VegFest Oahu’s Free Samples Tent passed out hundreds of mini-sandwiches made from donated products from vegan food companies. Most of the attendees crowding around the tent had never tried vegan “meats” and “cheese” before and they were clearly delighted. We recommend you try those products as soon as possible! [Read more…]
Hawaii’s Local Favorite Katsu – Veganized at VegFest Oahu
At VegFest Oahu 2016 we wanted the festival cuisine to entice even the skeptics into trying new plant-based dishes, so that’s the challenge we proposed to our food vendors. We loved Honolulu restaurant Peace Cafe‘s version of a Hawaii Local Favorite made vegan – Tempeh Katsu. Keeping the traditional Japanese method of breading with panko and frying, the meat was replaced with a cutlet of tempeh, a fermented soy product. Served on shredded cabbage with katsu sauce, it was a familiar local taste but with a much lighter carbon footprint. Check out this short video clip of Peace Cafe owners making Tempeh Katsu at VegFest Oahu. [Read more…]
Video Excerpt from Vegan Cook Demos at VegFest Oahu
These video clips were shot for our Facebook Live feed at VegFest Oahu on September 24, 2016 in the Learning Kitchen Tent. The first clip is an excerpt from a vegan cooking demo by Chef Mama T Gonsalves, from Ital Kitchen, showing how to make Mock Tuna Salad from chickpeas. The second clip shows a section with Chef Kelly Stern from YoGarden Hawaii as she talks about how easy it is to make vegetable broth. [Read more…]
