WORLD VEGAN DAY & NATIONAL VEGAN WEEK

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Press Release 31 October 2002

 

Chris Phillips

 

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Vegans celebrate Vegan Week at Local Restaurant

 

World Vegan Day is Friday November 1st. AND National Vegan Week is

28th Oct to Sat Nov 2nd

 

A group of 25 Local Vegans and vegetarians celebrated by

organising a meal out at Tricolos Italian

Restaurant onWednesday Oct 30th. We arranged with Tricolos to have

a varied Vegan menu for a party of

Veggie people.

The reasoning behind this is to help educate non-veggie

restaurants into being able to provide Veggie

meals that are suitable for all tastes whether Vegan, Vegetarian or

Omnivorous. If something is VEGAN then

ANYONE can eat it. So by providing a few Vegan dishes, they can

cater for vegetarians of all kinds. That

means that anyone who is any kind of vegetarian, including vegans,

can rest assured that they will get a suitable

meal, and the restaurant does not have to go to too much trouble to

provide something good and satisfactory.

The other idea of having this meal was to get publicity for

the Veggie movement as a whole. One of the

troubles is that a lot of non-veggie people think that vegetarians

live off only the vegetables that are on a normal

ominvore's plate! We need to show that veggie meals are not only

healthy but APPETISING and LOOK

good, and are NOT just what is left over after taking away the meat.

 

Tricolos provided us with three delicious main courses and three

wonderful afters.

The choices were:

Fusilli with Zucchini: Wholewheat pasta in a sauce of courgette,

onion, peppers and tomato slightly spiced with

chilli

Stir Fried Vegetables: A selection of vegetables, nuts, raisins,

pineapple and soy sauce, served with rice noodles

Vegetable Pizza: A pizza base with a tomato sauce with chargrilled

vegetables

 

Dessert:

Fruit Salad

Swedish Glace

Vegan Chocolate Cake

A soya cream or Swedish glace were added to the cake or Fruit

salad.

 

The diners were very happy with the fare that Tricolos provided, and

many expressed the wish to repeat the

exercise in the future. We are very grateful to Tricolos for going

to the trouble to provide something different

for us, and it was MUCH appreciated. We know now that Tricolos is a

place that Vegans & Vegetarians can

visit and get a splendid meal, though obviously Tricolos would

appreciate an advanced warning of any special

diets that need catering for.

We now know that people are interested in something similar

being organised in several other

restaurants and hopefully `educating' them as well. We hope every

two months, say, to gradually visit EVERY

main Scarborough restaurant. If there are other Vegans or

Vegetarians in the are who would like to join this

group for future events please contact Chris & Dilys at the above

address.

 

 

Perhaps others may feel that they would like to do something similar.

 

The Local Press reporter promised to join us for our next such

venture, to try one of our meals.

 

Love Peace & harmony

 

Chris

 

PS We now have about 40 local known veggies in Scarborough, of whom

at least 12 are Vegan.