{"id":332,"date":"2011-10-04T00:22:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T00:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/offmetro.com\/sf\/?p=332"},"modified":"2011-10-29T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:52:55","slug":"kathryn-storm-vegan-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ca\/332\/kathryn-storm-vegan-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Neighbors: Kathryn Storm of Vegan Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathryn Storm leads the Vegan Hacker, a monthly event where people recreate classic recipes as vegan-friendly dishes at Mission District creative center Noisebridge<\/a>. Both Storm and Vegan Hacker got their start last year, providing a collaborative space for culinary creators to experiment and run wild.
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oSF:<\/strong> How did the vegan hacker come about?<\/p>\n

Kathryn Storm:<\/strong> I had moved to San Francisco last year and I also decided I wanted to be vegan. I was getting to know the city. A friend of mine was going to an event at NoiseBridge and was telling me about it. I was interested in it for different reasons. I discovered they had a whole food hacking sect of the space and I thought that was really cool. A little bit before that I had been cooking with my friend, who is also a vegan, and we would make stuff that I had loved to eat before I was vegan, so I put the two together and… proposed this idea of kind of sharing the experience with the community at NoiseBridge.<\/p>\n

oSF:<\/strong> Who attends?<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> I\u2019m pretty sure most people are vegan because we end up talking about the lifestyle a bit. Some people are vegetarian. It can be anywhere from eight to as many as 15 people. I don\u2019t necessarily promote it as well as I should. I think that people are starting to catch on that it exists. I get to see new people and there are people I\u2019ve seen a few times now.<\/p>\n

oSF:<\/strong> What is teaching like?<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> I kind of go about it that I\u2019m not teaching anything, I\u2019m just facilitating the experimentation. I\u2019m experimenting as much as everyone else. It\u2019s fun when people know what they\u2019re doing and can share that, but it\u2019s also fun when people are maybe new to cooking or new to the food. That\u2019s part of the hacking. When I put up the recipe we\u2019re doing for a particular month, I kind of let people decide how they want to experiment. It\u2019s cool to learn what other substitutions people are using. I\u2019ve actually been quite surprised.<\/p>\n

oSF:<\/strong> Are new recipes usually successful?<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> It is experimentation, so there are some funny outcomes of food that we\u2019ve made. The last recipe we did for July, we did steamed buns. Those turned out really well. I think everyone really enjoyed that. The previous one, corn dogs, turned out a little strange. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s because we\u2019re all used to what corn dogs are supposed to look like.<\/p>\n

oSF:<\/strong> How does the concept fit with San Francisco?<\/p>\n

KS:<\/strong> I think this is another way to experiment with food and I think it fits well into San Francisco as well. I feel people here are a little more open to that kind of lifestyle. Any community that is open to both experimentation and curiosity in general. It\u2019s more about experimenting with good food than pushing any sort of belief system. People that have come have mentioned, \u201cOh I\u2019m not a vegetarian, can I still come?\u201d And I say of course. It\u2019s not an exclusive thing based on what you eat. It\u2019s a love of food and based on my lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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