Who won the award for the best International Pizza!

[andyswarbs]

plantbasednews.org/post/veg...

A vegan pizza has taken the top honours in The Campionato Mondiale Della Pizza held in Naples.

[Zest]

Hi Andy,

I've copied and pasted the bit about the pizza, as I was keen to see what is in it:

"Purezza's entry was titled The Promised Land. It uses an IPA-infused whole grain pizza dough, topped with stir-fried cavolo nero, Italian-style marinated tempeh, pioppini mushrooms, and a borlotti bean sauce. It uses two different cheeses–Purezza's own signature vegan cheese, dubbed Mozzarella 2.0, and a fermented cashew cheese with sun-dried cruschi peppers. The pizza was finished with a garnish of ginger puree, agave syrup, and vegan caviar."

It sounds very tasty indeed!

Zest

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Hi Andy, this is good news for everyone as the interest in all things plant based is never ending, the pizza looks fabulous too... 👍

[Kai--]

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What a treat to be able to eat ‘cheese’ pizza 🍕 with non-dairy cheese 🚫 🐄 🧀 !! 😋

[ 🤤 <— anticipatory drool 💧]

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Tickled 🤗 that more ‘plant-based’ eateries popping up & even restaurants are accommodating special food requests ( healthunlocked.com/healthye... ), andyswarbs! ☺️ 🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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Am sure it's very tasty.... but can you really call something cheese if its not made from milk...or milk if it's not from mum, humans or animal.

[Cooper27 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I don't think there's an issue, as long as you qualify where the cheese originates from. We tend to automatically think of cheese as being made from cow's milk, and if it's made with anything else, we usually qualify it: goat's cheese, feta cheese, buffalo mozzarella, cashew cheese. As long as no one is substituting a vegan cheese without advising where it originates from, it's fine

[Hidden in reply to Cooper27]

Yes there many different types of cheeses in the world, I always thought that cheese was made from milk from domesticated animals. used to travel in the past and come across Yak cheese in Nepal, Camel cheese in Algeria. Sheep's milk is used in many Mediterranean countries for cheese making.

Just that I'd never thought of soy beans or almonds as been a source of milk, and you can make cheese from it.

I have look up the meaning of the word milk.

[Cooper27 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I view it more as being about the way in which you'd use it, and we use vegan cheeses in similar reciped. It's a bit like the word flour. I mean wheat flour and coconut flour's properties are different, and yet we use them in similar ways, so we classify them both as flour.

I know some dairy companies are seeking to have the name "cheese" protected, because it gives the impression it's nutritionally equivalent, but I guess in my mind, the same argument can be made for flour. Coconut flour is not nutritionally equivalent either, but we're not defensive about that.

[Hidden in reply to Cooper27]

I know you can make flour from a lot of different things. Think people were making coconut flour long before wheat flour. Not sure they made bread with it though. Probably used the word coconut milk as it looks like milk..and I suppose the liquid from soy beans and almonds also looks white so you can call it milk .

Never tasted none dairy cheese, but from what I read it taste like cheese..

Time To make the source for my fish.

[andyswarbs in reply to Cooper27]

The word "cheese" comes from Latin caseus, from which the modern word casein is also derived.

The earliest source is from the proto-Indo-European root *kwat-, which means "to ferment, become sour". So in a way any fermented product that goes sour could justifiably be called cheese. Anyone for sauerkraut cheese?