The Bosh!
The boys are back with their latest ode to vegan cooking. Property Mail meet Henry Firth and Ian Theasby.
WRITTEN BY ELLA WALKER H
enry Firth and Ian Teasby are what you’d call sprightly. Te Yorkshire-born
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housemates and business partners are the irrepressibly positive minds behind ‘social media sensation’ BOSH! Te plant-based recipe platform has had more than 1 billion views to date, and the duo, both 34, are now on their second cookbook, BISH BASH BOSH! “It had to be called BISH BASH BOSH!” says Firth, throwing his arms into the air gleefully. Tis one, they explain, is full of all their favourite meals - especially ones nicked from restaurants, takeaways and childhood memories; ones they’d wanted to “veganise” but hadn’t managed to squeeze into their debut collection. It’s only been 12 months since the first BOSH! recipe collection was released, but in that short time, the friends have seen a major shiſt in attitudes towards veganism and the availability of plant-based products. In the first book there was no seitan, little jackfruit, and “we didn’t really do
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any of these quirky fake meats, we just wanted vegetables”, they note. But this time around they’ve been vegan adventurers. Expect seitan burgers, ‘pulled pork’ jackfruit and ‘tofish’ finger sandwiches. “Te landscape has completely changed,” says Teasby. “Now you can go into Sainsbury’s and buy banana blossom, whereas before you’d walk in and barely find jackfruit, and now jackfruit’s a staple.” Te general feeling and chat surrounding it has developed too. Firth believes we’ve got to a place “where it is OK to eat vegan ‘chicken nuggets’ and to present them at a dinner table to a meat-eater - and not have to have an argument about it”. In fact, when a few years ago they might have come up against quite a bit of griping and hassle from non-vegans, these days, not so much. Partly, Firth reckons, it’s “because our stance is quite chill”, and even little knocks from family and friends have practically subsided. “Te mocking in the last two to three years has kind of stopped,” he
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