{"id":398,"date":"2013-11-28T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T03:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2014-02-19T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:47:28","slug":"book-extract-lisa-fabry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2013\/11\/book-extract-lisa-fabry\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Extract – Lisa Fabry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisa Fabry<\/strong>‘s two great passions in life \u2013 food and yoga \u2013 led her to the ‘divine vegan’ concept, a way of combining practical food choices with ethical, moral and spiritual awareness. Born in London, Lisa now lives in Adelaide. She has worked as a film and television producer, writer, editor, barista, chef, and yoga teacher. In between times, she home educated her two daughters, and ran a vegan, organic cafe. You can visit Lisa Fabry at\u00a0www.divinevegan.com<\/a>\u00a0to drool over her desserts, and then you can head to our website to drool over the book, Divine Vegan Desserts<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n

The passage below is an excerpt on De Bolhoed, a vegetarian restaurant in Amsterdam:<\/p>\n

\"Sharks\"It had been a struggle to find vegan food when travelling for three weeks\u00a0in France and Italy. My two daughters and I had been living, on the whole,\u00a0on crusty bread and ripe, knobbly tomatoes. The bread and tomatoes in\u00a0France and Italy are undoubtedly among the best in the world, but one\u00a0can overdo it. We were desperate to get to Amsterdam and the myriad\u00a0vegan eats to be had there. De Bolhoed was our destination for brunch on\u00a0our first morning.\u00a0De Bolhoed means \u2018The Bowler Hat\u2019 in Dutch. Contrary to internet\u00a0rumour it was not built on the site of an old hat shop but started about\u00a025 years ago as a health food store and is now a well-known vegetarian\u00a0restaurant. The owner just thought the name sounded nice! De Bolhoed\u00a0sits on the edge of one of Amsterdam\u2019s grandest and most beautiful\u00a0canals, the Prinsengracht, about five minutes walk from the Anne Frank\u00a0House. You can sit outside by the canal and watch the bikes whizz past,\u00a0or choose one of the tables inside the cafe where the walls are\u00a0decorated with painted pumpkin vines and eclectic artworks. It\u00a0was busy when we arrived and all the outdoor and window tables\u00a0were occupied, so we sat at a cosy corner table on bench seats\u00a0below shelves covered with ornaments. We wondered why a big,\u00a0fat ginger and white cat was looking at us strangely, but when he\u00a0leaped up and installed himself in the corner of the bench seat we\u00a0noticed the indentation in the cushion and the cat hairs that told us\u00a0this was his place. He deigned to share it with us for the morning.\u00a0The food at De Bolhoed is organic, all vegetarian and mostly\u00a0vegan, with generous portions at a fair price for expensive\u00a0Amsterdam. The menu is a mix of world cuisines \u2013 Mexican, Asian,\u00a0African, Mediterranean \u2013 with an amazing array of salads which\u00a0are prepared fresh daily. Each day there is a mixed vegan plate on\u00a0offer, which contains seven or eight different dishes, both hot and\u00a0cold. And joy of joys, after three weeks of dessert fasting, there was a tall\u00a0fridge stuffed full of pies, cheesecakes and cakes, many of them vegan.\u00a0We had a delicious meal, and although we looked at the other\u00a0restaurants on my list, we came back to De Bolhoed every day for the\u00a0rest of our stay in Amsterdam.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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