All year round: a mostly vegan cookbook from a Carinthian farm

Zulejka Javeršek, author of the blog Tuned kitchen, is in mostly vegan cookbooks All year round collected her recipes, which were created in the idyllic surroundings of a farm in Carinthia. All recipes are based on self-sufficiency in the home garden and on foods of plant origin, and they are inspired by the Slovenian culinary tradition.

For all those who would like to remain loyal to the local, but at the same time would like to include more plant-based food in their diet, the book Vse leto will be an indispensable support when designing menus. The recipes are seasonal, sorted by season - from spring nettle pie made from summer zucchini, autumn poppy seed apple cake or winter spelled growth; we will cook according to Zulejka's book, and enjoy the connecting texts.

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About the author

Zulejka was born in Koper, but then they took her to a hill near Umag, where she preferred to play with dolls, help her mother mix bread, and ask to be read to her again. She went to a Croatian school for a while, where she learned to read and write, and then to a Slovenian school, where instead of crossword puzzles, she solved a workbook for Slovenian. After a hazy adolescent period spent at the Piran high school, she enrolled in her dream study of comparative literature and cultural sociology in Ljubljana, where she met many kindred spirits, and even more at aikido training, among them the decisive one, who is now her fiancé Tadej. After weighing the pros and cons of living in Ljubljana or Carinthia, they decided on the latter, where they live now, so that they can raise their daughter on grass and snow, and with the help of their extended family, they grow food for people on the Zvonik farm. When he's not messing around in the kitchen, he practices aikido, watches cartoons, reads picture books and sometimes even books.