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Dear readers,

I know that there are thousands of vegan blogs out there but I found that either the recipes were too complicated, had too many ingredients or were not particularly easy to find, and some of them were not even tasty. In this blog I hope to post tasty recipes and recommend restaurants that are vegan friendly.

I like cooking and I love good food. Yes, I am a vegan and I strongly believe that you can be vegan and love food, and specially good and tasty food. I also think that recipes do not need to be difficult, have expensive ingredients etc. Most of the recipes I hope to post here will be the ones I make on a day to day basis, with the busy schedule of a senior year university student, and with the budget that goes with it, although I do recognise that I'd rather spend my money on food rather than booze, so it might sound expensive to some.

I really like international food although I think i have a bias for Korean and Japanese food. Normally I cook all sorts of Asian influence dishes because it is more generally vegan or easier to make it vegan.

Hope you can find this blog useful,

Alba
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