SUNDAY, MARCH 02, 2014 (PAGE-4) BOLLYWOOD BUZZ NATURE 'I love being single' Mock meat in market Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Kangana Ranaut is going on her honey- Thousands of years ago, Chinese moon alone … don't panic as that's the plot Buddhist monks started experimenting of her upcoming film Queen. Sreya Basu to create food that tasted like meat but was not. Then the Rajput women of chats up with the actress in Mumbai on her Rajasthan started doing the same to love for travel, how she enjoys her single- keep their husbands satisfied and yet hood and more vegetarian. The Beatle Paul McCart- ney’s wife became vegetarian and real- In Queen you are out on your honey- ized that she could not convert the moon all alone. Is that a message you want world by simply talking or even setting an example. She had to give an alter- to convey to all girls out there? native. Call it a coincidence, even before Queen, Meat is a drug. To wean people off I used to travel alone. When I got this script, I it, they had to have something that was chewy and tasted like it. The taste was was so shocked that I so love travelling and the easy part – after all, all the taste of was offered a travel film. But I would like to tell meat comes from the spices and oils it is cooked in. The chewy part needed a people that it is not literally 'honeymoon' hon- similar sort of plant or grain. She came eymoon. It is a travel film where the girl goes up with a range of dishes, mock meats out on a voyage all alone and it is her inner that tasted like steak, sausages, chick- en, beef … everything that you could journey as well. The girl has certain major want. It started off a trend and many oth- minced meat. The simple production probably because there is so much vari- issues like she lacks confidence and cannot er mock meat factories came up all over method gives rise to a consistency ety in our vegetables and cereals. But UK and Europe. Today the sales run which is remarkably similar to the stringy I think the time has come for this form stand up for herself. The film shows how she into billions – and the main buyers are fibres that make up the consistency of of meat to be everywhere, because explores the world as well as her own self. not vegetarian but meat eaters. meat. Tofu is made by adding a coagu- vegetarians in India are turning meat Are you in a relationship? Mock meats have finally come to lant to soya milk and compressing the eaters alarmingly fast. The amount of Of my friends, the single ones desperately want to India. My sister serves it to meat eaters resulting protein solids until the required meat eaten yearly by the world has get married and the married ones desperately wants to at parties. Not one person has been consistency is achieved. Tofu is easily jumped by 10% since 2008 and inter- get single. So I still can't make out if it's good to be in a able to tell the difference and when they digested and contains all essential national agencies are saying that this is relationship or is it bad. turn to her and ask her, why, as a veg- amino acids. It is one of the healthiest due to India’s sudden passion for flesh. What do you have to tell all single girls out there etarian she is serving meat, she glee- foods in the world. Soya meat is Vegetarianism brings a lot of magic who are ready to mingle? fully tells them it is mock meat. extremely rich in protein- over 50%. with it. Because till recently most of I believe only if you respect and love yourself, can I recently met Marianne Thieme, a Tempeh is made by the controlled fer- India was vegetarian, there is a huge someone from the outside world love you. I have seen lovely young lady who is the Member of mentation of cooked soya beans with a flow of magic – gurus, gods, miracles – many people, who are single, get depressed that they Parliament in Holland of the Party for Rhizopus mould to become a compact whatever the source, the point is that don't get balloons and flowers from their partners. As if, eral thought in a relationship. But when you are single, Animals. Her husband has a factory cake which has many B vitamins, high India seemed closer to the heavens the only goal in life is to get a boyfriend or a girlfriend. I you never know who you will end up with. I love being which makes mock meats. He has sev- protein content. Quorn is an innovation than other countries. But, as people find it a very clichéd thinking. It is not that if someone single. eral times secretly entered his products from the English company Marlow start eating meat we will become as else does not give you gifts, you can't get it yourself. Is it true that you are trying your hand at writing, into competitions for best meat dishes Foods. It is made from a fermented fun- ordinary as any other country. Perhaps When you want to feel loved, buy a beautiful gift and given that you have penned a couple of dialogues – from hamburgers to steaks. In every gus which is processed and textured to we could get our newly misguided non present it to yourself. for Queen as well? competition he has been placed in the produce a food which can be easily mis- vegetarians to switch to mock meat. Have you ever gifted you something when you Well, I am trying to write something. I don't speak first three – even though his product has taken for meat. Quorn products include Many of them are doing it because they wanted to "feel loved" as you said? much, but think a lot. I am good with writing and express- nothing to do with meat! steaks, burgers, chicken breasts as well think it is fashionable. It is even more as sliced meats. The seeds of sweet Absolutely, this Valentine's Day, I got myself a box of ing my thoughts. Mock meats are healthy and protein fashionable to eat mock meat because lupines is used by companies, like Meat- cupcakes. I made myself a good coffee and binged on Much has been said and printed about your spon- based. They contain very little choles- you get the best of both worlds without terol and fat. But new vegetarians miss less, for vegetarian meat. Remis Algen 10-12 cupcakes. As an actor, getting a chance to have taneous nature. causing any pain and partaking in any cupcakes and fries is like being in heaven. So I made the chewiness of meat the most. So that uses algae and, Fresh’shrooms used I started at a very young age of 17 and have grown cruelty. After all, food that doesn’t take my own heaven with cupcakes and fries on a tray and is what mock meats strive to get. The mushrooms. Pro Viand uses rice pro- an arm and a leg is good for you. up in this industry. So the industry has seen many phas- pleased myself. neutral taste of the ingredients makes it tein or pea protein. Beyond Meat, a There are several retailers of mock What is the best thing about being single? es of my life. There were times when I used to dance like easier for cooks to give it the taste of company based in California, has devel- meats. One is Big 5 Health Food which The best thing about being single is the opportunity crazy in a party where you should not be dancing and real meat. Vegetarian meats are based oped a process for soy and pea. The distributes Fry’s mock meats. They are of finding someone who is much beyond your expecta- invited unnecessary attention. But I did not know at that on centuries-old recipes for seitan, rice, resulting product bears a close resem- doing very well. Godrej Nature’s Bas- tion. Because when you are in a relationship, whether it time. I came from the mountains (Dehradun). I have done mushrooms, legumes, tempeh, soya, or blance to chicken meat and people like ket, that stocks ready-to-make mock lasted six days, six years or 60 years, there is a time many things and shocked many people. It's not that I pressed-tofu, defatted peanut flour, with Bill Gates have invested in it. meat products, says that mock meats when you feel that you have come to a point in your life don't like to be spontaneous any more, but I am trying to flavouring added to make the finished What is wrong is that mock meat is are more popular with meat eaters. Yas- and this is a person you will end up with. This is the gen- tone down. (TWF) product taste like chicken, beef, lamb, not available. Because it is not easily min and Harish Jadwani of Ahimsa ham, sausage, seafood, etc. Wheat available, it is difficult to spread aware- Foods set up a mock meat plant in Del- gluten or Seitan is the most cost effec- ness about the product. Abroad, you hi in 2009. Chicken sausages, ham and HERITAGE tive and most simple raw material for can buy mock meat in all food stores.