Vegan Life festival returned to London!

Vegan Life Live returned to London on the weekend to showcase the benefits of a vegan lifestyle and headlining activists such Britain’s Ed Winters, a vegan educator, best-selling  author and acclaimed speaker as well as leading plant-based chefs who were at the event.

Winter’s talk You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again, went viral in 2018 and to date has received over 35 million online views.

Vegan Life 2022 took place on the 11^th and 12^th of June at Alexandra Palace. The two-day event, say organisers, was perfect for newbie, long-term vegans and even the vegan curious.

“At Vegan Life Live, we’re here to show you just how much is on offer. Try pizza, kebabs, ice creams, pasta, curry, soul food – we’d recommend arriving with an empty stomach to take advantage of all the amazing food,” say the organisers.

Festival goers learned all about amazing ways to prepare food from talented chefs such as Bettina Campolucci Bordi, Peng Vegan Munch, and Nourishing Amy amongst others.

Campolucci Bordi is a vegan chef, author, and educator who also runs a chef academy. In her latest book Celebrate she says her goal was “first and foremost to make vegetables the hero ingredient at every celebratory meal. I want to give people the confidence to cook something that looks and tastes incredible.”

BuzzFeed has named Peng Vegan Munch as one of the black British vegans you need to follow.  “With meat and dairy being big food groups in black and POC communities, veganism doesn’t always get show cased very much,” notes Buzzfeed.

Nourishing Amy is passionate about eating and cooking mindfully. “The more time, heart and soul I can put into my cooking, the better it tastes and the more enjoyment I am met with,” she says.

Aside from vegan chefs and personalities over 100 exhibitors of vegan products and animal and environmental charities were present at the weekend event.

–Julia M. Thompson, United Kingdom