Chapter One
Vegan Is the New Black
An audience is not the be-all and end-all.
Deirdre moved in with Agnus after her husband, a meat-and-two-veg man, had decided that he no longer wanted to be married to a woman whose idea of “meat and two veg” was a nut loaf with “green stuff.”
Deirdre, a little relieved, rented a run-down shop next to Poundstretcher. She cleared the mouse droppings, painted a mandala, and started dabbling in herbs and anything organic. Deirdre’s Vegan is the New Black shop was her dream, a fantasy that had kept her going for years.
“Vegetables are fun,” she used to say to her husband, which usually had him choking on his sausages. He hated vegetables and would not consider eating one except when grated, camouflaged or stuffed into meat.
Vegan is the New Black was sl
