I’m going to the finals of a cooking competition and I need your help!

Hey everyone,

Let me tell me a bit about who I am. I'm a vegan chef of a restaurant where I want to show people that you really don't need animal products to have good food. After a month working there we changed the concept: everybody gets the same plant based menu, if you really want meat or fish you can order 1 piece on the side, the rest of the menu is the same. this resulted in most of the guests trying the vegan menu instead of everybody eating animals except the one person that indicated to eat vegetarian.

We also work with local ingredients (I'm from the Netherlands) so we don't have much during winter and rely on preserving and fermenting a lot. We do this to get people to realise that we eat so many things from all over the world and we take it all for granted, but if you look a bit further there is plenty of food around you, you just have to cook it!

Now I'm in the finals of a cooking competition where I have to cook my 'signature dish' together with a dish I create with ingredients from a local allotment next week. The judges said that you get a big 'lead' of you win the voting, I really don't like something like that because it's not about cooking whatsoever and I didn't know about this before applying for the competition. But here we are. Would you be so kind to vote for me (Bieko Rindt) through this link, it only takes 5 seconds and it would help me out a lot! I want vegan food to be more accessible in restaurants and don't want people to see vegan food as stupid or difficult.

My 'signature' dish: dry-aged and over onion peel smoked celeriac | jerusalem artichoke koji | young walnut aioli | spruce tips | celeriac and nettle seed crumble | fermented celeriac broth

For the people that want to know more about any of the dishes, please let me know and I will answer everything! Thanks for the read and sharing the post/link is much appreciated!