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Day13: Split second best friends

SPLIT SECOND BEST FRIENDS

(January 13)

And so we are finally gathered, my friends for an evening. Quenching our anticipation for the upcoming vegan meal, we start breaking the ice and introduce ourselves.

The fly-fishing-enthusiast-musician from Germany who drives a car called Bertha. Also, he only eats meat that has died by his own hand. The talkative, globetrotting aunt from Bosnia, with a fantastic cabin sporting three toilets and an integrated Miele coffee machine. Her blue haired nano-tech-vegetarian-student-niese, who happens to have her exams the next day. The vegan cook of the evening, who has a day job in the meat product innovation business. One of the Eat In Common Founders, who is also chairman of his housing association at Bøler. The ever observing photographer who dances Argentinian tango at least three times a week.

And me. The anxious mother-of-two that just quit her job to become a freelance writer.

Spoiler alert: Gangnam look, and the best Baba Ganoush ever made!

The whole story and recipes will form one chapter in the 31days book, to be launched in January 2017

Photo: Espen Gees Text: Helene Marie Storsveen

Om konseptet:

WHAT IS 31DAYS?

(It's nice)

31Days is a semi-curated social+culinary+artistic project inspired by the general concept of Veganuary, a relatively new and emerging time-specific dietary challenge to be understood in the context of its better known relative Movember. For the duration of January, people around the world take on a vegan lifestyle for the full month, for two weeks, for one week or even for a weekend. The imperatives, benefits and perks of veganism is taken to be generally known, and 31days will not focus on neither push- nor pull factors promoting it. Instead we regard 31days as a creative brief. A select group of 31 individuals, couples or groups have been invited to host an Eat in Common event in the course of January 2016. We emphasized 3 main factors when nominating hosts: a) A variety of people of inspiring lifestyles, interesting occupations and -backgrounds, b) The assumed or – in the cases where we know them – proven ability to host a well-thought-through yet relaxed and friendly social gathering, partly (or entirely) for strangers and finally: c) Geography.