My vegan journey began (rather ironically) with me starting an ice cream company named Blu Top. It was 2015 and I’d not long returned from living in San Francisco, where I had fallen in love with the burgeoning west coast street food scene. I began experimenting with recipes and before long I had bought a tiny blue van and was rolling up to weekend markets with my homemade tubs of ice cream.
The business took off and within a year I upgraded from making ice cream in the kitchen of my shared flat (sorry housemates!) to a full industrial unit. It was here that I was introduced to some of the most influential vegans of my life. My new premises were too large for just one business so I shared the space with a number of other street food companies, including a vegan Vietnamese duo named “Eat Chay”. We had countless open-minded conversations about the perks of being vegan and the undeniable issues surrounding the dairy industry. I toyed with the idea for a few years, but in November 2017 I decided to make the switch to being completely vegan.