HEALTH
PURA VITA IS A WAY OF LIFE An interview with Gabriela Giumba (By E. Gladstone)
I have recently had the pleasure of meeting Gabriela in her new restaurant, “Pura Vita” in Sotogrande, to discover the real meaning of “Vegan Cuisine”. I asked her to tell me what prompted her to start the restaurant. “I started cooking during the pandemic times and I discovered the love of cooking that runs in my family from my grandmother and my mother. When I was a child, “she added, “I spent hours in the kitchen with them, just watching them, it was like a dream for me. I preferred staying in the kitchen to going outside playing with the children. Traditional Rumanian cuisine is extensive, diverse and delicious, “she continued, “I feel like my grandmother is guiding me and motivating me”. “The restaurant concept is the result of a natural progression of events. I was suffering from anxiety and feeling depressed” she said “then I found that cooking made feel better so I began to spend hours in my small home kitchen cooking Rumanian traditional dishes, mainly my grandmother’s recipes, and asking everyone I knew to try them. As my range of dishes increased, I started to think of the treatment that animals must endure to end up on our tables, of the environment and the health of people. They say you are what you eat, so I made it my task to do something to improve the lifestyle of future generations and create a healthy menu. Can you imagine being re-incarnated as a chicken? I have converted all of my Grandmother’s recipes into 100% Pure Vegan dishes. I mean I have recreated not just the dishes but most importantly each and every ingredient that goes into them. I also make my own videos to show how each step of the preparation. Amazingly I got 7.4 million ‘Likes’ and 200,000 followers online. I was even invited to appear on Rumanian TV.
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