Meet Sarah:
Former reggae music journalist Sarah Bentley was described in the September issue of Vogue magazine (yes you read that correctly!) as, "A passionate eco-food warrior." And who are we to argue with Vogue? She earned this accolade as the founder of Made In Hackney, an award winning charity and London's only 100% plant-based community cookery school. The project teaches vulnerable and marginalised groups how to cook healthy, nutritious and affordable food that's good for people and planet. Class regulars include young people in care, people with learning disabilities, low income families, pensioners and people with long term health challenges.
The school also runs masterclasses open to the public in topics such as Life Beyond Cheese, Nut Cheese, Ferments, Plant-Powered Fitness, Going Vegan, Vegan Baking, Vegan Japanese and Sourdough Bread Making.
The school also runs masterclasses open to the public in topics such as Life Beyond Cheese, Nut Cheese, Ferments, Plant-Powered Fitness, Going Vegan, Vegan Baking, Vegan Japanese and Sourdough Bread Making.
Having been vegan for sixteen years (veggie for nine years prior to that) Sarah is often the oldest vegan in the village and remembers a dark time when the most exciting thing vegans could buy in the corner shop was peanut butter and the mere sight of a vegan cake almost made her faint with excitement. Shop bought vegan cheese use to taste of old flip flop soles - so she's deliriously happy about the recent innovations in vegan food - in particular cheese.
Prior to founding the charity Sarah was a journalist for ten years writing about music and youth culture for titles such as The Face, ID and Dazed & Confused before evolving to cover social justice and environment issues for publications such as The Ecologist, The Times, The Guardian and the BBC World Service. She has a Permaculture Design certificate and used to grow zero food miles, organic salad as a 'Patchwork Farmer' for epic social enterprise Growing Communities. She also really likes surfing. But is terrible at it.