Tacoma: Food revolution could be based here

Re: “Tacoma could be home to food craze” (Bill Virgin column, 2-21).

Virgin wonders if Tacoma could develop a trademark culinary substance to rival Cincinnati’s kitschy chili or Seattle’s ubiquitous coffee stands.

It seems he (and almost everyone else) is oblivious to the juggernaut of food evolution that is now building strength but has yet to find a spiritual home base. That would be vegan food.

The news headlines and grocery stores have for the past few years broadcast that this is the real and revolutionary new wave. In plain terms, meat and dairy are bad for us, implicated in the most common causes of death, while vegan food is good for us - our natural diet, actually, from our primate ancestry.

Visionary companies are eagerly creating new vegan products and further stoking a naturally growing demand. Tacoma currently has just two authentically vegan restaurants, both quite good in totally different ways. But that’ s far from a trend or a craze.

Come on, Tacoma restaurateurs. You could dedicate yourselves and your establishments to higher health and virtue and spiritual depth. With a little effort we could remake Tacoma into a vegan haven. And that would be something a lot more worthwhile than overly sweet chili.

This story was originally published February 22, 2016 at 12:09 PM with the headline "Tacoma: Food revolution could be based here."