Hail Seitan! (And Other Fake Meats)
How Syracuse became a birthplace of hardcore veganism
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6 min readMay 8, 2020
I got my first job in the restaurant industry when I was 18, cooking at Mr. Arnold’s Vegetarian Café in Syracuse, New York. At that point, my kitchen experience was limited to mixing pancake batter and brewing tea, so I wasn’t hired on the basis of my culinary skill. But my intense commitment to the animal rights…
