Alaska chefs compete in Vegan Chef Challenge

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Anchorage Vegan Chef Problem is introducing brand-new vegan choices for your entire month of February.

The month-long occasion challenges cooks at native eating places to compete for votes with completely different artistic plant-based menu choices. With veganism presently on the rise, it’s additionally a approach for vegans to get extra meals choices and for eating places to have extra clients.

Clients pattern vegan dishes provided by native eating places and may vote for his or her favourite objects on the restaurant or on-line.

Desire is simply one of many many native eating places concerned within the problem.

Dan Brown is the chef and proprietor of Desire, and stated the restaurant has a background of taste profiles for lots of meats. Brown says he enjoys offering a plant-based model of these backgrounds to the vegan neighborhood.

“Animal welfare was positively one of many major and foremost the reason why I grew to become vegan and seeing that there have been no different vegan eating places in your entire state, opening this up — I wish to suppose that I could make it loads simpler and comfy for folks to take that step into veganism,” Brown stated.

Chef Dan whipped up one of many burgers on his menu for the problem, the jalapeno popper burger.

The entire eating places taking part within the Vegan Chef Problem can even function particular vegan menu objects.

Alex Bury is the organizer for the inaugural problem in Anchorage. She’s additionally the Vice President of Improvement for Vegan Outreach.

“Our primary purpose is to make veganism straightforward, and in order that’s what we hope, is that the Vegan Chef Problem helps folks contemplating it to take that first step and dip their toe within the water of going vegan,” Bury stated.

Many eating places in Anchorage are struggling as a result of it’s a sluggish time of yr, Bury stated.

COVID-19 doesn’t make issues any higher, she stated, however hopes the occasion will assist enhance their enterprise, in addition to flip folks on to a unique consuming way of life.

“This actually reveals those who they’ll go to the eating places proper right here in Anchorage that they know and love and take a look at some unbelievable vegan dishes,” Bury stated.

Anybody can pattern vegan dishes provided by native eating places and vote for his or her favourite objects on the restaraunt or on-line.

Voting for the Vegan Chef Problem continues till the top of February. Outcomes will probably be introduced in early March.

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