About Us

Are we vegan?

We genuinely love and get excited about vegetables and want to share our passion with you.

However, we don't follow a strict vegan diet and sometimes include small amounts of animal-based ingredients in our diet.

The recipes on this blog are plant-based, vegetarian, and vegan. All plant-based and vegetarian recipes include tips and instructions on how to veganize them.

In our personal life, we eat a Mediterranean-inspired plant-based diet that includes small amounts of dairy, eggs, and tiny amounts of fish and meat.

Since this blog is a reflection of what we eat, you might sometimes see those ingredients in our recipes.

To learn more about plant-based diets, check out these articles: "What is a plant-based diet and why you should try it" and "Not all plant-based diets are the same."

• Veggie-Packed: we pack our recipes with vegetables, nuts, seeds, healthy oils, whole grains, legumes, beans, and fruits and occasionally use small amounts of animal-based ingredients. We will always offer alternatives to animal products so that everyone can join in.
  
• Easy to make at home: We use simple, affordable everyday ingredients and provide step-by-step pictures and videos.
  
• Cooked by us: we genuinely love cooking, eating, and creating content for you. We will never use AI to generate content, and we will always personally cook, test, taste, write, photograph, and film all the content you see on this blog and our socials.

"Jump to Recipe" button.

We try to be as structured as possible to make your life easier.

You can always find a "jump to recipe" button in all our recipes at the top of the page. It'll take you straight to the recipe.

The recipe is always at the end of the page. This is an industry-wide practice, and most blog readers are used to this layout.

But if you want to learn more about the recipe (like variations, ingredients substitutions, and tips) and how to make the best version, please read the text in the body of the article.

Nico always tries to share his knowledge with you and includes the most important information to make the recipe successful.

Table of content

You will also find a table of content after the first picture with the main topics we cover on the page.

The text in the table of content is clickable, so you can jump right into the chapter you want to read.

For instance, if interested in the ingredients and substitutions, click "Ingredients" and jump right there.

Note: We test, eat, write, photograph, and film all our recipes in US cups and grams measurements, and in the body of the article, you'll find all our learnings.

We do not use cup-to-grams or grams-to-cup converters because those are often inaccurate; we measure every ingredient in US cups and grams ourselves.

The Plant-Based School is run by Nico Pallotta and Louise Vestergaard.

While Nico cooks, Louise is our blog manager and handles our business' commercial aspects.

We met in Dublin, Ireland, while working in the same company. In 2018, while on holiday in Bangkok, Thailand, we decided to quit our jobs to "find ourselves." Classic millennial quarter-life crisis.

It's a long story; one blog post alone would not do it justice. 😅

In 2020, we started this blog and moved to Italy to a small hilltop town in the Umbrian countryside.

That's why some of our recipes seem inspired by Italian and Mediterranean traditions. We are influenced by our surroundings and the wonderful variety of fresh produce available here.

At the end of 2021, we decided to go full-time with our blog, and we feel endlessly grateful that we get to be together and work together every single day.

Our cat, Kiki, helps us with recipe testing (she loves corn, pumpkin, and sweet potato recipes), moral support, and loud purring.

Thank you for your interest in our content! Please remember that our recipes, pictures, and videos are copyrighted material. We have worked very hard to produce it.

Using our photos to promote this blog

You may use 1 photo to share a recipe and/or our blog in general as long as you include a link to our blog.

Please do not share more than one image from a post without our permission; email us here at team[at]theplantbasedschool.com.

We do not allow republishing entire recipes (with pictures, ingredients, and instructions).

Thanks for being here, and happy cooking!