01 Jun 2012 8 Comments
How To Be a Vegetarian: My 30 Days Experiment
photo by Richard Owens
Today is my last day as a vegetarian. I didn’t decide I can’t live without a medium rare steak on my plate nor was it something that my doctor prescribed. I changed neither religions nor countries nor boyfriends.
Most carnivores think vegetarians and vegans are missing out on a lot of foods and flavours, but what if it’s really the other way around? Finding the answer to that question is how I became a vegetarian for 30 days. To see if I was missing something by not being vegetarian, to explore new food and my own food-related needs.
I am Romanian and my great-great-grandmother was Greek. I come from a family in which the richest dishes, the most sought-after and talked-about, are meat based. My grandfather was a hobby hunter and a proud carnivore, while my grandmother knew how to cook the best hare stew in the entire village. My other grandfather cured the smokiest mutton pastrami, a dish that still makes people talk in the small village where he was born.
At Easter, we always eat lamb roast, a meat pie made of lamb heart, liver and lungs (drob) and hard-boiled eggs. At Christmas we have minced-meat rolls cocooned in cabbage (sarmale), home-made sausages and steak. You could say I am, by tradition and by culture, truly carnivore.
How was I to survive a full month of meat fasting? I was both excited and terrified.
Read the full article at Barcelona Metropolitan Magazine.
Jun 01, 2012 @ 11:14:30
You look strikingly beautiful on that pic!
And the blonde girl is not bad either!
Jun 01, 2012 @ 11:15:21
Thank you Luis, I’ll tell the blonde
Jun 01, 2012 @ 12:02:01
“To sum up, I realise I am a fake vegetarian and an untalented vegan.”
I like that statement.
I would be a fake vegetarian with a list of meat i do not eat as well but would not check the traces of milk and read all labels at the supermarket either.
Can you be a fake vegetarian just to explore new cooking ideas?
Jun 01, 2012 @ 13:33:58
Why not?
Jun 04, 2012 @ 09:31:45
“The best hare stew in the entire village!” Mmmmm!
You are very brave!
Jun 04, 2012 @ 09:45:38
The stew was good, the rest is growing up and forgetting
Aug 31, 2012 @ 03:26:27
Most delightful description of “sarmale”
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Oct 26, 2012 @ 07:43:12