After holding regular gatherings in her garden nicknamed ‘Skank &amp; Grills’, where she’d host enormous vegan buffets with reggae music as the soundtrack, she started Made In Hackney, an all vegan community cookery school and charity with a phenomenal team of women since 2012.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">ID</h2>I have recently found inspiration at:&nbsp;Hackney Marshes - It's a wild, scrubby, semi-countryside/semi-urban space full of interesting areas, history, bird-watching hides, the river Lea, old water towers, and a stone circle. I've seen snakes, kingfishers, and bats there.After living for 2 decades in London, I have just discovered: The best vegan milk tea place on earth! It is called <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/nuttea_uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">NUTTEA</a> and is located in the uninspiring Westfield Stratford shopping centre. They do an incredible variety of gourmet teas, no syrups, no chemicals, topped with rich, decadent nut cream made with macadamia, walnuts, cashews, and almonds. They also do bubble waffles with nut cream. Me and my son can't get enough.I live in:&nbsp;Leyton, East London but prior to that, I lived in Hackney for 18 years.In my heart, I am from:&nbsp;The ocean and the rolling surf of the Caribbean Sea. In reality,&nbsp;I was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, a small rural town in the East Midlands.My favorite hangout:&nbsp;All Nations Vegan House in Dalston, a stunning vegan Ital food Caribbean restaurant in Hackney, run by Sister Atreka and her gorgeous family. Her sons are often seen behind the counter.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/8/2/1664310371691.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="0.84" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Sarah BentleyPhoto: Casey Lazonick<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"> A Londoner you must meet:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/osunschild/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Deidre Woods</a> who is an amazing food justice activist and one of the founders of the Glenville Community Kitchen.Only a true Londoner would know:&nbsp;Where to find lunch here for under a fiver! The best falafel in the city, visit Ridley Road market in Dalston, Hackney, and look for the falafel's market stall run by the incredibly talented Chef Mustaf.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">SHOOT THE BREEZE</h2>London is described as a multicultural city, do you see indicators of that in food culture and politics?Absolutely, us Londoners often describe London as almost being like its own country - a place where its inhabitants seek out diversity and culture and the richness of the global community as each other's neighbours. And yes the cross currents of so many people and cultures influence everything here. Unlike in cities like New York, the neighbourhoods in London are very mixed - economically, socially, racially - and that inherently breeds exciting cross-pollination of food, culture, and businesses. It's what's kept me living here for so long - despite the expense and the pollution.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/8/1/1664220144783.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.52" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Made In Hackney, plant-based community cookery school<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">At the <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/madeinhackney/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Made In Hackney</a> community meal service, we represent such a wide variety of different cuisines and try to rotate dishes so everyone has a flavour of their heritage. The same for our vegan cookery classes - we do Caribbean, West African, Mexican, Vietnamese, Italian, Trinidadian - you name it, we have a class for it.As a vegan woman, person, inhabitant, is London gentrified in the right direction?Equal, collaborative, and just development of communities is a good thing - but sadly what we usually get instead is rampant gentrification instead with long-standing businesses and community members being pushed out of certain areas. There's always a certain magic when an area has just started to have a new surge of inhabitants, businesses and art - a time when it's more mixed and you discover a nice this or that, amongst normal shops and services like garages and pharmacies etc. Eventually, it tends to tip too far and all the useful but 'normal' businesses get pushed out.Can you name a few places that would make a non-vegan, vegan?Young Vegans, All Nations Vegan House, Club Mexicana, The Wave - and of course ALL the Made In Hackney cookery classes which people can participate either online or face to face. You can also try our wholefood plant-based burger in Fullers pubs across London. This burger is EPIC and def has the power to turn a carnivore more vegan.What do you complain about the most?The government, inequality, cognitive dissonance, institutional racism, hunger, air pollution - I complain about a lot of things.Where do you take your breathers, what do you do when you want to escape?I love to grow food, garden, visit beautiful beaches and surf. I love yoga. But most of all, hanging out with my magic spirit being, my son, playing and going on adventures.

Aposto London

Former music journalist who told stories that dispelled prejudice; now co-runner of Made In Hackney, an all-vegan community cookery school and charity.

Sarah Bentley

Good to know: For those of you who are not versed in Italian, “a posto” is a place we all wish to be at: Where everything is settled, sorted, and alright. As <a fr-original-style="" href="https://aposto.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Aposto</a> Cities, it is the feeling we strive to achieve by delivering everything you need to know about a city. We started our journey in Istanbul, and now we are at our second home in London. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://apos.to/n/aposto-istanbul" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Aposto Istanbul&nbsp;</a>and Aposto London are weekly city guides for wanderers, expats, locals, future Istanbulites, and Londoners. They cover the cities' always-changing urban landscape and cultural scene.&nbsp;In the first issue: (aka "🍻Cheers to London" issue)Hopping (What’s going on in London: Hand-picked and unmissable events): Oceanvs Orientalis is playing for the kids on the dance floor; Paul Cezanne is coming to Tate with unseen canvasses; tomorrow is the last day of an open-air photography exhibition.Water Cooler Talk (Local news that you need to know to survive or just to speak of): London is going greener with faucets on the street corners. An industrial side between Hackney Marshes and Leyton might turn into a swimming pool with a little bit of help from you.What’s Cooking (Selected places to eat, drink, cafés, food markets): The fluffiest, crunchiest, greenest falafel in East London, a queue accompanied by Afrobeat sounds.Londoner (A talk with a creative inhabitant): Let’s meet Luk Man Hon, a record shop owner, amateur photographer, BBQ master, and music connoisseur.

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