in the backstreets, not ten minutes from the Retiro Parque. Although I knew of it from Happy Cow, I only found it through aimless ramble rather than concerted effort (which might say more about my map-reading than...
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Being vegan isn’t hard and it isn’t difficult. One thing it is though, is fucking inconvenient. I have to check the labels on anything I want to eat, ask ‘Does this have dairy in?’ when eating out at restaurants and, uh, turn down food people offer me. (Oh my gosh, what hardships!) I’m often...
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What with agribusiness contributing between 17-33% to global carbon emissions, swathes of the Amazon being deforested to grow animal feed and factory farms being generally not very nice places (as well as causing an awful lot of water pollution) then reducing your meat consumption is definitely one of the easiest ways to reduce your...
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Since rocking the dairy-free lifestyle, I’ve had spare pennies from not buying random impulse chocolate to invest in the really good stuff, and I thought I’d share a little of my dark chocolate adventuring with y’all. First up, Tohi : These guys are Belgian, Fairtrade, organic and all about the sustainable forestry. I tried...
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On the Prinsengracht, one of Amsterdam’s main canals, cozily hidden behind sheets of trailing ivy, is Bolhoed, a vegan friendly, vegetarian café, staffed by the be-dreaded and tattoed, decorated with knick-knacks your Gran would covet and serving absolutely delicious food in delightfully generous portions. Since there’s nothing outwardly declaring it to be a café...
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I found out about this at almost the last minute on The PPK and booked a coach the very next day after checking out the programme and pictures on the website. £14 seemed pretty reasonable to be able to be stood in a room filled with that many vegan cakes, brownies, biscuits…plus, like, stuff!...
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The inSpiral Lounge in Camden is, officially, one of my favourite places to eat. Whenever I find myself in North London, by chance or design, I make a point of heading over to the Lock and grabbing a buffet box – which usually results in trying to cut broccoli with the side of a...
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In the East End of London, round the corner from Liverpool Street and across the road from the Sunday Up-Market stands the Rootmaster , a bright red, double-decker, stationary London bus. Bustaurant, in fact. The lower deck is entirely given over to what must surely be the smallest working kitchen not on a yacht...
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