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vegan food continued
Apr. 9th, 2018 06:43 pmPleased to say that our hotel last week eventually came up trumps. Kudos to the chef at the Exeter Court hotel (in Devon), after emailed requests (and tips on vegan protein) before the event, he came up with a truly excellent range of vegan food, including a couple of deserts. For five days on the trot, our vegan had a good choice of different meals.
What was really interesting was how many other members of the convention started asking for the vegan menu: so many, that they eventually restricted it to vegans and vegetarians only as they were running out, in spite of having five or six portions of many things.
Some people just liked the variety (smoked coconut cheese turns out to be delicious, and the veg+bean stew in a halved butternut squash sold out before I could try it), and some, like my friend Charlie, who can't eat dairy and is wheat-intolerant found that many of the vegan options were ideal for her, even though she isn't a vegetarian.
At the closing of the convention, members who were not in our party, were asking for more of the same next year.
I've already written a thank you letter to the hotel and I gave a tenner to the chef before I left.
What was really interesting was how many other members of the convention started asking for the vegan menu: so many, that they eventually restricted it to vegans and vegetarians only as they were running out, in spite of having five or six portions of many things.
Some people just liked the variety (smoked coconut cheese turns out to be delicious, and the veg+bean stew in a halved butternut squash sold out before I could try it), and some, like my friend Charlie, who can't eat dairy and is wheat-intolerant found that many of the vegan options were ideal for her, even though she isn't a vegetarian.
At the closing of the convention, members who were not in our party, were asking for more of the same next year.
I've already written a thank you letter to the hotel and I gave a tenner to the chef before I left.
