Blogger of the Month January 2014

April 15, 2015

Dear diary, this year I'm going vegetarian!

New year, new resolutions! Far too often you have decided to stop smoking and drinking, to finally do more for university and to check in with your mother more. This has only worked semi-well in the last few years and next year it probably won't be any different. So how about a new resolution: become a vegetarian! Many great ideas and recipes for the new vegetarian, or perhaps even vegan, life can be found on the blog of the 27-year-old doctoral student Arne , and long-established vegetarians and vegans will definitely find what they are looking for here. This is exactly why Arne is our blogger of the month for January 2014!

Arne received his diploma in physics 1 1/2 years ago and then moved from Kaiserslautern to Hamburg to pursue doctoral studies there. He realized that he would study physics while he was still at school. At the time, however, he never dreamed that he would one day become a blogger. The decision to start the blog didn't come until a few years later, when he was already fully committed to his studies. He spent a large part of his time in the lecture hall and on campus and, above all, he regularly found himself in the university cafeteria at lunchtime. Anyone who has ever tried to eat vegetarian, or even vegan, in a university cafeteria knows that at best you will be confronted with a meager selection of dishes. And that's exactly what happened to Arne. After a few months, he got tired of eating the same three lunches over and over again and quickly made a virtue out of necessity: he started cooking vegetarian or vegan meals himself!

After that, one thing led to another and somehow the blog came into existence over time. He wanted to share with others his insight that good vegan or vegetarian food doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Arne quickly realized that there was nothing better than having your own blog. While his girlfriend discovered her passion for the “Vampire Diaries” series in 2010, Arne put his first blog “ Vegetarian Diaries ” online.

Since then, he has regularly posted new vegan and vegetarian dishes and answered important physical questions about cooking in the food science category: How do you get the most cookies on the tray? or When does the salt go into the pasta water? There is also a veggie guide in Arne's blog in which he presents and reviews vegetarian and vegan restaurants throughout Germany. A few months ago he also started testing various vegan and vegetarian foods to prove whether they actually deliver what they promise. All in all, his blog has been filled with more than 600 entries in the last few years.

Sometimes Arne likes to browse through his Vegetarian Diary himself and is always surprised at what he has already cooked and baked. With so many recipes, it's understandable that you might forget one or two things. The joy is even greater when he cooks a recipe from his own blog and especially when he is invited to friends and acquaintances and they prepare something from his blog. Arne generally sees blogging as an incentive to try something new, for the readers of his blog, but also for himself. He honestly admits that without the blog he probably wouldn't have tried many of the recipes himself and always falls back on a standard selection of dishes would. However, he hasn't found a real favorite recipe in recent years; the selection of good things is simply too large. But when he looks at his photo recipe index himself, he always finds something that he wants to eat.

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Dear diary, this year I'm going vegetarian! New year, new resolutions! Far too often you have decided to stop smoking and drinking, to finally do more for university and to check in with your mother more. This has only worked semi-well over the last few years and it probably will next year

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