

(Why can’t Quorn make their products without egg whites?!) I did not enjoy eating it, but I didn’t want it to go to waste. The night I came home from India I ate a Quorn cutlet I’d left in the freezer.
Not all the volunteers were vegan-sometimes we’d bicycle to the nearest town and people would order ice cream or grilled cheese sandwiches from an American-style cafe-but once I made the decision, I never felt remotely tempted to join in. I was already eating Ayurvedic vegan food all day, so it didn’t feel like there was anything to give up. I was volunteering on a reforestation project in Tamil Nadu called Sadhana Forest, which is a wonderful international vegan community. Why would a vegan write a book about eating people? I wondered the same thing, so I had to ask!Ĭhic Vegan : What motivated you to become vegan? Was it an overnight switch or more gradual shift?Ĭamille DeAngelis: I’d been vegetarian for more than a decade, but when a longtime-vegan friend lovingly convinced me to cut out all animal products I went all the way, right away.

Her brand new book Bones & All just came out in March, and is about a young cannibal named Maren. We’ve stayed in touch since then, as MSVA alumni tend to do.Ĭamille is is the author of Mary Modernand Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker, as well as a first-edition guidebook, Moon Ireland. I was giving a talk to Victoria Moran’s Main Street Vegan Academy, and Camille was attending.
