Archive for April, 2009
My first vegan journey
I decided to become a vegan after my 29 birthday party. Right after that I traveled with my friends to Prague. It was a terrible journey and not just because there was almost nothing to eat there, but also because friends I traveled with were not aware of my demanding diet. I made a big mistake trying to explain to them why I chose “to suffer” (from their point of view). The better way would’ve been share the basics of my diet making it much easier to choose the place that serves food that suits all of us.
My friend’s culinary interests were totally opposed to mine. One of the most popular Czech specialties is pork knee (vepřové koleno). My friends spent a lot of time in order to find the best place that serves the most distinguished pork knee…
Almost from the beginning, I gave up finding the right dish for me in the same restaurants. I was mostly satisfied with cabbage – the white pickled cabbage and the red pickled cabbage…
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Introduction to vegan travelling
I became a vegan almost two years ago, after few years of being vegetarian. I was lucky to begin my vegan experience in Israel which is almost a heaven for vegans for few reasons. First of all, the kosher rules are understandable for all. How can you use the kosher rules in a vegan diet? In any restaurant, waiters will recommend you a parve dish. Parve food is the category of food that is neither meat or dairy and it means ‘neutral’. When you are already sure that these dishes don’t includ meat and milk, you have to check if there are eggs or fish in it. Another reason for having an easy life as a vegan in Israel has to do with Mediterranean diet, because much of local cooking is vegan.
During these two years, half of the time I‘ve spent abroad. I spend a lot of time traveling because my job requires a lot of business trips. The second reason for staying away is my long distance relationship. During last two years, I’ve been in Russia and Ukraine dozen of times,I’ve visited also Belorussia, Moldova and Hungary. For my own pleasure, I’ve spend every second weekend in Sinai (Egypt) and traveled to Germany, Czech and Italy.
In this blog I want to share my vegan experience while traveling around these countries.
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