First of all, let me be the 99th person to thank you for participating in this forum and bestowing upon us your wisdom. We all truly appreciate it.
I have a lot of vegan friends (the nice kind, mind you) and all of them are scared of Italian cuisine, reasoning that they'd sooner be chased out of a restaurant than fed because vegansim excludes all the 'fun stuff' that Italian food is famous for. I refuse to believe this is totally true, there are at least some vegan italian dishes (eggplant caponata, for instance). Can you suggest some dishes that I could make for my friends to convince them Italain is wonderful for everyone?
Thanks so much,
Mark
Help for my Diet restricted friends?
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markovitch
, Nov 15 2004 08:35 PM
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Faith Willinger
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Posted 16 November 2004 - 08:51 AM
Ciao Mark
Italian cooking is based on vegetables, eaten in appetizers, saucing pasta and paired with rice in risotto, and of course as a side dish. You'll have to bail on eggplant parmigiana if they don't eat cheese. There are lots of vegetable dishes you can make but it depends on how strict your friends are. Peperonata, fennel salad, braised artichokes, almost any pasta or risotto, just bail on the cheese. Olive oil is okay, right? I recently tried Latini's farro pasta--I usually hate farro pasta but Latini's was terrific. And I bet the vegans would like it too. They could probably survive in Southern Italy but have a hard time in butter country.
a presto
Faith
Italian cooking is based on vegetables, eaten in appetizers, saucing pasta and paired with rice in risotto, and of course as a side dish. You'll have to bail on eggplant parmigiana if they don't eat cheese. There are lots of vegetable dishes you can make but it depends on how strict your friends are. Peperonata, fennel salad, braised artichokes, almost any pasta or risotto, just bail on the cheese. Olive oil is okay, right? I recently tried Latini's farro pasta--I usually hate farro pasta but Latini's was terrific. And I bet the vegans would like it too. They could probably survive in Southern Italy but have a hard time in butter country.
a presto
Faith
First of all, let me be the 99th person to thank you for participating in this forum and bestowing upon us your wisdom. We all truly appreciate it.
I have a lot of vegan friends (the nice kind, mind you) and all of them are scared of Italian cuisine, reasoning that they'd sooner be chased out of a restaurant than fed because vegansim excludes all the 'fun stuff' that Italian food is famous for. I refuse to believe this is totally true, there are at least some vegan italian dishes (eggplant caponata, for instance). Can you suggest some dishes that I could make for my friends to convince them Italain is wonderful for everyone?
Thanks so much,
Mark
