FOOD& DRINK

part of a trend that’s become soemthing of a juggernaut. “It’s just everywhere – on every street corner you can buy a juice or a good salad, it’s gotten so much easier to go outside and eat something vegan.”

So what’s behind its current popularity? “People have become more and more aware that we need a healthy diet, and we have to take care of the planet,” says Rita.

It can be cheap and easy to stick to a vegan diet

Rita also wants to show people that vegan cooking can be really simple. “A lot of time I hear, ‘Yeah, but it’s so complicated to do vegetables or grains, and I don’t know what to do’. I just wanted to show that it’s pretty easy to do, and you can make it exciting.”

It doesn’t have to break the bank either: “It’s the cheapest diet around, if you do it seasonal!”

She hopes keeping her recipes to seven ingredients make them as accessible as possible. “If you go out to a store to buy a book or look at a recipe, sometimes it can be really intimidating,” she admits. “You think, ‘Oh wow, I need this and I need that’.” But “there’s so much variety, not only with seasons but from food all around the world.”