Food for Thought

Published: July 3, 2017, 7:13 p.m.

b'Chef Cola, the founder of Dinners with Chef Cola, hosts 13 dinners a year. They\\u2019re intimate, exclusive and currently trending in Harare, Zimbabwe. They\\u2019re also vegan.\\n\\nAs one of the first black female vegan chefs in Harare, Chef Cola, whose full name is Nicola Kagoro, says her dining concept is actually more of a movement. A movement that includes challenging the notion that veganism in Zimbabwe is an exclusively white lifestyle. \\u201cIf you\\u2019re white, no one will ask you why you are vegan. They will just say, \\u2018Oh, she\\u2019s white,\\u2019\\u201d Chef Cola says in her interview with GPJ reporter Kudzai Mazvarirwofa.\\n\\nChef Cola\\u2019s story is one that raises a lot of questions about the vegan lifestyle, in both Zimbabwe and in other countries around the world, and it\\u2019s the topic of today\\u2019s podcast, \\u201cFood for Thought\\u201d.\\n\\nJoin podcast host Kyana Moghadam in the fourth episode of the Global Press Passport podcast with GPJ reporters Mar Garc\\xeda in Mexico, and Kudzai Mazvarirwofa, in Zimbabwe. Along with writer, model and vegan Nzinga Young from Vegan Outreach, in the United States.\\n\\nRead the full story about Chef Cola in the Global Press Eats section here. And go inside the story with Kudzai Mazvarirwofa, in her blog post about what she believes to be the underlying reason the average Zimbabwean isn\\u2019t going vegan here.'