Sarma Melngailis's fine-dining restaurant, Pure Food and Wine opened in 2004, and her take-away food hub One Lucky Duck, which followed in 2005, are New York's pioneering outposts of raw, vegan ...

Heat a splash of oil in a pan over a medium heat and add the onion and 4 chopped garlic cloves. Cook for a few minutes then add the tomato purée and cook for 2–3 minutes more.

About six months after Bad Vegan came out on Netflix, Sarma Melngailis sat on the floor of her old Gramercy restaurant, Pure Food and Wine. She took out her phone and began filming herself. The ...

Sarma is minced meat, spiced and moulded together with rice, which is wrapped in sour, fermented cabbage leaves, known locally as kiseli kupus and in Germany as sauerkraut and then boiled in a ...