Dedication:
Mac and Cheese for Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy, the vegan cheese game is STRONG!
Welcome to DEDICATED — a new column devoted to creating new recipes dedicated to famous people who are vegan or who seem to be considering a vegan lifestyle. Because we care!
Recently a tweet of Chrissy Teigen’s found its way onto my timeline, saying that if she became vegan she would miss cheese the most; she asserted that great strides have been made in many areas of vegan food, but cheese remains lacking.
Hearing this gives me concern — if Chrissy Teigen, a celebrity in America, can’t find good vegan cheese — what hope is there for me, living in tiny little New Zealand miles away from anywhere on the other side of the world? I’ve always thought of America as a place with an abundance of stuff, whatever you wanted, you could get. This was confirmed when I travelled there in 2012 — I marvelled at the Coca-Cola flavours I didn’t know were possible, at Sonic Drive-In actively encouraging me to personalise my order and at supermarket ingredients that I’d never…