{"id":5839,"date":"2018-08-31T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2018-08-31T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:48:17","slug":"veganmofo-2018-day-zero-a-month-of-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/veganmofo-2018-day-zero-a-month-of-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"VeganMofo 2018 &#8211; Day Zero &#8211; A Month of Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We travelled through Canadian potato country this summer &#8211; notably PEI and New Brunswick &#8211; which is not to say that other provinces don&#8217;t grow potatoes, just that when I think of Canadian potatoes, I definitely think of PEI first. We went to potato museums, and ate french fries, and baked potatoes, and potatoes every which way and it was my scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5844\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/potato.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/potato.png 540w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/potato-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/potato-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/potato-250x250.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, I love potatoes all the time, I there are so could eat them for every meal, for weeks, and never get tired, because they are so diverse and versatile and delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Potatoes have an important part of my cultural history and my dreams, and I want to celebrate that for the duration of VeganMoFo starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>So for September, I&#8217;m going to talk about potatoes, and the various awesome things about them.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, you can learn about how and where they grow, some methods of preparation that might be new to you, and a quick journey around the world of (vegan or veganized) potato preparations &#8211; including kopytki, potato pancakes, aloo tiki, potato curry, batata harra, spicy sour julienned potatoes , colcannon potatoes, papas a la huancaina, potato blini, babka ziemniaczana, gnocchi, atakilt wat, and more. I am also hoping to do a couple of round ups of some of my favourite potato related veganmofo posts (past and present.)<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re as excited about VeganMofo as I am, and I am looking forward to reading and playing along. You can find me participating on instagram too over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/veganinyourcity\/\">@veganinyourcity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We travelled through Canadian potato country this summer &#8211; notably PEI and New Brunswick &#8211; which is not to say that other provinces don&#8217;t grow potatoes, just that when I think of Canadian potatoes, I definitely think of PEI first. We went to potato museums, and ate french fries, and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[1505],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegan-mofo","tag-veganmofo-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}