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Curiously it came to my bil free whilst we were staying at the most awful hotel in Blackpool (classic old age care residence where food could be eaten without teeth amongst other things).Where do you girls get these cookbooks with good looking guys on the cover?![]()
He found it on a bookshelf in the foyer where people sat to watch people walk along Blackpool promenade (once you looked passed the double row of parked cars ). The front was one massive window for residents to sit, single file, watching the world walk passed.
Anyhow, he commented to the owners that that and another book were the last thing he expected to be found at the hotel especially given that the recipes were vegan and it was about running an animal rescue santuary. The place was very definitely meat and two veg with gravy. The owner told him to take the two books because she had never seen anyone take any interest in them. He'd already copied down 1 or 2 recipes.
In came myself and I start looking at them, photographing recipe after recipe. In the end I photographed the front cover so I could track down a copy, and my bil commented on the number I was photographing. I mentioned to him that it had some great vegan soups in it, then realised it was actually a vegan cookbook around the theme of a farm animal sanctuary so he said I could have it.
He and his partner used to be raw foodies (and it's because of him I have a dehydrator, so I could make his recipes). He started down the raw food diet after we emptied our pantry giving it all to him when we went off to cycle around the world. At a loss as to what to do with a lot of the stuff we gave him, he had to research how to use it all and actually found his type 1 diabetes was much better managed on a diet of what we had given him than before (to the point of barely needing insulin at all)... he went over to a completely raw food diet for a long time, but since meeting his partner has started to cook again (They went out to India for a while).
Hence a free cookbook to bring back to Australia.