Joseph Brotherton M.P. for Salford - Vegetarian Society 1847

Joseph Brotherton created a Vegetarian Society in 1847 in Ramsgate by popular demand.  He was a Member of Parliament for Salford and a vegetarian for 42 years (in 1851).

[Fact: Joseph Brotherton was born in Whittington, nr Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1783;
he married Miss H Harvey in Whittington in March 1806; 

William Harvey is his brother-in-law and partner in Brotherton, Harvey and Co. ]

The following are notes from an French article that appears in: The International Magazine of literature, art, and science - Vol. 4, Aug-Dec 1851  (The article itself is from the Paris Journal des Debats - so bear in mind the tone is from a Frenchman in the 19th century observing vegetarians... :-) ...)

The Meeting of the Vegetarians in 1851

Joseph Brotherton is the president of the society.  There were about 400 people present.  Equal numbers of men and women.  Many children.  Many Quakers.  There was a banquet of Vegetarians.

Banquet included:    Little pies of mushrooms, Toasted bread and parsley, Rice cakes, blanc mange, cheese tarts, and all sorts of pastry.
Desert composed of raspberries, cherries, and preserves.
With Tea, milk, coffee, and iced water.

After dinner.. speeches.

The president of the Vegetarians, then, quoted Genesis ("and god said - Behold I have given you every fruit-bearing seed.." and so on ... which can be countered by following verse 28... anyway)...

Then on to Economy and Health... politics... according to the 'Vegetarians', society will not be regenerated until all men shall live on parsley and tapioca : "a reform in eating and drinking shall precede all others.  For", said Brotherton, "a man who, from conscientious motives, shall abstain from the slaughter of animals, will not be guilty of murder of his fellow creatures."

Economy... the Vegetarians are decided free-traders - decided partisans of direct exchange... (umbrella schemes alive in 1851...)  The Vegetarians call for the abolition of intermediaries and for direct consumption.

As for health... the advantages of the Vegetable System [related to Sir John Hill's book of the same name?, z] are presented to us under the most encouraging colours.

The chairman of the Vegetarians, Mr Brotherton... is a living proof of the healthiness of vegetarianism "and he affirms that it suits him."  There was also in the meeting an American [I know this is Charles H De Wolfe, z]... from Philadelphia and who had belonged to the fraternity for 40 years - who had 21 grandchildren none of whom could be made to eat meat...  There is a magistrate, there is an alderman, there are 21 medical men (there for the sake of experiment), 10 members of the clergy, ... and 50 lawyers, 26 merchants, 11 fundholders, 371 workmen, .. in all 718 ... 512 men and 205 women...

The Vegetarian Guest

By Alfred Fellows

from Macmillan's Magazine, 1:9 July 1906, pg. 670

11 pages about how to deal with a vegetarian guest in the early 1900s - things have not changed that much in 100 years!

Classification that Alfred proposed (although he admits a person may fall under two headings) - 

Vegetarian - abstains from poultry, fish, game, butchers meat .. for humanitarian motives

Inclusive (or Simple) Vegetarian - may eat cheese, milk, butter, maybe eggs.

Eggs-clusive (his spelling) Vegetarian - the above but no eggs

Non-Purin Vegetarian - A patient at Dr Alexander Haig's school of medicine - eats peas, lentils, mushrooms, eggs, and asparagus.

Literal (or Strict) Vegetarians - no animal products (nor let themselves be bullied into eating meat or products from animals.

Fruitarians - (this word existed in 1906?) - do not eat garden root vegetables - only fruit, nuts, cereals - some include milk, butter and cheese (call them Mixed Fruitarians? he wonders)

Occultists and Mystics - (jokingly?) those who only eat fruit and nuts and refuse food over which the fire has passed.  (raw foods)

Food Suggestions:

• Make the guest's food look as close to other guests' food as possible, so as to not draw attention to his diet.
• If serving fish, butterbean fritters could be made to look like fried sole.
• Haricot chop - lentil steak
• Savouries of peas, beans, or lentils
• A chestnut dressing
• use Cocoa-nut butter in puddings for fruitarians

"Another urgent counsel, - and once more, against preconceived notions -- rather give the vegetarian too little than too much of his special dishes.  The very foolish error that a vegetarian requires a sloppy diet of four times the bulk that a 'sensible person' takes dies hard, and leaves as a legacy the impression that he requires at least four times more food than the unconverted.  If he was so ill-advised as to try subsisting on potatoes and cabbages, probably he would; but on diet judiciously chosen he requires not more, but usually less than other people.  The old mistake lingers even in vegetarian restaurants."

Roger Crab (1620-1680) - the vegetarian hermit from Stepney

I have found a few books written by Roger Crab on Google Books... regarding his diet of roots and herbs...  I cannot see the content...

Some of his story has been reprinted in 1813 by E.F. Mengel... and later by James Caulfield and James Granger...

ROGER CRAB

The account of this singular character is chiefly comprised in the title to his life, which is reprinted in "Morgan's Phoenix Brittannicus," and runs thus.

The English Hermit, or the Wonder of this Age; being a Relation of the Life of Roger Crab, living near Uxbridge, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange, reserved, and unparalleled kind of Life, who counteth it a Sin against his Body and Soul, to eat any sort of Flesh, Fish, or living Creature, or to drink any Wine, Ale, or Beer. He can live with Three Farthings a Week. His constant Food is Roots and Herbs; as Cabbage, Turnips, Carrots, Dock-Leaves, and Grass; also Bread and Bran, without Butter or Cheese. His cloathing Sack-cloth. He left the Army, and kept a Shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable Estate to give to the Poor; shewing his Reasons from the Scripture: Mar. x. 21. Jer. xxxv.—Wherefore if Meat make my Brother to offend, I will eat no Flesh while the World standeth," &c. 1 Cor. viii. 18.

For while 'twas flesh it held a guest,
With universal love possest;
A soul that stemm'd opinion's tide,
Did over sects in triumph ride;
Yet separate from the giddy crowd,
And paths tradition had allow'd.
Through good and ill report he past
Oft censur'd, yet approv'd at last-;
Wouldst thou his religion know,
In brief 'twas this: to all to do
Just as he would be done unto.
So in kind Nature's laws he stood,
A temple undefiled with blood,
A friend for ev'rything was good.
The rest angels alone can fitly tell,
Haste then to them, and him, and so.

Dr. Cheyne, who was an advocate for the vegetable diet, and mentions the longevity of some of the ancient ascetics of the desert, who lived on that kind of food, probably never heard of this strange humourist or if he did has passed him over in silence as a madman, who seems to have destroyed himself by eating bran, grass, dockleaves, and such other trash as was comprehended within his pious plan of living for three farthings a week. If Crab had resided in France or Italy, he would indubitably have retired to the monastery of La Trappe.

He probably died in London, as the following memorial of him is preserved in the church-yard of St. Dunstan, Stepney:

"Here remains all that was mortal of Mr. Roger Crab, who entered into eternity the 11th day of Septemb. 1680, in the 60 year of his age.

Tread gently, reader, near the dust

Committed to this tomb-stone's trust"

A Treatise on Food and Dietetics Physiologically and Therapeutically Considered

From an 1874 Journal...

A Treatise on Food and Dietetics Physiologically and Therapeutically Considered. 

By F. W. Pavy, M.D., F.R.S. London : J. and A. Churchill. 

[.....]

The author next passes to the more popular branch of his subject. Taking in review the various articles of food, he gives an account of their chemical composition and their dietetic value. The occasional unwholesomeness of meat in consequence of trichinae, of malignant disease, or of decomposition is fully described. It is to be regretted that in speaking of blood its very objectionable character as an article of food has not been mentioned.

In the important section on Practical Dietetics, the vegetarian question is very fairly examined. It strikes us that the dietetic reformers find themselves in a dilemma. If they allow the use of milk and eggs, as most of them do, they greatly improve their cookery at the expense of their logical consistency. If they reject milk they accuse nature, or rather God, of an error in having appointed it for the nurture of the young of the highest animal group. It must also be remembered that certain rodents, such as the common r«t, depart more widely than we do from the carnivorous type in their dentition, and yet are omnivorous. At the same time, we must admit, with Dr. Pavy, that " the consumption of meat to the extent that many persons believe necessary for the maintenance of health and strength is not really so."

This work is not only indispensable to the medical practitioner, but it is one with which every educated man ought o make himself familiar.

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 - Copied from Crookes, William (ed), The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science - Vol 29-30. Page 18; 10th July 1874 (accessed via Google Books books.google.co.uk on 07/01/2011)

I have underlined 'if they allow the use of milk and eggs' ... this paragraph implies that there are those who did and those who did not.

Original Vegetarians

From Volume 14-15 of Punch magazine in 1848

[I posted this first in a forum relating to a claim that the word 'vegetarian' originally came from Alcott House in 1847... And edited it a little...]

'original vegetarians'? .. do they mean those who coined the term 'vegetarian'? or as Punch sketched in 1848? i've posted below? (see previous post below)

isn't it a human thing... to find certain things distasteful... to have a great affinity for animals and choose not to eat them... it's not dictated by the existence of a word... or the existence of writings about a single place ... but what was the landscape like in 1847?

1855 - US - Vegetarian Settlement Company - dedicated to the vegetarian lifestyle and diet .. a few men got together in NY and settled in Kansas...
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/v/vegetarian_settlement_co.html

page 140 and 142 of Punch Volume 14 and 15 in 1848... which discusses the 'Vegetarian Advocate' and a vegetarian movement in Manchester... also i see mentioned on IVU's site - here:
http://www.ivu.org/history/england19a/truth-tester.html

I note that the letter from an individual in Hamshire to the editor of Truth Tester in Apr 1847 :
"I have often thought it desirable, that vegetarians as a body, were better organized" suggests that he has been using the term vegetarian from before 1847...
http://www.ivu.org/congress/1847/letters.html

1848 - Hollen's Dollar magazine in the US editorial wrote: - merely suggests that the author of the article has not heard of the term 'vegetarian' -
"The vegetable eaters, who a few years since, made so much noise amongst us, being stirred up by Dr Graham, have lately sprouted up in great numbers in England. There are there called Vegetarians, and they have become so numerous that they have a representative in Parliament, and have recently been having vegetable banquets all over England; and we shall not be astonished if, by and by, we hear talk of the roast potatoes, instead of the roast beef of old England. If Punch is to be relied upon, vegetable eating in England has become a kind of mania... " etc...

Popular Science magazine covered the term 'Vegetarian' as it was being used in 1885...
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2CsDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA325&dq=vegetarian&pg=PA325#v=onepage&q=vegetarian&f=false

In November 1847, Joseph Brotherton Esq, (MP) created a Vegetarian Society in Ramsgate - with many people from around the country... he had abstained from animal products for the last 38 years ...
- The Preston Guardian - Sat 20 Nov 1847 - [Issue 1838]

and then it was reported in most of the local newspapers around the country in November and December (1847)...

Joseph Brotherton was also involved with the abolition of slavery at the time... (as he mentioned in his speech at a dinner thrown for him in Sept 1838 when he won the Salford election) 

further historic pre-1847 uses of the word 'vegetarian' which may or may not include dairy...

A story called 'The Vegetarian' which doesn't mention the use of milk in the diet by Fanny E. Lacey published in The Metropolitan, volume 48 in 1846...
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DvoEAAAAQAAJ&dq=vegetarian&pg=PA403

The 1802 Anglo-Bengali dictionary defines Vegetarian and Vegetarianism ... (was this 1802 or a mistake by Google Books (should it be 1892?)

1832 The Royal Society of Literature did a piece on Shelley...
"In his vegetarian period he would at any time of day or night cut a slice of bread and sprinkle it with dry currants kept loose in his waistcoat pocket."

1774 - London of to-day: an illustrated handbook - "Vegetarianism may be practised at a restaurant near Duke Street Oxford Street at the Arcadian in Queen Street Cheap side or at the Apple Tree in London Wall within the City and rather out of the track of ladies Those however most curious in the matter of vegetarian diet might take a peep into the Central Vegetarian Dining and Tea Rooms a rough and ready sort of place in St Bride Street near Ludgate Circus and read the prices and items therein exhibited of Diners a la carte the sixpenny tea tray and the ninepenny tea tray a marvellous assortment of homely and wholesome dishes of vegetables and of meal served at a very cheap rate "
[edit - this book is not from 1774 - but the 1890s]

1785 "Food in health and disease" there is a discussion of the 'vegetarian' diet by Isaac Burney Yeo. (sourced on Google Books)
[edit - this book also is not from 1785]

in 1700
L'abstinence de la viande rendue aisée, ou moins difficile à pratiquer: ou Regime de vie avec lequel on peut prévenir ou rendre moins grandes les incommoditez ...
is a surprise from a Frenchman (Barthélemy Linand)... :) but he uses milk... (and not the word 'vegetarian')

and i find the term vegetarian in Poems on Affairs of State: 1678-1681, edited by E. F. Mengel -
"the observation of the vegetarian hermit Roger Crab (1621-1680): 'Butchers are excluded from juries; but the receiver is worse than the thief; so the buyer is worse than the butcher.'"

ah .. now Roger Crab is interesting...

Recipe added - Lotus Root Nest

I've added a new Vegan Japanese Recipe - Lotus Root and Soumen Birds Nest... (renkon れんこん and soumen そうめん) ... translated and cooked from a book by Nishikawa Genbo.

Lotus Root and Soumen Noodle Nests

It was quite fiddly.. and perhaps not the best recipe to make in a hurry!  :)

The Vegan's Hundred

This follows on from Jill at Northern Vegan...  100 things you might have eaten .. or want to eat ... instructions:

1) Copy this list into your own blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Post a comment here once you’ve finished and link your post back to this one.
5) Pass it on!

1. Natto 

I love natto (and beer)... there are many things to make.. natto pasta, natto rice, natto toast... make 'natto chahan' - chopped celery, frozen peas, natto, edamame, chopped carrot etc and left over rice to make a simple fried vegetable rice mound...

2. Green Smoothie 

Banana, pineapple, mango plus a tablespoon of blue green algae or spirulina...

3. Tofu Scramble 

Simply Tofu, mustard, turmeric... more complicated - 3 parts - boil sweetcorn in oat milk and then mash - steam cauliflower and mash - tofu broken up .. combine in a pan with turmeric, mustard .. the sweetcorn and cauliflower have good scramble properties.

4. Haggis 

Vegan haggis is really tasty... we buy a couple and feed up to 10 people with it.. vegan or not everyone tends to like it... Not sure how available the original vegan haggis is over there.

5. Mangosteen 

Had this in thailand/cambodia... but not one i would seek out here

6. Creme brulee 

I've had the non-vegan version many times too - i would have to make a non-vegan one .. and i have too many other tasty things to make instead... :)

[Edit 15/Feb/10 - I've found a recipe for this... but yet to try it...]

7. Fondue 

I've not yet made this fondue... glutinous rice flour, soya milk, white miso paste, rice vinegar, extra virgin olive oil... i can't remember the rest.. it's from Ana Kichi's Yuru Vegi 10-pun in Japanese and I've not finished the translation of the method... you could rough it from there? try making it like you'd make a cheese sauce - don't boil the miso.. can be frozen into blocks of cheese.. or used to make cheese toast, pasta, lasagne etc..

8. Marmite/Vegemite 

 either.. good source of B vitamins - not just on toast.. add a little to deepen the taste of vegetable soups/pasta sauces etc..

9. Borscht 

didn't like it when i was younger.. but probably would appreciate it after kimchi

10. Baba ghanoush 

anything with aubergines... this plus houmous and warm flatbread..

11. Nachos 

of course...

12. Authentic soba noodles 

Yes... (with kombu dashi) in an authemtic soba restaurant in a mountainous spa town near Ise in Japan... along with tempura'd shiitake and daikon... Also a friend made them at home...

13. PB&J sandwich 

almost every day .. but prefer PB&: houmous (use plain PB no sugar/sweetener); tofu (mix equal weights of tofu and PB); vegannaise (yummy mix) ultimate.. a bread bun... peanut butter... houmous... and sun-dried tomato paste.. with rocket/lettuce and/or alfalfa sprouts

14. Aloo gobi 

Aloo Gobi (potato cauliflower); Sag Aloo (spinach potato); Chana Masala (chickpea masala); Bombay Aloo (spicy bombay potatoes); Bhindi Bhaji; Brinjal Bhaji... that's either the side dish section on an Indian menu or everything i like..

15. Taco from a street cart 

Never seen one... 20 years ago I had tako yaki from a street cart in Tokyo... octopus bits in batter... i have a recipe for vegan tako yaki now...

16. Boba Tea 

Boba Tea? Had to look that up... Pearl Tapioca Tea.. not the tea... but general coconut juice plus tapioca etc found in the chinese supermarket.. yes..

17. Black truffle 

yes.. altho it was psychotropic and in Amsterdam

18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes 

Peach / Apple / Elderflower / Framboise / Strawberry... yes...

19. Gyoza 

My girlfriend and I made about 50 of them last weekend for a party... plus a nice chili dipping sauce.. finely chop: half a carrot/several shiitake (fresh or dried (rehydrated))/spring onion/garlic/ginger/walnuts .. add a little flour .. use chinese dumpling skins (without egg) .. wet around the edge quickly with a finger dipped in water... add a teaspoon of mix.. squeeze up the edges pinch tight... must be no holes... place them all seam upwards in a frying pan.. with oil... don't let them touch... when the bottoms are crispy, add half a cup of water and cover ... steam for a few minutes and they're done. EasyChili (chopped chilis) / soya sauce / balsamic vinegar for the dip

20. Vanilla ice cream 

in the UK .. Booja Booja .. Ingredients: Cashew Nuts / Water / Maple Syrup / Vanilla Beans .. nothing else added... (also in Chocolate and Maple/Pecan flavours... also have Vanilla Soya and Vanilla Rice and Vanilla Hemp ice creams...

21. Heirloom tomatoes 

Heritage tomatoes in the UK... there's a good shop for these in Sheffield.. Beanies.. they sell all sorts of heritage vegetables

22. Fresh wild berries 

Blackberries grow all over the UK...

23. Ceviche 

http://vegan-vanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/vegan-ceviche.html 

i might give it a try...

24. Rice and beans 

Look into 'Chahan' ... chahan is great... also rice covered with green tea and nori... gomasio..

25. Knish 

huh? ... similar to Cornish Pasty, Scottish Bridie, Samosa, Empanada, Rissole, Calzone, Jamaican Patty... love them all...

26. Raw scotch bonnet pepper 

hmm.. sliced thinly with grapefruit pieces in a garlic-rubbed glass bowl

27. Dulce de leche 

hmm.. Provamel make a soya chocolate pudding that looks just like it ... also in vanilla...

28. Caviar 

I've had several versions of the non-vegan stuff 20 years or so ago... and in Japan various roes ... and I have investigated how to make carrot juice or blueberry faux stuff.. but not made it yet... sodium alginate isn't exactly a supermarket/local shop produce...

29. Baklava 

yes... non-vegan and perhaps once a vegan version.. in 'Vegan Baking' book.

30. Pate 

That reminds me... i've got some shiitake pate in the fridge... nyom nyom...

31. Wasabi peas 

someone brought a whole tin to the party last weekend.. i only had a few cos someone else gobbled them up...

32. Chowder in a sourdough bowl 

possibly...

33. Mango lassi 

nope

34. Sauerkraut 

had it 25 years ago in Germany... bit like kimchi and Borscht.. no? i do crave some now and again but prefer kimchi...

35. Root beer float 

not so keen on root beer/ginger beer... can i just have the float?

36. Mulled cider 

Oh yes... i'll say... Wassail ... now look for the recipe... Old Apple tree, old apple tree; We've come to wassail thee; To bear and to bow apples enow; Hats full, caps full, three bushel bags full; Barn floors full and a little heap under the stairs..

37. Scones with buttery spread and jam 

Sun dried tomato scones with houmous.. :-)

38. Vodka jelly 

Use the same idea as faux-caviar... straws ... make vodka spaghetti...

39. Gumbo 

Bhindi - Okra - Lady's Fingers - Gumbo... a good ole creole gumbo .. lovely with plantain too..

40. Fast food french fries 

Yes.. but picky about where...

41. Raw Brownies 

yes..

42. Fresh Garbanzo Beans 

how posh is that... garbanzo = chickpeas... why not call them chickpeas... fresh chickpeas... houmous.. felafel... panella.. chickpea tofu... yum...

43. Dahl 

Chana Dhal (Garbanzo Soup as it's known to Posh and Becks)... all sorts of dhal is good...

44. Homemade Soymilk 

I have a soya milk maker.. but have only used it to make rice milk / walnut milk / hazelnut milk / almond milk... i should try the soya milk setting...
Heat up some soya milk to 70 degrees exactly .. add a tablespoon of nigari... and leave on the table to cool... then people can eat with a spoon .. a bit of wasabi... soya to dip... nice sweet flavour to it...

45. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more 

i didn't buy it .. was it worth that? or it cost that?

46. Stroopwafle 

maybe

47. Samosas 

every single day... if i could... yum yum

48. Vegetable Sushi 

often

49. Glazed doughnut 

have eaten but not craving them... much...

50. Seaweed 

Hijiki makes a good vegan squid ink pasta or carrot salad... kombu in dashi... dulse .. arame .. mekabu .. agar agar/kanten

51. Prickly pear 

yup

52. Umeboshi 

i've been eating these for 20 years... i especially like the nut in the stone... you have to bite carefully to break the stone in the middle .. and you get the tasty and healthy flavoured plum kernel...

53. Tofurkey 

one christmas or two ago...

54. Sheese 

uhuh... and rice sheese too...

55. Cotton candy 

many times .. long ago...

56. Gnocchi 

tasty ... tasty... and easy to make too..

57. Piña colada 

hic...

58. Birch beer 

uh? really?

59. Scrapple 

bit like nut roast? or tofu steak?

60. Carob chips 

yup.. should be in the cupboard ...

61. S’mores 

I still haven't tried vegan marshmallows. me neither

62. Soy curls 

"these aren't available here, and I haven't bothered sending away for them." - Jill .. no need .. boil soya milk and carefully lift off the skin that forms ... hang to dry... roll it up and dry... easy to make .. also called Yuba.. I didn't really have to go all the way to Nikko, Japan to buy some but i did...

63. Chickpea cutlets 

You mean Felafel? tasty ...

64. Curry 

needless to say

65. Durian 

nope.. i've seen it for sale in South East Asia .. but not tried it .. or maybe once...

66. Homemade Sausages 

yup... once .. tho they also looked like croquets and burgers ..

67. Churros, elephant ears, or funnel cake 

maybe

68. Smoked tofu 

yup .. for many many years

69. Fried plantain 

yup... fried it myself .. with chili oil...

70. Mochi 

You can grill it, fry it, boil it, bake it .. very versatile.. i've eaten it many times..

71. Gazpacho 

so easy to make i'm surprised i don't eat it more often...

72. Warm chocolate chip cookies 

How do they get cold?

73. Absinthe 

maybe

74. Corn on the cob 

many times

75. Whipped cream, straight from the can 

soya too! 

i've seen it .. but not bought any...  [Edit 15/Feb/2010 - wrong, i have whippable cream in my cupboard]

76. Pomegranate 

often.. mostly in juice form now... once picked one fresh in France...

77. Fauxstess Cupcake 

i'd make my own...

78. Mashed potatoes with gravy 

nearly every week i have a mashed potatoes and gravy night.. with vegan sausages or pie .. and steamed broccoli...

79. Jerky - Vegan Pepperoni

not interested ... tho the vegan soy/nut peperoni is good...  how about Vegan Chorizo.. by Redwood Foods.

80. Croissants 

nope

81. French onion soup 

yup ..

82. Savory crepes 

Made from Taro potatoes.. here's a recipe i translated from Japanese: http://zorgster.com/vegan-japanese-recipes/taro-root-crepes-with-walnut-miso

83. Tings

84. A meal at Candle 79

85. Moussaka yup..

86. Sprouted grains or seeds 

I sprout radish, broccoli, alfalfa, sage .. and so on... very tasty... tie some sprouts onto a small block of pressed tofu with a strip of nori for some pretty-looking faux-sushi...

87. Macaroni and “cheese” 

i do wish...

[ edit - found some cheese sauce powder - but prefer to make own]

88. Flowers 

here's another recipe i translated from a Buddhist Japanese cooking book... http://zorgster.com/vegan-japanese-recipes/tempura-chrysanthemum-flowers

89. Matzoh ball soup 

dumplings?

90. White chocolate 

love it...

91. Seitan 

Yes .. first time in a Taiwanese restaurant .. now i buy it in a jar and cook it myself

92. Kimchi 

Often... i had a chat with a man who has a Korean shop in Sheffield .. and he says that most home-made kimchi could have fish paste in it... don't be afraid to ask... most commercial kimchi is not made with fish paste...

93. Butterscotch chips 

nope

94. Yellow watermelon 

yup...

95. Chili with chocolate 

it's tasty but firey...

96. Bagel and Tofutti 

yum... blueberry bagel?

97. Potato milk 

interesting...

98. Polenta 

Sliced polenta pizza!

99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee 

maybe ..

100. Raw cookie dough 

gimme...

I add:

101.  Sicilian Panelle

Chickpea tofu

New Vegan Food Section

http://zorgster.com/vegan-food

I've been looking into all the different types of vegan pancakes in Japan... and trying to work out where they all come from.. whether they are all traditional and how far traditional goes back...  and this has led me on to compiling even more lists of foods in various countries .. linking them to each other .. 

It is interesting to see the various names for mung bean noodles or rice noodles throughout the whole of Asia...  knowing that rice is pronounced bei, bi, be, bai, mei, mai (b and m often sound similar to some people) ... and flour is fun, fen, hun, hon, fu, zun - ... then words like bihun, bifun, bihon, bei fen ... all could refer to rice flour noodles...

Acorns... used to be a staple diet in many parts of the world... and are used in noodles in Korea and Japan (less frequently in Japan)...

I'll be adding lots of lists of vegan foods from Asia... and will try to group them into the base food ... Almond / Acorn / Mountain Yam / Taro / Pumpkin Seed etc ...  

A lot of the information can be found and I have found .. on wikipedia .. but it is not organised in the way I am organising it .. this is a specialised format specific to vegans and people interested in plant-based foods from around the world... (and through history)...

If you would like to contribute or would like me to add a specific list, please twitter me  http://twitter.com/zorgster 

Recipe for Cucumber and Japanese Mountain Yam Jelly

This is not so accessible as the other recipes because the mountain yam is not so easy to find..  It can be found in some Japanese or Chinese or Korean supermarkets... you would have to ask for nagaimo or yamaimo or yamatoimo in Japanese... or ma in Korean ... or look up on Wikipedia (under Dioscorea opposita) for the Chinese equivalent... (Chinese Mountain yam)

This is good to serve up for a starter .. it looks good .. and combines hot wasabi with cool, refreshing cucumber ... 

Oliver

Recipe for Vegan Blancmange

I've added a recipe translated from Japanese from Kanou Yumiko's Sai Sai Sweets (采采スイーツ) for Taro/Eddo potato and Cashew Nut blancmange with Kiwi Sauce...

The picture (not reproduced here) looks lovely... if anyone makes one and wants me to put the picture up I'll be happy to do so... 

Oliver

Vegan Japanese Recipes

added a new section for my translations of Vegan Japanese Recipes

Starting with a recipe for Red Pepper ice cream.

Oliver